Thank goodness they don't have a funny name provoking adolescent snickers, huh?
The former FourthWave building downtown has been renamed the Auer Center for Arts and Culture.
Officials from Arts United of Greater Fort Wayne planned to announce the name change at a news conference at 10 a.m. today at the building, 300 E. Main St.
Arts United announced in late November it had purchased the building for $2.2 million and planned to convert it into a home for local arts and cultural organizations.
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The purchase was made possible with help from a $1 million donation from the Edward D. and Ione Auer Foundation, and that generosity led Arts United to name the building in the Auers' honor, Arts United Executive Director Jim Sparrow said in a news release.
Is buying a building just so all the arts and cultural organizations can have offices in the same place a good use of $2.2
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Hmm . . . They must have hired Crosby, Stills and Nash as consultants:
[Auer] house, is a very, very, very fine house.
With two cats in the yard,
Life used to be so hard,
Now everything is easy 'cause of you.
Well played Gadfly, well played!
There's art, and then there's art.
Trivial art amuses. Think of wallpaper, or of picture calendars. Significant art inspires. Think of the Lincoln Life sculpture of kids playing "crack the whip" - or of dancers at the old R Club. Major art produces life-wrenching change. Think of the Beatles' "Helter Skelter" or "Uncle Tom's Cabin".
Art is a form of communication, and the better art is, the more likely it is to offend. When Arts United provides facilities where art can be created, rather than making decisions about what art is acceptable and which is not, they free artists to schieve greatness.
No offense Harl, but "and the better art is, the more likely it is to offend." is probably one of the silliest things I've ever heard.