Just a heads up, we reference some sensitive material in this episode.

We hope you enjoy the show.

Art is created by people, but people are fallible.

When the art we love is tainted by the brush of an artist's biography,

we must ask whether

the shift is in our aesthetic experience is reasonable.

One might also wonder whether the artworks can do wrong in and of themselves.

If artworks can be intended as conveyers of truth, can they convey falsehoods or, more awkwardly,

lies?

These aren't just conceptual problems. If artworks lie and

a moral artists are inseparable from their artworks, how should we respond? Should we censor

all art, some art, or no art at all? In this episode, we'll be discussing the ethics of art

with Cambridge University's Dr Daisy Dixon. Dixon's work, which explores the

nature of and responses to unethical art, invites us to place art within its context,

to consider artworks in relation to their artists, truth functionality in relation to

an artwork's surroundings, and dangerous artworks in relation to their curation. If we do so, says Dixon, will not only gain a better understanding of art,

but how we can bring about a better world.

Hello! Hello and welcome to episode 107 of the Pan-Sycast.

I'm the aesthetically irrelevant Jack Symes.

I'm joined once again by the rightfully censored Mr. Oli-Mali.

Hello.

And the artist whose moral character adds to the value of their work, Dr. Daisy Dixon. Hello. Daisy, it's really great to have you on the show. Thank you for joining us. Well, thank you very much for inviting me. So the first question we ask all of our guests to get going. Nice easy one to start. What is philosophy? Oh, that's mean. I'm not even ask me what's art. I was like,

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