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UnavailableWhat's wrong with modern art?
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What's wrong with modern art?

FromA Point of View


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What's wrong with modern art?

FromA Point of View

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Length:
10 minutes
Released:
Aug 12, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Will Self explores what's wrong with modern art.

"I've been responsible for a fair amount of absolutely total nonsense in my time", he writes, but says most contemporary art is little more than "overvalued tosh and useless ephemera".

Instead of a world where Russian oligarchs "buy artworks by the metric tonne and plaster them on the walls of their vulgar houses", he calls for a genuine understanding of art where - once again - we become "capable of conveying and explaining the subtle ambiguities of genuine art".

Producer: Adele Armstrong.
Released:
Aug 12, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode

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A weekly reflection on a topical issue.