Art Sense

This week’s episode spends the hour trying to get a better understanding of NFTs and how they are changing the landscape of the art world.

01:26 - A conversation with Zack Yanger, Senior Vice President of Business Development at SuperRare. Zack will provide us a great overview of the NFT space, as well as a first-hand account of the early NFT industry and opinions about what is on the horizon.

36:31 - A discussion with Noah Davis, Head of Digital Sales at Christie’s. In his role at Christie’s, Noah serves as a conduit between the emerging NFT space and the traditional art world which has resulted in his organizing some of the biggest NFT auctions on record. In the conversation we discuss the qualities of a good NFT, the complexities of his role and where the NFT market is headed.

63:58 - The week’s top art headlines.

00:57 - A conversation with artist Vincent Valdez. Valdez produces beautiful large scale paintings that tackle issues of justice and equality. His work has been either exhibited or collected by some of the nation’s top institutions, including LACMA, Mass MoCA, The Smithsonian Museum of American Art, and The National Portrait Gallery.

53:06 - The week’s top art headlines.

1:08 - A conversation with acclaimed artist Eric Fischl. Fischl, whose work has long chronicled the empty promises of the upwardly mobile middle class, can be found in the collections of The Met, The Whitney, MoMA and MOCA. In the interview, Eric discusses with Craig his inspirations, his process, his narratives and his use of symbolism. The conversation concludes with a discussion of Fischl’s work setting up an artist residency and exhibition space in Sag Harbor, New York called The Church.

53:07 - The week’s top art headlines

1:01 - Abby Winograd, the MacArthur Fellows Program 40th Anniversary Exhibition Curator at the University of Chicago Smart Museum of Art, discusses her work organizing the multi-site exhibition “Toward Common Cause: Art, Social Change, and the MacArthur Fellows Program at 40” and an accompanying museum exhibit at the Smart Museum of Art.

39:45 - Craig takes a look at the life of Chuck Close

1:10 - LACMA curator Susie Ferrell discusses the museum’s current exhibit “Legacies of Exchange: Chinese Contemporary Art from the Yuz Foundation”. The exhibit examines the premise of cultural exchange and how Western art and brands have influenced Chinese art in the present and recent past.

25:37 - Artist Zoe Walsh discusses their work. Walsh is an up and coming Los Angeles-based artist whose brightly colored works walk a fine line between abstraction and figuration while delving into issues related to trans spectatorship.

56:02 - The week’s top art headlines

1:10 - Author Carolyn Schlam discusses her new book “The Joy of Art: How to Look At, Appreciate, and Talk about Art”. Schlam has set out to write a book that guides the art viewing experience from an artist’s perspective.

27:19 - Artist Terrell James discusses her work. James is a master of colorful abstraction based on the influence of landscapes. Her work is exhibited worldwide and can be found in major collections like MFA Boston, MFA Houston, the Menil Collection and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

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1:21 - Curator Philip Larratt-Smith discusses an exhibit he has curated at the Jewish Museum titled “Louise Bourgeois: Freud’s Daughter” which pairs Louise Bourgeois’s artwork with personal writings from her time in psychoanalysis. Larratt-Smith had served as Bourgeois’s literary archivist during her life and now serves as curator at the Easton Foundation which works to preserve Bourgeois’ creative legacy.

38:22 - Artist Christiane Pooley discusses her work. The Chilean-native creates paintings that explore the elusive concept of home, especially when more than one culture claims the same space as their own.

56:02 - The week’s top art headlines

1:30 - Getty Museum curator Casey Lee discusses “Artists as Collectors”, an exhibition exploring how artists accumulated, cared for, and used drawings by other artists that they avidly collected, on view at the Getty Center through September 12, 2021

14:54 - Photographer and painter Marilyn Minter about her examination of female strength and sexuality from the perspective of a female eye. Minter’s work is in the collections of the Tate Modern, Guggenheim, MoMA, MOCA, SFMoMA, MFA Boston and the Whitney, while commercial commissions has brought her imagery into the mainstream. She is the beneficiary of a Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant and a Guggenheim Fellowship, as well as an honorary doctorate from the School for the Visual Arts in New York.

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1:14 - Author Dr. Noah Charney discusses his new book “The Devil in the Gallery: How Scandal, Shock, and Rivalry Shaped the Art World” which examines the counterintuitive nature of the art world. The things that would surely ruin a person’s career in any other field appear to actually enable success in the world of art.
24:11 - Video artist Andrew Huang talks about his growing body of work in visual art, music videos and feature films. Huang, whose work has been exhibited at institutions like MoMA, has gained notoriety for his visually captivating music videos for artists like Bjork and FKA Twigs. We discuss his background, his process and the progress he is making towards the release of his first feature film.
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01:21 - Journalist and author Barnaby Phillips discusses his new book “Loot: Britain and the Benin Bronzes” which details events in 1897 that led to the British looting of Benin Empire treasures and the complicated status of these objects that have since been distributed worldwide.
33:01 - Artist Hughie O’Donoghue talks about his body of work and his most recent exhibit titled Night Cargo. O’Donoghue, a member of Britain’s Royal Academy, is widely collected by museums in the United Kingdom and Ireland, including the British Museum and the National Gallery, where he previously served as the artist in residence.
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