{"id":7433,"date":"2005-03-07T08:48:42","date_gmt":"2005-03-07T15:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/03\/07\/art-for-arts-sake-2.html"},"modified":"2005-03-07T08:48:42","modified_gmt":"2005-03-07T15:48:42","slug":"art_for_arts_sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/03\/07\/art_for_arts_sa.html","title":{"rendered":"Art for art’s sake"},"content":{"rendered":"

No time to give this the full measure of bemused contempt it deserves, but I certainly urge you to check out this fine post from the Decrepit Old Fool on a particular example of public “art.”<\/a> The artist’s commentary on why his $200K piece was finally pulled from display (which I can only label as “blaming the victim”) is particularly telling: <\/p>\n

The chasm of incomprehension between public art and its intended audience remains as wide as ever.<\/p>\n

Seems to me that if you intend <\/em>a piece of art for a particular audience, the responsibility to bridge that particular chasm is yours<\/em>. But I’m sure that’s a horribly reactionary attitude on my part.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No time to give this the full measure of bemused contempt it deserves, but I certainly urge you to check out this fine post from the Decrepit Old Fool on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-moguls"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28352,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/18\/the-cult-of-others-personal-responsibility.html","url_meta":{"origin":7433,"position":0},"title":"The cult of (others') personal responsibility","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 18-Jun-12 7:00am","format":false,"excerpt":"Because to some, if something bad happens to you, you almost certainly deserved it. 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