A QUICK QUIZ

FOR MORE than 80 years the artistic establishment (money) has pushed a concept of scorn designed to dismiss and prohibit populist art. The concept has been called: kitsch. Most often meaning, what the masses like. The concept, at least the scorn, extends to political art. “Art must never in any way be political,” arts mandarins say. A mantra of theirs for decades. Anyway, today’s quiz presents a sequence from a kitschy old movie, “Gold Diggers of 1933,” directed by Busby Berkeley. Made during America’s Great Depression, at a time when many World War I veterans were living in shantytowns, or on the streets.

WARNING: The sequence is political.

BUT: Is it ART?

Best answer gets an “Attaboy!”