What now?

Having studied―well, read about, mostly―the history of art in the twentieth century, I know about surrealism, cubism, abstract expressionism, etc. And I wondered if anything comparable had risen in the past few years. This article popped up.

It's hard not to notice that even though this is explicitly about contemporary movements, the newest one is the Young British Artists, a 1990s phenomenon. None of them are contemporary in the way we'd generally use the term.

Of course an artist doesn't have to be classified by an ism to do vital work. But the presence of these various schools of thought in the art of the last century does seem to have indicated a general interest in art and artists, one that seems to be lacking now.

Houseguest

Funny thing on a grocery run today. I was waiting for a bus and it started raining. Sun shower. By the time I got downtown it had stopped. But big dark clouds were still on the horizon. And by the time I was done with the errand it would start and stop raining twice more.

This mix of light and dark clouds, alongside blue sky, continued the whole time. Was this somehow connected with Hurricane Beryl? Certainly we in Rhode Island have nothing to complain about if it was, but it was weird.