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Herbert Muschamp, NYT architecture critic, took the hugest crap in the Times yesterday while thinking about Miuccia Prada. According to Muschamp, Miuccia Prada is a genius because she spends millions to exhibit the work of artists who already show regularly at the most well-financed galleries and popular museums in the world. Right? SO edgy, wow.

Muschamp, strangely, has started to use the blanket term "people" for "a tiny select class of rich intellectuals with unlimited resources":

People want experiences now more than they want things. They want something other than TV. They want excuses to be together in social space so they can figure out how the contemporary city is supposed to work. Things provide the excuses. They are pretexts for the authentic errand of being outside.

Right. That's what we've always said about Americans — they don't like TV and they care about how the "contemporary city" works. (Answer: you take the subway to your job and maybe hit a few bars. That's how the city works, you pretentious jackass.)
Planet Prada [NYT]