Community Art, not Modern Art

New art indeed, but community art, not what you’d call ‘modern’ art. I think we could learn from Prince Charles here. There’s a group of obscure and offensive artists who call themselves ‘modernists’—James Joyce and T.S. Eliot, Stravinsky and Picasso, and so on—I’m sure you’ve heard of them. Really, they just show contempt for ordinary people with their ugly buildings, discordant music, unreadable books, childish paintings. Some people fool themselves into thinking it’s all very meaningful and that they’re superior to us ordinary folks because they can appreciate it. True modernism is more about welcoming the changes that are happening right now and fighting the conservatives who would take us back decades.