Some good things are happening

These words from Tim Etchells I  read on Thursday: "Reading the materials these days you’d know that art is about celebrating, bringing together, and affirming. You’d know that its about creative self-expression.  It’s harder somehow  to find reference to things like the fact that the arts might challenge, provoke or disturb.  It’s hard to find an emphasis on things like difficulty, difference, division or dissent."
And then looking at my book on jean michel basquiat on Friday and getting very excited about his pictures for the first time. I think I was merely excited when I very first saw them. Now they seem to represent a way forward for me.