Art should make us feel more clearly and more intelligently. It should give us coherent sensations which otherwise we would not have had. That is what brought me to this city [NYC]. That is what market culture is killing.
—
Robert Hughes, the hour-long documentary The Curse of the Mona Lisa, about the ways in which art and its experience changed when money became an essential factor in the equation.
Julia wrote about it a few days ago. Make the time to see it. It matters. Wealth and ignorance are a deadly combination.
— From SF.
(via whileyouweresleeping)The great art thinking you never see
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