Badiou, Alain. "The Subject of Art." THE SYMPTOM 6 (2005).

My Father was accustomed to say, "We must begin by the beginning." So, I must begin this lecture about the subject of art by its beginning. But, what is this beginning? I think we have to begin with the oldest question—the question of being, the question of being as being, of being qua being. What is being? What are we saying when we say something is, something of art is…? Something of art is a joy forever, for example. What are we saying? I begin by a fundamental distinction between three levels of the signification of being. . . . Read the rest here: http://www.lacan.com/symptom6_articles/badiou.html.