"What Makes Great Art?" with Katerina Gregos
<p>Continuing with our pursuit of the question “What makes great art?”, Lauren Wetmore sits down with Greek art historian, curator, and writer Katerina Gregos, in Brussels. Their conversation builds on a quote from Gregos’s recent exhibition <em>The Anatomy of Political Melancholy</em>, hosted by the Schwartz Foundation at the Athens Conservatory:</p> <p>“We are increasingly witnesses to the debasement of political language, the infantilization and polarization of political debate; the growth of a simplified discourse that panders to collective fears rather than addressing the real, pressing questions; the lack of accountability from politicians, and of course, ‘fake truth’ and ‘alternative facts’. Clearly there is something profoundly wrong with contemporary politics.”</p> <p>What follows is a discussion that exchanges this quote’s “politics” for “art,” and interrogates the conditions by which we frame political comment in exhibition-making.</p>
Authors: Lauren Wetmore
Contributors: Katerina Gregos
Editor: Jacob Irish
Music: Kyle McCrea
Producer: Sky Goodden
Assistant Producer: Mitra Shreeram
Part of: Momus: The Podcast