Exactly. It's also a complete self-own. You know who can name several painters with highly anticipated upcoming shows? Literally anyone who actually cares about painting.
replySometimes (often) when people get older, they stop listening to new music, reading new books, or going to art openings. Then, slowly, they start assuming that the world is the problem. That art has gotten worse, or there's somehow less of it. But of course the thing that has become boring is the person.
The author is 88 years old (not that advanced age is always a barrier to liking new things, but it frequently doesn't help) and has been a reactionary for decades. The magazine publishing this is, as noted on the page header, Catholic and thus also invested in the vision of "cultural decline" that the article expresses.
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