Why is the art world more interested in the people who buy art and move it around than we are in the people who actually create it? It’s a dangerous progression, says Alan Artner. “Where the ’80s made stars of purveyors and acquisitors, the ’90s turned the spotlight on curators – and today we live with the consequences: pseudo-intellectualism replacing scholarship, an indifference toward the past, fashionability substituting for merit, the exercise of style instead of analysis, and an elevation of artistic stewardship over art.”