Latest Justinbua Podcast Episodes
Ask Us Anything! Live Q&A
Art Attack w/ Lizy Dastin and Justin BUA - December 03, 2019 16:47 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsAfter the live 100th episode, Lizy and BUA opened up the floor to audience questions--about absolutely anything and everything art related. Check out this impromptu, interactive conversation about hip hop, the legacy of Duchamp, and one artist's choice to use excrement as his art material.
100th Episode Live! Hip Hop & Art
Art Attack w/ Lizy Dastin and Justin BUA - November 26, 2019 20:48 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsHip Hop emerged as a fully postmodern, intersectional art expression during the 1980s in the Bronx. Interweaving graffiti writing, b-boy dance, MC sounds and DJ mixing, Hip Hop continues to energize disparate, and yet connected, facets of society and culture. Join our hosts as they delve into th...
Architecture Guru Gehry
Art Attack w/ Lizy Dastin and Justin BUA - October 28, 2019 14:31 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsFrom the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao to the Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles to the Dancing House in Prague, Frank Gehry has designed some of the most celebrated buildings across the world. Join our hosts as they discuss his playful, innovative, and idiosyncratic designs.
Cézanne: Game Changer
Art Attack w/ Lizy Dastin and Justin BUA - October 21, 2019 16:25 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsOffering the highest compliment an artist can give, Picasso acknowledged Paul Cézanne as the father of modernism, "the father of us all." Join our hosts as they investigate why this is, describing the Post-Impressionist's most significant paintings, his profound flattening of space and introduct...
Graffiti: Tags, Toys, Throw-Ups, and All-City
Art Attack w/ Lizy Dastin and Justin BUA - October 14, 2019 14:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsGraffiti, quite literally scratching something into an outdoor surface without permission, has been happening for thousands of years. The graffiti that we know today--rebellious, visceral and counter-culture--was born in New York City in the '70s and practiced by some of the most fearless and in...
The War on Culture!
Art Attack w/ Lizy Dastin and Justin BUA - October 07, 2019 14:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsUnder the conservative Reagan administration, the 1980s was a constraining time for any artist who tried to push the envelope. Especially vilified during this era were photographers Andres Serrano and Robert Mapplethorpe. Join our hosts as they reveal governmental censorship and discuss the work...
Why do we LOL at Caricatures?
Art Attack w/ Lizy Dastin and Justin BUA - September 30, 2019 14:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsWhen we think of words used to describe significant art, chances are that "caricature" doesn't make the list. But maybe it should. Join our hosts as they unearth the history of caricatures, common misconceptions about the genre, and its most phenomenal players.
The Misunderstood Minimalists
Art Attack w/ Lizy Dastin and Justin BUA - September 23, 2019 14:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsThe 1960s art scene is primarily associated with Pop, kitsch and Warhol; however, it was also the era of sleek, stark, hard-edged Minimalism. Join our hosts as they digest this influential--if short-lived--movement and its embrace of the death of the artist and deskilling of the art object.
Concerning the Spiritual in Kandinksy
Art Attack w/ Lizy Dastin and Justin BUA - September 16, 2019 14:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsWassily Kandinksy was a major aesthetic innovator--he saw spiritual symbolism in color, sought to translate musical sounds into painterly shapes, and is credited for painting the first entirely abstract canvas in 1913. Join our hosts as they explore all the facets of this Russian genius.
Three of the Worst Artists Ever
Art Attack w/ Lizy Dastin and Justin BUA - September 09, 2019 14:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsFor 91 episodes, this show has celebrated the best of the best. But what about the worst of the worst? Join our hosts as they maneuver around the work and lives of three artworld clunkers.
Bi-gendering Bourgeois
Art Attack w/ Lizy Dastin and Justin BUA - August 26, 2019 16:02 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsLouise Bourgeois worked in a variety of diverse media throughout her 8 decades-long career. Her evocative, provocative themes dance between her personal experience with trauma to desire, abjection, gender and the body. Join our hosts on this feisty conversation surrounding Bourgeois' art and its...
Art Warrior Warhol
Art Attack w/ Lizy Dastin and Justin BUA - August 19, 2019 15:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsIn a moment of prophetic brilliance, Andy Warhol said everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes. However, his fame has endured millions of minutes beyond those 15 with no sign of fading. Join our hosts as they explain why--outlining his art, his process, his persona and his themes of consumer...
Olafur Eliasson: Contemporary Icon or Cleverist?
Art Attack w/ Lizy Dastin and Justin BUA - August 12, 2019 14:53 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsContemporary artist Olafur Eliasson uses light and space in the way traditional painters use pigment and canvas. The public space becomes his painterly surface and nontraditional materials, ranging from water, fans, air currents, color dye, fog, ice and moss, become his tools for mark-making. Jo...
OG Giotto
Art Attack w/ Lizy Dastin and Justin BUA - August 05, 2019 13:57 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsThe most respected Italian Renaissance historian, Giorgio Vasari, cited Giotto di Bondone as the absolute first Renaissance artist. Join our hosts as they unravel this statement and explore what the Italian Renaissance is, in what way Giotto's art epitomizes its style and how Humanism changed ar...
The Biggest Splash: Hockney and L.A. Pop
Art Attack w/ Lizy Dastin and Justin BUA - July 22, 2019 16:21 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsWith paintings full of palm trees, outdoor pools and seductive stretches of the open road, David Hockney is the quintessential artist of L.A. Pop. Join our hosts as they celebrate the man who celebrates their city.
Hyped on Hopper
Art Attack w/ Lizy Dastin and Justin BUA - July 15, 2019 16:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsEdward Hopper is an icon of American art. His paintings are celebrated in museums throughout the country, are reproduced on countless posters, postcards, cell phone cases--even mousepads--and are constantly referenced in pop-culture. But what is it about his work that people find so mesmerizing ...
Mexican Muralism in the U.S.
Art Attack w/ Lizy Dastin and Justin BUA - July 08, 2019 15:27 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsIn the 1920s, Los Tres Grandes--Rivera, Orozco and Siqueiros--created murals throughout Mexico in an effort to reunify the country under the new Mexican Communist Party regime. After the 1929 stock market crash, the United States government commissioned these same men to paint murals that would ...
How the Armory Show Changed Everything
Art Attack w/ Lizy Dastin and Justin BUA - July 01, 2019 18:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsIn 1913, European Modernism landed in the U.S. and changed the art game forever. Join our hosts as they discuss the groundbreaking Armory Show and viewers' dramatic reactions to the avant-garde art within its halls.
Fakes and Forgeries
Art Attack w/ Lizy Dastin and Justin BUA - June 06, 2019 16:24 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsThe fact of the matter is, there are art forgeries everywhere. Fakes are, wittingly or not, sold in galleries, auction houses and displayed on museum walls around the world. Join our hosts as they share their knowledge on these fakes and discuss some of the greatest art forgers of all time.
Prepare to Swoon
Art Attack w/ Lizy Dastin and Justin BUA - May 30, 2019 14:16 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsWith her psychologically rich work installed both on the streets but also in museums throughout the world, Swoon captivates art viewers of all types. Join our hosts as they discuss the complexities of her practice, her imagery, her installations--even her name.
Finally, One on Picasso
Art Attack w/ Lizy Dastin and Justin BUA - May 21, 2019 16:24 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsPablo Picasso is often heralded as the most significant artist of the 20th century--maybe even of all-time. But why? Join our hosts as they debate and discuss all things Picasso: his work, his innovations, his missteps and his misgivings.
Radical Rodin
Art Attack w/ Lizy Dastin and Justin BUA - May 14, 2019 16:29 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsA real G, Auguste Rodin rejected the rigid neoclassical training that dominated 19th century academic sculpture and became the first modern sculptor in the process. Join our hosts as they explain Rodin's radical innovations to the field and explore his most iconic works, like The Thinker and The...
Damien Hirst: Death & Diamonds
Art Attack w/ Lizy Dastin and Justin BUA - May 07, 2019 15:49 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsThe most notorious artist to emerge in the late 1980s and early 90s, Damien Hirst produces work that not only seduces his viewers but also forces them to confront the inevitability of their own mortality. Using dead animals, diamonds and human skulls as his materials, Hirst neatly calculates to ...
City of Brotherly Love and Art
Art Attack w/ Lizy Dastin and Justin BUA - April 30, 2019 14:24 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsPhiladelphia, celebrated for its hoagies and for being the birth place of U.S. independence, should also be known as a powerhouse art scene. Join our hosts as they discuss iconic art and art moments in the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection.
Van Gogh and Gauguin--One Fu*cked Up Friendship
Art Attack w/ Lizy Dastin and Justin BUA - April 23, 2019 16:16 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsFor 9 turbulent weeks in 1888, artists Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin lived together in Arles. During this time, the two men produced some of their most insightful and iconic paintings. Also during this time, the artists had bitter arguments, one of which ended with van Gogh's infamous ear-cu...
American Landscapes, More Intense Than They Look
Art Attack w/ Lizy Dastin and Justin BUA - April 15, 2019 14:04 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsAmerican landscape paintings from the mid-19th century might not appear terribly complex or interesting. Oh but they are! Join our hosts as they discuss the racism, religiosity and rampant nationalism subtly encoded in these works.
The Dope Degas
Art Attack w/ Lizy Dastin and Justin BUA - April 08, 2019 14:40 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsWith his ballerina paintings hanging in every museum across the world, there's no denying French Impressionist Edgar Degas was dope. He was also difficult, disruptive, questionably intolerant and a creative visionary. Join our hosts as they explore the various shades of Degas' work and his perso...
Kara Walker: Race Relations and Psychological Perversions
Art Attack w/ Lizy Dastin and Justin BUA - April 01, 2019 14:59 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsKara Walker is one of the most celebrated and controversial contemporary artists around. Her work is both evocative, but also provocative, exploring intersectional themes of history, race, gender and power. Join our hosts as they unpack her silhouetted installations and explore the effect of the...
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect and Eccentric
Art Attack w/ Lizy Dastin and Justin BUA - March 25, 2019 14:20 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsFrank Lloyd Wright, the brilliant American architect, irrevocably changed the way homes are lived in and designed. He was also quite the eccentric. Join our hosts as they discuss his incredible contributions to the field of architecture but also his personal irreverence for rules.
Documentary Photography: Information or Propaganda?
Art Attack w/ Lizy Dastin and Justin BUA - March 18, 2019 14:45 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsDuring the 1930s, U.S. photography was profoundly determined by responses to the Great Depression. Photographers, including Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange, were commissioned by the government to document Dust Bowl America--at times the landscape but mainly the people living there. But with comm...
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