«I BELIEVE MEDIA IS ART»

The most significant cultural development of the first decade of the 21st century was...iTunes. Or the Kindle. Or YouTube. Or blogging. Or Amazon's customer reviews. Take your pick -- but whatever you choose, don't make it a work of creative art.
Yes, important art continued to be created in the new millennium, but the big culture-related news of the Decade Without a Name is that it will likely be remembered less for its art than for the inventions that put the art into circulation. Every journalist who covers the world of art and culture is a trend-monger, always looking for the Next Big Thing like a pig snuffling for truffles. But never before has it been so difficult to point to any sharply defined stylistic tendencies in Western culture.

-Wall Street Journal
Dec 21 2009