This episode explores current interest in spiritual dimensions in art, and how this appears on the backdrop of social/political critiques of modern art and economic opportunism. Through passages from Mary Caroline Richard’s Centering a spiritual significance is highlighted connected to the decline of conventional art and the challenge of developing an art with new, vital and immanent spiritual qualities.  

References:

David Edelstein. “A Rich Satire About Street Art, Or Is It A Hoax?” NPR, April 16, 2010, sec. Movies. https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126037446.

Mary Caroline Richards. Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person. Wesleyan University Press, 2012.

Harriet Sherwood, Harriet Sherwood Arts, and culture correspondent. “Danish Artist Who Submitted Empty Frames as Artwork Told to Repay Funding.” The Guardian, September 18, 2023.

Julian Stallabrass. Contemporary Art: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2020.

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