On a recent walk to the Museo de Bellas Artes in protest-ravaged Santiago de Chile, I try to respond to all the work I see through the lens of this question: who does art speak to? WORKS CITED -Berger, John. “Revolutionary Undoing: On Max Raphael’s The Demands of Art.” In Landscapes: John Berger on Art, edited by Tom Overton, Reprint edition. London ; New York: Verso, 2018. -Lescaze, Zoë. “An Artist Who Disavows the Possibility of Individual Agency.” The New York Times, November 12, 2021, sec. T Magazine. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/12/t-magazine/agnieszka-kurant-art.html. MUSIC -Theme music and consultation: Georgina Rossi, www.georginarossi.com -Interlude: W.A. Mozart, Commendatore Scene from Don Giovanni SPONSOR Capital A is sponsored by Shoestring Press in Brooklyn: www.shoestringpressny.com

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