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How Modern Audiences Can Talk about Aging Art | Margaret Hall | TED

Some works of art stand the test of time; others don’t age as well. Using American musical theater as her case study, theater historian Margaret Hall shares a framework of five categories to talk about how art does (and doesn’t) remain useful across generations — encouraging us to address the “growing pains” that all art…

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Some works of art stand the test of time; others don’t age as well. Using American musical theater as her case study, theater historian Margaret Hall shares a framework of five categories to talk about how art does (and doesn’t) remain useful across generations — encouraging us to address the “growing pains” that all art faces as time and culture moves on.

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    April 27, 2023 at 10:34 am

    Excellent talk. Very interesting and important.

    • Michael Craig

      April 27, 2023 at 4:15 pm

      Yeah right

  8. Brian McInnis

    April 27, 2023 at 11:07 am

    0:34 All art — and indeed every thing of any kind — is aging.

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