Prominent Seattle artist Charles Krafft, whose comment on this very program last July that he believed the holocaust was “a myth”  caused shock in the politically far-Left and Jewish-dominated art world, tells what it’s been like on his end since The Stranger article appeared on February 13th.  Discussion includes:

• Charles’ interview requests include Public Radio International (PRI);
• What his old friends are saying and writing to him now;
• His history as a ceramics artist with his “Disasterware” debuting in 1991 and “Spone China” in 1999;
• His connections to Slovenia and Romania, and the influence they had;
• Difference between holocaust denial, skepticism and revisionism;
• The importance, or not, of the artist’s intention and reasons for creating the work of art;
• Is it the art or the artist that the art public should consider;
• Art like Krafft’s can give a little distance from the “relentless mythologization of figures like Hitler (seen at right in the form of a teapot) into symbolic demons.”