The arts and back to reality...

The topics I write about are varied, but include the state of the Arts, how this aesthetic aspiration gets knocked around as it is embedded in a fluctuating and now exasperating cultural environment. Everything from virtual to physical boundaries, the landscape, and even territorial frontiers. I consider the history of the Arts to be fascinating and current events as well are worthy subjects. Native aesthetics or natural artists like Andy Goldsworthy... or others such as those that have expanded the boundary/frame and even enclosed or exploded the supposed installation space such as Michael Heizer, or Christo - these are some of the topics I launch from.

Today I am reading Provenance which is excellent so far, and the true tale therein exposes the unstable nature of authority in the Art world. Finance, investing and greed and even mere sentimentality have added to the ongoing dissemblance of a once admirable path for the talented artist - now this role is caked with distrust and the superficial, affected mystique of it. It is no wonder that many fine artists find themselves drudging away in retail, design or isolating themselves as street or event performers or social critics. It's time to bring to a brighter light the abandonment of honor and cultural nurturing in the west; and rescue the Arts from simplistic "Art Appreciation."