The Art Life

For the past several years, Dean Haglund, Phil Leirness, and Jon Lawlor have been getting together almost weekly to hold each other’s feet to the fire in the pursuit of creating art that is filled with life, while also learning how to live more artfully. Now, Chillpak Hollywood Presents … “The Art Life” as a regular podcast! This week’s topics include …*Anti-woke warriors and how often while criticizing contemporary cultural works, they hold up as positive examples works of the past that were, in fact, the "woke” of their eras*Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show and the very human impulse to criticize anything we don’t understand*The John Lithgow “Dumbledore” casting controversy in the new “Harry Potter” television series*The first sentence of the Declaration of Independence and the purpose of having an economy*How the death of movie theaters has been depicted in some recent films, which, of course, leads to discussion of CERN and the Hadron Super ColliderChillpak Hollywood Presents ... is a listener-supported publication. To receive new shows and support our work, please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit deanandphil.substack.com/subscribe