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Re: Art? or Theft? or just signs that NPR is damaged.
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Tue, 14 Oct 2003 12:06:53 GMT
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For some other perspectives on this:

Clean up Sculpture on Aisle 9!

(these include people who purport to work for HD, and people who purport to be the gallery owner I cited in my last post, and a bunch of other voices)

This has been an interesting thread but I see it as pretty mined out at this point, I guess. I still say that it’s symtomatic of a societal problem when it’s felt by some that the means (in this case, vandalising HD (perhaps with implicit permission from HD themselves) are justified by the end (in this case “art”).

The election fraud thing is a *lot* more worrisome in the grand scheme of things.



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(...) From (URL) (one of the links given in the article): " Ms. Nagorka's use of Home Depot as off-site site underscores an element of social critique present in the work: which is more suitable as a matrix within which to make works of art, the (...) (21 years ago, 14-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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