--- Jim Devine <jdevine03 at gmail.com> wrote:
> what _is_ art, anyway? how do we distinguish art
> from non-art?
>
> On 5/24/06, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> > New York Post [Page Six] - May 23, 2006
> >
> > ART WITH AN F IN LONDON
> >
> > THE geniuses who run the art world in London are
> getting their just
> > deserts. They awarded the prestigious Turner Prize
> to Martin Creed
> > for his work titled "The Lights Going On and Off,"
> in which a pair of
> > gallery lights were programmed to go on and off at
> regular intervals.
> > Now Creed has installed "Work No. 401" in London's
> preeminent museum,
> > the Tate Modern, which reverberates with a
> nine-minute recording -
> > playing on a loop - of the artist breaking wind.
> As art lovers try to
> > admire paintings by Claude Monet and Mark Rothko,
> they are bombarded
> > with Creed's flatulence, The Times of London
> reports. But the
> > museum's curators defend Creed's work. "This kind
> of acoustic - you
> > hear it every day of your life," said director
> Vicente Todoli, who
> > must live in a noisy neighborhood. "This is not a
> cathedral with the
> > relics of a saint in which you're supposed to
> kneel down in front of
> > it."
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> Jim Devine / "These capitalists generally act
> harmoniously and in
> concert, to fleece the people." -- Abraham Lincoln
> (attributed)
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