How can you tell if an art form is alive or dead? You can’t take its pulse, or request a death certificate. No heartfelt eulogies will be posted online or published in the newspaper. The truth is, there’s no easy way of knowing, which is probably why there have been so many premature RIPs in the past (see: painting in the 1830s, the novel in the 1960s, rock music and photography in the 1990s, and
