Laurie Anderson/Art & Spirituality

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about a lecture Laurie Anderson gave recently at Columbia University:

http://www.5lessonsmovie.com/2011/02/14/laurie-andersonart-spirituality/

Finding a seat in a crowded Miller Theater, Columbia University, the
artist next to me is whispering about the difference between poetry
and utility. This could have been an equally good title for this
evening, which instead went under the heading ‘Refiguring the
Spiritual.’ Then Anderson takes the stage, with the look of an
inquisitive child, in an over-sized wrinkled shirt and red socks and
shoes. She is alone; she will later be surrounded by three tall
people, the art historian and critic Irving Sandler, the painter
Gregory Amenoff—who is chair of the Visual Art department at Columbia
University—and the philosopher Mark C. Taylor, who is chair of the
Department of Religion. These esteemed interlocutors will spend the
evening, like the audience, leaning slightly forward, focusing on her
intently.....