Why Culture Has Come to a Standstill
Why Culture Has Come to a Standstill
A Times critic argues that ours is the least innovative century for the arts in 500 years. That doesn’t have to be a bad thing.

cross-posted from: https://dormi.zone/post/2481430
Sounds like another old person complaining about young people being uncultured
It'd be great if it was a critique of our intellectual property laws and culture of paywalls and platform-anchored content, but I doubt the NYT would publish anything like that
It would be interesting yes, but this is something more anthropological I think. That would be a different article
Very interesting article, and well-written.
TL;DR: There’s nothing new in art or music, but that’s been the case many times before, and it’s not a problem. It’s new to us, but we can work it out.
Why has culture come to a standstill?
Then without self awareness rambles on about Manet.
It’s a dense article. Keep reading, he gets there.