From Studio H3 in the Current Affairs World Headquarters,

it's current affairs, your ear's most flockulent hour of politics and culture.

Tonight on the program, has art become over-moralized?

Should we be shorting stocks?

And is it time to air our grievances?

I'm your temporary host, Ashling McCray, and I am joined by Amusements in Managing Editor,

Lighter Gold. Hi. Finance Editor Sparky Abraham.

Hello, greetings, hello.

Editor-in-chief, Nathan J. Robinson.

Hello.

We begin with segment one, the current affairs review of books.

In the current affairs review of books, we become art critics for the day.

I want you to picture the scene.

We are in a studio making one of those arts programs.

We're all sitting in those mid-century modern chairs, like the Eames chairs, that are kind of leather and metal and they look sort of vaguely uncomfortable.

They're sort of half lounge chairs and half sitting up and they look like

they're going to be bony. I don't know, I've never sat in one, but I'm sure they're very nice.

We have glasses of water and scotch on the tables. We are tapping our fingers together in very

intellectual gestures. We're making a lot of intellectual sounds.

And today we want to discuss the question of art and morality.

And whether art criticism today is still art criticism

or has become a kind of moralizing.

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