Art as Experience: Podcasts

Tom and Sheila visit the Textile Museum in Washington DC, and discuss the Silk Road textiles called ikat.

Sheila and Tom discuss Paul Klee, surrealism, Freud, psychoanalysis, playfulness, and Klee’s influence on American Abstraction, after visiting the Phillips Collection current exhibition on “Paul Klee and Ten Americans”.

Tom and Sheila discuss Art and Fear, relating the topic to the exhibition, “Outliers and American Vanguard Art”, at the National Gallery of Art.

For over two decades, African American artist Kara Walker (born 1969) has been making work that weaves together imagery from the antebellum South, the brutality of slavery, and racist stereotypes. We visit the exhibition of her work: Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)

We return to the topic of the intimate connection between poetry and art by reading and discussing artists who produced both visual art and poems.

We explore the relationships between poetry and visual art.  With guest Peter Blake.

Sheila and Tom, in the context of gender equality, explore a unique and interesting topic: marriages and partnerships of artists.

Broadcast on WOWD-LP, 94.3 FM: Dec 16, 2017

Today we invite you to a “playground”, a fun park, possibly a zoo or circus- right here at the National Gallery of Art. Their large permanent collection of Alexander Calder’s pieces is arrayed in the tower of the East Wing, a place for the whole family.

Originally Broadcast on WOWD-LP, Takoma Park Radio: Dec 02, 2017

The blockbuster show at the National Gallery of Art is up until January 21, 2018. Tom and Sheila explore

the exhibition in two ways: first, as presented: a movement. It all happened 350 years ago: the artists lived close enough to each other to travel by horse, cart, or by foot; and the fabulous sleuthing curators had a wonderful time putting together the show. The second way is: How could artists paint like this? How did they get this luminous quality? How did they get this space? How did they ever learn to paint satin and patterns and textured rugs? What really makes these paintings great, and what makes Vermeer rise above them all?

We talk about the many feline divinities along the ancient Nile, the art they inspired, and the mummies: based on a show at the Freer Museum (to January 15, 2018), organized by the Brooklyn Museum of Art.