How Art Changes Us

TED Radio Hour

NPR

Social Sciences, Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.4 • 21.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Original broadcast date: November 10, 2017. Art can evoke powerful feelings. But can it do more? This hour, TED speakers share ideas on the transformative nature of art and its ability to shape the way we see ourselves and the world around us. Guests include painter and sculptor Titus Kaphar, painters Dre Urhahn and eL Seed, textile artist Magda Sayeg, and conductor Benjamin Zander.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Guy here, and today on the show, we're going to explore the power of art,
0:04.8	how we can provoke the strongest emotions, or how it can transform entire neighborhoods,
0:10.6	and even how it can help us re-examine our history.
0:14.3	This episode is called How Art Changes Us, and it originally aired in November of 2017.
0:21.5	This is the Ted Radio Hour.
0:26.5	Each week, groundbreaking Ted Talks.
0:30.0	Ted Talks.
0:31.0	Technology.
0:31.0	Entertainment.
0:31.0	Design.
0:32.0	Design.
0:33.0	Is that really what's 10 for us?
0:34.0	I've never known that.
0:35.0	Delivered at Ted Conferences around the world.
0:36.0	It's a gift of the human imagination.
0:37.0	We've had to believe in impossible things.
0:39.0	The true nature of reality beckons from just beyond.
0:40.0	Those talks, those ideas, adapted for radio.
0:43.0	From NPR.
0:47.0	I'm Guy Ross.
0:53.0	And not too long ago, painter and sculptor Titus Kefar
0:57.0	was visiting the Natural History Museum in New York with his kids.
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