Recently, while browsing in the Museum of Modern Art store in New York, I came across a tote bag with the inscription, “You are no longer the same after experiencing art.” It’s a nice sentiment, I thought, but is it true?
Or to be more specific: Does consuming art, music, literature and the rest of what we call culture make you a better person?
Ages ago, Aristotle thought it did, but these days a lot of people seem to doubt it.
Since the early 2000s, fewer and fewer people say that they visit art museums and galleries, go to see plays or attend classical music concerts, opera or ballet.
Thanks to Hurston she had a new way to see, a deeper way to connect to her own heritage.
Persons:
”, Aristotle, They’ve, George Eliot, I’m, Alice Walker, Zora Neale Hurston, Hurston
Organizations:
Museum of Modern, tote, College, Workers
Locations:
New York