10 TED Talks about arts in changing times
I have always appreciated TED Talks for its concise and accessible format, granting us access to brilliant speakers, new topics, and enlightening perspectives. Here is a list with some of my favorites TED talks about arts and its institutions in changing times. These talks can make us reflect upon the role of art and artists in times of distress and political tension, on how arts institutions can help us rewrite our history and its narratives and on how culture can make our cities better places to live in.
Museums should honor the everyday, not just the extraordinary
“Museums can literally change the way millions of people see women and which women they see.”
Ariana Curtis — Afro-latina researcher and curator
Why women should tell the stories of humanity
“We have to find a way of stopping young girls and women feeling not only that their story doesn´t matter, but that they are not allowed to be the storyteller.”
Jude Kelly — Theater Director and Producer
The data behind Hollywood´s sexism
“This is not underrepresentation. This is erasure and I call this the epidemic of invisibility.”
Stacy Smith — Media researcher
Why museums are returning cultural treasures?
“Repatriation is now a permanent feature of the museum world. It doesn´t represent the end of museums, but the chance for a new beginning.”
Chip Colwell — Archeologist, Museum curator
Can art amend history?
“I want to make paintings, I want to make sculptures that are honest, that wrestle with the struggles of our past but speak to the diversity and the advances of our present.”
Titus Kaphar — Artist
How art gives shape to cultural change
“My overall project is about art and specifically, about black artists. Very generally, it is about the way in which art can change the way we think about culture and ourselves.”
Thelma Golden — Curator
How to revive a neighborhood: with imagination, beauty, and art
“I believe that beauty is a basic service.”
Theaster Gates — Artist, potter, community builder
Public art turns the city into playgrounds of the imagination
“Using the most powerful tool that we have — our imagination — we can transform both our physical surroundings, but in doing so, we can change forever how we feel and how we feel about the people we share the planet with.”
Helen Marriage — Maverick producer
Art in Exile
“Every Iranian artist, in one form or another, is political. We don´t find the moral, emotional, psychological and political space to distance ourselves from the reality of social responsibility.”
Shirin Neshat — Iranian visual artist
Why theater is essential to democracy
“Artistry is not something that is the possession of a few. Artistry in inherent in being a human being. Some of us just get to spend a lot more of our lives practicing it.”
Oskar Eutis — Theater Director
