Excellence

I can accept that anything is art. That’s a viable, maybe even necessary stance, in the context of contemporary art. But I can’t give up the idea of excellence in art, even if I can’t always define what that is.

I’ll leave that decision up to time. But not time as the simple passing of days and years. No, time as the flow of events and people that call upon art for inspiration, meaning, hope and beauty. Some art continues to answer over time, to make and remake meaning, to illuminate, to reveal the vision that went in and the beauty that came out. This is excellence.