The Big Six

Something that really struck me while reading the article was that the art scene has been suffering ever since 9/11 and the fall of the economy. I was aware of both these issues, yet never connected them to the suffering art world! It makes a great deal of sense that it would result in that fashion though...I also believe that the increasing use of technology in place of everyday things is contributing to the fall of the art scene because people are allowing themselves to be destracted with their newly acquired "toys" while narrowing their creative minds and focusing solely on the procedures that the computer will allow them to make. My hope is that people will soon realize that technology can only make you so happy and take you so far, and them comes YOU making the effort to actually go somewhere and do something. Though technology can aid in inhancing art, it cannot create it and it certainly cannot appreciate it.