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>> i was able to create this mural that was directed as this one block, like as if it was their little secret yet put it on instagram, flickr, facebook,

and now i'm able to essentially like work with these social issues and ignored citizens and have the work i'm doing for them to be seen by potentially the worlds. >> so shree, the met just released art in high revolutio resolution, what value does the net see in this digital art experience? >> the met has had pictures of its objects online for many years. what we've done with our latest update to our evolving image use policy is make sure that people can use and download our images for non-commercial uses for scholarly work, for putting on their person site much more

easily. you don't need our permission, and you don't need to pay a fee to do that. that's what's changed. that's part of a larger strategy at the museum. what we want to do is to make sure that we create a circle between the in-person and the online. the physical and the digital. we believe we can get more people to see our collection that is part of our mission to be seen worldwide and accessed by people all over the world, then we can get more people so making that circle is important to us. >> a lot of the artists we're talking about showcased at the met are long gone. but for artists like yourself who make a living at this, exposure is amazing, but you risk it being stolen. do you worry about that? >> you can't worry about that. if someone is going to steal or

copy an image, they're going to do that any way. it's my job as an artist that we're already on to the next idea. you can't go in to this with fear. you have to go into it that you're inspiring people, not only that, from the business side of this selling and going directly to collectors you're eliminating the galleries. galleries take 50% from artists. it only takes a little bit of effort on the artist's what have and go out and use the social media, which is a free tool, and go directly to your collectors and keep 100% of the profit margin. >> does the artist lose any cache because it's not in the gallery setting? >> no, it sparks curiosity. i've buyers who never see my work in person. when it's delivered they're even more excited because it's--it's awesome to see it online.

it's colorful, you can see details and you can do all these incredible things. but seeing art in front of your face like being able to see the paint stroke, nothing will replace that. but this is such an amazing cool, such an amazing cool. >> i'm seeing art right in front of me. here is the met. they released 400,000 pieces of art. i have picasso at my finger tips, and who now define what is is good art? mark said its time and others say taste. social media can help alleviate some systems but it is more of an amplifier. now sree, who gets to say this is high art and this is good art? can we trust the public to make that conclusion? >> we think its wonderful that artist who is are working artists now can make that

connection, reach out to the world, and get access and attention to their work as the folks who are on the call with us now are doing. at the met we want people to see the collection. we're using instagram, facebook and twitter and all can be found @met museum. that's our handle on all of our platforms. we wit want you to enjoy the instagram version and twitter version, but we want you to make that annual pilgrimage and come. there is nothing better than the magic that happens with a piece of art in person. so we do want to make sure that people you understand that, and that this is a way to get more people interested in the arts. all over the world. and we're seeing that. >> now that we've got 30 seconds left we want our viewers to see some of your art. as you're flipping through that for our come rahman dave to

showcase, what does it mean when you remove elitism from art? >> it means accessibility. once you break down kind of the walls in this kind of elitist art world, you are able to have art that is able to translate to the people that you're trying to affect. that's almost the most important thing. the whole elitism in the art world, it's only--i see it only as a problem, honestly. we immediate to--i didn't go to art school. i know a lot of great artists who didn't, and you can develop skills in many different ways. outside of the gallery context, inside the gallery context. >> beautiful work, you're bringing something very special to baltimore. thank you for being here. thank you thanks for being on the program. if you can't get to the art, bring the art to you. how one man is bringing art and driving a whole new generation of gallery goers.

plus molly crab apple joins us about disrupting art in some of the unusual online experiments she has dabbled with in the name of creative. >> back in april i decided to celebrate my 25th birthday by going crazy and i wanted to invite you to come along. we look at how art form is addressing some of the big disadvantages of the high-tech world. see you in two minutes.

>> now out of renew york is molly crab apple one of four

illustrators to draw guantanamo prison. and rolling stone magnificen rolling stone magazine has called her the greatest occupy movement artist. and erin, before the break we promised to show our viewers how you're bringing art to the masses. tell us about your gallery on wheels. >> sure, we started the gallery a year ago. it was founded by me and my mother, who is also an artist. we had this idea that we wanted to show art outside of the traditional gallery model. so we bought a van truck and retrofitted it into a gallery and we've been showing art in different locations. >> we've got you on your ipad. you can give us a tour of the gallery on wheels. why don't you flip that around so we can see your truck. and tell us a little bit about the work, what inspires you and what the reaction is when you drive around and allow people to come in and see the art work.

>> well, sure, we show our own work, me and my mother's, but we show other enemy's arts and we have shows. we've had a positive reaction from everyone we've shown it to. because i think that the big thing is that the people who come across our truck don't--it's not expected that they're going to see art. they're really surprised when they see it and really--hello? >> is the outside of the truck painted, too? >> no, the outside of the truck is just a white truck and it says road gallery on the outside. >> you can see what aaron is doing is a novel form the art, but it's still art. and what counts as art in the age of social media? banksy and other street artists, because they're creating art around us, it makes us think. and molly crab apple. this is a donald trump

illustration. when she went to talk to him about the condition of labor in the u.a.e. how does an oppressive regime spur on art? and molly, that's probably the best question for you. >> artists are very often by nature anti-authoritarians. when i was in school i was diagnosed with oppositional defiant disorder, which meant i didn't know my place, and i wouldn't be able to. when you see some rich blow hard or dictator, very often an artist's response is to mock them and destroy them with your pen. >> you've traveled around the globe and traveled in dangerous territory doing what you call arrested journalism. >> i've gone around the world and drawn people including militiamen, guards at guantanamo bay and workers at abu dhabi.

i write for places like "the new york times," "vanity fair." >> explain what the difference is in the experience of the reader. if i read an article and see a photograph versus reading one of your articles and seeing an illustration, how does that change my experience about what you're writing? >> we live in the most heavily photographed time in human history. every time there is a war or riot there are a thousand pics to mark the occasion. also you take a photograph rather make a drawing. when i'm drawing someone i show something that i can do. i'm engaging with them in a way that a photographer very often cannot, so my interaction with them is different as well. >> we have alyssa who is a cultural writer said that web base things like twitter can help with art.

and give people power within corporations and institutions. if we can merger people like molly's art within the met? >> what we want to do within the met is make sure that people can see our collections and interact with our collections. we have a media lab where we're actually making the met a place of making art in addition to a place that showcasing he preserving and sharing art. that's an example to get our art and objects to inspire current artists, students, etc. >> you dodge jus don't just do experiments with your art but funding with your art.

how do you use kick starter. >> i've been an artist that stand for middle class people. they were not necessarily people who would draw $20,000 like i can't and probably you can't, but i wanted to make art that was so big that it would cost that amount of money. instead of trying to sell obje objects to millionaires i sold all the peripheral things for artists, and i raised $70,000 to do a solar show in new york city where i did these hyper detailed paintings, and that opened in 2013. >> molly, we've got 0 seconds left. what's the future of accessibility in the art world? given the internet? >> the singular object will be increasingly expensive, but images are for everyone. >> thanks to our guests. still ahead how an underground

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>> calling on fans of frost and barack obama and come and hear them. and hiding in st a, nza's. >> that was part of a spoken word peace by slam poet derek here to does how the art form has propelled in the spotlight at and out of new york phil kay also a spoken word poet and codirector of project voice, an initiative that brings poetry workshopped to college and high

school students. derek, unless you grow up experiencing and appreciating and understanding poetry, it can be a tough sell. what is outspoken poetry is changing that. >> it goes back to where you have a bookstore and library to collect a book, when poetry is brought to you by someone who looks like you, using slang or talking about subject matters that you wouldn't normally find, that's what connects people. wow, they're really talking about what i know in my reality, or maybe things that i have imagined or didn't think i had permission to say on that platform in front of people you don't even know. that's the courage of it, and that's what bring people to the spoken word. >> still, we're talking about the various ways that art is becoming more accessible to everyone. your project voice brings poetry

into the schools. how are you using project voice to connect to the kids, and how are they responding? >> we've been really lucky, we get to go to schools, perform and teach workshops. i think to be able to work with kids and talk about things that they necessarily have not thought was okay to bring up on a stage with people that may or may not look like them has been really wonderful, and so far students have been just so full of life, which really pumps us up. the reaction has been really positive. usually you get that aha moment that this is something that i could run with. >> but is it like--and i can say this because i was one, is this like the drama nerds, or is it your average kids who are taking

an interest in this. >> you work in schools where everyone loves the poetry from the quarterback to the drama nerds, and then you get into schools where no one is interested in it. part of the joy of the live show is you get to go in there and read the audience, the banter of the audience, and depending on how they're reacting, and usually it's your average kid who never thought of poetry as something cool before, thought it had anything to do with them. they're the ones we're going with them. >> there is no shame of being a drama nerd, lisa. we gave a question. art is--fill in the blanks. art it for us. art is not for you. art is something honed. art is not for the amateur level ooh. and then you have art is for the

necessary. derek, art is, art is not. >> art is risk. definitely. and i also say that art is not for art's sake. i feel like there is a reasoning behind the art that you produce and a message or what you're necessarily saying or who you're trying to move or speak to. so i think those are, artist is risk because sometimes the artist is the first one to step out there whether or not the crowd will get it or not, or whether their friends or family members are going to get it or not. they step out there and they say, i'm going to try this. maybe it's successful, maybe it's not. i'll take that risk. maybe i'm the first to say this in open forum. >> phil is? art is not? go for it. >> i would say art for me i --i'm going to change it a little bit. i'm going to say art is for you. going back to who said art is honed, it's not for the amateur. i would push back on that a

little bit. one of the important things that i've seen is that yes, there is certainly poems out there that have millions of views. that's wonderful. but i've worked with students who have the courage to put their art online, and even if it hasn't gone viral they'll get one message from someone who says, hey, you know, i watched your video, and that's all the stuff that i've been thinking about and i never heard anybody else talk about that, and i appreciated that. that's huge for both people in the artistic development, in the development as a person. that's something that i've seen to be really transformative. >> we've a great community response. art is the essence of communication using emotions before there were words. evoking before we knew how to explain. >> derek, we have 10 seconds. final thought. >> i just want to say rest in peace to maya angelou. >> very nice. thanks to our guests. until next time waj and i will

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