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By day, I am a contemporary art curator, which means that my focus in my professional life

is on art of the

present, of the now. I spend most of my time homing in on photographs that were created just

months ago, a sculpture finished last week, a painting still in process, the oil paint still drying.

I love that the work I see every day reflects so much of the time and place in which we live,

and I find it exhilarating.

But I'll be the first to admit that along with this exhilaration,

I sometimes feel other emotions when looking at art of the now.

Disdain. Despair. Fear.

I'm frequently asked by others, why is art today so challenging, so shocking?

These kinds of questions make me come back to a statement that I've made time and again,

not only on this podcast, but in everyday life. It's obvious when you think about it, but also

strangely hard to accept sometimes. All art was, once,

considered contemporary. Works that we take for granted today as masterpieces, or as the epitomies

of the finest of fine art, could also have been considered ugly, of poor quality, or just bad,

when they were first made. With the passage of time comes a calm and

acceptance. But that doesn't change the fact that there are many works of art peppered

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