“I’m going to show you something that should scare the living daylights out of you…” US talk show host Glenn Beck is a man whose attitude towards the arts (especially public art in New York) can be described as reactionary at best and crazed (references to a sinister ‘movement’) at worst. With support from millions of dispossessed viewers, he has upbraided the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for its ‘progressive’ sympathies and especially for commissioning art he considers propaganda for the Obama administration (not, perhaps, entirely without reason). The NEA has been forced to take him seriously. How long-term Beck’s interest in the arts will be is debatable. But with Beck set up as the Joker against whom New York magazine art critic Jerry ‘Hollywood’ Saltz can style himself the artworld’s Dark Knight, this one might have legs.