I'll bet they regret that. You're so ugly you could be a modernart masterpiece.

I'm supposed to write about these four paintings.

The Hickman's contemporary art, isn't it?

Tom has an eye for modern art.

Or we'll be here all day with my childhood stories.

Most of the works have no title, Untitled.

A concert, art exhibition, baseball game.

I went to every modern art show that took place in Tokyo last year.

Modern art has no interest for me.

I'm not interested in modern art.

Modern art doesn't interest me.

And I think it has potential benefits in all sorts of areas

This is my gallery's first major show.

Rome, Museum of Ancient Art

Did you go to the art exhibition?

I remember attending an exhibition called,

He gave an interesting broadcast about modern art.

Look at this. Doesn't it look just like wallpaper?

Let's go to 40,000 years before the present, to the time of the cultural explosion, when music, art, technology, so many of the things that we're enjoying today, so many of the things that are being demonstrated at TED were born.

Modern art means little to me.

Yeah. And I think he looks now less miserable.

I want to look like this. This is how I looked before.

I made an exhibition called Black Male.

An art critic. The biggest authority in modern art of New York.

They're two different networks. It's like IRCnet and EFnet.

So when a passive object like this one seems to be alive, because it is woosh starting to move.

Modern art has broken away from nineteenth century conventions.

The art exhibition is now being held in Kyoto.

After his death, his paintings were hung in the museum.

In 1994, when I was a curator at the Whitney Museum,

And it was great. With this experience, I started to look more closely at modern art.

Well, modern technology is amazing, you know.

So filling the gap between explanation and a weird act with stories that's indeed what contemporary art is all about.

Seeing all these worms make a living out of death kind of knocks the fear out of you, right?

Art?

What do you think of modern art?

And we're just 20 percent of the experts quoted in stories.

So it's how New York communicates with other international cities.

This was an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art.

You're not interested in art?

Art.

It's not possible, even with today's technology, it would shatter.

The second thing that's interesting to note is that Burke equates art with beauty, but art and beauty were brutally separated by Marcel Duchamp, when he sent a urinal, which he called euphemistically The Fountain , to an art exhibit.

Why are we so bad at detecting pancreatic cancer?

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