ABSTRACT
Traditional art in its traditional institution has of course to be given its reasonable place. Moreover, as we have seen, new work will then appear within the sustained traditional institutions. But what is hardest to realize is that even traditional art changes when its audiences change, and that in the making of new art changing audiences are always a significant factor…. If we take seriously the idea of making art, as practice and as works, more accessible to more people, we have to accept and indeed welcome the fact that as part of these changes there will also be changes in the arts themselves. Nobody who knows the history of the arts need fear these changes. Indeed there is much more, from the record, to fear when art is locked in to courts and academies, or when, at the opposite extreme, artists are pushed by neglect into isolation and there is no flow between them and a wide and diverse public.
