Grace and Felicia wonder what is not art, and end up discussing whether design, popular music, video games, craftsmanship, and food are or can be art. We also briefly visit some classic ideas of art philosophy.
Show Notes
This particular episode has a lot of links and references!
- Definition of Malay agak: to guesstimate
- “Sian Pin Honey Cakes” are usually called Iced Gem biscuits
- Artnews: Three Things That Are Not Art, According to John Baldessari
- WWDC 2007: Steve Jobs talks about the iPhone touchscreen
- Wikipedia: Esplanade — Theatres on the Bay
- Wikipedia on Doric, Ionic and Corinthian Columns
- Wikipedia: Fountain by Marcel Duchamp
- Bands, musicians, albums and songs mentioned during discussion of popular music as art:
- Preface to the Picture of Dorian Gray
- NYTimes: Oscars to Add ‘Popular Film’ Category
- Monument Valley
- Alto’s Adventure
- Celeste
- Playing for Fun #2: Celeste (Grace misremembered the death counts!)
- Cuphead
- Wikipedia: Diego Velázquez
- Wikipedia: Mimesis
- Mental Floss reference to Plato and mimesis: 27 Responses to the Question “What is Art?”
- Wikipedia: Musica universalis
- Karl Paulnack’s Welcome Address to Freshman Parents at Boston Conservatory
- The mysterious TED talk is Elizabeth Gilbert: Your elusive creative genius
- Wikipedia: Quartet for the End of Time
- Jelly Keys: Shangri-La Flows artisan keycap
- Wikipedia: Horror vacui
- Singapore Infopedia: McDonald’s Hello Kitty toy promotion
- Netflix: Chef’s Table
- Michelin Guide: Singapore
- Wikipedia: French Revolution
- Yves Klein’s International Klein Blue works
- NYTimes on Richard Serra: Sketches from the Man of Steel (Grace is not sure whether she saw these in the Guggenheim Bilbao or at the Metropolitan Museum of Art…)
- The David Mamet quote is from his book True and False. Here’s the 1997 NYTimes review of the book.