http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/23/arts/design/23pain.html?_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/23/arts/design/23pain.html?_r... I think this story is evidence t

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/23/arts/design/23pain.html?_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/23/arts/design/23pain.html?_r... I think this story is evidence that there are some non arbitrary qualities to artwork that you (and I) are not perceiving. It would never have occurred to me to pick up this painting in the trash, but the woman did... a woman who was "not a modern-art aficionado" but felt the painting "had a strange power".