The other day somebody remarked that he wanted to build an art museum for the present, even discarding "museum" as inappropiate, for he felt that the musea nowadays are presenting outdated art. Yet there is something he probably completely misunderstood about the fine arts, they are in themselves visualisation. I like the German term "Vergegenwärtigung" because it contains "Gegenwart"/"presence", thus also representation. Whatever it is a work of art contains, it is also a presence.
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