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Why it’s OK not to like modern art

27/05/2003thoughtcattc

Thoughtcat’s man in New Zealand highlights an interesting article from The Times, in which Julian Spalding, founder of Glasgow’s Gallery of Modern Art, says that modern art’s duty “to shine an aesthetic light on the soul” has been eclipsed by commercialism.



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