Send us a textPlease visit the websites for Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester Art Gallery, Decentralizing Political Economies, and Arte Útil to learn more.2:00 Evolution Whitworth and Manchester Galleries’ mission4:30 Use of art as a process for social change5:00 Manchester Art Gallery5:45 Whitworth Gallery6:50 Healthy mind, body and spirit agenda7:50 Platt Hall redevelopment12:00 Pub as art center in Cumbria14:00 Museum 3.016:30 Arte Útil and Cuban Artist Tania Bruguera 18:10 Whitworth’s Office of Arte Útil20:00 Aplicación Legal’s use of legal loopholes20:58 Núria Güell’s Degenerate Art Protocol22:00 Núria Güell’s project involving loophole that allowed occupation of Tower block in Spain after removing doors23:30 Decentralizing Political Economies research platform23:50 Joy Forever exhibition – based on Social Reformer John Ruskin’s 1857 two-day lecture on economy as making the right conditions for living 24:55 Interplay between art and economy is fundamental to the way we develop society - how to see the world truthfully and then act ethically 25:25 Art defined as what’s done with care and consideration 26:05 Economics the Blockbuster exhibition26:35 Reclaiming art as the operating system for our living conditions, as good housekeeping27:50 Decentralizing Political Economies platform28:30 NFT of William Blake’s The Ancient of Days30:40 Proceeds of Blake NFT to be used for social programmes31:41 Story of NFT to be used in exhibition 33:15 U.S. Artist Suzanne Lacy’s current show at The Whitworth34:05 SF MoMA’s version of a Suzanne Lacy retrospective34:35 Lacy’s What Kind of City? A Manual for Social Change36:10 Lacy’s Oakland Projects to be used for a new project in Manchester to give youths agency37:55 Lacy’s Uncertain Futures project to be used for better working rights for women over 50 years old 39:10 Capacity for change with individuals involved in and benefiting from these projects 42:30 These projects are elegant demonstrations of why art matters42:50 Art world individuals who have a vested interest in the status quo are sometimes the ones who criticize these types of projects43:20 Social justice at the center of these projects 43:50 The Whitworth and Manchester Galleries’ design as social instruments 44:10 The beauty of ethics and equitable relationships 45:00 Use of museums’ cultural powerPlease share your comments and/or questions at [email protected] by Toulme.To hear more episodes, please visit Warfare of Art and Law podcast's website.To leave questions or comments about this or other episodes of the podcast and/or for information about joining the 2ND Saturday discussion on art, culture and justice, please message me at [email protected]. Thanks so much for listening!© Stephanie Drawdy [2025]

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