Sunday, June 01, 2008

Come one, come all ...

... Is there a price to pay for free art?

This, of course, is why I no longer attend blockbuster art shows. I can't bear the crowd decked out in headsets. I prefer to go off and find a painting I like and just look at it for it few minutes. That may be enough. A really good painting - say, Fantin-Latour's Portrait of Sonia - demands as much of your attention as a 20-minute tone poem - if you really engage it. It should provide aesthetic nourishment for the remainder of the day.

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