Alain de Botton, the British pop philosopher whose new book Religion for Atheists has made him the friendly face of modern godlessness, told an audience at the Art Gallery of Ontario Friday that the art was arranged wrong, and would nourish the soul better if it were split into themes like motherhood and courage, rather than “contemporary” and “Canadian” galleries.
“You often hear it said that art galleries are our new churches,” he said. “Perhaps, in some ways, our approach to art is not going as well as it might have done.”
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