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6 What is Art?

Topics

Earwolf

Comedy

4.8643 Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2013

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In Episode Six of "Topics", Michael and Michael seek to find answers to the question "What Is Art?" Their discussion ranges from the surrealist works of Marc Chagall and the political paintings of Francisco De Goya to the controversial objets d'art of U.K. artist Damien Hirst and even the landscape portraiture of photographer Ansel Adams."Topics" features original music by Dan Deacon and is produced by Matthew Kahn.

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0:00.0

It's Topics with Michael Ian Black and my good friend Michael Schoalter.

0:15.9

It's great to be here.

0:17.6

So good.

0:18.6

Now, it's been a little while since we last conversed. Yes. And, you know,

0:26.0

I've missed these conversations and so many things have been kind of running through my mind

0:29.7

since we last talked. Just so many thoughts that I've been having about... Like what? Well, you know, we've touched on in these conversations so many, I don't know, just

0:44.7

really interesting subjects of conversation, philosophy and science and all this great stuff.

0:53.8

But there's been one glaring example that's been itching at me because I really want to

0:59.9

get into it.

1:01.6

What is it?

1:03.2

It's something that's so important to both of us.

1:06.3

And yet for some reason, I feel like we've been kind of skirting this issue. And I'm going to, I'm going to frame it in a very, very simple question.

1:15.3

I'm ready? Yeah.

1:17.5

What is art?

1:23.5

Wow.

1:25.5

What is it? Yep.

1:28.1

You know, and we're're both of us are artists.

1:30.4

I mean, we're comedians and writers and and, you know, my muse is, is all the things that I find in society that I can, I can poke fun at.

1:41.1

That's my muse.

1:42.1

Right.

1:42.3

Like slinky or Rubik's Cube. Yes. I've made a grand

1:47.7

name for myself commenting on popular culture and just everyday observations. Is that art?

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