Opinion | Art Isn’t Supposed to Make You Comfortable
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Opinion | Art Isn’t Supposed to Make You Comfortable
What I want to know — and I think this is very important because it is at the heart of almost all art education in this country — is there any empirical, verifiable evidence that art education creates “better” human beings or “improves” our culture? If not, then this accepted value of art constitutes merely a cultural belief system and the art-is-g
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For all its good intentions, art that tries to minister to its audience by showcasing moral aspirants and paragons or the abject victims of political oppression produces smug, tiresome works that are failures both as art and as agitprop. Artists and critics—their laurel bearers—should take heed.
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Perhaps what we need is art that is suggestive but not prescriptive, unashamedly mysterious, not didactic. Indeed, this is what art is uniquely able to do—seeking in places that reason and knowledge can’t reach, beyond the sacred, beyond the descriptive and beyond the coded world of technology. Perhaps we need this role more than ever, these spaces
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