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Good art - by Shirley Miao - Work in Progress

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Earlier this year, a friend came to visit New York, someone whom I particularly appreciate due to our shared interest in armchair philosophy. Over coffee on a covered patio during a downpour, our conversation meandered onto the subject of art, and what the purpose of art was.

Earlier this year, a friend came to visit New York, someone whom I particularly appreciate due to our shared interest in armchair philosophy. Over coffee on a covered patio during a downpour, our conversation meandered onto the subject of art, and what the purpose of art was. It depends, my friend mused, as the rain fell heavily around us. Social commentary, he noted, is the intent of a lot of art. The expression of truths that otherwise couldn’t otherwise be expressed, I offered. We threw out some other ideas: the ability to recreate emotion in its viewers, happiness and sadness and…

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