Scarry, Sublime, Thunderstorms

When did making art beautiful stop being the main goal of artists everywhere? Kurt Andersen and Harvard philosophy professor Elaine Scarry look at why beauty fell on hard times and whether it’s come back in the last few years. We’ll hear about painter Fred Tomaselli, who found beauty in the 1990s with the help of drugs: creating mosaic paintings using pills of all colors. Composer Lois Vierk talks about music and thunderstorms in the midst of both. And photographer Andres Serrano describes the beauty he finds in the female bodybuilders he photographs.