Sad, but not surprised, to learn of yet another biblical story that was 1000 times bloodier and more amoral than I learned in Hebrew school. And Quaker school. and Leonard Cohen songs. (Though I do love the apology goat.) And a great invitation to examine my own assumptions about what is art and what isn't. I remember walking through a Picasso museum in Barcelona, which mostly housed his early, more realism-y paintings. Then, you get to his more "Picasso-y" paintings, and I heard an American woman say, "Now this is where he loses me..." I scoffed about that for years afterwards. (Philistine!) But I think underneath the judgement, there's just a very human desire to feel connected to people— seated around a fire with someone singing, we're glancing around at the other spectators wanting to see them nodding their heads and closing their eyes too. "This is good, right? We're all enjoying this, right?"
Sad, but not surprised, to learn of yet another biblical story that was 1000 times bloodier and more amoral than I learned in Hebrew school. And Quaker school. and Leonard Cohen songs. (Though I do love the apology goat.) And a great invitation to examine my own assumptions about what is art and what isn't. I remember walking through a Picasso museum in Barcelona, which mostly housed his early, more realism-y paintings. Then, you get to his more "Picasso-y" paintings, and I heard an American woman say, "Now this is where he loses me..." I scoffed about that for years afterwards. (Philistine!) But I think underneath the judgement, there's just a very human desire to feel connected to people— seated around a fire with someone singing, we're glancing around at the other spectators wanting to see them nodding their heads and closing their eyes too. "This is good, right? We're all enjoying this, right?"