Watch Out Sheep

A true living canvass and thats what Alan needs to stick to. Creating this living art. Spoken like a true conservative. Sell everything to big business and then pay for it through the tooth. Continue this pursuit of making a small minority richer. Oh how we haven quickly forget about what greed, deregulation and power has done to society over the last decade. But hold on...When everthing is sold off to private enterprise and it hits the skid no doubt Alan will want the goverment to bail him out

Miraculous, hard to beat

I find the greatest, most impressive array of artwork on my bushland property. While I appreciate human art in as far as expressing gratitude for this greatest of all art, I find a lot of "so called art" doesn't match nor fit in with the living environment. I found however that whenever I play certain music on my nylon string guitar, everything around me starts talking including the birds. And often the sun comes out on a rainy day. Makes me not so much an artist as a harmony component.

HUMAN COLLECTION

Is this about The human or world condition, or the HUMAN collection. with enough mony you can buy anything !! ARE YOU PART OF THERE COLLECTION, they would not call it buying votes or paying slaves but part of there collection. Title it ART?

kings and art

has any capitalist idealog actually thought through their belief. in the end one person will privately own everything as they will accumalate enough wealth to buy/enslave everyone else. regress to feudalism where much great art was commissioned by kings, emperors and the like. important to note ofcourse, they themselves are not the artist. nice WORK alan, but watch your ego!

Arts - a necessary indulgence ..........

I commend Dateline for introducing this contrasting report. The human condition, among many things, is an unending saga of conflict, human tragedy, poverty, despair, despotic regimes etc. etc and is contrasted by this extraordinary endeavor. An indulgence certainly, but also a necessary expression of our humanness ... the money could be put to other humanitarian uses - and we must do that - but we also must do this. Politics - an unfortunate intrustion here - but I do take the point that ....

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NZ Politics of Art - dateline 22/03/2010

How can I download that episode? I've heard it was great!

love it all

I use to work for allan building tracks in the bush for him and i thought it was all very cool.Nice to see it on the tv.