Since no one really responded with a serious answer I'll go ahead and chime in.

The art itself my not carry a poignant message about our political world, but it exists in a political world and thus is political in nature.

It could be argued that everyone has an obligation to honestly and intellectually engage with the political nature of our world. And by not doing this an artist is choosing to ingore the political nature of their own reality

Choosing to "not be political" is itself a political stance. Regardless of whether or not it was a conscious one

(And yes, I know sometimes people just want to have fun. I'm not condemning fun. Just giving a serious response to the silly extreme example)

(Also, also there's a whole 'nother can of worms if you want to talk about art as commodity)