To talk of art as an agent in the way Jones does in his Jeremiad is to congeal myriad individual instances of art-making into a single, monumental object, and then to attribute intentions to this lifeless lump as if it were in a position to decide how to behave.
There was at least one instance of art predicting life.
The incident appears to be a highly unusual instance of art being stolen for political ends.
Glasses designed by Karl Köpping in Berlin, with long, waving stems and tulip-like bowls, were perhaps the extreme instance of Art Nouveau style applied to glassware.
He was even more pleased to discover another instance of art imitating life in a parking lot just across the street: a film crew from "Law & Order" setting up a crime scene that included two corpses.
Amid murmurs that the economic crisis was hurting midmarket galleries — an instance of art imitating life, with talk of the 1 percent and a dying middle class — the gallery was doing well, usually finding collectors for two-thirds of the works in each of its exhibitions and selling out the gallery's swan-song presentation of paintings by the Iranian-born artist Marjane Satrapi.
This spring, in an instance of art imitating life, she'll have a chance to show what she thinks of the Fourth Estate when she makes her Broadway debut playing a presidential campaign reporter in the revival of "Gore Vidal's The Best Man," the producers announced on Wednesday.
A rare instance of art that qualifies for the adjective legendary, this sweeping, innovative silent film, first released in 1927 and accompanied at its premiere in Paris by an Arthur Honegger score, was rereleased in the years that followed and shown in various versions that ranged from 80 minutes to 4 hours.
I contend, though, that the teaching itself is an instance of art, an art which you can consider in the same way you might think of the art of writing or painting.
The whole Law & Order-doing-Gamergate debacle that seemed to influence Kern's petition was directly inspired by this miniscule section of an otherwise disparate, progressive group of people: an instance of art imitating life, but more the scum that grows in its stagnant corners than the colourful cornucopia below.
