Each day, 30,000 people visit the Louvre to see the most famous art piece of all time, the Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci.
How many people is that a year? Oh, wait! How many people is that over the past 517 years?
That’s the long tail – a timeless body of work.
Sadly, today’s “Art of the Stomach” comes out with a bang and whimpers into non-existence almost as quickly as it came. Not only that. Even relationships, politics, education and architecture lasts as long as blip compared to the works of old.
I wonder what changed. Friedrich Nietzsche would say God died. In other words, we started creating things for ourselves – for now – rather than for a timeless, supreme being.
hmm…
