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While you were all watching Netflix, arts·meme celebrated her 13th birthday. Since I was also watching Netflix on May 24, I missed it as well. But hey, now that things are opening back up, … er… what’s that? We’re closing down again? Opening again? No more masks! Wait, what? Masks back on? What is it that this virus doesn’t understand about wreaking havoc with the art world?!
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At artsmeme, we don’t believe people “need” the arts. Nor do we believe the arts will “heal” you, or our social ills. We actually don’t have a theory for what the arts are or are not. We’ve always tracked artistic creativity and human expression — just by instinct. When it felt natural and right. During “high pandemic,” we seriously lost our appetite for performance. Life was reduced to sourdough bread, “The Crown,” and looking at a tree.
But now, fueled by the return of a longtime advertising client, the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, we’re back! This show of support for arts journalism support woke us up. We’re woke! Meanwhile, give us a little twirl, arts·meme!
We’re taking it slow and easy. We wish you an easy re-entry too. And please have fun with our annual birthday posts. You’ll laugh. The little lady grows up. Click around!
- artsmeme reveals all at age twelve
- o sole mio! artsmeme at eleven
- a decade of arts coverage on artsmeme.com!
- at nine an industrious arts builder
- self-expressive at eight: arts·meme
- the seven ages of arts·meme
- arts·meme turns six
- little lady arts·meme at five
- arts·meme a cunning urchin of four
- arts·meme reaches ripe age of three
- arts·meme enters terrible twos