Untitled Art Podcast

UNTITLED, ART Miami Beach curator Jordan Stein speaks with several fellows from Artists in Residence in Everglades, AIRIE, about the work, processes, influences, and motivations around their research in the Florida Everglades. Having spent up to a month living and working in Everglades National Park, AIRIE fellows meet with ecologists, biologists, hydrologists, community leaders, and environmental advocates to study this complex ecosystem. Artists include Dana Levy, Harumi Abe, Christina Pettersson, and Onajide Shabaka.

In his final audio dispatch as Writer in Residence at UNTITLED, ART Miami Beach 2019, Osman Can Yerebakan sits down with Pari Ehsan, the visionary behind @Paridust. The two discuss the prevalence of textile based art at the fair this year, specifically highlighting works by South American artists. Listen to a friendly conversation about their discoveries at the diverse galleries of UNTITLED, ART, as well as why dressing for Miami Art Week is a form of art in itself.

In conversation with curator Larry Ossei-Mensah, artist Damien Davis discusses the research surrounding his booth presentation with LatchKey Gallery and forthcoming solo exhibition at the Weeksville Heritage Center, titled “Collapse: Black Wall Street”. This exhibition is centered around the history of the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, recently depicted by the HBO series Watchman and highlighted in the New York Times.

For his next audio dispatch from UNTITLED, ART Miami Beach 2019, Writer in Residence, Osman Can Yerebakan sits down with Carolyn Ramo, the Executive Director of Artadia. The two discuss new discoveries made on the fair floor, the successful trajectories of previous Artadia grant recipients, and the internationality of UNTITLED, ART year after year.

In this episode, UNTITLED, ART’s inaugural Writer in Residence, Osman Can Yerebakan, meets with Galerie Magazine’s Art and Culture Editor Lucy Rees. Perched on a Wendy White jofa in the lounge designed by the same artist, the two share their picks from the VIP and Press Preview. They discussed the intersection of art and design through artists blurring the distinction between sculpture and function, and mentioned a handful of names whose use of materiality, form, and dimension caught their eyes.

The gallery model is not in crisis: The world economic system is.

This episode historically and culturally contextualizes the gallery model to understand how we might update it for our current moment, and the future. The dealers featured are those who are thinking deeply about the nature of their program and the publics with whom they engage. They are propositioning alternatives to the dealer-critic system from the 19th century and fostering communities of collaboration, while still running physical spaces to exhibit emerging, experimental, and established work.

How can we support them, dealers like them, and the artists they support and exhibit, who are foundational to our culture and social well-being?

On the occasion of World Pride Month and the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, this episode celebrates Pride and explores the history of LGBTQ+ art-making since Stonewall. The episode opens with an excerpted performance by the artist Sheldon Scott, recorded at UNTITLED, ART Miami Beach 2018. Listeners will also tour the exhibition "Art after Stonewall, 1969-1989" with curators Jonathan Weinberg and Drew Sawyer at the Leslie-Lohman Museum in New York City. This episode also features an introduction to “Nobody Promised You Tomorrow” an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, with curators Lindsay C. Harris and Lauren Argentina Zelaya.

In this episode, host Amanda Schmitt travels to the Galleria Borghese in Rome to see "Bird Cage, a temporary shelter," by artist Zhang Enli. Hear Amanda speak with the artist, and curator Davide Quadrio, about the extraordinary project. This episode also features a conversation from a panel led by curator Xiaoyu Weng (Guggenheim, New York), along with curators and educators Marc Mayer (Asian Art Museum, San Francisco) and Marie Martraire (KADIST).

Featuring artists that work with analog synthesizers and new programming methods such as data sonification, this episode explores sound Beyond Language, featuring artist Adam Henry, as well as a redacted version of the three-day “Data as Art Material” program presented in collaboration with Cristobal Martinez and his students at the San Francisco Institute of Art at UNTITLED, ART San Francisco 2019.

This episode features an onsite visit to the exhibition “Solidary & Solitary: The Joyner/Giufridda Collection,”with Alison Gass, the Director of the Smart Museum of Art in Chicago. Alison discusses the history of the exhibition and recounts the stories behind featured artworks by Bethany Collins, Leonardo Drew, Melvin Edwards, Sam Gilliam, Samuel Levi Jones, Norman Lewis, and Amanda Williams, among others. The episode also features a special conversation with the co-curator of the exhibition, Christopher Bedford, Director of the Baltimore Museum of Art.