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Who s To Say What Is Really Art?
A comment from the archives that I came across totally accidentally. It was written in 2011 by Steven Halpern. I m a long-time student (and licensed instructor) of
chanoyu ( Japanese tea ceremony ). Even among tea people there s no agreement on what
chanoyu is: a polite accomplishment? A kind of meditation? A performance art? But for those who respond to it, cramming oneself into a tiny room with a few other like-minded people, drinking tea the consistency of applesauce, and discussing works of art that make no sense in Western terms is as soul-restoring as Angelico or Alvarez Bravo, even though it all vanishes when the tea gathering ends. So who s to say what is really art? Better to appreciate as much as possible, I say, than to limit oneself by setting up categories of better and worse (although the exercise can be thought-provoking).