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Old 26-04-2011, 00:31   #62
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Re: What do you think about the cuts in arts funding?

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington View Post
It just might be that we are choosy as to what we determine ART to be.
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Incidentally just what is Art/Arts in this instance ? .

think the best answer to this is akin to the one given by Judge Potter Stewart when he was asked to decide a case on pornography

"shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description ["hard-core pornography"]; and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that. "
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