On 19/05/2010, P. J. Alling <webstertwenty...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Shaker furniture is still crafts, a high level of crafts but still crafts.
> To call them art debases them.  To display shaker furniture in glass cases
> and not use it for their intended purpose misses the point.  The original
> makers would be appalled.

I wonder if Picasso would be thrilled or appalled to learn that a
single painting of his making fetched a cool $A116.2 million,
approximately 194x the median Sydney house price (which is about 1/10
of the median NSW household income)?

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