Do you have any interesting takes on modern or contemporary art that you'd like to share?
I unironically think that a lot of the most interesting stuff happening in contemporary art is being done by furries. I'm maybe gonna write about this eventually but a large part of that is that a lot of contemporary figural art is so bogged down in reference and allusion, in this sort of vague postmodern way where nothing necessarily like means much of anything but boy we sure are shuffling these symbols around as furiously as we can. can't swing a dead idiom without hitting an edgy deconstruction of some vague sort of Manet's Olympia or Demoiselles D'avignon or what have you, bonus points if Mickey Mouse is there too. I'm not a big fan of the whole sort of pop art lineage these days, basically, particularly since SO much of that shit immediately became a huge part of the NFT ecosystem.
meanwhile I feel like there's this genuine interest among furry artists, among other people doing cartooning and more "low" art, in making art for the sake of some... external ideal or vision? rather than just an inward looking critique of The Art Canon And Also Pop Culture If We Can Manage It. maybe this is "metamodernism"? people seem to finally be getting Real Into That Term lol. mostly I just think that someone sincerely employing techniques derived from abstract expressionism to draw a furry shows at least some engagement and interest that goes beyond some of the like slapdash Mr Brainwash style "let's slap two things together" stuff. (this is obviously a pretty narrow band of "contemporary art" it just seems to be a pretty popular that I happen to think is pretty boring lol)