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Epis. 337: Art & Politics- how can they co-exist? The Conversation's 14th Virtual Cafe
Epis. 337: Art & Politics- how can they co-exist? The Conversation's 14th Virtual Cafe
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Length:
111 minutes
Released:
Jan 28, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
n the 14th installment of the podcast’s Virtual Café, we take as our prompt a Dec. review by NYTimes art critic Holland Cotter about politics in art: About 10 artists in the Virtual Café (including past guests Ianna Frisby of Art Advice and William Powhida) talk about art and politics, including successful examples of political art; the nimbleness of capitalism to absorb all things protest; the challenges and failures of artists to organize, particularly artist unions; the question of whether artwork being in a gallery is neutered, in terms of its political/social power; virtue signaling in art, particularly political art; Theaster Gates as a strong example of an artist changing a community, and of socially engaged art; the importance of the rhetoric around so-called political art (including the good side of the word ‘didactic'); the lack of transparency in galleries reporting where their donations to (political) causes are allocated; and how to take political art to the people, as opposed to through the gallery system.
Released:
Jan 28, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (99)
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