Ars longa, vita brevis — but even art doesn’t last forever. At least, not without a lot of help. The ephemerality of art does, of course, depend on what you’re doing. Performing arts are fleeting by nature: there’s notation or (nowadays) recording, but when we talk about preserving something like music or dance, we tend […]

Forgery: where art and crime intersect. Not all kinds of forgery are art, of course. When my fourteen-year-old self forged my father’s signature on my practice records to assure my band director that yes, of course I practiced at home as much as I was supposed to, there was no art involved there. (Rather the […]

Throughout the art sections of this Patreon, I’ve been grouping them into broad categories: visual arts, performing arts, literary arts, and so forth. But what about the arts that are kinda of . . . none of the above? It’s a trick question, honestly, because just about everything can be classed under one of those […]