Newsweek on Art

I never have time to read the Newsweek's that renew as quickly as my NPR membership, but they have had few recent articles on art that I took the time to peruse.

This article, "But What Does it Mean?" notices a decline in the hackneyed uber-self conscious, personal/political art to which we have all become so accustom. While I find some of the conclusions a bit suspect (while the art world might be done with exploring identity, there are a lot of other people out there who shouldn't be allowed to skip ahead to a post-politically-correct society), I generally agree with the sentiments if this article.

This short piece, "Art Attack", made me laugh out loud about the power of good art to make you woosy, or to induce "aesthetic rapture".