Based on Google search hits, we seem to be more interested in the morality of art than real crimes or tragedies. So writes Benjamin Pearson in an interesting piece for Tiny Mix Tapes, who confesses ...

In a time of global moral upheaval, the art market would do well to take a deep look in the mirror and make a determined change in the right direction. Art and morality go hand in hand. A good artwork ...

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Friday saw the death of Thomas Kinkade, the self-proclaimed (and trademarked) “Painter Of Light” who sought to turn art into a mass-marketed commodity that even those who had no interest in or ...

In August of 2001, something rather unusual happened in the state of Israel. There was a concert in Tel Aviv, which was entirely ordinary, and the famed Israeli conductor Daniel Barenboim led the ...

THAT living is an art, and the moralist the critic of that art, is a very ancient belief. It was especially widespread among the Greeks. To the Greeks, indeed, this belief was so ingrained and ...

It’s a longstanding problem, but it bears repeating, this time in words from Denis Dutton’s The Art Instinct: “Arts encounters with morality and politics are made difficult by the fact that moral and ...