What Makes a Classic?

For those of you in the constant conversation of “what makes a classic (or a great) piece of literature”, here’s a quote for you from Fiction and the Shape of Belief by Sheldon Sacks (p.253):
[A masterpiece] modifies our very being and makes us feel…that we are not the same men and women we were when [...]

Art Attack

If you want to keep up on what is going on in the art world, it would seem there is only one reliable source: Dave Barry. In this article, he lets us know about some innovative, publicly funded art in Britain.