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No. 78: Are Selfie Museums an Affront to the Art World?
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English - May 25, 2018 15:22 - 32 minutes - 42.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 176 ratingsArts Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: No. 77: Exploring the Art Market’s Best (and Worst) Practices
This week, our editors sit down to chat about one of the art world’s most divisive topics: “selfie museums.” We discuss what the rise of the Museum of Ice Cream, and other similar Instagram-friendly institutions, means for the art world and the meaning of the word “museum.” As experiential art continues to explode in popularity, we also discuss whether selfie-driven art is different or similar to selfie museums—even drawing on our own recent experiences visiting one of these Instagram-friendly spaces.