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minus-squareDevCat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up35·20 hours agoShould have kept them in a secure location - like a museum.
minus-squareynazuma@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·2 hours agoDo you think artists are going to produce art to be freely hung in a museum? The reason art is valuable and worthy of being hung in a museum is because there is a market for it. Lay people travel to the Louvre to see the Gioconda because they perceive it as valuable, important, and irreplaceable. No market means no measure of value for art
minus-squareCaptain Poofter@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 hour agoI vehemently do no agree that art is only valuable because of it’s monetary worth. I pity you if that’s the only value you see.
minus-squaregalaskorz@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkarrow-up23·19 hours agoBut how would he be the only one who gets to enjoy them if they are on display? What’s the point of being rich if you can’t deny poor people pleasure?
minus-squareZaktor@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·18 hours agoBut they might have soup splashed on their glass!
minus-squarerabberlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down6·17 hours agoI believe the conspiracy that those people work for oil companies with the goal to make all activists look bad
minus-squareZaktor@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·16 hours agoAt least you know you’re a nutter.
minus-squarerabberlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down5·12 hours agoI think the actual nutters are the ones vandalizing priceless landmarks and actually turning the general population against climate activism.
Should have kept them in a secure location - like a museum.
Do you think artists are going to produce art to be freely hung in a museum?
The reason art is valuable and worthy of being hung in a museum is because there is a market for it.
Lay people travel to the Louvre to see the Gioconda because they perceive it as valuable, important, and irreplaceable.
No market means no measure of value for art
I vehemently do no agree that art is only valuable because of it’s monetary worth. I pity you if that’s the only value you see.
But how would he be the only one who gets to enjoy them if they are on display? What’s the point of being rich if you can’t deny poor people pleasure?
But they might have soup splashed on their glass!
I believe the conspiracy that those people work for oil companies with the goal to make all activists look bad
At least you know you’re a nutter.
I think the actual nutters are the ones vandalizing priceless landmarks and actually turning the general population against climate activism.