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SUMMARY:Who Decides What's Good? Art\, Architecture\, and Democracy
DESCRIPTION:Brian T. Allen examines how critics\, curators\, funders\, artists\, and the broader public judge quality in art and architecture. Beauty\, craftsmanship\, originality\, and a work's relationship to artistic tradition have long served as central--if now contested--standards\, especially in public spaces or work supported by public funds. Drawing on exhibitions he has admired and abhorred\, current disputes over Washington's civic architecture\, and debates about government involvement in the arts\, he weighs the new standards against the old and considers what happens when expertise\, democratic authority
LOCATION:Statler Hall
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