tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post7134665121022699234..comments2024-03-26T06:17:49.527-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: Does Art Have Intrinsic Value?Stuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-75071400387880200152021-09-26T19:49:14.229-07:002021-09-26T19:49:14.229-07:00"Who is this William Bouguereau? Being a man ..."Who is this William Bouguereau? Being a man of the hninterlands, I've never heard of him."<br /><br />He was pretty good, indeed better than most artists today. But he was old school and didn't define what came to be modernism. He produced at least one masterpiece. <br /><br />https://www.artrenewal.org/artworks/les-deux-baigneuses/william-adolphe-bouguereau/1072<br /><br />He was certainly better than Hunter Biden, that's for sure. <br /><br />Bubblegum Crisisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-57024953425629559122021-09-25T08:40:56.722-07:002021-09-25T08:40:56.722-07:00Who is this "William Bouguereau."? Bein...Who is this "William Bouguereau."? Being a man of the hninterlands, I've never heard of him.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-48737497406114068522021-09-25T02:15:03.350-07:002021-09-25T02:15:03.350-07:00Whatever happened to that $91 million Jeff Koons &...Whatever happened to that $91 million Jeff Koons "Rabbit"?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-71065154807670238372021-09-25T02:13:12.021-07:002021-09-25T02:13:12.021-07:00@Sam L
They already have plenty of high quality i...@Sam L<br /><br />They already have plenty of high quality institutions. After all, you don't think American schools have the capacity to take on millions of Indian and Chinese students, do you?<br /><br />And at the rate higher ed costs keep increasing here, it wouldn't surprise me if many of our best students take part in "educational tourism" there in the years to come. <br />370H55Vnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-31442406947489301802021-09-24T09:04:52.131-07:002021-09-24T09:04:52.131-07:00"The man or woman of real taste is to us know..."The man or woman of real taste is to us known not by the firmness of her insistences but by the subtlety of her affirmations." If I were an English teacher, I would FLUNK the person who wrote that sentence.<br />Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-70873200659081947692021-09-24T08:46:00.112-07:002021-09-24T08:46:00.112-07:00I wonder why the Asian peoples, being looked down ...I wonder why the Asian peoples, being looked down upon by colleges and universities, have not started up their own colleges and universities. They believe in learning and in working hard. It could be a long hard road to do that, but they'd beat Harvard, Yale, and the others...Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.com