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everyone had streaming as a matter of fact, they had VCRs or DVD players in their homes… and before that, if you wanted to see a movie, you generally had to go to a movie theatre, and many American cities had a seedy neighborhood area where porn theatres were concentrated - when I was a kid in Brooklyn, that seedy area was in and around Times Square in NYC.

And just like video killed the radio star, it also killed seedy porn theatres all over the landscape but concurrently it gave the porn industry a huge new life that they had never hereto dreamed of and also gave them access to the privacy of the home as it eliminated the requirement to visit a seedy theatre in order to view a porn movie. It flourished to new heights in the age of the DVD! In 1996 I did an exhibition of classic drawings of the then “new” set of Internet porn stars. In reviewing that show, the Washington Post art critic wrote that my drawings managed “to find a delicate balance between the black charcoal and cream-colored paper resulting in a grainy, film-noir effect, making his subjects, traffickers in massconsumption prurience, seem tough but vulnerable, like a flowering plant in a sexual wasteland.”

Talk about art jargon!

Then the Internet killed the DVD porn industry, as free porn streamed into homes everywhere and everyone became a porn star if they so desired.

Let’s stop talking about porn and get back to art.

Then, also a few decades ago, Tim Tate took video out of the DVD player – which is how art video used to be “watched” back then -- and incorporated it into novel sculptural work, so that the video became “part” of the final artwork – NOT the artwork itself. Tate was the very first one on planet Earth to do… I don’t know about any other planets.

And then amazing and tiny cell phones handed all of us all a brilliant opportunity to once and for all do for art videos what VCRs and DVDs did for the porn industry (in a sense), but in this case remove them from our galleries and museums and put them on the web, where we can watch

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This is sort of a win-win situation for nearly all.

The reduction of artsy videos from the gallery/ museum/art fair scene reopened gallery, art fair, and museum space for other artsy stuff… and suddenly painting was back with the art crown at all these places.

Whatever else “new art” may be lurking out there now disguised as technology (I predict some sort of hologramtype stuff) ... the cycle will start again as soon as the Covidian Age expires. And for art video aficionados, it will deliver an exponential growth in the genre, as hologram technology lands in our homes in a few years.

And as soon as your Aunt Elvira (I did have an aunt so

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The allure of the “new” in art has been always an interesting topic for discussion, but somehow, painting (so far) always returns to the top.

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