I erased my answering machine. It was time. I went to see The Company last night with Tiff and SWMNBMIMB. I enjoyed it very much. The art world is similar to the ballet world, in that for their own benefit the controlling societal framework (gallery structure, etc.) promotes competition and isolation, rather than sharing and unity. Artists in the past were less isolated by fear (Another artist will steal your ideas! Take your place in the exhibit!) than artists now -- because that fear is promoted by the art world in order to better control artists. Still, we are not as badly off as the ballet dancers, who are forced to be a part of their controlers' plan if they want to dance in any meaningful way. An artist can just reject the art world, but embrace art. There's still a society of artists, although it's not as tightly knit as it once was -- and will be again. Artists have been affected by the fairly-recent ability we have to reproduce art from the past. It's the same for musicians. Things live on forever, and in a bazillion copies. If you are an artist or a musician now, you have to compete with all the artists and musicians whose work exists as originals or copies. Similarly, the girl who was once renowned as the most beautiful girl in the village, now has to compete with every beautiful woman in the world -- alive or in reproductions. It's always seemed like an exceedingly peculiar situation to me.
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