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102 episodes - English - Latest episode: 16 days ago - ★★★★ - 110 ratingsNews, developments, and stirrings in the art world with host Hrag Vartanian, cofounder and editor-in-chief of Hyperallergic.
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From Blog to Book
April 04, 2024 17:06 - 1 hour - 123 MBSince 2009, Hyperallergic has published tens of thousands of articles about art. But who are the writers behind these posts? And what drives them to write about art of all things? Many of the authors who have passed through our virtual hallways have gone on to do incredible things, including publishing books on topics that they first wrote about or more fully developed through articles in Hyperallergic. In 2022, we held an event called “From Blog to Book” at Brooklyn’s pinkFrog caf...
Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt: The Story of One of the Few Artists at the Stonewall Uprising
March 21, 2024 19:24 - 1 hour - 165 MBWe are thrilled to be back with a new episode of the Hyperallergic podcast. For our one hundredth episode, we spoke with legendary collage and mixed media artist Tommy Lannigan-Schmidt. His works, made from crinkly saran wrap and tin foil, emulate the gleam of precious metals and jewels in Catholic iconography. They reference his upbringing as a working class kid and altar boy in a Catholic community in Linden, New Jersey, where tin foil was an expensive luxury they could rarely a...
The Cartoonist the US Right-Wing Political Establishment Loves to Hate
May 06, 2022 17:45 - 1 hour - 67.6 MBIf you’ve been online, and especially on Twitter, then you probably know the name Eli Valley and his brushy drawings that use the grotesque and absurd to make larger points about life, culture, and politics. But it wasn’t until the Trump administration that the New York City-based cartoonist was propelled into the public spotlight. Valley was attacked by a wide range of politicians, particularly Republicans, including Meghan McCain, who called the comic he drew of her “one of the mo...
Artists Tali Hinkis and Daniel Temkin Discuss Digital Combines
April 29, 2022 19:44 - 1 hour - 72.5 MBArtists Tali Hinkis and Daniel Temkin have been at the leading edge of digitally informed contemporary art that explores the boundaries of programming, digital aesthetics, and the handmade. Their work is certainly unique, but they also share some commonalities around media-based art, glitch, and how their work in the gallery and online is circulated and experienced. I invited them to join me for a conversation to hear the thoughts of two intelligent artists who are fully engaged wit...
Tamara Lanier's Fight for the Photographs of Her Enslaved Ancestors at Harvard
April 21, 2022 20:13 - 56 minutes - 51.6 MBLast year, we published a dossier of statements by leading scholars supporting the fight of Tamara Lanier to reclaim the daguerreotypes of her ancestors from the Peabody Museum at Harvard University. Lanier, who lives in Norwich, Connecticut, had long heard stories through her family about an ancestor named Papa Renty, a learned man from Africa who was enslaved and brought to the United States under inhumane conditions. Those stories about Renty were important to her family and to t...
Understanding Why a Harvard Museum Will Return Standing Bear’s Tomahawk
July 21, 2021 19:54 - 23 minutes - 31.6 MBSomething incredible happened a few months ago. After Oklahoma lawyer Brett Chapman (Pawnee) started tweeting about the tomahawk of Ponca Chief Standing Bear, which is currently in Harvard University’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the revered object may actually be going home. His short messages asked why the tomahawk was in the care of that institution and not with one of the two federally recognized Ponca tribes. The questions raised ey...
Audrey Flack and the Last of the New York School
July 16, 2021 20:53 - 1 hour - 90.1 MBA painter who may be best known for her contribution to the Photorealism movement, Audrey Flack has been a working artist for roughly 70 years. Now at age 90, Flack reflects on the art world, from her days as part of the New York School of artists in the 1950s and 60s; her rise to fame as the only prominent female Photorealist; her embrace of sculpture and public art in the 1980s and 90s; and her return to painting only a few years ago. In this wide-ranging conversation, Flack als...
Collector Tim Kang Talks About His Love of NFTs
May 31, 2021 03:00 - 52 minutes - 49.2 MBTim Kang started his career as a software engineer for Deutsche Bank and invested a year of savings in Ethereum in early 2016, and let’s just say it’s paying off. The North Carolina native, who is known online as “illestrater,” is now a digital art collector and purchased works by Murat Pak and Beeple before all the recent auction sales and press coverage propelled them into the spotlight. He’s founded other artist platforms, including CUE Music and Universe.XYZ, and his latest or...
Creative Time’s Diya Vij Helps Launch an Art World Think Tank
May 11, 2021 04:00 - 43 minutes - 42.5 MBDiya Vij started her new job as Associate Curator of Creative Time just last fall, in the midst of the pandemic. She has since announced the first Creative Time Think Tank cohort, which includes La Tanya S. Autry, Caitlin Cherry, Sonia Guiñansaca, Namita Gupta Wiggers, and a number of other engaged voices of the art community. This new initiative invited people to submit proposals for an open call, drawing 200 individual or group applicants. The selected cohort will meet regularly f...
After Decades of Selling New Media Art, Gallerist Steven Sacks Offers His Take on NFTs
March 30, 2021 20:18 - 49 minutes - 58.2 MBSince 2001, Bitforms gallerist Steven Sacks has been exhibiting and selling digital art (though he hates that term) and building an audience and support network for artists working with new media. After Sara Ludy, one of the artists Bitforms regularly exhibits, told Hyperallergic about her plans to negotiate new more equitable contracts for any NFT she sells, I decided to speak to Sacks to hear about his experience during this pandemic period when NFTs dominate many mainstream conv...
Lindsay Howard Talks About the Burgeoning Market for NFTs
March 09, 2021 21:36 - 52 minutes - 49.1 MBLindsay Howard is the head of community at the Foundation, one of the new platforms that have been part of the current wave of NFT art. She joined me in our Brooklyn studio to discuss the audience for crypto art and the collectors eager to fork over money for it. We also delve into what it could mean for an art scene facing the fact that the post-pandemic world may be very different for creators, sellers, collectors, journalists, scholars, and everyone else. This is the second podc...
The World of NFTs, Explained by Digital Artist Addie Wagenknecht
March 02, 2021 22:48 - 48 minutes - 45.8 MBContemporary artist Addie Wagenknecht is a veteran of the blockchain space — as much of a seasoned pro as one can be in a field that’s only a decade old. She’s been observing the gold rush over NFTs in the last few weeks and agreed to join me on this episode to educate newbies about blockchains, NFTs, and all the issues they bring up. Are NFTs good for artists and the art community? The short answer is maybe. In addition to being an artist, Wagenknecht is Director of Technical Eco...
A Photographer Documents Post-war Artsakh
February 27, 2021 23:56 - 1 hour - 64.8 MBPhotographer Scout Tufankjian was glued to her screens like Armenians around the world following news of developments in Artsakh. After the ceasefire was announced, she decided to rush to the region, which she's visited numerous times before, to document the handover of territories to Azerbaijani forces. It was an emotional trip but one she knew she wanted to make. Best known for her photo book Yes We Can: Barack Obama's History Making Presidential Campaign, Tufankjian also created...
MoMA’s Leon Black Problem and Cuban Artists Under Siege
February 08, 2021 00:53 - 26 minutes - 30.2 MBThis week’s headlines were dominated by news that the Museum of Modern Art will not remove billionaire Leon Black from their board. Hyperallergic’s Jasmine Weber and Valentina Di Liscia join me to talk about it along with PEN America’s new handbook for persecuted artists, Mexico’s request that Christie’s auction house halt its sale of pre-Hispanic objects, the return of looted artifacts by the Museum of the Bible to Iraq and Egypt, and how some of the important quilters of Gee’s Ben...
The Biggest Art Stories of the Month, From Bernie Memes to the Vessel Shutdown
January 29, 2021 21:36 - 39 minutes - 46.2 MBIt’s been a non-stop news cycle since last November’s election, and Hyperallergic’s news team has been on it. Join us and listen to the team’s thoughts on the stories we've been reporting on. For this episode, we gather to discuss the stories that we covered this week, including the Bernie memes; the Capitol insurrection; the charred Melania Trump sculpture in Slovenia; the rumors that Trump staffers were taking works home; the Ohio Arts Board member who was forced out after her so...
From Graffiti to the Gallery, Futura Talks About Art
December 18, 2020 18:44 - 1 hour - 74.2 MBBorn Leonard McGure, Futura made his reputation spray painting subway trains in New York City in the 1970s as “Futura 2000” — the number was dropped in 1999. He would go on to be part of the booming graffiti and street art movement in the 1980s, but was forced to depend on European venues and collectors after attention in the United States quickly dried up in the late 1980s, though he did go on to collaborate with various American fashion and music labels. Now he’s back with his fi...
Artist Shahzia Sikander Is Ready for a New Post-Pandemic Reality
December 16, 2020 22:39 - 1 hour - 65.4 MBSince she first emerged into the spotlight in the 1990s, artist Shahzia Sikander has forged her own path with artworks that meld traditional manuscript illumination and calligraphy techniques with visual innovations that seem to transform into an alchemical universe of awe, wonder, and intimacy. Her current exhibition at Sean Kelly gallery, her first in a decade, includes three animation works and continues to push ink, gouache, and mosaic to new heights in her art. There, she is ...
John Yau, Jillian Steinhauer, and Others at Hyperallergic's First-ever Public Reading
November 27, 2020 21:38 - 1 hour - 69.5 MBOn Tuesday, June 23, 2015, Hyperallergic hosted our first-ever live reading event, which took place at Housing Works Bookstore and Cafe in Manhattan’s SoHo neighborhood. Hyperallergic Weekend Editors John Yau and Albert Mobilio read their poetry, writers Marisa Crawford (“Crying for Ana Mendieta at the Carl Andre Retrospective”) and Ryan Wong (“I Am Joe Scanlan”) read pieces that were among our favorites from that year, while two Hyperallergic veterans Allison Meier and Jillian Stei...
On Election Day, Reflecting on Months of Political Arts Reporting
November 03, 2020 17:00 - 25 minutes - 24.3 MBWe can’t believe it’s been four years since the 2016 US Election, and here we are again. I’m joined this episode by the Hyperallergic news team — news editor Jasmine Weber, and reporters Valentina Di Liscia and Hakim Bishara — to discuss the stories we reported on over the last six months. These include a look at Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’s records on the arts; various mural and poster projects that have engaged local communities; the decision of some museums not to serve as polli...
Reflections on the Art Stories of the 2020 Election Season
November 03, 2020 17:00 - 26 minutes - 24.3 MBWe can’t believe it’s been four years since the 2016 US Election, and here we are again. I’m joined this episode by the Hyperallergic news team — news editor Jasmine Weber, and reporters Valentina Di Liscia and Hakim Bishara — to discuss the stories we reported on over the last six months. These include a look at Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’s records on the arts; various mural and poster projects that have engaged local communities; the decision of some museums not to serve as polli...
Where Did the Deepfakes Go?
October 25, 2020 04:00 - 40 minutes - 38.6 MBFor months, media specialists, pundits, and analysts were warning us to brace for an onslaught of memes and other forms of propaganda that would flood our feeds this US election season. While there certainly have been a comparable amount of memes and videos as in 2016, the use of deepfakes — a form of artificial intelligence to make images of fake events — never quite materialized. Why? In this wide-ranging conversation, I talk to artist and technologist An Xiao Mina about the abse...
Sam Durant Revisits the “Scaffold” Controversy Three Years Later
October 23, 2020 15:13 - 34 minutes - 32.6 MBA few weeks ago, artist Sam Durant released a long essay about his work, "Scaffold," which reflects on the project that dominated art world headlines. Originally commissioned for documenta (13) — the influential quinquennial exhibition in Kassel, Germany — in 2012, it wasn't until "Scaffold" was installed in the Walker Art Center's sculpture park in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, that it was met with protests by the local Dakota community. That event was a lightning rod for a nat...
National Gallery of Art Director Discusses the Decision to Delay the Philip Guston Exhibition
October 02, 2020 02:18 - 25 minutes - 23.6 MBLast week, the New York Times reported that the National Gallery of Art's Philip Guston retrospective, expected to travel to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Tate Modern in London, and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, would be delayed by four years. The reasons are many, including the limited demographics of those who worked on an exhibition that is very much about race, as well as the current cultural climate. The decision has caused = reactions of indignation and anger in some art ci...
Amin Husain and Nitasha Dhillon on Working to Decolonize the Art World (Part 2)
September 25, 2020 21:54 - 1 hour - 75.7 MBI’ve been wanting to do a major interview with Amin Husain and Nitasha Dhillon for years. As the duo behind MTL+ Collective and organizers with Decolonize This Place, FTP, Gulf Ultra Luxury Faction (GULF), and other groups through the years, they’ve played an active role in pressuring New York’s art community and institutions to deal with the issues that have long been overlooked. Though well known for organizing with a focus on worker, indigenous, Black, Palestinian, and migrant ri...
Amin Husain and Nitasha Dhillon on Working to Decolonize the Art World (Part 1)
September 25, 2020 21:52 - 33 minutes - 32.1 MBI’ve been wanting to do a major interview with Amin Husain and Nitasha Dhillon for years. As the duo behind MTL+ Collective and organizers with Decolonize This Place, FTP, Gulf Ultra Luxury Faction (GULF), and other groups through the years, they’ve played an active role in pressuring New York’s art community and institutions to deal with the issues that have long been overlooked. Though well known for organizing with a focus on worker, indigenous, Black, Palestinian, and migrant ri...
The Artistic World of the Taíno People
September 09, 2020 18:12 - 47 minutes - 43.5 MBThe Taino civilization was decimated by Christopher Columbus and other European explorers during first contact, but the legacy of these people, who inhabited what is today called the Caribbean, continues to this day. In a small exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, titled Arte del mar: Artistic Exchange in the Caribbean, Assistant Curator James Doyle showcases some of the rare wooden objects, along with the intricate gold pieces, fascinating stone stools, and other objects ...
Why Did the Whitney Museum Cancel a Political Art Exhibition?
August 27, 2020 17:50 - 24 minutes - 23.3 MBReporters Valentina Di Liscia and Hakim Bishara join me to discuss the Whitney Museum’s decision to cancel the exhibition Collective Actions: Artist Interventions In a Time of Change, which was scheduled to open on September 17. They both reported on the story this Tuesday, and now offer their own insights into the larger questions raised by this controversy, including how museums should collect, what role should artists have in the acquisition process, and if museums are getting ...
Why Does TikTok Bother the Powerful So Much?
August 19, 2020 20:14 - 31 minutes - 31.3 MBThe recent news that the White House may ban the social media platform TikTok has people wondering, why? While Silicon Valley social giants, like Twitter and Facebook, have avoided similar threats, the question remains why TikTok, which is owned by a Chinese company but has headquarters in the UK and the US, is causing so much condemnation. I invite author, artist, and technologist An Xiao Mina to discuss her recent article "Break and TikTok for the Mass," and why the social platfo...
Why Would a Museum Display Skulls of Enslaved People in the First Place?
July 30, 2020 21:53 - 17 minutes - 16.2 MBRecently, Hyperallergic reported that the Penn Museum at the University of Pennsylvania will be removing a cranial collection from display in a basement classroom. The group of crania, which was donated by a 19th-century Philadelphia-born and UPenn-educated physician named Samuel George Morton, includes many skulls of enslaved Black people. The collection is a product of racist, pseudoscientific "race science" that Morton and his peers perpetuated. Members of the UPenn community act...
Should Blue Chip Art Galleries Have Received Millions of Dollars of PPP Loans?
July 16, 2020 20:40 - 28 minutes - 27.1 MBHyperallergic news editor Jasmine Weber and reporter Valentina Di Liscia joined me to parse the latest PPP loan news and discuss the list of beneficiaries. Previously, we reported on galleries, museums, and nonprofits in New York and Los Angeles that received loans, and noted that the world’s most exclusive art galleries received millions of dollars of taxpayer money. In this conversation we offer some additional details and thoughts about the news. We also discuss the evolving di...
Christopher Knight: The Critic Whose Love for LA Uplifted Its Arts Community
June 19, 2020 15:48 - 40 minutes - 38.5 MBIn his current position as art critic at the Los Angeles Times, Christopher Knight has been speaking truth to power for almost four decades. He charted the contemporary art waters in a city that has since become one of the world’s art hubs before most people ever noticed. He doesn’t shy away from controversy, as his recent columns about the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s renovations suggest. This year he was awarded two special honors: the Rabkin Lifetime Achievement Award for A...
The Monumental Impact of Black Lives Matter Protests
June 12, 2020 21:38 - 45 minutes - 42.6 MBThis week, I talk to Hyperallergic news editor Jasmine Weber, and reporters Hakim Bishara and Valentina di Liscia, to discuss some of the major stories they’ve been reporting on. Art’s role in upholding the status quo has been long diminished, but we’ve seen major developments to challenge this, including the removal of Confederate statues across the United States; the toppling of a Columbus statue in Minneapolis by members of the American Indian Movement; the decision by MCA Chicag...
Our Obsession With Less and Its Co-option by Silicon Valley
May 30, 2020 18:06 - 58 minutes - 54.3 MBIn this episode for Sunday Edition, we welcome Kyle Chayka to examine Silicon Valley’s taste for minimalist design. Is this just the latest development for a style that has a long history but only emerged into pop culture during the 1960s and ‘70s when a contemporary art movement emerged to propel the taste for less into a global phenomenon? Chayka's book, The Longing for Less: Living with Minimalism (Bloomsbury, 2020), is a highly readable book that examines the historical precede...
How the US Is Treating the Arts During the Pandemic, the #CancelRent Movement
May 20, 2020 18:28 - 42 minutes - 40.4 MBThe best news team in art gathers for another conversation about the biggest stories facing the arts community. News editor Jasmine Weber, and reporters Hakim Bishara and Valentina di Liscia, join me to reflect on acts of solidarity across the art world, the growing #CancelRent movement, the bizarre IRS complaint filed by an attorney against the Whitney Museum, museum layoffs, a coalition of artists calling to lift Gaza sanctions, how US cities are dealing with arts funding, Frieze ...
Art Critic John Yau Talks About Four Decades of Writing in New York
May 15, 2020 16:42 - 2 hours - 120 MBFew critics are like John Yau, who, for decades, has continued to engage with contemporary art with a voracious appetite, often focusing on figures ignored by the art market and mainstream institutions that chase after the next shiny thing. He has been part of the Hyperallergic Weekend editorial collective since it debuted in 2012. John's writing about contemporary art cuts through hierarchies and academic jargon while revealing his love of art and innovative ideas. I asked him abo...
How Are the Arts in LA, the US Southwest, and Beyond Weathering the Pandemic?
April 29, 2020 16:58 - 56 minutes - 52.6 MBNews about new museum layoffs and other problems, art galleries closures, and the cancellation of the Indian Market in Santa Fe are all part of this week's episode with Hyperallergic’s news editor Jasmine Weber, LA Editor Elisa Wouk Almino, and Ellie Duke, our Southwest editor based in Santa Fe, NM. We discuss the Museum of Contemporary Art's decision to furlough most of its staff and then lay off 97 part-time workers, the impact of canceling Santa Fe's Indian Market, and the launc...
What's Up With Museum Layoffs, Union Problems, and Untouchable Endowments?
April 16, 2020 20:22 - 34 minutes - 31.5 MBThis episode, in our ongoing series tracking the impact of COVID-19 on the art community, I talk to the Hyperallergic news team (Jasmine Weber, Valentina Di Liscia, and Hakim Bishara) about the latest Pandemic-related news, including why museums can't dip into their endowments as easily as we might like, the Guggenheim's decision to furlough 92 employees, why some union supporters are crying foul with the recent art world layoffs. We also discuss the impact of the cancellation of In...
The Boom in Online Exhibitions During the Pandemic
April 09, 2020 15:08 - 55 minutes - 51.3 MBThis week, we give you a two-part conversation about the coronavirus pandemic and its impact on the arts community. First, we start with our news team, editor Jasmine Weber, and reporters Valentina Di Liscia and Hakim Bishara, to get updates on the flurry of news this week. Then we talk to editors Seph Rodney, Jasmine Weber, and Dessane Lopez Cassell about the new boom in online offerings by museums, galleries, and art institutions, as we try to separate the wheat from the chaff. D...
The Pandemic’s Effects on Museums and Art Schools
April 01, 2020 16:57 - 32 minutes - 30.5 MBCases of COVID-19 are on the rise across the US and much of the world, so Hyperallergic's news team gathered together for week 3 of our special podcast series to discuss what's happening at art museums, art schools, and other hubs of the art community during the coronavirus pandemic. I'm joined by Hyperallergic's news editor Jasmine Weber in Los Angeles, and reporters Valentina di Liscia in Miami and Hakim Bishara in Brooklyn to reflect on the week that was and what we anticipate ...
From Rome to NYC, Audio Dispatches on COVID-19 and the Arts
March 25, 2020 15:11 - 35 minutes - 47.8 MBAnother week of unprecedented COVID-19 news dominates the headlines as the United States, and New York specifically, has slowly become one of the epicenters of a global pandemic. The Hyperallergic news team, including news editor Jasmine Weber, and reporters Valentina di Liscia and Hakim Bishara, join me for our first-ever remote podcast to discuss a wide range of topics including how museums and art galleries are advocating for support, how the pandemic is impacting life in Rome, ...
What’s the Impact of COVID-19 on the Art Community?
March 18, 2020 16:32 - 35 minutes - 43.1 MBThe COVID-19 pandemic has changed life all around the world, whether it is in San Francisco, where inhabitants are forced to stay indoors by a shelter in place order, or the whole country of Canada, which has just closed its border to the US and will not allow non-essential visitors into the country. Here in New York, Hyperallergic reporters have been talking to those impacted by the virus and how it is wreaking havoc for businesses, nonprofits, and arts institutions of all types. I...
Connecting Modern Art Museums, Colonialism, and Violence
March 11, 2020 22:15 - 1 hour - 72.7 MBAriella Azoulay's new book Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism (Verso, 2019) is an important read on the topic of museums, colonialism, and their clear relationship. In this conversation, Azoulay, who is Professor of Modern Culture & Media and Comparative Literature at Brown University, joins us at Hyperallergic HQ to explain what we need to unlearn, and how artists, collectors, critics, and other arts professionals play a role in the continuing dispossession of colonial subje...
What Artists Need to Know About Taxes
February 28, 2020 21:45 - 45 minutes - 43.8 MBTaxes may be one of the most unpopular topics in art circles, but we all have to deal with them. So in this episode I speak to Hannah Cole from Sunlight Tax, who is an artist and tax professional, about the challenges of artist taxes — her specialty — and what people should watch out for if they don’t want to be audited. Lots of useful insight. A special thanks to Mark Pritchard and Warp Records for providing the music for this episode. Subscribe to Hyperallergic’s Podcast on iTun...
Hyperallergic Picks Their Favorite Holiday Movie Classics
December 25, 2019 03:52 - 29 minutes - 27 MBIt’s the holidays and you can’t get away from them. Some classic films have come to represent the season in the popular imagination, and we all have our favorites. I invited film editor Dan Schindel to talk about this unique genre of cinema, while discussing our favorite films about Christmas and more. I also invited a number of Hyperallergic staff to share their favorites. I have a feeling this episode will get you into the holiday mood. ** Sponsor ** OVID.tv If you’re into art ...
Zoë Buckman Is No One's Punching Bag
December 09, 2019 17:56 - 37 minutes - 36.2 MBArtist Zoë Buckman is a feminist, which permeates her work and life, and her art explores the world of contemporary art with a particular sensitivity toward issues of sexual violence, abuse, and gender identity, among other things. In this episode, she sat down with Hyperallergic editor and critic Seph Rodney to discuss her last exhibition at Fort Gansevoort, which was reviewed by Weekend contributor Nicole Miller. Buckman also expanded on her perspective of art that struggles with...
Hyperallergic's Film Buffs Discuss 2019's Best Films, from Parasite to Avengers
November 27, 2019 18:13 - 45 minutes - 43.1 MBHyperallergic Reviews editor Dessane Lopez Cassell and Documentary associate editor Dan Schindel join me to discuss our favorite films from 2019. We discuss Parasite, The Farewell, America, High Life, Midnight Traveler, the new frontiers of documentary, including Syrmor, The Giverny Document, and more. We also discuss the recent boom in superhero movies, how they dominate conversation about film, Martin Scorsese’s problems with the genre, and what it tells us about movies today. We...
The Realities Facing Art Schools Today: A Conversation With RISD President Rosanne Somerson
November 20, 2019 22:31 - 49 minutes - 46.8 MBThe Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) was founded by women over a century ago, and it continues to be one of the leading art schools in the United States. Its current president, Rosanne Somerson, who is also an accomplished furniture designer, stopped by to talk about the institution and how it has pivoted to stay on top of the field, while serving an increasingly diverse student body. We also discuss the RISD Museum and its recent attempt to repatriate an item in its collection...
The Relationship Between Art and Law Since the 1960s
November 11, 2019 19:22 - 57 minutes - 55.7 MBJoan Kee is the rare combination of art historian and lawyer, and she's shared her skills in her new book, Models of Integrity: Art and Law in Post-Sixties America, which examines the legal issues major contemporary artists (from Tehching Hsieh to Felix Gonzales-Torres) have confronted in the past 60 years. Kee's research shows that since the 1960s, as artist projects have become more expansive and expensive, the world of lawyers and laws is becoming a bigger part of the equation. ...
Women’s Central Role in Lebanon's Modern Art World
November 04, 2019 19:33 - 58 minutes - 55.7 MBBorn in 1923 in Pennsylvania to Lebanese parents, Helen Khal would go on to become an important presence in the modern art world of Lebanon as a prominent art critic and artist. A new exhibition at Beirut’s Sursock Museum tells the history of that period through her friendships and relationships with a coterie of artists and writers who would become some of the most important artist voices in the region. Commissioned by Ashkal Alwan for the Sursock Museum's biennial Home Works gath...
After Kanders: Critics, Reporters, and Editors Reflect on the 2019 Whitney Tear Gas Biennial
October 07, 2019 21:27 - 39 minutes - 37.9 MBFrom nine weeks of protests to an exhibition that was more ethnically and racially diverse than previous years, this year’s Whitney Biennial has a lot to unpack. I asked our associate news editor Jasmine Weber, editor and critic Seph Rodney, and reporter Hakim Bishara to join me to reflect on months of controversy and offer their opinions on the exhibition itself. We discuss favorite works, what may have been accomplished, and duds. You’ll want to hear this. A special thanks to Wa...