Ars gratia artis (Signifying Nothing: how does saying nothing at all become so loud?)

Wednesday, 2 March 2005

Ars gratia artis

Tonight I went to see an interesting slide show of installation art and sculpture by Renee Una.* The more I think about it, the more I realize that the only adjective I can apply to it is interesting; I’ve seen art by friends that I can say is “good” or qualitatively “better” than their other art, but I was unable to provide any sort of evaluative statement about Ms. Una’s art. Does art have to be good or bad, or can it just be interesting?

* I’m told she has a website, but Google isn’t finding it.

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