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