Mr. Akers has performed a valuable service for both the artist and the public in presenting a persuasive answer to the question that still plagues art that creates events and experiences rather than paintings and sculptures: Is it really art at all?
The Young Lords, who knew a lot about style, might have had a persuasive answer for that.
Evan Braden Montgomery's well-researched book provides a persuasive answer to this important but understudied question.
"I think it's a valid argument and one that we don't necessarily have a persuasive answer for," Buckmaster said.
In over a decade of looking at the question, no one has ever been able to provide a persuasive answer.
A persuasive answer comes from Meredith Rowe, now an assistant professor at the University of Maryland.
If you've got a persuasive answer, I suggest you send it to Peltz or Loeb.
While generalisations about history, geography and demographics make for useful shorthand, you will find more persuasive answers in the details of certain synchronicities and catalysts that bring people together: a club, a record shop, an inspirational mentor, a record label established by a charismatic local eccentric.
In an interview about his novel Un Lun Dun (Del Rey/Ballantine, cloth, $17.95; paper, $9), China Miéville provides a far more persuasive answer to my question: in the books he writes for adults, Miéville says, "I couldn't use a character with a bottle of ink for a head".
That was a pretty persuasive answer.
If you read the texts of what he's said and justified over the last decade, if you put aside soundbites and White House mantras, then any persuasive answer emerges cloaked in complexity.
