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The Art of Change

Art Stories - March 28, 2024 02:30 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
Artworks are living objects which emerge from a particular perspective at a particular moment, yet continue to exist in a changing world. Some historic artworks, and even images from popular culture, reflect racist attitudes.  What do we do with imagery like this? Can we seal away the past or s...

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PEMcast 035 - The Curious Life of Reverend William Bentley

PEMcast - March 18, 2024 16:20 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
This episode of the PEMcast looks at the life and legacy of Reverend William Bentley who chronicled his busy days as a clergyman from 1784 to 1819 with an unmatched dedication and flourish. We know so much about Salem, Massachusetts and its quirky history in part because of this meticulous diar...

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325: Galaxy Brains

Congratulations Pine Tree - March 14, 2024 18:23 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 39 ratings
We are finally back even though neither of us want to be! We talk about the Palestinian Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, cold plunges, excuses, Vallejo, corn nus, and so much more! Welcome back to the MADHOUSE!!!  The music in this episode is by Business Casual Palestinian Academic and...

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The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre x Domes FM

FACT Liverpool - February 22, 2024 08:00 - 34 minutes
Listen to the personal stories and reflections of Alex, Mel and Luke - three young people who are currently being treated for cancer or who recently completed cancer treatment - as they share their unique perspectives in this experimental podcast produced by DOMES FM in collaboration with The Cl...

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324 - Free Palestine!

Congratulations Pine Tree - December 14, 2023 20:37 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 39 ratings
This week we are giving you a little morsel before we go on total winter stop down. Then we will rise like a glorious plant of some kind and BLOOM INTO 2024!!! Thank you all for sticking with us through this year. We love you. The music in this episode is by Excentrik Arab Resource and Organiz...

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Women in Revolt! Mini-series: 6. Tough!

Art Stories - December 11, 2023 02:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
In our final episode of this mini-series, curator Linsey Young hears from women artists, photographers, film-makers and activists who were responding to the political upheavals in the 1980s.  From photographs of protests such as the Greenham women’s peace camps to films about AIDS and racist at...

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Women in Revolt! Mini-series: 5. A Time of Possibility

Art Stories - December 04, 2023 02:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
Curator Linsey Young finds out about group exhibitions by women of colour in the 1980s. Joined by artists and curators, she explores how their shows made women of colour visible and expressed the politics and realities of their experiences. From ‘CopyArt’ based on photographic self-portraits, ...

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Close Looking: Osman Yousefzada on Prem Sahib

the Roberts Institute of Art - November 27, 2023 18:22 - 3 minutes
Osman Yousefzada’s poem, Untitled (for Prem), is written in response to Prem Sahib’s User_01 (2016), a panel of black aluminium covered with drops of resin that look like sweat and moisture, smudged in one part as if by a hand. The work’s eroticism, inspired by the sweaty walls of clubs, is fram...

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Close Looking: Marina Warner on Paula Rego

the Roberts Institute of Art - November 27, 2023 18:19 - 16 minutes
Marina Warner’s Pentimento is written in response to Paula Rego’s drawing in pencil and conte, St Mary of Egypt (2011) and tells the story of the little-known saint from fragments of reports of those who knew and remembered her. Knowing Rego’s love of storytelling and character studies, Warner h...

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Close Looking: Heather Phillipson on Emma Talbot

the Roberts Institute of Art - November 27, 2023 18:16 - 8 minutes
Heather Phillipson’s The Creeps is written in response to Emma Talbot’s How the Web was Woven (2009), an acrylic on canvas work with a variety of vignettes, spider webs, texts and mysterious figures. Reflecting the haunting, unsettling atmosphere in Talbot’s painting, Phillipson considers how an...

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Close Looking: Julie Ezelle Patton on Eva Hesse

the Roberts Institute of Art - November 27, 2023 18:11 - 26 minutes
Julie Ezelle Patton’s Three Phases of Eva, 1965 is written in response to Eva Hesse’s Three (1965), a triptych of gouache and oil on paper collage. Patton takes Hesse’s triptych and title to structure the poem in three, imaginatively exploring Hesse's name, work and life, from Patton's first mem...

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Close Looking: Imani Mason Jordan on Ellen Gallagher

the Roberts Institute of Art - November 27, 2023 18:08 - 15 minutes
Imani Mason Jordan’s 1:1 is written in response to Ellen Gallagher’s Untitled (2005). Gallagher’s intimate work shows two silhouetted figures etched onto a gold leaf background. The figures, posed as if in conversation, recall nineteenth-century portraits of authors found in narratives of slave ...

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Close Looking: Renee Gladman on Ayan Farah

the Roberts Institute of Art - November 27, 2023 17:59 - 7 minutes
Renee Gladman’s All These Not-Places for Wandering is written in response to Ayan Farah’s Stardust (2011), a work dyed and bleached by UV light and painted with acrylic paint. Gladman approaches the work and the project of writing about it questioningly. Taking the encounter with the work as one...

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Women in Revolt! Mini-series: 4. “We need to change the course!”

Art Stories - November 27, 2023 02:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
In these next two episodes, curator Linsey Young hears from women activists and artists of colour about their experiences and work in the 1970s and 80s. In this episode, she learns about how women mobilised against racism and discrimination, and how artists challenged how art history was being ...

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Women in Revolt! Mini-series: 3. Transgression

Art Stories - November 20, 2023 02:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
In episode three, curator Linsey Young investigates how the independent music scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s liberated women from the expectations of the time. Joined by artists, musicians, writers and activists, she discovers how punk and industrial music created a space for women to e...

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323 - Erotic Poetry with Elisabeth Nicula

Congratulations Pine Tree - November 17, 2023 07:04 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 39 ratings
Elisabeth Nicula is guest hosting this week while Maysoun is on a mental-wellbeing-break. Elisabeth is a bird enjoyer, an artist, a writer, a critic, and someone who can confidently shit outside. Join us in this shared hallucination. All the music in this episode is from the album PAZ Y LIBERTA...

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Women in Revolt! Mini-series: 2. There’s Something Not Right Here

Art Stories - November 13, 2023 01:01 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
Curator Linsey Young hears from women who were making work in the 1970s that commented on their roles in the family and in the home. From performing as a pregnant bunny girl in a cage at an agricultural show, to baking a life-sized family in a mobile home, their wildly original work received no ...

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Women in Revolt! Mini-series: 1. Ferocious and Magnificent

Art Stories - November 06, 2023 02:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
A 6-part mini-series exploring art, activism and the women's movement in the UK in the 1970s and 80s. In this episode, Curator Linsey Young journeys to the start of the Women's Liberation Movement and hears from women who were making work in the early 1970s. Joined by artists, makers and activi...

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Signal Boost: The War on Palestine Podcast

Congratulations Pine Tree - November 03, 2023 16:29 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 39 ratings
 Listen to and support this podcast by Noura Erakat, Ziad Abu-Rish, and Bassam Haddad here: https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/45457 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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PEMcast 034 - Hanging with Bats

PEMcast - October 30, 2023 13:02 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
Bats have an interesting association with Salem, a place that celebrates Halloween pretty much year round. We’re used to seeing multiple versions of Dracula around town. But a small colony of live Egyptian fruit bats living in a specially designed enclosure at the Peabody Essex Museum...that's s...

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Introducing Women in Revolt!

Art Stories - October 30, 2023 02:01 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
Curator Linsey Young introduces this 6-part mini-series about art, activism and the women’s movement in the UK in the 1970s and 80s. She remembers back to when she started researching the Women in Revolt! exhibition. Her quest to find work made in response to the Women’s Liberation Movement, pun...

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321 - Idea Factory

Congratulations Pine Tree - September 28, 2023 05:58 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 39 ratings
Folks, I swear tro friggin GOD we are gonna have an interview soon. We're losing our damn minds together in our bubble! However, it is not stopping us from generating so many ideas that you can't friggin believe it. PLUS WE GET AN EMAIL FROM A LISTENER! the music in this episode is by FAVORS ...

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PEMcast 033 - Time Traveling with Curious Objects

PEMcast - September 25, 2023 17:43 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
Conversations and stories for the culturally curious co-hosted by Dinah Cardin and Chip Van Dyke. This is the official podcast of the Peabody Essex Museum

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320 - Betrayal!

Congratulations Pine Tree - September 21, 2023 05:33 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 39 ratings
This week Maysoun decides to betray Kate by having a new favorite artist. It is incredibly hurtful. We also talk about a douchebag art show pop-up in SF Chinatown. Plus Kate gives the finger and Mayhsoun gives some heavy carbon calculations. The music in this episode is by Lacrimorta Hosted o...

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PEMcast 032 - Restoring Justice after the Salem Witch Trials

PEMcast - August 23, 2023 16:53 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
In this epsisode of the PEMcast we go behind the scenes of PEM's latest Salem Witch Trials exhibition. We examine objects that belonged to the Salem Puritans and attempts to restore justice from the 17th century to today. 

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319 - Long Road to Vallejo

Congratulations Pine Tree - August 22, 2023 00:34 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 39 ratings
This week Maysoun tries to defend her scary use of periods over text message. Kate talks about a trip to see art in Vallejo. Were in summer mode, but I swear to all that is holy we are gonna get it together soon. Music in this episode is by KUREI Oakland Government Survey Hosted on Acast. Se...

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Creating Your Own Art Opportunities with G.J. Gillespie - Part 1

Passionate Painter Podcast - August 05, 2023 16:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratings
Welcome to my interview with G.J. Gillespie. Having been published in over 90 publications, this is one prolific artist. The interview ran over an hour, so I've broken it into two parts for listening convenience. Check out part 1 for Gary's bio and discussion on getting published in journals a...

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Creating Your Own Art Opportunities with G.J. Gillespie - Part 2

Passionate Painter Podcast - August 05, 2023 16:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratings
Welcome to part 2 of my interview with G.J. Gillespie. In this episode we discuss ways to improve your art, pricing your art, his art supply business, his company's Trusted Creator program, and his best advice for artists seeking exposure for their art. And don't forget, you can watch the full ...

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318 - Meandering Ramble

Congratulations Pine Tree - August 04, 2023 00:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 39 ratings
 This week we have a good old fashioned ramble! We talk about some events coming up and Kate comes out as an absurdist.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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317 - Gay Minds (with Leila Weefur)

Congratulations Pine Tree - July 20, 2023 20:30 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 39 ratings
This week Leila Weefur guest hosts and talks with Kate about emerging, Bay Area mandatory history meetings, vegan food, and a shit ton of other things. Watch out- Kate and Leila of course are on one. The music in this episode is by FAVORS Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inform...