Today's art is "content to leave political image making to Karl Rove and Osama bin Laden. To leave social statements to Target and Toyota," says author Larry Beinhart ("Wag the Dog") on Huffington Post (12/12/05). Writing about an annual art show in Woodstock, N.Y., Beinhart says, "152 artists ... individually made a decision not to be political, social, religious or scientific. This is not to say the art must be 'relevant.' This is not to say we should return to Soviet realism and show Heroic Workers planting new flowers on the village green. It is to note that is this case, the artists abdicated. Universally." This, says Beinhart, is "symptomatic of 'art' in general." Read more (and respond!) on HuffPo. [LINK]