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"Contemporary Art Excludes the 99%"

"Contemporary Art Excludes the 99%"

FromIntelligence Squared


"Contemporary Art Excludes the 99%"

FromIntelligence Squared

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Length:
79 minutes
Released:
Jul 31, 2014
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Podcast episode

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What is the role of contemporary art museums today? Are biennales and art fairs platforms for experiment and exchange, or little more than social attractions for the elite? Have collectors become the new curators? Are private and corporate interests in culture at odds with the public good? And ultimately, who is art for?

In this debate recorded in Hong Kong in 2012, award-winning documentary film-maker, author and art critic, Ben Lewis, and Hong Kong-born artist, Paul Chan, spoke for the motion.

Director of Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art, Elizabeth Ann Macgregor, and conceptual art pioneer, Joseph Kosuth, spoke against the motion. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Released:
Jul 31, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode

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