We don’t need to tell anyone listening that it is a difficult and alarming political moment. You may be asking, How will art weather the storm?
To answer that question, you probably need to take stock of how art has navigated the political storms of the recent past. And there’s been a lot of debate about this recently, centered on the critic Dean Kissick’s l ... Show More
Aug 20
Welcome to the World of Julio Torres and Martine Gutierrez
Julio Torres and Martine Gutierrez share a knack for building worlds and characters that operate on their own wonderful, absurdist logic. Throw them together, add some sea water, and you get Marina, their new performance commissioned by the Whitney Biennial. Marina begins with a ... Show More
37m 51s
Aug 13
What's New in New York Art?
We’re in the hot dog days of August, awaiting the new art season to kick off in September. In the meantime, I thought we might take the temperature of art in New York, looking at two big museum shows that opened earlier ruin the year, and that seek to highlight new voices from th ... Show More
38m 16s
Mar 2024
Navigating Cheesiness, Kitsch, and the Quest for Authenticity: Episode 24 of The Painting Podcast
This episode delves into the fine line between cheesiness, kitsch, and high art. From the pastoral scenes of Gainsborough to the consumer culture critiques of Warhol and the polling experiments of Komar and Melamid, we examine how artists challenge and redefine our notions of tas ... Show More
29m 25s
Mar 2019
The Many Deaths of a Painting
<p>When Barnett Newman’s painting <em>Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue III</em> was placed in the Stedelijk museum it was meant to be provocative, but one reaction that it received was so intense, so violent, it set off a chain of events that shook the art world to its core.< ... Show More
40m 47s