An interesting writing by Smithson from: http://www.robertsmithson.com/essays/cultural.htm
One way to approach the art world today.
SELECTED WRITINGS BY ROBERT SMITHSON
Cultural Confinement
Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition , rather than asking an artist to set his limits. Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories. Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result, they end up supporting a cultural prison that is out of their control. Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is. Museums, like asy