Can art exist without context? Should it? What responsibilities do we have to ensure that we educate ourselves about its history? This two-part series explores our complex historic associations with ART as a social phenomenon and the role it plays in our lives.

Part one explores ideas of attribution and appropriation. Who and what influences art, tastes and contexts. Art is explored through fashion, music, dance, two clocks on a wall symbolising AIDS, paintings, the 2002 Oscar de la Renta collection of cerulean gowns and more.

Episode transcripts available here

Music:

Long Road Ahead by Kevin MacLeod

https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3996-long-road-ahead

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Evening Fall (Harp) by Kevin MacLeod

https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3720-evening-fall-harp-

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Sorrow by Alexander Nakarada

www.serpentsoundstudios.com

Licensed: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/