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Episode 382
Published 2 years, 6 months ago
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On contemporary art.
Critic and editor at Art Review, JJ Charlesworth, joins us to talk about why so much contemporary art is bad. We discuss:
- Why is art no longer about beauty?
- Are we stuck between art that is either superficial or hyperpolitical?
- Why has there been a turn towards the mystical and irrational in art?
- How are ideas of the indigenous and the ecological represented in art today?
- Is there a romantic revolt against reason and is it new?
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- The naked truth about Marina Abramović – her ‘art’ is a joke, JJ Charlesworth, Telegraph