A new issue of the Journal of Art Historiography is out. Sven-Olov Wallenstein (Sodertorn): Space, Time, and the Arts: Rewriting the Laocoon. Alexandra Heller-Nicholas (La Trobe): Last Trope on the Left: Rape, Film and the Melodramatic Imagination. From TED, David Byrne on how architecture helped music evolve. From Prospect, why is so much contemporary art awful? We’re living through the death throes of the modernist project — and this isn’t the first time that greatness has collapsed into decadence. Ana Finel Honigman reviews Art School: (Propositions for the 21st Century). Arthur Danto on art, action and meaning. From Inside Catholic, a schema for discussing Christian Art. Through the Internet, video games, YouTube, Twitter, et al, original art is sampled and re-envisioned by anyone who can master

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