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“I like that Michael asks uncomfortable questions, from an earnestly curious position - questions about money, connections, debt, access, etc. These at times awkward or indelicate questions are useful for transparency in the art worlds. No, or few, other art podcasts do this.
Too often we pretend success in the art worlds is all about good work rising to the top, but this false pure meritocracy narrative is as wrong in the art world, as it is in the rest of the world.
Some good work is rewarded, other good work is marketed using private backing. Some people are born with connections, family or spousal money, legacy admission to private colleges, and so on. These class and financial advantages remain a taboo. The art worlds can talk openly about white privilege, but not about financial or social privilege because of intrinsic the financialization and class structure of the art world.
I think that also, people who run podcasts are often from privilege, and they are afraid or unwilling, or uninterested in asking questions about privilege (outside of the obvious identity, race, or gender ones). Perhaps because it questions the validity of their own success.
Michael isn’t perfect as an interviewer, he sometimes misses opportunities, but his honest, odd, or occasionally awkward questions sometimes provoke an honest response from his guests - which is refreshing. For these reasons, it’s good that this kind of voice exists - in the broader spectrum of artist podcast voices.”
Bushwickbeergarden via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
02/22/21
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