For the past several years, Dean Haglund, Phil Leirness, and Jon Lawlor have been getting together almost weekly to hold each other’s feet to the fire in the pursuit of creating art that is filled with life, while also learning how to live more artfully. Now, Chillpak Hollywood Presents … “The Art Life” as a regular podcast!

This week’s topics include …

*What Jon describes as “demo-itis” when artists are not able to recapture something from an earlier recording

*The important role the audience plays in creating the meaning of any work

*How abundant information leads to conspiracy theories

*Talking to and interacting with strangers

*Reversing the aging process

*Controversy at the Venice Biennale

*Where Dean’s progress stands on a series of commissions and a series of “tanks” watercolors

*Where Jon is at with his musical explorations and output

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