Peter Wisse: >Couldn't it be, that Cage is just poking fun at us, and is laughing >his head off, because all those connoisseurs of the arts are taking it >seriously, are explaining to each other in their argot of the arts the >profound meaning of 4 minutes of nothing! Cage has said many times that it's not 4 minutes of nothing, although he had a wonderful sense of humor. And he had a serious point. >One encounters the same in the visual arts, consider a painting consisting >only of a totally blue canvas, the incrowd call it Thrilling, and think >that they told us anything useful, Is this a real painting? Have you seen it? >instead of conceding that it is all rubbish, but you can't concede such a >thing if you are an Art Critic. Of course you can, and critics do it all the time. Steve Schwartz