Does it take sadistic perversity to get us into theater seats today?
In a long, multifaceted, and sad statement on art, professor Michael J. Lewis of Williams College states that art today is irrelevant because the public has grown indifferent to it. Once something meaningful to chew on, art is now only a commercial venture that entertains. In light of the off-Broadway premiere of “Mercury Fur,” this idea is worth thinking about.
The fine arts attacked everything once valued—the essence of any civilization.
