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Dec 2024
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Dean Kissick

The Architecture Foundation
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Art writer and former Spike columnist Dean Kissick stops by the pod to discuss his most recent article "The Painted Protest: How politics destroyed contemporary art" – published in the December 2024 issue of Harper's.


Read Dean's article here.


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