/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