if you are all about giving yourself over to the limbic system in your brain, then 'music video' has indeed taken over, and this will be- in america- in the new millenium- a valid way to live. we all can be little marketing-bots, where the art is actually a commercial. welcome to pure commercialism- instead of high art we could be conniseurs of high commercialism with new museum sections devoted to areas of expertise like "really fooled the public" and "sold the most product".
however if you would like to expand the part of your mind that is yearning for a bit more than shaking your booty, painting is not dead. it is an excruciating task, an affirmation of life and a challenge to it's viewers. this may not be the height of fashion at all times, however the bourgeoisie are just art marketers trying to create exclusive products to buy. this does not mean there aren't painting classes in hundreds of universities, or that there is any lack of customers for bob ross' videos. every level of painting has survived the so-called death... we just have to not believe the 'hype'.