When a scientist creates an important experiment, it does not transpire like an innovation in art.  Other scientists test the results by recreating the original experiment but serious artists want to avoid a recent innovation because they see it as copying, giving up their autonomy as innovators.  An artist might quit looking at Artforum and other “serious” art magazines because he might not want to to get into the habit of anticipating whatever is thought to be the next innovation.  He can occasionally look at Art in America because an artist’s work would have become passé by the time it showed up there.

Even though we call taste subjective because it varies from person to person it is an objective phenomena in the same sense that only one individual directly perceives pain.  A person experiencing pain has an open wound, an inflammation, ache, pinched nerve, etc.  When the source of the pain is located another person, a nurse, can verify that the pain experienced by the first person is in a causal relationship with the observed injury and take measures to alleviate the suffering.  This shows the subjective state of pain as having an objective status.  Time fluctuates, speeds up and slows down as the brain focuses in and out of attention, a subjective state, yet we call time objective.  A sufficiently articulate person can give reasons for what he likes and what he finds annoying.  He will also be able to give an account of development of his taste as an educational adventure.