Appy medium: could Instagram start an artistic revolution?

In this exclusive essay, broadcaster and cultural critic Jonathan Meades ponders what if social media could inspire great art? And what if they’re the same thing?The precept that there is nothing so trivial that it ought not to be taken seriously has suffered a bottling from social media, which gives licence to the inane to go public and express post-literate banalities and torrents of greetings card treacle, thus revealing an arid void where their brain should be. This is without taking i