Why Keith Richards should take over Tate Modern | Jonathan Jones

Music legends of the 1960s might be welcome in today's pop music, but contemporary art shuns its old masters – why?The Marxist cultural critic Walter Benjamin says somewhere, I believe, in his famous essay The Work of Art in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction, that people will accept a radicalism in popular art forms that they will never accept from the avant gardes of "high" art. Benjamin was writing in the era of Eisenstein. A lot of cut-ups have made it into the gallery since then. Audience...

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