Plangent Peter Plagens' In Defense of High Art:

High art includes sculpture, painting, modern dance, poetry, ballet, opera, classical music, some jazz and certain heavyweight novels which are intended to be: un-sugar-coated, perhaps a little difficult for the uninitiated, seriously contemplated after the fun of the first encounter is over, and of some accrual value in strengthening and refining one�s esthetic sensibilities.

...I'd be surprised if the word "vulgar" is uttered pejoratively more than twice a year in the United States outside of a Tipper Gore tea party.....

Is "Matrix Reloaded" a movie in the same sense that "Talk To Her" is a movie? Or is it a gargantuan videogame whose steroidal special effects have shrunk its, um, soul to the size of a pea?

I know how he feels, and yet, I've just about had it with art that's just trying to �pater le bourgeois, but doesn't speak to me.