The Power and Politics of Art | Jennifer Scott, Colin MacCabe, Paloma Strelitz
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Is art necessarily the plaything of the rich and privileged and, as John Berger argued, a means of cementing existing heirarchies?
We think art opens minds . Yet from medieval cathedrals to today's oligarch collectors, art has always stuck close to wealth and power.
Film and literary critic Colin MacCabe, Turner prize winning architect Paloma Strelitz, gallery director Jennifer Scott and Director of Dulwich Picture Galley Jenifer Scott take on these questions.
Jennifer Scott: Jennifer Scott is the Director of Dulwich Picture Gallery, an institution which runs internationally acclaimed exhibitions including recent successes Hockney, Printmaker; Ravilious: Watercolours; The Amazing World of M.C.Escher; and Nikolai Astrup: Painting Norway. Jennifer has also held posts as Director of The Holburne Museum and as Curator of Paintings at Royal Collection Trust.
Colin MacCabe: Colin MacCabe is an English academic, writer and film producer. He is currently a distinguished professor at the University of Pittsburgh in English and Film and is the former Head of the BFI Production Board.
Paloma Strelitz: Paloma Strelitz is co-founder of Assemble, a multi-disciplinary collective working across design, architecture and art.Strelitz studied architecture at the University of Cambridge before completing her Masters in Architecture at the Royal College of Art. Assemble, founded in 2010, were awarded the Turner Prize in 2015 for their work on the Granby Four Streets project in Liverpool.
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