Decoder Ring; Hotel Art

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Arts, Tv & Film, Music

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🗓️ 1 October 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Hotel Art used to be one of the ultimate symbols of bad taste, it was often ugly, kitschy, and strange. Today, the art you find in a hotel is far less likely to be the result of one individual's poor taste, and much more likely to have passed through an entire industry designed to help place art into hotels. Hotel art is now almost universally pleasant, if anodyne. How did this happen? This episode is brought to you by the following advertisers: Slack, a workplace communication hub. Find out more at slack.com. I Travel For, a new podcast from British Airways, American Airlines and Visit Britain. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. Intel Optane Memory, learn more today at intel.com/youcould. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by Pepsi Max. Christmas is great, but there's loads of ways to make it better.
0:08.0	Like sneaking some chili into the gravy for some extra ink, or building a playlist that will even get your
0:14.8	none up on the table. Or just cracking open an ice cold Pepsi Max.
0:20.1	Christmas.
0:23.0	Better with Pepsi Max.
0:27.0	This podcast contains explicit language.
0:31.0	In 2016, the world's largest budget hotel chain, Super 8, decided to put on an art show.
0:39.0	If you're an art
0:44.3	bazel but this year something different a new exhibition
0:48.2	this collection called when the art comes down curated by super 8 yes that's super 8 proving everything old is new again
0:57.4	super 8 wanted to get rid of the art that had been in its motel rooms since the chain
1:01.4	was founded in 1974.
1:04.3	Whatever you imagine when you imagine quintessentially
1:06.9	kitchy hotel art, a deer by a babbling brook
1:09.8	near a lamplit cottage, a bobross paint by number special, powdery winter scapes of quaint villages,
1:16.7	a velvet painting, that's the kind of stuff that was on the walls of the Super-Aids.
1:21.6	Rather than just throw it out, Super 8 gave the paintings away.
1:25.0	At one event at Art Basel in Miami, which ended up on the Today Show in the news clip you just heard,
1:30.1	and another at a gallery space in New York, which was hosted by the comedian Amy Sadaris.
1:35.0	Sadaris named all the paintings
1:36.8	and she told Jimmy Fallon about it on the Tonight Show.
1:39.8	You just had an art show that's very exciting. Yes, Super 8 hotels have gotten rid of all their old art.
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