Whodunit?

Okay so this is sort of unrelated to any of the specific things that we have talked about in class, buuuut the class was referreed to as a sort of therapy session to talk about the art world and I did want to talk about this. I worked for the whodunnit gala preview thing last night and it left me feeling very negative about the art world. I was assigned to basically stand around one of the silent auction tabels and keep it neat and tidy, encourage people to bid, keep them from taking pictures etc. First thing that made me uncomfortable was a woman was taking a picture of a man but in a weird way right in front of the pictures and I politely said there are no pictures allowed of the artwork to which the man replied to me "She is one of the major artists at this event"---which really is just him saying "she is more important than you". It just made me feel belittled and like I was pissing off people that I didnt understand the importance of by doing what I was asked to do. Ugh. The second thing that happened is that at the end of the night or the end of the last silent auction there was sort of a fight between two people who were trying to outbid eachother on a piece that had been donated by Mary Pratt. Time ended and they both sort of ignored it when we said it was over although one was more sort of in the time limits than the other. So they are like who gets it??? and I was saying ugh I don't know and one guy was just getting mad at me and kind of yelling at me. okay i stopped writing this yesterday. My point was that all of it turned me off teh art world because it seems very hierarchacal? Hierarchy is the word I am trying to root that in and I am not getting it right. Okay bye