If even 1% of Americans can name a single contemporary American painter other than fucking Banksy, I would truly be fucking shocked unless it was like a comic book artist who paints on the side (no disrespect to them), or if .1% could name a sculptor. Don’t worry about digital art either, because we’re doing our best to drown it in AI slop (like literature, incidentally).

the CIA stopped funding and promoting shitty art 30 years ago so we don’t have celebrity physical artists anymore.