Artist Mark Bradford peels back layers. Plus: is Netflix losing steam?

Life and Art from FT Weekend

Forhecz Topher

Tv & Film, Arts, Society & Culture

4.6 • 601 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

At almost seven foot tall, Mark Bradford is one of the most towering figures in the art world, in every sense. Gris asks him how it felt — as a gay, black artist — to represent the US at the Venice Biennale in the era of Trump. Mark also discusses growing up in his mother's beauty salon in Los Angeles, his new exhibition in London, and how his foundation makes art accessible to everyone — not just privileged communities. Later in the episode, Lilah speaks to the FT's US media correspondent Anna Nicolaou about Fortnite, the digital streaming wars and why Netflix keeps paying millions for 90's sitcoms.

As always, we'd love to hear from you. Chat with us on Twitter @FTCultureCall, and tell us about the cultural trends you can’t get out of your head at [email protected].

Links from the episode:

Mark Bradford's exhibition Cerberus is at Hauser & Wirth in London until December 21 - https://www.hauserwirth.com/hauser-wirth-exhibitions/25237-mark-bradford-cerberus

Lilah's piece on visiting Armenia for the first time - https://www.ft.com/content/2e2f38b0-e7a1-11e8-8a85-04b8afea6ea3

Anna Nicolaou's piece on Fortnite - https://www.ft.com/content/f2103e72-b38f-11e9-bec9-fdcab53d6959

Anna Nicolaou's piece on the future of Netflix (paywall) https://ig.ft.com/netflix-future/

Is Broadway ready for Slave Play? (New York Times) https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/11/theater/slave-play-broadway-jeremy-harris.html

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0:00.0	Hello, you're listening to Culture Call, a transatlantic conversation from the Financial Times.
0:11.0	I'm Griselda-Marie Brown in London. And I'm Lila Raptopoulos in New York. Coming up on today's episode.
0:22.9	What am I looking at? Madness.
0:23.5	I'm not bragging. Cardi B does not at all know who I am.
0:28.1	She didn't like invite me to her boss.
0:29.5	What happened? It was just a weird thing.
0:31.5	So big. I mean, I actually gasped.
0:35.5	$500 million, how many new shows could you have made?
0:39.3	One thing I've never done was look for approval.
0:43.3	The business of the art world feels so dramatic.
0:46.3	Yeah, I mean, that's very accurate.
0:48.3	You know, for them, he's like a superstar.
0:52.3	Tell me what it feels like to be black. Tell me what it feels like to be from South Central. Tell me what it feels like to be black. Tell me what it feels like to be from South Central.
0:56.1	Tell me what it feels like to be this.
0:57.5	I thought, oh my God, I only know how to be me.
1:00.2	Is that enough?
1:01.0	No.
1:05.0	So on today's show, Grizz, I feel like you and I really go in two very different cultural directions.
1:09.9	You speak with Mark Bradford,
1:11.7	who's one of the most acclaimed American artists today. And later on, I bring Anna Nikolao into the
1:19.2	studio. Anna is our US media correspondent. And she tells me what it's like to cover Hollywood and
1:25.0	the business of the entertainment industry. But before we get into all that,
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