question of the day: Should there be a retirement age for artists?

Maybe it is time to retire. (Soderbergh does, by the way, have two films already in the can -- “action film Haywire, starring Antonio Banderas and Ewan McGregor, is due out next month while thriller Contagion, featuring actors including Kate Winslet and Jude Law, is expected later in the year” -- so there are four more film to come from him. Unless he changes his mind and unretires.)

A followup poll of Guardian readers asking whether artists should retire has more than 61 percent of them agreeing that “Yes - too many artists continue long after their creativity has dried up.”

Should there be a retirement age for artists? Who could possibly make such a decision about when to retire accept an artist herself? Is there any way to mandate a retirement age for artists except by audiences refusing to participate as audiences anymore (which still wouldn’t prevent an artist from making art, only from having it seen)?

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