Volunteers fired
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Forget the Art institute. Redeploy the resources towards reducing crime, reducing homelessness, improving basic services, etc. And by "resources," I also include the volunteers. Art museum is luxury. Chicago (and many big cities) needs the basics more.
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Art defines the better aspects of society. Museums, art galleries and concert halls should be encouraged, and many deserve public support and should be free to all.
Carnegie knew that free libraries could nurture the public's mind. Free art can nurture the public's soul.
“Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”
Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton
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Art defines the better aspects of society. Museums, art galleries and concert halls should be encouraged, and many deserve public support and should be free to all.
Carnegie knew that free libraries could nurture the public's mind. Free art can nurture the public's soul.
@jolly said in Volunteers fired:
Art defines the better aspects of society. Museums, art galleries and concert halls should be encouraged, and many deserve public support and should be free to all.
Carnegie knew that free libraries could nurture the public's mind. Free art can nurture the public's soul.
And there it is. I would hate to live in Ax's grey, lifeless world.
“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill
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Art defines the better aspects of society. Museums, art galleries and concert halls should be encouraged, and many deserve public support and should be free to all.
Carnegie knew that free libraries could nurture the public's mind. Free art can nurture the public's soul.
@jolly said in Volunteers fired:
Art defines the better aspects of society. Museums, art galleries and concert halls should be encouraged, and many deserve public support and should be free to all.
Carnegie knew that free libraries could nurture the public's mind. Free art can nurture the public's soul.I'd say it's far more important than that. There's a direct connection between how advanced a society is, and its advancement in the arts.
When we went to the moon, Slaughterhouse Five was published; Easy Rider, Midnight Cowboy, True Grit, the Wild Bunch, and On Her Majesty’s Secret Service were in theatres; and Space Oddity, the Who’s Tommy, and In the Court of the Crimson King hit the record stores.
Look at what we had in the past couple years. Who were the poet laureates? Which new books were most celebrated? Which movies were most seen? Which songs were played the most on Spotify?
We need art history now more than ever. We need to remember what we're capable of.
Please love yourself.
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@jolly said in Volunteers fired:
Art defines the better aspects of society. Museums, art galleries and concert halls should be encouraged, and many deserve public support and should be free to all.
Carnegie knew that free libraries could nurture the public's mind. Free art can nurture the public's soul.
And there it is. I would hate to live in Ax's grey, lifeless world.
@mik said in Volunteers fired:
@jolly said in Volunteers fired:
Art defines the better aspects of society. Museums, art galleries and concert halls should be encouraged, and many deserve public support and should be free to all.
Carnegie knew that free libraries could nurture the public's mind. Free art can nurture the public's soul.
And there it is. I would hate to live in Ax's grey, lifeless world.
Shit just look at his movie recommendations. That's what you get when you have that mentality.
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@jolly said in Volunteers fired:
Art defines the better aspects of society. Museums, art galleries and concert halls should be encouraged, and many deserve public support and should be free to all.
Carnegie knew that free libraries could nurture the public's mind. Free art can nurture the public's soul.I'd say it's far more important than that. There's a direct connection between how advanced a society is, and its advancement in the arts.
When we went to the moon, Slaughterhouse Five was published; Easy Rider, Midnight Cowboy, True Grit, the Wild Bunch, and On Her Majesty’s Secret Service were in theatres; and Space Oddity, the Who’s Tommy, and In the Court of the Crimson King hit the record stores.
Look at what we had in the past couple years. Who were the poet laureates? Which new books were most celebrated? Which movies were most seen? Which songs were played the most on Spotify?
We need art history now more than ever. We need to remember what we're capable of.
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@jolly said in Volunteers fired:
Art defines the better aspects of society. Museums, art galleries and concert halls should be encouraged, and many deserve public support and should be free to all.
Carnegie knew that free libraries could nurture the public's mind. Free art can nurture the public's soul.
And there it is. I would hate to live in Ax's grey, lifeless world.
@mik said in Volunteers fired:
@jolly said in Volunteers fired:
Art defines the better aspects of society. Museums, art galleries and concert halls should be encouraged, and many deserve public support and should be free to all.
Carnegie knew that free libraries could nurture the public's mind. Free art can nurture the public's soul.
And there it is. I would hate to live in Ax's grey, lifeless world.
It doesn't make sense. Ax is a pretty accomplished pianist. There has to be some there, there. How can you make music without soul, beauty, pain and passion?
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Yeah, Ax spends most of his time here joking around, and people take it seriously, which is actually funnier.
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@jolly said in Volunteers fired:
Art defines the better aspects of society. Museums, art galleries and concert halls should be encouraged, and many deserve public support and should be free to all.
Carnegie knew that free libraries could nurture the public's mind. Free art can nurture the public's soul.
And there it is. I would hate to live in Ax's grey, lifeless world.
@mik said in Volunteers fired:
@jolly said in Volunteers fired:
Art defines the better aspects of society. Museums, art galleries and concert halls should be encouraged, and many deserve public support and should be free to all.
Carnegie knew that free libraries could nurture the public's mind. Free art can nurture the public's soul.
And there it is. I would hate to live in Ax's grey, lifeless world.
Pfffttt ... to think that you folks are generally more enthusiastic about defunding the National Endowment for the Arts than I am.
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@mik said in Volunteers fired:
@jolly said in Volunteers fired:
Art defines the better aspects of society. Museums, art galleries and concert halls should be encouraged, and many deserve public support and should be free to all.
Carnegie knew that free libraries could nurture the public's mind. Free art can nurture the public's soul.
And there it is. I would hate to live in Ax's grey, lifeless world.
Pfffttt ... to think that you folks are generally more enthusiastic about defunding the National Endowment for the Arts than I am.
@axtremus said in Volunteers fired:
Pfffttt ... to think that you folks are generally more enthusiastic about defunding the National Endowment for the Arts that I am.
It turns out that the best way to get conservatives to fight for the arts is to lay-off a bunch of unpaid white people.
I was only joking
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@mik said in Volunteers fired:
@jolly said in Volunteers fired:
Art defines the better aspects of society. Museums, art galleries and concert halls should be encouraged, and many deserve public support and should be free to all.
Carnegie knew that free libraries could nurture the public's mind. Free art can nurture the public's soul.
And there it is. I would hate to live in Ax's grey, lifeless world.
Pfffttt ... to think that you folks are generally more enthusiastic about defunding the National Endowment for the Arts than I am.
@axtremus said in Volunteers fired:
Pfffttt ... to think that you folks are generally more enthusiastic about defunding the National Endowment for the Arts that I am.
The NEA has nothing to do with the arts, or its preservation.
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@axtremus said in Volunteers fired:
Pfffttt ... to think that you folks are generally more enthusiastic about defunding the National Endowment for the Arts that I am.
It turns out that the best way to get conservatives to fight for the arts is to lay-off a bunch of unpaid white people.
@doctor-phibes said in Volunteers fired:
@axtremus said in Volunteers fired:
Pfffttt ... to think that you folks are generally more enthusiastic about defunding the National Endowment for the Arts that I am.
It turns out that the best way to get conservatives to fight for the arts is to lay-off a bunch of unpaid white people.
Okay, sick burn.
