>>A Norwegian “artist” who’s best known for spray-painting from his butt, throwing feces at audiences, and peeing on stage, has received an exceptional amount of money from Norway’s public coffers. And this is their art? Ok people here's the deal; art is the mirror of society, and society mirrors art. What happens in society is depicted/happens in art, and in return society gets inspired by its art, it's a "two way street" type of stuff And when you get "arts" like that, officially supported on top of that, it means your society is sick, it's degenerating This was soviet art https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/The_Worker_and_Kolkhoz_Woman.jpg http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-t882_ZKU-OQ/TujxoBONhKI/AAAAAAAAHVk/-d0_2yXNor4/s1600/agitator01.jpg This was nazi art https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/Olympics_in_Berlin_1936.jpg https://cdn1.spiegel.de/images/image-1457435-860_poster_16x9-nwsf-1457435.jpg https://alphahistory.com/nazigermany/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/womensmagazine.jpg ... Both perfectly representing their respective society's ideal, and at the same time inspiring their people, and both totally politized, and both in competition... https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/be/Hitler_and_Stalin_poster_in_comparison2.jpg ... Fascist art https://omicron.aeon.co/images/d4da6462-bec9-483c-9c72-470ddb01deb5/header_essay-bruschetti.jpg https://ideologicalart.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/main-spain-revived.png