Arts Impact Outweighs Auto Industry, MP Says
Submitted by Steve on February 27, 2012
From Kristie Pearce at The Windsor Star:
What do most people think of when they discuss great civilizations?
Quebec MP and heritage critic Tyrone Benskin says art. "When we look back at history and look at all the great civilizations—the Egyptians, the Byzantines, the Phoenicians—we don't sit there and talk about their economic plan," he said at an information session Saturday at the Artspeak Gallery on Wyandotte Street East.
"We talk about the architecture, the painters, the great writers and how we learn about those—how archeologists, scientists, anthropologists learn about it—are primarily through the works that are left behind."