“Art for the most part, is about concentration, solitude and determination. It’s really not about other people’s needs and assumptions. I’m not interested in the notion that art serves something. Art is useless, not useful.”
I believe art matters most when it changes how we look at the world. Pollock did that with abstract expressionism, Warhol did it with pop art, and Judd did it through minimalism. Each of them helped people see art in a new way — and that kind of influence is what gives their work real meaning and value.
“It is one of several companies that together form key elements of the nervous system of the internet – and so when its services fail, websites can effectively go offline, affecting millions of people and companies. ChatGPT and Elon Musk’s X social media platform were among the sites that appeared to be affected by Tuesday’s outage. By one estimate, Cloudflare provides services to one in five of the world’s websites.”