Why Do Men Keep Saying Culture Is Over?

Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century is a book about the art of our time that mentions only one museum: the Museum of Ice Cream. W. David Marx’s ambitious but flat-footed hot take arrives at under 300 pages and opens by citing other writers of his demographic, all of whom have diagnosed the same cultural illness: The 21st century, they insist, has stopped innovating. Jason Farago of The New York Times chimes in: “We are now almost a quarter of the way through w