Thoughts from across the pond

One of the great joys of the internet is the way it breaks international boundaries, even Pixel has an international audience.

Pre-Internet a few of us may have heard of great American magazines but few of us ever got the chance to read them but now....

There is an interesting essay in the online edition  of The Atlantic discussing, not for once on whether photography is dead or if its an art but looking at the more fundamental question of whether the nature of art and artists is changing and our current view of art as "That which you see in a gallery" is becoming out dated.

When works of art become commodities and nothing else, when every endeavor becomes “creative” and everybody “a creative,” then art sinks back to craft and artists back to artisans—a word that, in its adjectival form, at least, is newly popular again. Artisanal pickles, artisanal poems: what’s the difference, after all? So “art” itself may disappear: art as Art, that old high thing. Which—unless, like me, you think we need a vessel for our inner life—is nothing much to mourn.

Link to the complete Article