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Three weeks ago, an exhibition of the work of the English artists Gilbert and George opened at the National Art Gallery in Beijing. Its catalog bore a fulsome essay comparing the two "living sculptures" to Confucius himself and lamenting the utter decadence of so much Western art, which "seems to have lost any moral significance on account of its fruitless search for formal purity. Meaning and ornament . . . have been marginalized . . . The black square painting is a goal that can appeal only to very few aesthetes. Not only the black square but equally the crushed automobile, the Coca-Cola...
...consulted a master--the master--for a little wisdom that would begin to explain the injustice of it all. His name is Confucius...
...American law and language comes from Europe...not much is derived from Confucius," Hart said...
...Confucius were drinking tea today, his brand of choice would surely be Salada. As he drank in the flavor the orange pekoe and contemplated the meaning of life, he would have appreciated the pearl of wisdom on the back of those unassuming red octagons...
...supply is periodically replenished by write-in contests and the efforts of various adverstising agencies, although some are direct quotes from famous people (four from Benjamin Franklin, one each from Confucius, Thomas Edison and Ralph Waldo Emerson...