I'm happy that you asked that question in the way you asked it. That you ask it in a personal way. What I'm really trying to do is say that this is a question that we each bring our biography to. Each individual person can reside in their subjectivity and their response to this. The book in fact is not seeking to solve the problem for people but rather to describe the experience of what happens when we consume that work with that knowledge in our minds. So you know it's really interesting you know the Michael Jackson situation I think is one of the more interesting questions because he's so woven into all our histories. Do I put on a Michael Jackson record anymore? No I
Comedian Hannah Gadsby railed against Pablo Picasso in “Nanette.” So why are they curating an exhibition timed to the 50th anniversary of his death? Gadsby and author Claire Dederer explain what we should do with art from monstrous artists.
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