The Art Scene Is Dead and the Liberal Class Killed It
Thanks to MrZ for recommending this article... The Art Scene Is Dead and the Liberal Class Killed It Why absolutely everything sucks now RUSSELL DOBULAR Photos: Helen Hayes Theater (left), Ars Technica (right) These days I mostly avoid being around art spaces and the dwindling population of people that frequent them. This is for the same reason you might duck an old friend who’s been transformed by time and circumstance into a thing that you scarcely recognize. Sometimes it’s better to remember them as they were. I broke my rule the other night to attend the closing of a theater I built long ago, and it was every bit as sad and disappointing as I would have expected. Hardly anyone came to send her off, and the ones that did could muster nothing better than a couple of beers and off to bed. The whole thing was over by 11. “Who are you voting for,” a pudgy, bearded, graying Xer, asked me before I left. He was wearing a kind of middle-aged bohemian get-up, right down to the hipster hat,