February 2009
The Archives
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02.15.09An Essay by the Alpha Seer on www.mnartists.org~ Ben LauBeauty rests only in the UNKNOWN. It never comes from the process of thinking. With that one may be fully assured that the term "conceptual art" is simply a worthless speculation about beauty. Ideation about the thing is not the thing itself! "I seek the knowledge of love but I have never been in love!" "What stupidity! Throw the bum out!" Thundered the Alpha Seer. By now it should be clear to all that thinking is from memory, and memory is dead. "There is nothing new under the sun!" declared Nietzsche. And amazingly he was right for once with art ...
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02.14.09Wallowed in camel mudFrom: Ben Lau Date: Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 10:59 AM Subject: Current state of affair with art: WALLOWED IN CAMEL MUD! To: Ben Lau Speaking of MCAD, this story was suddenly recalled: The French Foreign Legion in Algeria had a new general. As it turns out, most of their generals were French nationals, and pretty young were they. Older folks simply could not withstand the great hardship that came with desert campaigns. To get acquainted with his new base the general was shown around the barracks by a captain. It was a sweaty affair since Algeria is ...
