Looking to the past, art history and literature students learn how great masters: Picasso, Dali, Breton, Gertrude Stein and Hemmingway, among others, all came together and spoke about their work, what their work meant and what they hoped to do with their art. They drew crowds not only to the salon – but also made where they gathered: Café de la Rotonde, and going further back – Le Procope, the place to be. They shared - they edited and made a creative world that so many aspired to enter.  Today, though, we find an almost complete separation of “church and state” where artists are locked in their studios, authors in their offices with the occasional social media blast – but there could be more.