You Probably Don’t Know How to Appreciate Art
On learning to recognize value no matter where we see it.
5 min readJul 20, 2019
There’s a famous social experiment, in which a very, very talented violinist, using a very, very expensive violin, sat on a subway platform in Washington. For 45 minutes, he played to an uncaring audience of travelers. Of the 1097 people who stopped, 27 gave him money — only seven stopped to…
