There WILL BE less people like Patrick Stewart or Dolly Parton, given widening wealth inequality, loss of jobs in creative sector, austerity, privatisation of education (especially arts) & financial exclusion. Art of the near future will be less diverse & restricted to the privileged few.

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There was a moment in the 1990s when Newt Gingrich was sneering about public funding for the arts and said something like "Arthur Miller didn't need government money!" and then Arthur Miller wrote an op-ed noting that he had, in fact, been saved in the Depression by Federal Writers Project.

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Personal favorite from @beetlemoses.bsky.social

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Untitled (flipped), by Georges Mathieu, mid-20th century, 📸 by @scottrovak

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Fantastic but I'm hung on up "the whole weather channel"

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