At 01:42 PM 8/6/97 PDT, Mathew Boroson wrote: >Where has that gone? How can i get my art-fix? What movies have i >missed, what books? What composers? (the only easy-access >experimentalism i know nowadays is Kronos; i can find their CDs at Sam >Goodys) > >So i guess i'm looking for two things: i'm looking for guidance, >recommendations, help finding things that would challenge and inspire >me; and i'm also trying to find out what changed in the last ten years, >and how to change it back. > > > Matt >
In that line, Matt, read "The Shock of the New," by Robert Hughes, Time
Magazine's art critic, or find and rent the videos of it. Hughe's theme is
that yesterday's avant-garde is today's mainstream. You have only to look
at the East Bldg of the National Gallery of Art to prove it, Hughes says.