Carl Korsnes on his Magazine Sivilisasjonen and Brentano's Four Phases of Philosophy
Is there an inevitable cycle that civilization is doomed to repeat — merely reenacting the fall of Rome — or can we break free from it? The biggest hindrance to a rich culture is the rejection of empi...
15 Sep 20201h 39min
Ex-muslim Cemal Yucel on his Apostasy, Leftist Iconoclasm and Islamic Picture Ban in the West
Looking at history, has not cancel culture and the toppling of statues always been precursors of mass murder and ideological coup d'Ètats?The important question now is: what about "classical Western ...
15 Aug 20201h 23min
Exposing the Secrets of Great Storytelling with Kristofer Hivju
What does it take to convince the audience — heartfelt inspiration or calculated deception? Imagine all the best stories being one and the same (or ten and the same), mechanically crafted by the same ...
15 Jul 20201h 21min
An Illegal conversation with Boris Koller
Demographics are changing. Old families are dying out and foreign belief systems are taking over.What happens when galleries close one after another and aniconism becomes the new status quo in Western...
15 Mai 20202h 23min
Einar Duenger Bøhn on Aristotle’s Tëchne, Objective Values and the Meaning of Life
With Modernism, objective values were thrown overboard. Einar Duenger Bøhn, who teaches philosophy at the University of Agder in Norway, sees objective value in the classical portrait, making Aristotl...
15 Mar 20201h 42min
Nic Thurman on the Memorosa Group, Edvard Munch's Decline and the Correct Signifiers of Kitsch
Why did Edvard Munch bow to Art after successfully emulating the techniques of the old masters? Perhaps the philosophy of kitsch could serve as a solution for contemporary classical painters that are ...
15 Feb 20201h 54min
Eline Dragesund On Her Kitsch Collection, The History Of Clothing And Its Relation To Our Psyche
"I feel like it's time to take women a little bit off the fashion-horse", says the tailor who wants to shape men into cathedrals with her new brand, "The Kitsch Collection". Eline Dragesund is a young...
15 Jan 20201h 26min
How the State Established Fine Art and Why Figurative Painters are Underdogs in the Art World
How can one secure the independence of culture? Watch Jan-Ove Tuv's conversation with the Norwegian art sociologist Dag Solhjell who co-authored "On Kitsch" in 2002, subsequently publishing four volum...
15 Des 20191h 43min
