So let's never forget that art strengthens America.

WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Celebrates Kennedy Center Honorees

These are the exhibitions that will get the attention, but don't forget the publically-funded modern art galleries up and down the country that show great art all year round, from the Bristol Art Museum to the National Galleries of Scotland.

BBC: FILMS OF 2013 - Neil Smith

The wall of a jail cell, smeared with excrement as an act of protest, was filmed with such compositional care that it became, in effect, a work of abstract art, allowing us to forget what it actually was: human waste, applied with human rage, and surely unbearable to the human nose.

NEWYORKER: Hot and Bothered

The blue-eyed Redondo Beach native looks like an ex-skateboarder, and his relaxed Southern California demeanor makes it easy to forget that he's famous in every modern art scene in the world.

WSJ: Where I Work: Artist Doug Aitken

Forget all that, the ICA now wants to be part of the art world establishment, to sit with confidence at the top table with Tate, the Serpentine and the Frieze Art Fair.

BBC: ICA's hip replacement