What Does "Art Not Babies" Mean?

That's simply the title I made up for this blog.

Why?

Well, there are three main reasons, really:

1.) I am a 32-year-old married, educated woman living in New York who is more interested in talking about art than about babies.

2.) I am pointing out that there is overwhelmingly more coverage about celebrities having babies in the media than there is about art or artists.

3.) When this generation of babies grow up, I can guarantee that they will wish that their parents talked more about art than about babies -- and I am using "babies" as a metaphor for all the silly obsessions with celebrities, gossip, TV, in place of serious thoughts.

For each day that I write on this blog there will be two types of posts:

• One having to do with an art experience I have in New York -- a review of a gallery or museum exhibit or public art work, or an interview or interaction with an artist -- or a reaction to art I see online;

• One having to do with that day's big news story about a baby or babies.

--Joanne
"Art Not Babies"