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Art addresses woes of our times better than protests

By George Sipos • Dec 4th, 2011 • Category: Editor's Picks, Goose Lane Authors, Rants

If art has value at all, it does so because it speaks to us about those aspects of our lives that have nothing to do with money — our joy in the visible world, our longing for order wrought from chaos, our desire for transcendence of the merely material. Things of that nature which music, dance, painting and language offer us to help articulate our common humanity.