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What Alain de Botton Doesn’t Understand About Art

PEOPLE Posted: March 24, 2014 5:06 am

“If Alain ruled the world – let’s say he were one of Plato’s philosopher-kings (never mind that Plato distrusted art and wished to banish it) – museum captions would offer more than bland, neutral facts like name and date, but moral instructions ‘appropriate’ to the work of art, prompting us to, for example, ‘remember to be patient’.”

PEOPLE Published: 03.19.14

Read the story in The Spectator Published: 03.19.14

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