What Happened to Art?

Modern art holds tight to a small place in the world, visited by few people. People like Jeff Koons exploit this. His "art" is always created by other people, and in the case of many paintings, often reproduced with minor variations to give an illusion of uniqueness. A huge balloon animal is cool.Who cares about the second one. An inflatable lobster on a trash can is... well, at most amusing. An inflatable dog kidpool in the middle of a ladder is strange. An inflatable caterpillar in a ladder and you start to wonder who the hell cares.
A refrigerator on florescent lights is slightly less interesting than the ladder thing, but the speaker on florescent lights is just bull$%!# now.
Vacuums!?! Com'on!!
The only people who care for a giant colored-chrome balloon dog are small children, just cause they like shiny things. The only people who buy this [junk] are people with too much money, giant egos, and tiny brains.

Lets go to something even less creative than Koons' "work."
Damien Hirst put a dead shark in a tank of formaldehyde and put it on display. This isn't art. This is something you see at a museum and think "that's cool, a shark." Eventually the spoiled child of the past comes out and has to have that cool thing, deciding to recreate it.

Recently there was a piece by Yzaal on ebay, which you can see here. This was two DJ's fairly successful attempt at infiltrating this world of modern art. With a couple blotches of paint, some lines, and a few finger prints the "art" sold for $465. While a couple DJ's do this as a prank, people like Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst exploit the public for massive amounts of money. Reverse Yzaal and you'll get what these "artists" really are.