Art, is often heralded as a counterweight education experts in education / teaching and learning activities, but is it true?
As an extension of the question, its also raise below two question below:

Do we really understand the meaning of the word (balance)?
Do Art and Culture is to balance?

A vessel, if the charges exceed the carrying capacity increase, will always run lopsided (either next to where). If the vessel is allowed to continue so, how long the same ship will survive transport to the ’state’ of the same?, What if exposed to large waves?, Drowned?, Broken?, Or sank?, Or ……?
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Due to informal barriers the arts are structured and partly monopolized, but the structuring is informal and difficult to discern. Informal monopolization causes a reduction in risks for artists in privileged areas, while risks are higher for artists outside these areas.

In the selected areas, average income, in the form of recognition and usually some money as well, is higher because many are excluded and numbers are relatively small. Therefore, competition is less intense. In these areas, there is a consolidated effort to support the reputations of artists.
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Looking back it’s easy to see that wealthy and powerful institutions, like churches and kingdoms, competed with one another. The history books are filled with tales of domination, war, victories, and defeats through the centuries. People nowadays tend to think that the competition between nations (and regions as well as towns) has largely disappeared and that their world is pacified.

There still is competition but it occurs through trade. This form of competition seems to concern businessmen, not nations (or regions or towns). People tend to consider commercial triumphs and defeats as extremely relative and temporal: one year this company or country wins, next year another.
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Why does the art that experts judge as inferior often sell so well in mass markets? In fact, it sells better than ‘quality art’. This is a common phenomenon in the mass markets of books, cds, films, and videos. For instance, the market value of Steven Spielberg films is much higher than the market value of Werner Herzog films. The same applies to the books of Allistair McClean in comparison to those of William Golding. Nevertheless, most experts would agree that Herzog and Golding offer higher aesthetic value.

Unlike deep-pocket markets, it is unlikely that this phenomenon is caused by the variance in the composition of capital between average experts and average buyers. (Experts are likely to have both more money and more cultural capital than average buyers, but not necessarily in different proportions.)
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Located in the heart of the busy Manchester City Centre, the Urbis Centre is an exciting new tourist attraction that showcases the aesthetics of urban life. The Urbis is a museum that is dedicated to celebrating the urban lifestyle, with a range on interactive exhibits and differently themed exhibitions and sections.

The architecture of the Urbis Centre keeps with its cutting edge urban image and signifies the rise of the museum, after the devastating IRA bomb in 1996. The building’s cool clean lines look stunning from all angles and the reflective glass gives the building an air of freshness among the usually drab Manchester skyline. The eye catching glass façade is made up of over 2,000 panes of glass, while the roof is made of copper tiles.
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