The state of affairs in the visual arts world

Well it appears there are a few strands worthy of commentaries and these will take time.

There is the cyberspace Art situation, dividing up as it does between:

*'simple' established Art galleries throughout the world, reflecting the real world
*the would-be (paying) 'collectives' devoted to region or specialty, or none
*the freebie collectives with some principle underlying
*the entirely open collectives
*the cyber side of real-world nation based foundations, state bodies, even unions
*the arty orientated open fora largely reflecting wishes
*wiki(s) and blogs
*single artist websites reflecting the private real world
*auctions and monetary valuation sites supposedly measuring the real world

There is the remnant of modernist-academist war, petering out and only partly of interest for the absence within the academist corner of any sufficient worth, sense or justification to make the slightest impression upon modernism. The chief interest lies in the necessary analysis of the dominance of 'modernism' and the cyberspace situation is of course but reflection of the real-world curatorial replacement by its own essential academism. This remnant could possibly be considered the educational aspect of the art world

And there is the underlying reality founded- despite what appear to be near politically-correct curatorial attempts to pretend otherwise, upon purely nationalistic drive within the arts.

Between these factors , the art world can be seen as reflective, even more than it would itself claim, of current human societies as they really function. Even without being an arabist I can see the odd youngster attempting to enter through the cyber portals above and expressing similar signs as any south-american or latvian of icelander of his/her desire for an audience or recognition. As art is an expression of feeling and thought - a communication, this is of course natural to all but those for whom society of any kind has ceased or never begun to function, who may be a burgeoning number.