What is art without beauty?

Roger Kimball (Co-editor of the New Criterion) critiques the notion that art is experience and beauty is not relevant.

“This much, I think, is clear: Without an allegiance to beauty, art degenerates into a caricature of itself; it is beauty that animates aesthetic experience, making it so seductive; but aesthetic experience itself degenerates into a kind of fetish or idol if it is held up as an end in itself, untested by the rest of life.”