The Enemy of Art – with David Salle – Think Again Podcast #75
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In this episode:
David Salle‘s paintings are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The National Galerie Berlin and many others. His book How to See is a collection of essays, mainly on the work of other artists, that delves deep into questions about how art is made and what happens when we experience it.
In this episode, David and Jason wrestle with questions like why there are no bad cave paintings, whether or not Francis Bacon’s work is “decorative,” and why it’s impossible to say anything really prescriptive about how to make art.
Surprise conversation starter interview clips in this episode:Dave Evans on prototyping in design, Alva Noë on art as a “strange tool”, and Julian Schnabel on art and the internet.
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