Теракт в Париже

В результате нападения погибли двенадцать человек: десять сотрудников сатирического журнала "Шарли Эбдо" и двое полицейских.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30710883
Gunmen have shot dead 12 people at the Paris office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in an apparent militant Islamist attack.

http://www.echo.msk.ru/news/1469734-echo.html
Полиция и спецслужбы Франции брошены на поиск преступников, которые сегодня атаковали редакцию журнала "Шарли Эбдо". По последним данным, террористов было трое.

Искусство есть искусство есть искусство

Bourdieu, who died in 2002, was a sociologist whose work—brilliantly disenthralled or grimly determinist, depending on your perspective—explained all social relations as power relations, even in a seemingly open world of “free expression” like the visual arts. For Bourdieu, whose book “Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste” (1979) remains a classic text on the sociology of culture, a dominant class reproduces itself by enforcing firm rules about what is and is not acceptable, and creates a closed, exclusive language to describe it: those who have power decide what counts as art, and to enter that field at all is possible for outsiders only if they learn to repeat the words that construct its values.
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Sociologist Howard S. Becker in “Art Worlds” (1982), which advanced a collaborative view of picture-making. Like reefer-smoking among jazz musicians, artmaking was not the business of solitary artists, inspired by visions, but a social enterprise in which a huge range of people played equally essential roles in order to produce an artifact that a social group decided to dignify as art. Art, like weed, exists only within a world.

The Outside Game. "How the sociologist Howard Becker studies the conventions of the unconventional" by Adam Gopnik. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/01/12/outside-game

По-моему, отлично, и теперь можно собраться, выпить, и поспортить о том, что есть искусство, если мы говорим о маринованной акуле, об абстрактной живописи, об этих странных каринах, где все нарисовано точками...