Decadence is restyled as subversive resistance, the hustle of crack cocaine as the hustle of the global superstar: The game is the game is the game. Much of the most memorable art surrounding 9/11 wasn't occasioned by the tragedy but rather coincidentally attended it: the Strokes' ' New York City Cops,' pulled from Is This It on the eve of release, or Bob Dylan's 'High Water (for Charley Patton),' the homage to Patton's 1929 flood blues ' High Water Everywhere' that appeared on Dylan's Love and Theft, released on 9/11 itself. September 11 and its aftermath certainly gave writers something to write about and singers something to sing about, but the best songs aren't always about what they claim to be about, and art that sets out to respond to a specific event is often handcuffed by literalness. Last week the New York Times' Michiko Kakutani made waves with an essay in which she declared that, ten years on, '9/11 has not provoked a seismic change in the arts.' It's hard to know whether she's right-accusing something, anything, of 'not provoking a seismic change in the arts' seems strange-and hard to know how much to care.

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