“I would probably not have recognized Shakespeare,” says Tyler Cowen, who runs an experimental art fund on billionaire tech money. He calls this realisation humbling, then does nothing about it. A crucial problem in his practice. If he can’t recognise great art, what’s the point of running the fund? A fund that claims to be searching for new aesthetics and the new great art.
Together with Patrick Collison, the founder of Stripe, Tyler has recently announced a call and financial reward for artists and architects to propose a new aesthetics. In this talk we also propose to Patrick and Tyler an adequate way of converting money into great art.
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This conversation explores the relationship between tech billionaires and contemporary art, focusing on Patrick Collison (Stripe) and Tyler Cowen’s call for artists to help define the aesthetic of the 21st century. We discuss beauty, modernism, Scruton, Ortega y Gasset, philanthropy, and the role of elite patronage in shaping culture. This is part of the ongoing KIRAC series on art, truth, and power.
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