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The Need for a Better Case
From the article, "The Economics of Arts, Artists, and Culture- Making a Better Case" (Grantmakers in the Arts: Reader Vol 20, No. 3 Fall 2009) In a time of economic trial, artists, who stereotypically are often the ones to be jobless, or at least struggling if not famous or "discovered" yet, are facing serious unemployment and lack of funds from the government. She argues that the arts are just as important as ...
The Complexity of "Beauty"
A historical and contemplative article on the modern understanding of "beauty" in our society... "The problematic role of beauty in art is a peculiarly modern one -- or, more accurately, a modernist one, since it was created by the writers and artists who came of age around the time of the war and who refused to cede intellectual rigor to aesthetic clarity. Whereas once a certain recognizable combination of style ...
Tolerating Mystery
An excerpt from the article "Mystery and Evidence," by Tim Crane. "Religious belief tolerates a high degree of mystery and ignorance in its understanding of the world. When the devout pray, and their prayers are not answered, they do not take this as evidence which has to be weighed alongside all the other evidence that prayer is effective. They feel no obligation whatsoever to weigh the evidence. If God does not an...
