Who do you think is leading the charge of forward-thinking artists?
For both women and men, it is good to have an artist like Lady Gaga stick her neck out. Otherwise, art will be dead.
I've seen the only bit of hope left in the art world, and it's not in these celebrity "artists." People such as Koons are only in it for the money and it is a disgrace to tradition to call people like him artists.
I've been to art galleries at my uni and there I have seen people with undeniable talent. People who are not in it for $$$. That's why I was happy when gaga adopted that girl who made those creative watercolor paintings.