Latest / The Pursuit of Beauty with Matthew Wilkinson
Modern Art Is Collapsing: Jonathan Pageau & Andrew Gould on What Comes Next
In this wide-ranging round table, architect Andrew Gould, icon carver and storyteller Jonathan Pageau, and host Matthew Wilkinson sit down over whiskey to wrestle with the future of beauty, sacred art, and architecture. We start with pirates and sea shanties, then quickly slide into Jackson Pollock, Rothko, oil slicks, marbled end-papers, and the problem of modern art hung in the wrong place. Andrew and Jonathan both argue that modernism is what happens when a long, rich tradition becomes fragmented and hyper-specialized. They compare Rothko’s color fields and Pollock’s rhythm to bark on a…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.