Caring about Art and the Imagination
Artists, writers, poets, actors, dancers, musicians all have many things in common but perhaps the most important is the imagination. They ask questions we are often unwilling or afraid to ask. They imagine what we're unable to imagine. They challenge our assumptions and provoke us to think in new ways. In a caring society art is alive, bold, and available to everyone. In totalitarian regimes art is often dead or deadening or the first mode of caring to be challenged.
Perhaps after Covid-19, we'll need to reimagine the Artistic Center. Is it possible that New York City and other artistic centers have failed to reach the broader public. Art should not have boundaries, contained in museums or inaccessible in other ways. If love is the connective tissue, art is the medium through which we learn to communicate about modes of caring.
See our several blogs on art and caring: Poetry and caring; Art and children's books; Work and Music
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