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Contested Space: Banksy's 'Kissing Coppers' from Prince Albert Pub Fetches $575,000 in Miami, Outselling Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring
"Kissing Coppers," a black-and-white stencil of two British police officers kissing in close embrace, was purchased by an anonymous telephone buyer, Fine Art Auctions Miami said. The work originally appeared on the side of the Prince Albert Pub in Brighton, England, in 2005. Good Enough for Jazz: New Scientific Study Suggests Brain Correlation Between Music and Language
Like Chomsky said, the power of language stretches beyond mere dialogue and conversation. And like MIT's Marvin Minsky maintained, many art forms, too, have their own language-like associations (not conceived or exchanged orally but through the vast interpretations of the piece, itself). Jazz, in particular, can channel its own kind of language--embedded in the call-and-response lines and the licks of improvisation, especially. And unlike Bernstein's whole classical music as language goof, the power of jazz's rhetoric has now been proven to aid in routine speech and verbal exchange.
