Comments on: What Ever Happened to the Dilettante? http://blog.art21.org/2011/02/11/what-ever-happened-to-the-dilettante/ The Official Blog of Art21, Inc. and the <i>Art in the Twenty-First Century</i> PBS series Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:47:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Surf’s Up, Condensed: Top Creativity Links for February 19, 2011 « Creative Liberty http://blog.art21.org/2011/02/11/what-ever-happened-to-the-dilettante/comment-page-1/#comment-29202 Surf’s Up, Condensed: Top Creativity Links for February 19, 2011 « Creative Liberty Sat, 19 Feb 2011 10:03:06 +0000 http://blog.art21.org/?p=35936#comment-29202 [...] What Ever Happened to the Dilettante? | Art21 Blog [...]

]]> By: richard kooyman http://blog.art21.org/2011/02/11/what-ever-happened-to-the-dilettante/comment-page-1/#comment-29063 richard kooyman Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:08:57 +0000 http://blog.art21.org/?p=35936#comment-29063 Or rather that art is important and it matters, just not in the same way science does.

]]> By: Ben Street http://blog.art21.org/2011/02/11/what-ever-happened-to-the-dilettante/comment-page-1/#comment-28999 Ben Street Sun, 13 Feb 2011 11:45:12 +0000 http://blog.art21.org/?p=35936#comment-28999 Science is prepared to explain itself in language that most human beings understand (Pinker, Dawkins, Gould, etc) and art isn’t.

Art does not need to explain why it “matters”, or why it’s “important”. It doesn’t and it isn’t. That’s a good thing. We should defend that.

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