Art once moved from the top down.

Power commissioned it.

Patrons funded it.

Institutions kept it.

Critics named it.

Markets priced it.

Then culture outran the institutions.

Duchamp made the idea the work.

Warhol made mass media the material.

Paik made the screen a canvas.

Basquiat brought the street into the room.

The internet removes the room.

Art moves from the bottom up.

Artists publish first.

Communities decide what matters.

Everyone can see it.

Few can own it.