Remembering Michael Jackson

Since it's been everywhere, I want to take this opportunity to reflect on my favorite Michael Jackson Moment....

Is Everything Art?

I recently was visiting a site about a Con for writers, and was struck by the site, several times, referring to it's writers as "artists".

Now, I have the utmost respect for writers. I LOVE writers, books have inspired our world arguably more than any other medium. BUT, do they have to be artists, too? Can't they be... I don't know... WRITERS?!?

What does that make now, let me see... Musicians, are "artists." Performers, (acrobats, comedians, people who get up and entertain in a way other than music) are "artists." Actors are "artists," and now writers.

Oh yeah, let me not forget those of us who make ART. What's the deal? Can I call my Artwork "Visual Music"? Can I be "A Musician of an Artist"? Can we please stop the madness???

What happened to Musicians being "musicians"? Writers being "writers", etc.? Is being an "artist" so flattering that everyone wants to be called an artist, even if they don't make art?

When EVERYONE is an "Artist" and EVERYTHING becomes "Art," ART will truly be dead.