Behind Beauty: A Panel Discussion

ART TALK - School of Visual Arts

listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast November 6, 2006 In conjunction with the New York School of Visual Arts' Visual Arts Museum exhibition Still Missing: Beauty Absent Social Life, this panel discussion brings together a philosopher, a poet and two artists from the exhibition to consider the social and political implications of artistic practice that is concerned with beauty. This panel discusses how personal esthetics might relate to larger historical and social questions. What are the concerns that stand behind a beautiful painting? Perhaps not those we might expect. Recorded September 21, 2006 at the School of Visual Arts. Raphael Rubinstein moderates (75 minutes). The Panel: Richmond Burton, painter Mónica de la Torre, poet and poetry editor of The Brooklyn Rail Crispin Sartwell, philosopher and journalist Amy Wilson, artist/writer, SVA faculty Moderator Raphael Rubinstein, senior editor at Art in America, SVA faculty

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