@jckhewitt Alternately, compare middle to middle. Buzzfeed, or setting cats on fire?
@simplic10 @jckhewitt Modern 'high' art is thoroughly corrupted by ideology, subsidy and cultural collapse. A lot of popular art is amazing.
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@St_Rev@jckhewitt Also sci-fi. If you control for gravitas, Vernor Vinge is as good as Tolstoy in his own way. -
@St_Rev@jckhewitt Pop music: Simon & Garfunkel will be remembered 500 years from now, I suspect. -
@St_Rev@jckhewitt One other factor: fewer gatekeepers for modern art; google does not contain somebody signalling that X is hackneyed... -
@St_Rev@jckhewitt ..., Y is bad politics, Z is brilliant art. Individuals have to decide what they like for selves, but worry that... -
@St_Rev@jckhewitt ...their actual tastes would make them appear low-status. -
@St_Rev@jckhewitt E.g. I like this at first sight http://mat2.materialicious.com/images/aesthetic-sculpture-of-baroque-and-modern-industrial-world-o.jpg … but I am way too insecure to call it great art. -
@St_Rev@jckhewitt Love Andy Goldsworthy http://goo.gl/lMD883 but that signals me as a tumblr kid, not an art aficionado.
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