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Thursday, December 8, 2011

Art in the real world. A plaything for the 1%. « Fred Klonsky

Art in the real world. A plaything for the 1%. « Fred Klonsky:

Art in the real world. A plaything for the 1%.

By one of my fifth grade students.

I’m sitting over my morning coffee, preparing myself for another day with kids making art.

It won’t be art with a capital A.

Much of Art in the real world is not much more than a plaything for the 1%.

In fact, what feels so good about the Occupy Wall Street movement is the explosion of people’s art that I haven’t