Anti-painterly painting was stress relieving when it was guerilla art, now it's like painting the death of sincerity.
Paradox of "Death and the Maiden" mirroring "Nonobject versus object in postmodernism".
Crazy rooms and cute monsters are stress relieving but a little gratuitous and decorative.
Putting all the aesthetics eggs in the theory basket render modern art weird and enigmatic because of the ideas that it wants its work to go.
Modern famous paintings will often get more credit than a comparatively unknown painting, even if their size is similar. Cool artworks are dangerous.