{"id":1873,"date":"2025-06-15T14:27:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T14:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asianarthistories.com\/site\/?p=1873"},"modified":"2025-07-11T08:21:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T08:21:17","slug":"how-difficult-is-art-art-institution-and-resistance-in-the-age-of-cultural-populism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asianarthistories.com\/site\/how-difficult-is-art-art-institution-and-resistance-in-the-age-of-cultural-populism\/","title":{"rendered":"How Difficult Is Art? : Art, Institution, and Resistance in the Age of \u201cCultural Populism\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.asianarthistories.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/annual-lecture-2025-p1a-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail alignleft autoexcerpt_thumb  wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/>When does art becomes difficult? Indeed, art becomes \u201cartistically meaningful\u201d when it is brought to face and intervene in the world. In other words, art can help reveal the difficulty of living in the world. But this is by definition a difficult task. Artists need to make sure that the way to reveal the difficulty in life is \u201cartistic\u201d \u2013 critical, imaginative and visionary, instead of being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asianarthistories.com\/site\/how-difficult-is-art-art-institution-and-resistance-in-the-age-of-cultural-populism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more....<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When does art becomes difficult? Indeed, art becomes \u201cartistically meaningful\u201d when it is brought to face and intervene in the world. In other words, art can help reveal the difficulty of living in the world. But this is by definition &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asianarthistories.com\/site\/how-difficult-is-art-art-institution-and-resistance-in-the-age-of-cultural-populism\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1878,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-annual-lecture-2025","category-slider"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.asianarthistories.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/annual-lecture-2025-p1a.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6nnKk-ud","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asianarthistories.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asianarthistories.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asianarthistories.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asianarthistories.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asianarthistories.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1873"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.asianarthistories.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1885,"href":"https:\/\/www.asianarthistories.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873\/revisions\/1885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asianarthistories.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asianarthistories.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asianarthistories.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asianarthistories.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}