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It is a personal position of mine, ShaniFaye, I've arrived at after a long history of working as an artist and seeing my friends - some of them quite "famous" - die and having their works "live" after them. The misinterpretations of art history are exactly the meanings and intentions artists work to avoid. There is a deep "message" to art - and IMO it is exactly the message that enshrining art in museological and art historical contexts is the wrong thing to do - artists' egos notwithstanding.
I'm sure there are living artists and artworks that can more than fill the void created by artwork disappearing from the face of the earth the moment the creators die.
There are other, more objective, reasons to advocate against the edification of "masterpieces" and "great art" that are referred to above by myself and others.
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