http://chicagoist.com/2008/04/28/arik_levy_creat.php All comments for Arik Levy Creates a World "Absent Nature" en-us 2009 Marcus Gilmer Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:30:00 -0600 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss marcusisabadass@gmail.com marcusisabadass@gmail.com 60 http://chicagoist.com/2008/04/28/arik_levy_creat.php#comment-1349542 http://chicagoist.com/2008/04/28/arik_levy_creat.php#comment-1349542 Comments Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:13:23 -0600 <p>As is sometimes the case with modern art, we’re not sure if we got all the answers right ::screams:: I know that art critics (and sometimes, too often, the artists themselves) say that there's a "right way" to experience modern art... complete bullshit. If you want to run around a sculpture then do jumping jacks, that's no less 'correct' than scratching your chin in quiet meditation, then so be it. ...or they just insist a monkey could do it. If that's what the artist is going for then the piece was successful. If the piece requires a background in Mongolian anarchist works of the early 1950s to 'get it' then just because you don't doesn't mean you've got it wrong. It just means that the piece itself has a limited, exclusive impact. The way in which you experience is just that: subjective, and getting it (much less getting it right) might be rewarding, but is not compulsory. So as I read your review, some of it was irrelevant and some of it was intriguing. Now I'm tempted to check it out. </p>