The Dangerous Idea That Art Can Be Good or Bad
My daughter was 2-and-a-half when she lost her artistic innocence.
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3 min readMay 22, 2019
My kid was practically still in diapers when one of her grandparents read her Giraffes Can’t Dance. This wildly popular children’s book centers on Gerald, a clumsy giraffe. He loves to dance, but when he dances, all the other animals laugh, “Because when it came to dancing…