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If you genuinely think that video games, 'memes', twitter messages, social media posts or vlogs are art at all, let alone art on the level of the fucking litera

If you genuinely think that video games, 'memes', twitter messages, social media posts or vlogs are art at all, let alone art on the level of the fucking literary novel, literally the most artistic medium of all time, then you're part of the problem. Classical music isn't 'almost dead'. The art of painting has never not been confined to museums and art galleries. Cinema most certainly has not be replaced with blockbusters - there have always been mass market blockbusters and films for the intelligent at the same time. The TV series you claim have 'replaced what cinema used to be' are a far cry from art, the Breaking Bads are few and far between and rubbish like Game of Thrones (occasionally well-shot but very poor for at least the last three seasons) is not art.

jhbadger 10y ago
The fate of classical music certainly depends on where you live, but it's not been doing very well in the US for a while. Public Radio (which used to be most people's exposure to classical music) has been playing less and less of it over the past couple of decades, the death of music stores means it's not that easy to browse recordings, and the new streaming services are much more pop music focused. You can still be a classical music fan but it takes work.
- milesrout 10y ago
  I think Spotify's selection of classical music is actually pretty good. Much better than any local music store where I live has ever had in my memory. (City of 400k people in NZ.) We still have Radio NZ: Classical along with Radio NZ: National. This is the benefit of public service broadcasters, you know.
eldj-dc 10y ago
>>the fucking literary novel, literally the most artistic medium of all time<< This is a bold and probably controversial assertion. I for one find it questionable on its face. Even limiting consideration only to literary art forms, the novel is not necessarily "the most artistic medium". For example William Shakespeare, widely held to be among the top literary artists ever to have worked in the English Language, worked in poetry and plays. And plays were a popular medium, analogous to television today, a way for a poet to make money-- It seems plausible to me that elite critics and artists in Shakespeare's time may have asserted (as you do about vlogs and social media posts) that plays were not art at all. Art is what artists make of some medium-- potential new media like memes, and twitter messages and social media posts may not yet have been pushed to the level of art (and certainly not yet the level of great art), but artists have not (yet) had time much time to work with these new media...

jhbadger 10y ago

The fate of classical music certainly depends on where you live, but it's not been doing very well in the US for a while. Public Radio (which used to be most people's exposure to classical music) has been playing less and less of it over the past couple of decades, the death of music stores means it's not that easy to browse recordings, and the new streaming services are much more pop music focused. You can still be a classical music fan but it takes work.

milesrout 10y ago
I think Spotify's selection of classical music is actually pretty good. Much better than any local music store where I live has ever had in my memory. (City of 400k people in NZ.) We still have Radio NZ: Classical along with Radio NZ: National. This is the benefit of public service broadcasters, you know.

eldj-dc 10y ago

>>the fucking literary novel, literally the most artistic medium of all time<< This is a bold and probably controversial assertion. I for one find it questionable on its face. Even limiting consideration only to literary art forms, the novel is not necessarily "the most artistic medium". For example William Shakespeare, widely held to be among the top literary artists ever to have worked in the English Language, worked in poetry and plays. And plays were a popular medium, analogous to television today, a way for a poet to make money-- It seems plausible to me that elite critics and artists in Shakespeare's time may have asserted (as you do about vlogs and social media posts) that plays were not art at all. Art is what artists make of some medium-- potential new media like memes, and twitter messages and social media posts may not yet have been pushed to the level of art (and certainly not yet the level of great art), but artists have not (yet) had time much time to work with these new media...