> I think the original, parent comment was coming from a much more generous place.

I don't. Equating questioning a piece with willful ignorance and a safe-to-hate caricature all smell of bile to me.

"nerds too nerd to art" (more specifically in this case "hustler too hustle for art") is just a grade school putdown we use as artists to perpetuate the inaccessibility of art conversations and keep our cool mystique up.

Sorry, you've got me wrong: I'm referring to the original, OP parent comment of this full thread. So, three comments up from mine in the tree. The one that begins "Some art-haters in the comments, so to defend..."