‘The Wire,’ The Burning Of Baltimore And The Limits Of Art

“The conflagration in Baltimore is a reminder that art’s power can work both in service of change and against it. Watching a fictional story is not precisely the same thing as bearing witness. And when consuming that story becomes a substitute for action or an argument that action is futile, fiction can paralyze us just as surely as it can inspire us.”

source ArtsJournal http://ift.tt/1ERqPxF

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