My cohost and digital producer is here and bringing in all of your feedback throughout the show. I love this idea because it is what or is supposed to be about, right, bringing it to evening, bringing to the masses and letting people experience something that they may not otherwise have. I am totally biased for todays show, because lisa as you know in my previous life i was a brighter and had a broken down laptop and a big yellow ethernet cable sitting at my parents home if it wasnt from social media i wouldnt be a writer i wouldnt have promote odor produce is my play are be sitting here. We have Mark Gonzales who tweets in i agree with that. So do i. The starving artist stereo type may need to shift to the savvy artists though, as painters, forego traditional routes. For say its art disruption, changing wait we interact with and perceive art. Some galleries are jump on the ground board. Just last month the metropolitan museum of art released 400,000 High Resolution pieces of art for download. So should art be access i believe to anywhere anywhere or could it strip it of its cultural value. We have a great lineupup of lins to join us here. He use is from baltimore. Ashley a painter whose art folk owes pop culture. She uses the social media site instagram to showcase her work. And on skype from new york, he is the first ever chief digital officer for the metropolitan museum of art. Thank you all for joining us. So we are talking about art becoming more accessible to the masses. And it doesnt get more accessible than being on the side of a building. Talk about what street art is and what its purpose is. I guess like there is i guess there is a lot of Different Reasons for artists entering the realm of the streets to display their artwork. But its pretty much under the idea that yo you were just mentioning its really all about the art wont do much if its not able to get to the masses. And street art is individuals essentially directly putting it in the public realm to start conversation. To get a little notoriety behind their name. But its this direct desire to reinvent a location i guess through art. Street art something that has really changed a lot in the modern era due to the internet. It used to be kind of this hidden culture more so in graffiti where artists would be essentially like creating pieces that would be letter pieces that only other artists would able to read but now its way more accessible and aimed towards the masses and not just artists art. Ashley speaking of making things more accessible, the internet plays an enormous role in your work. Talk about how you actually take people through the process vie at internet. Well, its a really, really exciting process because through the social media, i can really let my fans and collectors see what is inspiring me to a daytoday bases. For example, if i get a beautiful bouquet of flowers and its this incredible color pallet i can post that on my instagram and say look how inspiring this is. And then as the days unfold ill actually create a painting from that color pallet that was inspiring me. Or i could be on a creative sabbatical and you know, looking for inspiration in the smallest or largest of things. I post these images and my collectors can really see, wow, this is what shes inning nba to, this is what is inspiring her think. Its real time inning the artist experiences. You know whats so neat its not just seeing what inspiring ashley inspiring for us to view it that way get Creative Ideas when i do. I am on her instagram checking out her art and on nethers checking out his work talking about street art here, i get to actually see it as an observer and fan, and we have a tweet. Next, he offense times there is an eliteism. People say you need the galleries, curators, the critics critics. How has instagram allowed to you bypass that and make a mark not only on the masses but also the art scene. Its mainly just like allowed me to be able to do exactly what i want and still be able to get my stuff out there and serve the other half which is trying to you know, set up i guess like my career and just like create success for myself. So like now its like the situation, like i painted a my a an lou pura mural on a mall strn west baltimore i finished a few days ago. I have it right here. Pretty muff neighborhood. Yes, but its a block that you have visited many times not the type of area that pool people traveling through. The mural itself wont be seen by the masses yet i was able to create this mural that was directed at this one block as if its their little secret yet put it on instagram and flicker and facebook. And now its able to get potentially to 100s, thousands, you dont know. But thats awesome. I am able to essentially work with these disdained social issues and ignored citizens and have the work i am doing for them be able to be seen by potential 4reu9 world, yo seen u know. So the met just released 400,000 iconic pieces of art in high revolution on the net. Some people Things County intuitive you will lose patrons if they canny i they can see it. The met has had pictures of its object online for years, what we have done with the image use policy is make sure that people can use and download our images for noncommercial uses for scholarly work w for putting on their personal sites much more easily than before. Thats the update on our policy. You dont need our permission and you dont need pay pay fee to do that. This is part of a larger strategy to make sure that we create a virtual circle between the in person and online, the physical and digital. We believe if we can get more people to see our collection, part of our mission to have it seen worldwide and accessed by people all over the world, then we can get more people interested in coming in person to the met. And then once they are here, using social, Digital Tools we can give them a piece of the met to follow and keep up with after they leave. So making the circle is very important fuss. For us is. Ashley a lot of people they artists they met are long gone. But for people like you make ago living doing this the position poor our online is amazing but risk it being stolen. Do you worry about that . You cant worry about that. If some be is going to steal or copy an image they will do it anyway. Its my job as an artist or any artists job to make sure that we are already on to the next idea. So its not you cant really go in to this with fear. You have to go in to it knowing, you know, yo you are inspiring people. And not only that, from the business side of this. I mean, selling and going directly to fans and collectors, you are eliminating the gallery. Galleries take 50 from artists. It only takes a little bit of effort on the artists behalf to go out, use social media which is a free tool and go directly to your collectors and keep 100 percent of that profit margin, i think thats important. Does the art lose any cash a, because its not in a traditional gallery set something. No, i think it sparks more curcuriosity and make people wat to see it everybody more. I have collectors that buy pieces off instagram and have never seen it in person so when its delivered they are everybody more excited. Its awesome to see it online, its colorful, you can see details, you can use flip a graham, you can do all these incredible things but actually seeing art in front of your face, like being able to see the paint strokes, nothing will ever replace that. This is such an amazing tool. Such an amazing tool for all of us. I am seeing art right in front he mooch th of me. I have picasso at my fingertips i dont have to go to new york to check it out. We are asking who now defines what is good art . Sree same question to you, look in the im of social nidia who gets to hold the con of now and say this is good art. Can we trust the untrained public to make that conclusion. We think its wonderful that making artists are able to make the connection and reach out to the world and get access and attention to their work the way the folks who are on the call with us right now are doing. Its great to see that. At the met, we want people to see the collection so we are using instagram, facebook, twitter and all of it can be found on metmuseum. Thats our handle on youll the platforms, what we want people to do is come. We want you to enjoy the instagram version that you are seeing and the twitter version but we want to you make the annual pilgrimage and come and see these objects because they are still in with all the technology, there is Nothing Better than the magic that happens when you are with a piece of art in person. And so we do want to make sure that people understand that. And this is a way to get more people interested in the arts. All over the world and we are seeing that. We have 30 seconds letter. I want our viewers to get a chance to see some of your art. So as you are flipping through that for our cameraman dave to showcase what, does it mean when you remove eliteism from art . Flip through that. It means accessible. Once you breakdown kind of like the walls in this kind of elitist or world, you are able to have art that is able to translate to the people, you know, that you are trying to affect. And thats almost the most important thing. The whole eliteism in the art world its only i see it as kind of only a problem honestly. And we need to i mean, i didnt go to art school. I know a lot of great artist who his didnt. And you can develop skills in many different ways. Outside of the gallery context, inside of the gallery context, whatever it be. Beautiful work you are bringing something very special to baltimore. Nether, thank you so much for being here. Ashley thanks for being on the program. If you cant get to the art, make the art come to you. Up next, how one man is moving art and driving a whole new generation of gallery goers. Plus renowned illustrator Molly Crabapple joins to us talk about disrupting art and some of the unusual online experiments shes dabbled with in the name of creativity. Back in april i decided to celebrate my 28th birthday by going crazy and i want today invite the internet along. Later making poetry excite in this 21st century a viral you talk star joins us to talk about how his art form is addressing one of the biggest disadvantages of our hightech world. See new two minutes. I think that al jazeera helps connect people in a way they havent been connected before. Its a new approach to journalism. This is an opportunity for americans to learn something. We need to know whats going on around the world. We need to know whats going on in our back yard and i think al jazeera does just that. Welcome black. We are discussing how and why art is becoming more accessible to the masses. And joi join joining us now is d artist out of new york, molly crap apple only one of four artist to his draw guantanmo bay. Called the greatest artist. Aaron graham founder of the roadie gallery a mobile art museum. Before the break we wanted to show our viewers how you are bringing art to the masses tell us about your gallery on wheels. Sure, we started the gallery a year ago. It was actually founded by me and my mother who is also an artist. And we had this idea that we wanted to show art outside of the traditional gallery model. So we bought a step van truck and retrofitted the back and turned it in to a gallery and have been showing art for a year now in different places, in different locations. All right, so we have you on your ipad today. Using 3g so you can give us a tour of the gallery on wheels. So why dont you flip that around so we can see your truck. Sure. And then tell us about the work. What inspires you, and what the reaction is when you drive around and allow people to come in and see the artwork. Sure, we actually show our own work, me and my mothers but we show other peoples art, with different shows. And we have had a really positive reaction from everyone we have shown it to. I think the big thing that the people who come across our truck dont its not expected that they will see art. So they are really surprised when they see it. And really it they is the outside of the truck painted too, aaron . No. The outside of the truck is actually just a white truck and says road game are you on the outside. You can see what aaron is doing is like a novel form of art but still art. And we asked our community what now counts as art in the age of social media and this is what they are saying and we got a question no molly from daniel. How does an oppressive regime spur on art . And molly thats probably the best question for you. Artists are very often by nature antiauthoritarians. When i was in school i was diagnosed with oppositional defiance disorder when means i didnt know my place and wouldnt be able to. When you see some rich blow hard or dictator or owe press i have figure very much the artists response is to mock them, destroy them with mayor pen. Somali you have traveled the globe and som in to some dangers territory doing what you call illustrative journalism. Explain what that is. I have traveled around the world and drawn people including militia men in trib lee tripoli. Guard in gain tan know bay and militia in abu dhabi. I go home and write about it go ahead. I write for places like the new york times, vanity fair. Explain what the difference is in the experience of the reader versus so if i am reading an article and a traditional paper and see a photograph versus reading one of your articles and see an illustration. How does that change my experience about what you are write something. We live in the most heavily photographed time in history. Every time there is a war or riot there are a thousand twit picks to mark the occasion, what art can do is distill the essential. Singular, sort out the toot. You at that being a photograph whereas you make a drawing. When i am drawing someone i am sort of demonstrating this dance i monkey trick. Aim showing something that i can do and engaging with them in a way that a photographer very often cant so my interaction with them is different as well. All right, we have alyssa who is a culture writer she on our branch conversation writes web based tools like twitter can help build audiences for specific pieces of art. Chanda requirements behind sandal. And give people power in big institutions. Immaterial to see if its possible if we can merge the mollys art with a guy like you who is part of the met, what space is there for people like molly, people who are bypassing the institution and create being art within the met . We want to make sure that people can see our collectses and interact with our lexes. We have a media lab where we make the met a place of making art in addition to a place that is showcasing, preserving and sharing art. So thats an example of a way in which we want to get our art and our objects to inspire current artists, students, et cetera. And thats one way in which we can do that. Molly, you dont just do experiments with your art, you do experiments with funding your art. Talk about that the kick starter campaign. I recently did a very successful kick starter for fund my first big new york solo gallery show. I had always been an artist whose fans were middle class people no. Necessarily people that can drop 10,000 or 20,000 on a paints like i cant and problem you cant. I want today make the art that was so big that it would have to cost that amount of money and so instead of trying to sale singular object to his millionaires i sold all the peripheral things related to the art, the sketches, the reference photos, doodles on paper and i raised 70,000 to do a solo show in new york city where i did these giant picks with hyper detailed paintings and in opened in april 2013. We have about 20 seconds left. Whats the future of accessibility in the art world given the internet . The singular object will always be something that will become increasingly expensive. But images, those are for everyone. All right, thanks for our guests aaron graham, molly crap apple and sree. Still ahead, how an underground Literary Movement has explode odd line and resonated with nonpoetry lovers. Read the paper, we are choking, cities smoking there is our boyd, wrinkles, cracking, loose. Stay right where you are. Al Jazeera America presents the system with Joe Berlinger parole someone is going to get out and do something heinous its goanna happen. When is enough. Enough . Im not sure why you didnt learn from your last incarceration some prisoners try to get it right im trying to go to school and get a nice job youre only 22, you can turn this around. And some just dont he actually told people in the halfway house, that he was amazed that they had given him parole the system with Joe Burlinger only on al Jazeera America r a primetime news special series all next week only on al Jazeera America calling all big mouthed antislim activists and motor mouths calling all fans of frost and barack obama, the youngly come listen, hiding in stanzas. Well thinwelcome back that wf a spoken piece by slam poet derrek west tonight brown joining us on set to tell us how the art form as propelled on the spotlight and phil k. Is also a spoken word poe at the time. Bringing washing shops to high school and college students. Welcome to the show. So derrek, unless you grow up experiencing and understanding poetry it can be a sufficient sale especially as people get older. What is it about spoken word post tree that is changing that in. I think because it goes back to the whole thing its successful because whereas you have a bookstore or go to the library toy select a book but when post tree is brought to you by someone who looks like you or uses the same type of slang or talking about subject matters that you wouldnt necessarily find in a post tree book or volume that you have to flip through in a layer prairie or such, thats what connects people when you are like, wow, they are really talking about what i know in my reality or maybe things i have imagined or didnt have permission to say on on that platform in front of people you dont even know. So thats the courage of it. I think thats what really brings a lot of people to the spoken word. We are talking about various ways that art is becoming more accessible to everyone. And your project voice brings poetry in for schools. How are you using project voice to connect with kids and how are they respond something. We have been incredibly lucky and i co direct project voice with another poet named sarah kay and we getting to in to schools and perform and teach workshops and its a little bit of exactly what derrek was talking about. I think to be able to work with kids and talk about things that they what they necessarily didnt think was okay to bring on stage with people that may or may not look like them its been very wonderful and so far students have been just so full of life, which really pump preponderances us up the rehas abouts positive and you get that uhhuh moment of this is really something that i can run with. And something i can connect with. I can say this because i was one, is it all of like the drama nerd or is your average kid who is taking an interest in this . Its funny you get all different sorts of schools, i worked with schools where they really love spoken word post tree, everybody from the high cool quarterback to the drama nerds and you get schools where nobody is in to it. And its just a totally different vibe and you get in and its a totally different show. Part of the joy of the life show is you get to get in there and read the audience and change what poems are going o what the banter is with the audience depending on how they are reacting. And usually its just your average kid that had never thought of post tree as something cool before or anything do with them and those are the ones we are going after. There is no shame in being a drama nerd, lease a we gave them a frame, art is blank, art is not blank, fill in the banks, am drew says mike says art is something honed. Art is not for the amateur level. And then we have agen kathleen s necessary, not a luxury. Derrek, fellow only child. Yes. Art is, is not give me something. Art is risk. Definitely. And i would also say art is not for art sake. Because i feel like there is always a reasoning behind the art that you produce and a message or what you are necessarily saying or who you are trying to move or to speak to. So i think those are my two. And or is risk because sometimes the artists are the first ones to step out there. Whether or not the crowd gets it or not. Or whether their friends or family members are going to get it or not and they step out and say i am going try this. And you know, maybe successful or maybe not i am talking the risk. Maybe i will be the first to say this in an open forum. And yeah. Phil i am not letting you off the hook. Art is, art is not go for it. I would say art is for me, an i will change it a bit and i would say art is for you. To go back to the one that said art is honed or is not for the amateur. I would push back on that a little bit. One of the important things i have seen is that you know, yes, there are certainly poems out there that have millions of views and thats wonderful you. But i have worked with students and they get the courage to put their art iron ofoegbu line even if it hasnt gone viral they get one message from someone that says, hey, you know, i watched your video and thats a lot of stuff i have been thinking about and never heard someone else talk about that and i really appreciated that. And thats huge for both people in the artis tim developmen artd our development as a person and thats something i have seen to be really transformative. We have Great Community response. Art is the essence of communication using emotions before words, evoking before we knew how to explain. Derrek 10 seconds, final thought. I just want to say i you know, rest in meis to my a an lou, thats my final thought. Here here. Very nice, thanks for all of our guests including derrick and phil. 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