Enter the Dragon: On the Vernacular of Beauty

I also found this reading very difficult to understand, and I had trouble finding what point the author was trying to get across.  What I did get from the reading was that Hickey believes there is a lack of beauty in the contemporary art world.  He says that beauty is what makes art so powerful.  And if an artist can portray beauty through his/her work, he/she can be successful.  This may be totally off, but this is what I understood.  I found it confusing and hard to comprehend.