Never ones to back down from a challenge, your intrepid hosts Justus and Michael open up season 2 by tackling the age-old thorny question, “What is Art?” They are joined by Renew the Arts Creative Director Rusty Hein for this all-too-brief, but we hope productive, discussion. Stay tuned at the end for “Man Walked Out,” by Micah Stout from his record Without Reservations. A special thanks to Douglas and Siri Gregory for sponsoring this episode and to Ryan Lane for supplying us with the instrumental version of “Sounding Brass” for this season’s theme song.
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I think one of the reasons art is difficult to define is it is like asking “What is human?” We already have a long history of defining human and humanity in exclusive terms, and since art is such a part of human nature, of course we would find exclusive and preclusive ways to define and discuss both.
Joe