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I really like this quote from Rapheal Rubinstien (from his article on Neo-Expressionism in Art in America)<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2026 it\u2019s vitally important that we have, someplace, a public forum where we can argue with each other about new art. I often worry that the art world is adopting the MSNBC\/Fox News model\u2014closed spheres where clusters of like-minded partisans never have to confront opposing views.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n Not surprisingly, I like this because I\u2019ve been thinking along these lines recently. From Facebook to blogs to magazines to openings, I\u2019m seeing a highly fractured and increasingly uninteresting artworld open up before me. I\u2019ve never believed in monocultures, but I fear that is what we are starting to evolve towards.<\/p>\n I\u2019m meeting more and more artists and curators who know so little outside of a particular realm, that when confronted by an idea or approach that is outside of the narrow comfort zone, the artist\/curator has no response; and worse, no ability or desire to ask further questions. In the long run it\u2019s the loss of these further questions that I worry about most. Because in my mind it is exactly the further questions that can bring new ideas and approaches to the foreground of our art discourse.<\/p>\n