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Season 3 Episode 36 | 10m 16s Video has closed captioning.
Sampling, appropriating, borrowing, stealing. Whatever you want to call it, artists have been copying since time immemorial. We look into the history of the practice, and share our theories of why it is done, and what it can offer us.
Aired: 05/04/17
You may have seen a few cubes in an art gallery and questioned why they were there.
How are we supposed to deal with art completely removed from recognizable objects?
Dubious of performance art? Break into a cold sweat when you realize it’s about to begin?
Ai Weiwei has been called an iconoclast, a radical, a voice for the voiceless...
"Surrealism" has become shorthand for the bizarre, the irrational, the hallucinatory.
Look at what it means to make art out in nature and in the world from the 1960s to today.
What's wrong with seeing the unclothed human body? And what is its place in art?
