Good morning! The first is a piece from Harper’s July edition. The premise is that as our cities have strived to become better, they’ve actually become much much worse; gated enclaves of communities that live in contrived sanitized landscapes disconnected from their neighbors. The city has become a commodity, a market divorced from its practical purposes: “New York today is not at home. Instead, it has joined London and Hong Kong as one of the most desirable cities in the world for ‘land banking,’ where wealthy individuals from all over the planet scoop up prime real estate to hold as an investment, a pied-à-terre, a bolt-hole, a strongbox.” The second piece is something you might easily skip over. There have been far too many pieces attempting to reconcile bad behavior and good art. But Graham Daseler has a thoughtful piece struggling with the question. “If art can do harm, it stands to reason that it can do good, as well. It’s comforting to think that a work of art, if it’s beautiful enough or moving enough or original enough, may atone for the sins of the artist.” Have a great day.
Article source here:Arts Journal
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