ep37: Is there art only for rich people?
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Chris and Randall ask, does your social class influence the art you appreciate?
Randall's four characteristics of rich-people art:
1) Not mass produced 2) Not popular 3) Have a pedigree proving its worth such as it was once popular 4) Timelessness
Topics discussed include:
the symphony opera art museums Shakespeare Pulitzer Prize winning books Infinite Jest Globe Theatre groundlings schtick, business, clownery theater low comedy Aristophanes Commedia dell'arte Vaudeville Burlesque Astor Place Riot The Industrial Revolution Buffalo Bill's Wild West The circus railroad Bach Sergei Prokofiev Arnold Schoenberg art education Thorstein Veblen The Theory of the Leisure Class conspicuous consumption Signaling Theory Emmy Awards streaming media fine art Andy Warhol and his Factory limited editions Mark Kostabi Rembrandt Damien Hirst Sistine Chapel Presidential portrait of Barack Obama class capture of art The Metropolitan Museum of Art Thy Guggenheim Hammer Museum Getty Center chamber ensemble Folk music cooption of art by the rich Pete Seeger Jazz Moneterey Jazz Festival Newport Jazz Festival Playboy Jazz Festival Bruce Springsteen "We have created the illusion of a classless society, but when it comes to our aesthetic taste, we might as well be wearing tuxedoes and sackcloths." --Chris Hamilton (musical) Arthur Miller All My Sons "We definitely have a class system in our country when it comes to entertainment and especially with the fine arts." --Chris
Recorded September 21, 2020
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