TLP Interview with The Cheeky Scholar
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TLP Interview with The Cheeky Scholar

B1IntermediateSeptember 26, 20251 hr 22 min

Earlier this year, I had a really, really great conversation with Dr. Lara Ayad, host of the podcast The Cheeky Scholar - and I'm proud to share it today. We cast our net really wide, talking at first about the role of artists in society, my favorite museums, but then we got into it. We got into it. Because Lara and I are both, in the parlance of the moment, free speech bros. And if you’re going to be a good artist, or a good art critic, you can’t be afraid of censorship, and you sure as hell...

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Hub and Spoke. Audio Collective. Hey again, it's Tamar. I'm back today with another interview, but it's not me interviewing someone. It's actually someone interviewing me. Earlier this year, when I was about eight months pregnant with my now seven-month-old, I had a really, really great conversation with Dr. Laura Ayad

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host of the podcast The Cheeky Scholar. And at first we cast our net kind of wide, talking about the role of artists in society, about my favorite museums, you know, kind of bog standard stuff. But then we got into it. We got into it. Because Lara and I are both in the parlance of the moment, free speech bros. And if you're going to be a good artist

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or a good art critic, you can't be afraid of censorship. And you sure as hell can't practice it. This is what we came to realize over the course of our conversation. You have to open your mouth. You have to look at the world with open eyes, with an open mind. And nothing shuts all those things, mouth, eyes, mind, more than fear. Fear of offending,

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