Be careful for swerving art.

Does art have to get to the point or can it skirt the issues of the day? I mean really, there’s art that everyone gets and songs that people can relate to, and words that come off the page that a reader could swear they wrote that morning. Does an artist take too much liberty if the art, be it literature, music, film or visual art, doesn't resonate with the thoughts of the times? It seems to me that the best artists tap into the feelings and thoughts of the day, let them guide their work, but inevitably it's their interpretation of it that is the art. Then the viewer, reader and listener can make something out of it, even if it doesn't match what the artist intended. The best artist will allow for all the permutations of thought and interpretation to occur and speak to art lovers for that simple reason – to see how many different ways the piece has enlivened someone to form some thought or trigger some imagination. They detach themselves from their art. While some artists focus their work on allowing people a chance to reflect on their lives. The greatest of art mix the mechanics with the individual artist's emotion and whirls the artist and everyone who it reaches into seventh heaven.

Although some supervisors who drop off a memo in your cube may be fully convinced that their memo is art, they're wrong. The difference behind getting a message across and an artistic delivery is actually in question today. Listen to many pop songs and you'll hear songs that resuscitate the same topics that call in shows talk about: love lost and reawakened or demolished, hope for the long haul ahead and personal improvement. Every once in a while you hear something that doesn't really fit into the improve yourself culture and dares to be art.

Where is today's art in music, in literature and in film? Is there anything that defines that today? I dare you to take a look around, listen and watch and see what is artful and what's amplifying a message without reaching an artistic level.

I'll be looking and listening and watching too. I think I'll start right here in San Francisco in 2005.long haul ahead and personal improvement. Every once in a while you hear something that doesn't really fit into the improve yourself culture and dares to be art.

Where is today's art in music, in literature and in film? Is there anything that defines that today? I dare you to take a look around, listen and watch and see what is artful and what's amplifying a message without reaching an artistic level.

I'll be looking and listening and watching too. I think I'll start right here in San Francisco in 2005.