In our time, art has seen more questionable uses than baby wipes. Recently, there has been, among other hot messes, art as propaganda (Russian artist Alexei Sergienko's pop portraits of Vladimir Putin), art as entertainment (Brooklyn Museum's survey of the young Keith Haring), a wave of conspicuously artless art as attitude (through June 12 at the Whitney Museum), and a dangerous tsunami of art as investment (see the copycat auction patterns of the world's superrich). Like the dotcom bubble, this last development will probably illustrate quite soon why certain financial tides sink, not... More >>>