Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera theater music and dance are thriving all over the world but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.
My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from college. As parents they focused on education but did not stop at academics – they made sure that we knew music saw art and theatre and traveled – even though it meant budgeting like crazy.
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