aesthetics

I'm wondering what you all might think is the most effective path for arts education to take in the public school sphere. The aesthetic, arts for arts sake approach has been and continues to be the dominant philosophy in most arts ed, especially in music. I was certainly brought up and trained...

Please tell me who is setting the value on this painting. Why is it worth this much? I am no aesthete - can someone enlighten me? I mean, the painter is still alive and everything! Is the value of art subject to the whimsy of the uber-rich? Or is there a semblance of objective criteria to...

Does it really exist? In the Snopes site it is said that it didn't existed in Victorian times, and that most/all of the celebrities which are said to have done this surgery haven't done. But there's someone who seems to be real life's Nick Riviera if you search for that.... but the pictures in...