Show Notes Episode 8: The temporary and the preserved

Does art celebrate the temporary by trying to preserve it? Or is it an exultation of permanence? Is there such a thing? Is memory the only mold humans have to preserve? Perhaps recycling is the ultimate perpetuity, the collective embrace of reconstitution. When does a moment begin and end?

Louise Nevelson:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Nevelson

https://www.moma.org/collection/works/81006

Guiseppe Pitrè:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Pitr%C3%A8

 

Marcel Duchamp

https://www.moma.org/artists/1634-marcel-duchamp

The Persistence of Memory:

https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79018