What is Art? Who is it for?

I’m becoming more and more of a pretentious art snob, sorry about it. I’ve lost track of the number of galleries we’ve been to on this trip. We’re studying basically every era of paintings, architecture, poetry, cabaret, and I don’t even know what else. Gabriel is definitely to blame for my new interest in the arts. He just makes it so interesting, and so fun. He took a few of us on a walk through the Pergamon Museum in Berlin the other day. He’d have us walk into a room with our heads down looking at the floor, guiding us in and place us where he wished. He would then tell us to all look up… and BAM! Ishtar Gate, or BAM! super old Pergamon Alter. Gabriel told us to take future girlfriends there and do that, and if they don’t say “WOW” then they’re not marriage material. I have a sneaking suspicion that he’s done this… after all, we’re talking about the guy who unsuccessfully tried to woo French chicks at Oxford with German romantic art.