Is There a Higher Social Purpose in the Arts?

Vanity Fair editor says the art world is "disgusting" and that artists have no choice but to pander to arms dealers. He believes there are currents in culture that can unite a moment, including inclusion of different types of people who had been ignored or shut out for years. The author also talks about how jazz became an esoteric genre where you had to understand it on an intellectual level later in the 50s.