Good Morning,
Where does art actually get its value? Not always where you’d expect. The Chicago Symphony is now part of the soundtrack at a downtown blood-donation center (The New York Times). The Atlantic looks at America’s “treasure to trash to treasure” pipelines and finds an object’s worth has almost nothing to do with the object (The Atlantic); it’s all about the story behind it. And Aeon makes the case for the forbidden pleasure of actually touching the work (Aeon), the value living in the encounter, not the frame.
The Kennedy Center finally gets its name back. Workers hammered off the other guy’s name off the side of the building in the middle of the night behind a curtain (The New York Times).
On the lighter side: Somebody has memorized all 154 of Shakespeare’s sonnets (NPR).
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Doug
