"The reason I didn’t particularly like the piece, and still don’t, is because I found it unnecessarily undignified.... but I’ve been experiencing a growing concern and unease about a decay in decency and common respect ... "

Things are certainly out of control when it comes to comment sections on Youtube, and elsewhere on social media. But to somehow conflate this with art is far-fetched. Especially using Murray's work- and then to compare him with Mabulu! Respect is earned, as they say, and so is the right to be treated with dignity. If your acts are undignified, you don't deserve to be treated with dignity either.

Mr Abel's use of an Oxford description of the word "art" is also strange - maybe because it serves his purpose? Art is not merely about beauty (determined by the eye of the beholder) and hasn't been for decades. What he is saying is that art should be decorative. Oops...

Actually, art has very much become a comment on life and the human experience, incl protest.