The Mind Creative OCTOBER 2014 | Page 39

The Mind Creative and bounds. And I must confess that I feel lost. The state of affairs within the corridors of the arts is in such a shape that getting ostracized is but easy pickings these days. If you have not been to a Salvador Dali or an M.F. Hussain exhibition, you are not worth getting an invitation to the next dinner. If you have inadvertently missed a talk by Anthony Robbins, then you are definitely depressed and an incurable hypochondriac. If you have ignored an Andrea Bocelli concert, you are but an uneducated persona doomed to a life of ignorance. If you have not read Ghalib or Goethe, you are a social stink. And finally, a slight display of ignorance about the last “Swan Dance” performance in town puts you into the untouchable cetegory. Anthony Robbins??? Salvador Dali? Andrea Bocelli?? Goethe???? Ghalib?????? Swan Dance????? Sir Francis Bacon once remarked that “the job of the artist is to always deepen the mystery”. Little did he realize that in the years to come, artists (I sometimes tend to call them artful artists) will take this mystery to a le ٕ