1.   And that is where art comes in.

2.   Artworks have been esteemed or not on the basis of the clubs their creators belonged to, as though any art could come from conformity.

3.   But art came first.

4.   But before the arts came the same immutable tides of social migration that hit the likes of Telluride and Sante Fe.

5.   But exploration art has come to comprise more than historical artifacts.

6.   But now subway art comes in many media.

7.   But originally it was a sincere attempt to give Westerners a sense of where this art came from.

8.   By example, Folkways insisted that the most important art came from ordinary people, not the elite.

9.   Even the popular wisdom that economic inequality is good for art is coming under question.

10.   For all the trappings and tricks, though, she says the art comes down to something basic and internal.