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How Should the Heart Be Measured

By what is done, not what one feels. Art as organizing is not only concerned about artists’ intentions, but their actual impact. Great art is a dialogue, not a monologue.

A love story about the power of art as organizing | Aja Monet and phillip agnew ·

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