From: Integral World [newsletter@integralworld.net] Sent: maandag 8 december 2008 8:11 To: f.visser3@chello.nl Subject: [personal] The Future of Art INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST =========================== http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 259 Amsterdam, December 7th, 2008 ON THE FUTURE OF ART AND ART CRITICISM - Keith Martin-Smith Art struggles in our postmodern world, where genius has been pronounced dead and mediocrity and irony congratulate one another on their empty existence. A trip to a modern museum of art leaves most of us scratching our heads in confusion. Cutting-edge art and literature have lost their power over our collective imaginations because they can no longer speak for us in any meaningful way. Avante-garde art and literature have sadly been relegated to PhD's and ever-narrowing groups of intellectuals who “get it”, never bothering to ask if it's worthy of being gotten in the first place. Art has become an inside joke about an inside joke that fewer and fewer people are interested in hearing. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/martin-smith2.html If you know other people interested in this Integral World Newsletter, please forward this mail to them. Thanks. To SUBSCRIBE to this Integral World Newsletter or change your email address, click here: http://www.integralworld.net/pommo/user/subscribe.php To UPDATE your email address or UNSUBSCRIBE, click here: http://www.integralworld.net/pommo/user/login.php