Latest Artconversation Podcast Episodes
In Conversation with Positive Creator, Chris Dyer
Art Attack w/ Lizy Dastin and Justin BUA - April 10, 2024 14:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsMultimedia artist Chris Dyer is a dynamic innovator, treating skateboards, linen, the street, NFTs and traditional canvas all as surfaces to transform. Join our hosts as they talk to Dyer about his art, his desire to paint universal truths, his experiences with entheogenic medicines, and his pur...
Leaping into the Void with Yves Klein
Art Attack w/ Lizy Dastin and Justin BUA - April 03, 2024 14:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsKnown for his avant-garde, conceptual art and patented ultramarine blue, Yves Klein created work during the late 1950s and early '60s that push boundaries and provoke passionately varied responses from viewers. Join our hosts as they outline Klein's most influential art and performances from two...
Sam Gilliam: Exuberant Color, Unfurling Canvas
Art Attack w/ Lizy Dastin and Justin BUA - March 20, 2024 22:27 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsHeralded by many as one of the most innovative contemporary abstract painters, Sam Gilliam created art over decades and decades that challenges the parameters of painting and sculpture, encouraging his viewers to reexamine their relationship to space and object. Join our hosts as they talk about...
Maurice Sendak: The Wildest Thing of All
Art Attack w/ Lizy Dastin and Justin BUA - March 13, 2024 16:24 - 33 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsMaurice Sendak, award-winning writer and illustrator of children's books, is a ubiquitous staple of so many people's imaginations and memories. He illustrated over 150 books, including one of the most beloved children's books of all-time: "Where the Wild Things Are." Join our hosts as they discu...
If it ain't Baroque, it ain't Bernini
Art Attack w/ Lizy Dastin and Justin BUA - March 07, 2024 22:18 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsPropelled by the Catholic Church and the Counter-Reformation, 17th century Baroque art was pious, dramatic, theatrical and emotionally intense. Gian Lorenzo Bernini's sculptures typify these ideals, and showcase their maker's poetic mastery of material. Join our hosts as they discuss Bernini's s...
Under the Covers with Hanksy aka Adam Lucas aka Adam Himebauch
Art Attack w/ Lizy Dastin and Justin BUA - February 28, 2024 13:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsContemporary artist, Adam Himebauch, has lived a lot of lives. He peppered the streets of Lower Manhattan with punny street art for years under the moniker Hanksy, painted colorful, pulsating murals and canvases as Adam Lucas and, now as Adam Himebauch, is tackling his most conceptual, trenchant...
Lady Pink: First Lady of Graffiti
Art Attack w/ Lizy Dastin and Justin BUA - February 21, 2024 21:16 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsLady Pink, born Sandra Fabara, was a prominent figure in 1980s graffiti culture, and continues to be a trailblazing woman in the field. Although the world of graffiti was heavily male-dominated and physically dangerous, Lady Pink was undeterred, painting on subway cars, trainyards and walls righ...
AI Copy-right or Copy-wrong?
Art Attack w/ Lizy Dastin and Justin BUA - February 14, 2024 15:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsAI technology is starting to transform every area of life, including the process of making art. Artists are using AI more and more in their work, some as a tool and others as an entirely new conceptual practice. Either way, art made partially, or entirely, by a program is proving to be an unchar...
Grant Wood, An American(a) Icon
Art Attack w/ Lizy Dastin and Justin BUA - February 07, 2024 20:11 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsGrant Wood's 1930 painting "American Gothic" is one of the most recognizable images in art. Quoted, satired and parodied, this painting's legacy is undeniably enduring, but what exactly is the painting saying to its viewers? Join our hosts as they deep dive into this ubiquitous work, and others,...
Cindy Sherman, the Original Selfie?
Art Attack w/ Lizy Dastin and Justin BUA - January 31, 2024 21:48 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsAmong the most ground-breaking of contemporary photographers, Cindy Sherman explores themes of fantasy, feminism, (art) history, the abject, and the self through her work. Using makeup, costumes and staged scenery to manipulate her appearance and perform as various characters, Sherman is technic...
Ushering in Modernity with Manet
Art Attack w/ Lizy Dastin and Justin BUA - January 24, 2024 15:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsDuring the mid-19th century, there was a schism among artists between painting in a traditional manner that evoked the past, and disrupting that past and creating something innovative and new. Édouard Manet painted work that perfectly synthesizes this tension between the historical and the conte...
Getting Romanced by Delacroix
Art Attack w/ Lizy Dastin and Justin BUA - July 05, 2023 15:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsEugène Delacroix--innovative, creative, with a flare for drama--was a transformative figure in the art world during the 19th century. Bucking the traditionalism of more rigid French academic painting, Delacroix forged his own style, celebrating passion, the exotic and moments imbued with the utm...
This is Not a Magritte Episode
Art Attack w/ Lizy Dastin and Justin BUA - March 15, 2021 14:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsThe work of René Magritte's is so iconic that one of his apple paintings inspired Paul McCartney to name the Beatles' company Apple Corps., which, in turn, inspired Steve Jobs to name his burgeoning computer company, Apple. Join our hosts as they explore the conceptual brilliance and paradoxical...
NFTs FTW
Art Attack w/ Lizy Dastin and Justin BUA - March 08, 2021 15:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsNFTs, or non-fungible tokens, are in their relative infancy, but nevertheless taking the artworld by storm. Are these digital, object-less works a tech fad or do they indicate the expansive possibilities of what art can be? Join our hosts as they try to better understand this new frontier.
Art & Addiction
Art Attack w/ Lizy Dastin and Justin BUA - March 01, 2021 15:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsAcross the art spectra, there is unfortunately a correlative connection between artists and addiction or addictive behavior. From Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, to Mark Rothko to Nan Goldin, some of the most insightful creatives have suffered from addictions that not only affected them personally, but ...
The Ballad of Yoko Ono
Art Attack w/ Lizy Dastin and Justin BUA - February 22, 2021 15:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsBiography often plays an integral role in how any given artist is historicized; however, in the case of Yoko Ono, that biography hasn't done her much service. Credited with breaking up the Beatles, Ono's relationship with John Lennon has unfortunately eclipsed her prolific, provocative and profo...
Que Serra, Serra
Art Attack w/ Lizy Dastin and Justin BUA - September 21, 2020 14:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsThe sculptures and public artworks of post-Minimalist Richard Serra are dazzling in their massive scale and quietly contemplative in their aesthetic simplicity. Join our hosts as they discuss Serra's sculptural innovations, public art controversies and the ways in which he activates viewers thro...
Art in the Wake of Pandemics
Art Attack w/ Lizy Dastin and Justin BUA - April 06, 2020 16:38 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsWith the terrifying outbreak of COVID-19, we're all living in a new reality. Pandemics; however, are not new and have, throughout history, generated hopeful, helpful and life-saving artistic responses. Join our hosts as they discuss a panoply of art that has emerged from pandemics ranging from t...
Photography: the Real Beginnings
Art Attack w/ Lizy Dastin and Justin BUA - March 23, 2020 15:32 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsIt's widely written that photography was "invented" by Louis Daguerre in 1839; however, nothing has such a clear or clean origin story. Join our hosts as they dissect the very beginnings of photography: how it was invented when it was, who used this new medium, why that matters and who actually ...
Down for Dali
Art Attack w/ Lizy Dastin and Justin BUA - March 09, 2020 20:16 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsSalvador Dalí is one of history's most iconic, ironic, illogical, irreverent, and integral artists. Best known for his melting clocks and curvy mustache, Dalí created masterful surrealistic landscapes that unlock the collective unconscious and speak to our most intimate and vulnerable anxieties....
Ai Weiwei Go!
Art Attack w/ Lizy Dastin and Justin BUA - February 24, 2020 15:57 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsChinese artist Ai Weiwei is arguably the most vehemently anti-authoritarian living artist. In his work across media, Ai tackles the tropes of history, surveillance, abuse of power, and what it means to test the limits of freedom. Regarding this last theme, the artist’s work and life have overlap...
Art in Nature, Nature as Art
Art Attack w/ Lizy Dastin and Justin BUA - February 18, 2020 16:24 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsIn the late 1960s, artists began to expand the parameters of art in exciting ways: what it can look like, what it can be made from, where it can be located. Many took to nature--or took materials from nature--to better integrate the world, and concept of impermanence, into art. Join our hosts as...
Love is in the Art
Art Attack w/ Lizy Dastin and Justin BUA - February 04, 2020 15:23 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsArt is often political--a discerning lens scrutinizing its surroundings--or perhaps satirical, culturally inquisitive or rebellious in nature. Art can also be fantastically romantic. Join our hosts as they share the art that they think is most steeped in seduction.
What's Up, Whistler
Art Attack w/ Lizy Dastin and Justin BUA - January 27, 2020 20:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratings"Whistler's Mother" is one of the most recognizable and parodied paintings of all-time. The man who painted it, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, is one of the most significant artists and aesthetic game-changers in American history. Join our hosts as they explore his revelatory paintings, disrupti...
O'Keeffe's Flower Power!
Art Attack w/ Lizy Dastin and Justin BUA - January 20, 2020 16:51 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsGeorgia O'Keeffe is an American icon. Best--and most controversially--known for the series of "flowers" she painted between 1918-1929, O'Keeffe addresses themes of pleasure and place throughout her career: pleasure with and in the female body, but also the pleasure of being ensconced within the ...
Munch the Punk
Art Attack w/ Lizy Dastin and Justin BUA - January 13, 2020 17:53 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratings"The Scream" by Edvard Munch is one of the most iconic, ubiquitous and parodied paintings of all-time. Join our hosts as they explore why that is, what the painting could possibly mean, how it evokes the time and place from which it was made, and what's so seductive about its maker.
Art Critics & Culture Changers
Art Attack w/ Lizy Dastin and Justin BUA - January 06, 2020 16:04 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsEver since Giorgio Vasari published Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects in 1550, historians have played a key role in shaping the careers of artists. Although sometimes subtle and often behind-the-scenes, these tastemakers can puppeteer who becomes iconic and who fade...
Latinx Artists in L.A.
Art Attack w/ Lizy Dastin and Justin BUA - December 23, 2019 22:37 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsFor decades, Los Angeles has been the home to significant Latinx artists who use their work to celebrate their cultural heritage and form meaningful communities. The contemporary scene of Latinx artists in L.A., especially urban artists, has never been more vibrant. Join our hosts as they share ...
Happy Little Bob Ross
Art Attack w/ Lizy Dastin and Justin BUA - December 16, 2019 17:58 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsBob Ross, landscape painter and PBS legend, could always be counted on to have a fantastic hair-day and even more fantastic attitude. His TV show, The Joy of Painting, hasn't aired since the mid-90s; however, Ross has recently become more beloved than ever. Join our hosts as they discuss his wor...
Is Jackson Pollock the World's Greatest Painter?
Art Attack w/ Lizy Dastin and Justin BUA - December 09, 2019 15:45 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsIn 1949, Life Magazine published an article on the (in)famous Abstract Expressionist Jackson Pollock asking whether he was the greatest living painter. Join our hosts as they animatedly--and from wildly different perspectives--begin to answer this question.
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