Posted
8:59 PM
by Gene
Roger Kimball's slashing attack on the "art" world is so rich and savory it will not to quote a crumb of a sentence or two, but he has come up with two perfect mottos for our age:
As W. S. Gilbert knew, when everybody’s somebody, nobody’s anybody.TRANSLATION: YouTube and blogging.
Sooner or later, even the Leon Botsteins and Marieluise Hessels of the world will realize that the character in Bruce Nauman’s “Good Boy, Bad Boy” was right: “this is boring.”TRANSLATION: YouTube, blogging, e-mail, instant messaging, social networking, virtual worlds, videogames, obsessive downloading and file sharing, and everything else high-tech.
That these mottoes apply brilliantly to art it goes without saying, but somehow the tech angle is unavoidable.