I went and saw Art this past Thursday. It is a 3 man performance now playing at the DTC on Wilmington’s waterfront.
It was a pretty damn good play. The actors are amazing. Apparently the play recieved a Tony in 1998 when it was on Broadway. Alan Alda was one of the actors at the time. Essentially the play is about a guy that buys a piece of art for an absurd amount of money. It is the typical arguement in my opinion. If someone paid a lot of money for a painting that makes it art, or the word thrown out in the play a masterpiece?
If you haven’t seen it do so it will enlighten you I think. Personally, I wasn’t so sure it was three men as much as it was the possibility it was a single person arguing with his own conscious in order to justify his own purchase and lack of knowledge about art.
