I would prefer you excised your moderation job in a more unartistic, less 
biased way and took your responsibility as group owner more serious. But it 
seems this is only my preference.

 

> Am 19.09.2014 um 15:37 schrieb Molly <[email protected]>:
> 
> art that is beautiful, art meant to disturb, art that pushes the technical 
> limits previously established, art constructed not to last like chalk on 
> sidewalks or sand sculptures on beaches - art comes in many forms and can be 
> as simple as a concept in Haiku or complicated as Mt. Rushmore. This age old 
> question, will it always be asked and answered? It does provide a platform 
> for good dialogue and self exploration.
> 
>> On Thursday, September 18, 2014 9:05:40 AM UTC-4, archytas wrote:
>> I agree Facil - though some definition of artist is required.  What is this 
>> 'art' not part of 1000 channels with nothing on except the simulacrum of 
>> drivel, generally funded by advertising?  I might point to Maxwell (perhaps 
>> both the great scientist and my dog) and Einstein.  I've long wondered about 
>> art and people-community development - I'm floored by people using dance to 
>> work with disabled kids (as an example).  Brian Bevan (rugby leaugue's 
>> record try scorer) was a work of art in action.  Gabby might be see as such 
>> in another form of side-step.  Not all art brings much reward.  Allan and 
>> Andrew have a go, sometimes not at each other.  Molly has often touched me 
>> deeply, even if so much of my experience has been 'dark side'.  The 
>> chocolate box picture isn't art unless a child is smiling.
>> 
>> Art may have some function in revealing such as 'change is the same thing' 
>> and the depravity of political words, the 'lie that tells us the truth' sort 
>> of stuff - but does the 'pipe' have to be painted by Magritte?   One 
>> confronts this picture doing systems analysis - modelling the reality is not 
>> modelling the rhetoric.
>> 
>>> On Thursday, 18 September 2014 00:31:17 UTC+1, facilitator wrote:
>>> I don't think artists do, otherwise the term "starving artist" would be 
>>> applied less frequently.
>>> 
>>>> On Wednesday, September 17, 2014 9:54:57 AM UTC-4, archytas wrote:
>>>> Ms Tidulz says she has no gold and just looks at her claws when I suggest 
>>>> she should be replaced with a golden goose.  Perhaps one needs a heretic 
>>>> cat?  Do artists have some knack in spotting the drivel we 'all' want?
>>>> 
>>>>>> 
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