OT: Crazy Programming

[David LeBlanc]

 jacob at boris.cd.chalmers.se.cd.chalmers.se (Jacob Hallen) wrote in
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> The baroque went out of fashion over 200 years ago. Art is not merely
> decorative and for amusement.

For something so "out of fashion" why do examples cost a bazillion dollars?

Art these days seems in large part to consist of anything that critics can
be persuaded is art. There's a PBS show running currently called "Egg" that
examines various facets of the American art scene. One recent artist they
profiled has a work of art that consists of many strands of spagetti glued
up into a shape that looks like a big blob of ... spagetti! In truth, some
of the other stuff this guy did was imo artistic, but the spagetti piece was
just old cold pasta! Another artist - Yoki Ono - has a piece that consists
of a video tape of people cutting her clothes off of her; so called
"performance art". If the people doing the cutting had worn jack boots and
swastikas, we would have called it inhumane and criminal yet somehow the
critics call it art.

Art is what you like, not what other people tell you you should like.

David LeBlanc
Seattle, WA USA