Hotel Art

Decoder Ring

Slate Podcasts

Documentary, History, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Slate Plus members get ad-free podcasts and bonus episodes of shows like Dear Prudence and Slow Burn. Sign up now to listen and support our work. 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? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:35.0	In 2016, the world's largest budget hotel chain,
0:40.0	Super 8, decided to put on an art show.
0:42.0	If you're an art show.
0:42.7	If you're an art officinato, this is the place to be
0:46.2	Miami and Art Basel.
0:48.1	But this year, something different, a new exhibition.
0:52.0	This collection called When the Art Comes Down,
0:54.8	Curated by Super Eight. Yes, that's Super Eight.
0:58.3	Proving everything old is new again.
1:00.7	Superate wanted to get rid of the art that had been in its motel rooms since the chain was founded
1:05.2	in 1974.
1:07.3	Whatever you imagine when you imagine quintessentially kitchie hotel art, a deer by a babbling
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