/381/ Contemporary Art: Inane Spectacle & Pompous Discourse, ft. JJ Charlesworth

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?

Links:

• Criticism, Art and Theory in 1970s Britain: The Critical War, JJ Charlesworth
• The Return of Magic in Art, JJ Charlesworth, Art Review
• Gabriel Massan’s Decolonial Games, JJ Charlesworth, Art Review
• The naked truth about Marina Abramović – her ‘art’ is a joke, JJ Charlesworth, Telegraph