"I been waiting in line for this
Now that it's taken forever I insist
Until I get it I can't breathe"

(...)

If Art is the ashes, something else is the phoenix.

If we presume that Art can die, i.e. that the question is even a question, we have to ask "what would Art look like if it was dead?" This obviously can't be known for sure. If Art was dead, what would be leftover would be something else, something not Art, but not dead. Or else nothing would be alive.
There's no use for terms like "art's spirit can never die", because the question assumes that it can. How would we know if Art were dead?
(...) I think Art is dead and what we see, all we do, is either part of that dead thing called Art or something different that's still alive but isn't Art.

NM Herman

writer, documentary videomaker and website maker - New-York