The vicissitudes of visual art: Is all art really valid?

    A 400sqft studio space covered with white cloth. The windows have been blacked out to not allow any daylight to enter the space. The faint musical stylings of an obscure garage band from the 80’s plays in the background, almost entirely distracting you from the emptiness of the room. For a brief moment the sounds of what might be a badly tuned guitar and a tambourine is more intellectually challenging than what you think you see around you. A single lightbulb dangles from the ceiling, leading your eyes to the two blue-dotted stains on the white cloth below. The artist statement reads that it represents the early stages of cell formation and how simple yet profound life is — aha. This is art.

  

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