Phillip Martin, columnist and film critic for the Arkansas Democrat Gazette, will be speaking at Harding University tonight. The event begins at 7:00 in Cone Chapel, American Heritage Center. It's free and open to the public.
And, since I've quoted him a couple of times on my blog regarding freedom in the arts, I thought I'd reprint those quotes here:
“Often the words that we don’t—that we can’t—say are among the most potent. And to limit the tools an artist can use cheats society of potential truth telling. We might think of art as a special circumstance where the normal rules of decorum need not apply so long as the work produced justifies the outrage it incites. . . . the truth is the world is rough, and we cannot hope to educate everyone to our own standards for civilization. Art . . . has to engage the world honestly to be effective.” (from my 8/23/08 post)
“If we want a world alive with art and music and possibility, we have to accept that there will be accidents and tragedies and that innocents will suffer.” (from my 8/30/08 post)
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