Aggie Gund and Darren Walker on the Art For Justice Fund
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The Washington Post
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2017
⏱️ 31 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Cape Up is sponsored by Me Undies. |
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| 0:10.0 | Hey everyone, I'm Jonathan Cape Part and welcome to Cape Up. |
| 0:17.0 | Renown philanthropist and art collector Aggie Gunn stunned the art world when she sold masterpiece |
| 0:25.8 | in 1962 painting by Roy Liktenstein for $165 million in July. |
| 0:32.4 | Not because she sold it, but what she used the money for. |
| 0:36.0 | With the help of Ford Foundation President Darren Walker, |
| 0:38.9 | Gunn used $100 million of the proceeds |
| 0:41.9 | to start the Art for Justice Fund to combat mass incarceration. |
| 0:46.8 | And you can hear Gunn and Walker talk about why that painting and why that issue right now. |
| 0:53.0 | Agi Gunn, Darren Walker, |
| 0:58.0 | thank you very, very much for being on the podcast. |
| 1:00.0 | This is really special. |
| 1:01.0 | Thank you. |
| 1:02.0 | I'd like seeing you again. |
| 1:04.0 | I saw you a number of years ago, but now I only see you on programs and announcing things |
| 1:11.0 | and I don't get to see personally so it's especially nice. |
| 1:15.0 | And it was really fun because we were road tripping to a dinner party in Virginia, but, and that was a dinner party focused around art and that's why we are here today. |
| 1:24.8 | I want to talk to you about a work by Roy Lichtin Stein from 1962 called |
| 1:29.4 | Masterpiece. |
| 1:30.7 | What spoke to you about that work? |
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