[durasell]

Do you actually spend much time in galleries or just read ARTnews? There are many, many artists today who are both technically accomplished and making art that is thoughtful. I would say the same thing is true for movies. However, both these artists and directors/writers tend to be on the second or third tier, which is how it should be since art has a limited audience.

[WorkingClassFilth]

"Do you actually spend much time in galleries or just read ARTnews?"

Alas, no. As one of the great unwashed, I find meaning and purpose in the life I lead and rarely find time to digest upchuck from the 'artists' of my time. Since artistic expression, to the great degree, is in the hands of the left, I think it safe to say that we are flat lining. Wherever I look in the mainstream culture, I see a lack of creativity and nothing genuinely new or worthy to say. Whether in the angry noise of musicless music, the endless remakes of movies or the bread and butter TA teen films, plop art that soil our public spaces, the sterile boxes of our homes and buildings and the waste of pulpwood that rolls out in the NYT reviews, it is nearly all the numbingly same article - even the 'rebel' artists are even the same. The lack of real meaning is at the core and all there is left at hand is the formula route or expressions of anger. Seems to me that beauty, truth and universal themes are lost - or ignored.

That's my take anyway. BTW, I still say that WOTW sucked.