Pretentiousness: Why It Matters Paul Watkins Liao felt a kinship with

Liao felt a kinship with Chinese Christians in their unwavering commitment to the freedom of expression and to finding meaning in a tumultuous society

as a highly negative component of American culture

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Pretentiousness: Why It Matters Paul Watkins Liao felt a kinship withPretentiousness is for anyone who has braved being different, whether that's making a stand against artistic consensus or running the gauntlet of the last bus home dressed differently from everyone else. It's an essential ingredient in pop music and high art. Why do we choose accusations of elitism over open mindedness? What do our anxieties about pretending say about us? Co editor of frieze, Europe's foremost magazine of contemporary art and culture,