Gallery art moved directly into the social bar scene as a marker of currency

Evidence

By contrast, Flavin’s piece—a sort of crossbow constructed out of four eight-foot-long deep crimson commercially produced fluorescent tubes—went straight from the Jewish Museum to Max’s. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1020

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Art’s exchange value replaces and is mistaken for its use value — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 118