I think some people mistake the ease of filling niches for the decline of art. It's not that art is on the way down, it's that more niches can be filled profita

I think some people mistake the ease of filling niches for the decline of art. It's not that art is on the way down, it's that more niches can be filled profitably with the audience made available by the Internet. Great art is a niche now. It's in the pie, but its slice is smaller. The people reading the "junk" either wouldn't care about the great art, or they would look at both. I think this sort of pushback was inevitable when the digital publishing revolution people talked about for decades finally happened.