alyce, i appreciate your thoughts and in many respects i agree with you. let me preface this by saying that my intent on starting this thread wasn't because i wasn't sure of my standing on the subject. i was more interested in learning the thoughts of others and to hopefully create some thoughts in the minds of some who haven't spent much time thinking about this topic. i agree that a distinguishing factor of art is where it is viewed. but in contemporary art even that idea is being blurred. i recently participated in a project that turned an entire abandon building into a work of art. the entire outside and inside were painted and covered with installation/video/audio/and performance art. it was open to the public for 5 nights and brought over 7,000 people out into the street to view it. on the same idea, the artist Bansky recently sold a wall on a side of a building for a healthy sum of money. so the idea that art is restricted to galleries, museums and private collections has become somewhat antique.
anyway, i'd like to hear some other peoples thoughts
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