Anyone whos stood before an ancient sculpture and felt wonder, or listened to a piece of classical music and felt peace, or gazed at a Renaissance painting and experienced the sublime grasps the power of art to transmit emotion across the ages. President-elect Biden should heed the call to appoint a Secretary of Arts and Culture, who can help ensure that building back better means building back room for creative self-expression. Painting and ceramics, music and dance, photography and filmthese arent merely hobbies; they are some of humankinds most liberating pathways to creativity and catharsis. Nothing moves us like art. As human beings, we thrill to the excitement, joy and fun that the arts bring to the experience of learning, teaching and growing.
The least amusing arts isbumming about theoretical models.
( z0 bum :ARG0 ( z1 art :ARG1-of ( z2 have-degree :ARG2 ( z3 amuse :ARG0 z1 ) :ARG3 ( z4 least ) ) ) :ARG1 ( z5 model :mod ( z6 theory ) ) )
(z0 / bum-00
    :ARG0 (z1 / art
              :ARG1-of (z2 / have-degree-91
                           :ARG2 (z3 / amuse-01
                                     :ARG0 z1)
                           :ARG3 (z4 / least)))
    :ARG1 (z5 / model-01
              :mod (z6 / theory)))
The least amusing arts isbumming about theoretical models .
z2 :ARG3 z4
z2 :ARG2 z3
z3 :ARG0 z1
z1 :ARG1-of z2
z0 :ARG0 z1
z5 :mod z6
z0 :ARG1 z5