Jan 7, 2021
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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