A useful exploration of the ethical possibilities of art. These sentences, toward the end, really summed it up for me:
"Proper appreciation of the benefits of art must involve an awareness of when to put art aside. At a certain point, we should leave the museum, or the sculpture in the park, to pursue the true purpose of art, the reform of life; not because we are ungrateful or unappreciative, but because we have found much that is genuinely precious in art, and that we need to make more real."
Much to explore here--though the understanding of "art" is limited to the visual arts, and in places the argument has a decidedly European, high culture bias, giving short shrift to the fact that the experience of art is individuated and idiosyncratic.