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Episode 15. Art in the Olympics 

In this episode we discuss how to get the Arts back in to the Olympic Games.

​In this episode we reference/mention the following:

Baron Pierre de Coubertin - 1/1/1863 - 9/2/1937

Episode 14. What is Folk Art?

In this episode we ask AOL “What is Folk Art?”
 In this episode we reference/mention the following:

Art Brut - a French term for 'raw art' or outsider artwork. Basically meaning untrained artists making artwork
Anna Mary Robertson Moses "Grandma Moses", 9/7/1860 - 12/13/1961
Maud Lewis, 3/7/1903, 7/30/1970
Yayoi Kusama, 3/22/1929 - Present
James Whistler, 7/11/1834 - 7/17/1903
Clementine Hunter, 12/1886-1/1/1988 - (Black female folk artist that we could not remember the name of)
George E. Ohr, 7/12/1857 - 4/7/1918
Mark Rothko's Color Field paintings - www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-mark-rothko-unlocked-emotional-power-color
Frank Stella, 5/12/1936 - Present
George Rodrigue, 3/13/1944 - 12/14/2013 (artist who painted the blue dogs)
Claude Monet , 11/14/1840 - 12/5/1926
Vincent Willem van Gogh, 3/30/1853 - 7/29/1890
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 7/15/1606 - 10/4/1669
Gustav Klimt, 7/14/1862 - 2/6/1918
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni - 3/6/1475 - 2/18/1564
Fran Lebowitz, 10/27/1950 - Present
Damien Hirst – 6/7/1965 - present

Episode 13. How Do We Look At Art?

In this episode we ask “How do we look at Art?”
 In this episode we reference/mention the following:

British Museum of Natural History - www.nhm.ac.uk/
Hieronymus Bosch, 1450 - 8/9/1516
Gustav Klimt, 7/14/1862 - 2/6/1918
Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, 1903/1907, Oil, silver, and gold on canvas
Banksy - https://www.banksy.co.uk/
James Turrell – 5/6/1943 – Present
Damien Hirst – 6/7/1965 - present
Blue Star Contemporary - bluestarcontemporary.org/
Adobe Artist - Joanna Keane Lopez - www.joannakeanelopez.com/
Meow Wolf - ​meowwolf.com/
John Baldessari, 6/17/1931 - 1/2/2020
Beethoven's Trumpet (with Ear) Opus #132, 2007, Foam, resin, aluminum, cold bronze, and electronics
Bruce Nauman, 12/6/1941 - Present - (misattributed as 'Donald Judd's green room')
Green Light Corridor, 1970, wallboard and green fluorescent light - (misattributed as 'Donald Judd's green room')
Water Lilies Agapanthus, 1914-1917, oil on canvas
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, 1884/86, oil on canvas
Egon Schiele, 6/12/1890 - 10/31/1918
Andrew Goldsworthy, 7/26/1956 - Present
'I Love You So Much' in Austin, Texas - https://do512.com/iloveyoumural
The Pink Wall in Los Angeles, California - https://www.hereyouare.com/los-angeles/instagram-infamous-hotspot-paul-smith-pink-wall/
Marcel Duchamp – 7/28/1887 – 10/2/1968
Rothko Chapel, 1971 - 
http://www.rothkochapel.org/​
Frank Stella, 5/12/1936 - Present
Rococo - exceptionally ornamental and theatrical style of architecture, art and decoration with combines asymmetry, scrolling curves, gilding, white and pastel colors, sculpted molding, and trompe-l'oeil frescoes to create surprise and the illusion of motion and drama.

Episode 12. Who is Keith Haring?

In this episode we ask “Who is Keith Haring?”
 In this episode we reference/mention the following:

Keith Haring, 5/4/1958 - 2/16/1990, www.haring.com/
Madonna music video - it wasn't actually a music video, she wore the outfit on BBC1-TV’s Top Of The Pops in London, England on December 13, 1984. She also wore a similar outfit he made for her on May 16, 1984 when she performed Dress You Up at Keith Haring’s birthday party held at the Paradise Garage in New York. Madonna also used animations of Keith's work for the official backdrop video for "Into the Groove" used on her "Sticky and Sweet" tour 2008 - She has been a long-time fan it seems.
Sesame Street - https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/keith-haring-in-motion​
Radiant Baby - https://www.artdependence.com/articles/the-symbolism-of-the-baby-in-keith-haring-s-work/
Barking Dog - www.guyhepner.com/dogs-by-keith-haring/
Kenny Scharf, 11/23/1958 - Present
Jean Michel Basquiat, 12/22/1960 - 8/12/1988
Subway drawings - www.haring.com/!/selected_writing/haring-art-in-transit
Once Upon a Time, 1989, Mural in the bathroom at The Center: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, New York, New York
Crack is Wack, 1986, Mural on 128th Street and 2nd Avenue, New York, NY
Magic Johnson - we mistakenly stated he contracted HIV from a blood transfusion but he contracted it from unprotected sex
The Pop Shop - ​https://www.haring.com/!/pop-shop
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 11/24/1864 - 9/9/1901
 Sesame Street - https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/keith-haring-in-motion​
​Time Square Radiant Baby light show - www.publicartfund.org/exhibitions/view/messages-to-the-public-haring/
 Grace Jones body paint - https://dangerousminds.net/comments/when_keith_haring_painted_the_heavenly_body_of_grace_jones
Félix González-Torres, 11/26/1957 - 1/9/1996
Altarpiece, 1990 (cast in 1996), White gold patina on bronze
Act Up - actupny.com/
Keith Haring Foundation - https://www.haring.com/kh_foundation/

Episode 11. When Is Eroticism In Art No Longer Art But Pornography? 

no search engine question this week.
In this episode we reference/mention the following:

Egon Schiele - 6/12/1890 - 10/31/1918
Jeff Koons - 1/21/1955 - present
​​I found the photograph series of Jeff Koons and future wife performing sexual acts, but was unable to locate the sculptures we discussed - 
https://www.widewalls.ch/magazine/jeff-koons-made-in-heaven-most-expensive-pieces​
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Édouard Manet - 1/23/1832 - 4/30/1883
​Olympia, 1863, Oil on Canvas
Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (The Luncheon on the Grass), 1862-63, Oil on Canvas - incorrectly named in the episode as "Musée d’Orsay"
Man Ray, 8/27/1890 - 11/18/1976
Le Violon d'Ingres (Ingres's Violin), 1924, Gelatin silver print
Richard Prince, 8/6/1949 - present
Cindy Sherman, 1/19/1954 - present
Gustav Klimt, 7/14/1862 - 2/6/1918
Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, 1907, Oil, silver, and gold on canvas
Titian, 1488/90 - 8/27/1576
Venus of Urbino, 1534, Oil on Canvas
Auguste Rodin, 11/12/1840 - 11/17/1917
The Kiss, 1882, Marble
The Sleeping Hermaphrodite, (unknown time) 1620 for the mattress, marble - incorrectly attributed to Brancusi; it was actually Bernini 
Laocoön and His Sons, 42BC, white marble
Pompeii brothel - www.pompeii.org.uk/s.php/pompei-proibita-en-214-s1.htm
Kamasutra
Japanese woodblocks - www.shungaisart.com/ - www.bbc.com/culture/article/20131003-filth-or-fine-art
Robert Mapplethorpe, 11/4/1946 - 3/9/1989 - www.guggenheim.org/blogs/checklist/robert-mapplethorpe-framing-a-sexual-revolution
Bettie Page, 4/22/1923 - 12/11/2008
Playboy - December, 1953 - 3/17/2020
Sally Mann, 5/1/1951 - present
Jessie Bites, 1985, photograph
The New Mothers, 1989, photograph
Justice Potter Stewart stated "I know it when I see it" 

Episode 10. What is Functional Art?

 In this episode we ask Qwant “What is Functional Art?”
In this episode we reference/mention the following: 
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​we mention the artist Yayoi Kusama and Claes Oldenburg although we could not remember Claes' name at the time
Andy Warhol - 8/6/1928 - 2/22/1987
Albrecht Durer - 5/21/1471 - 4/6/1528
Bauhaus artistic movement
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe - 3/27/1886 - 8/17/1969
​"Brno Chair", 1929-30, steel and leather 
Albert Einstein - 3/14/1879 - 4/18/1955
Courtni Whetsell - www.etsy.com/shop/TheSagedKiln
Payton Koranek - www.korpottery.com/
Louis Katz - www.louiskatz.net/
Greg Rueter - www.gregreuterart.com/
Susan Galloway - www.depauw.edu/arts-and-culture/arts/peeler/exhibits/susan-galloway-blue/
George E. Ohr - 7/12/1857 - 4/7/1918
SOFA - International Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fair
Jun Kaneko - ​https://www.junkaneko.com/
Artist who's work looks like cardboard (incorrectly named Mike Salini) - Tim Kowalczyk -timsceramics.com/cups-mugs-and-tmblers 
Artist who's work looks like robots - Michael Klapthor - ​https://www.mklapthor.com/
Architecture 
Art Nouveau - Art Nouveau is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts
Little Singer Building in New York City, New York - https://www.nyc-architecture.com/SOH/SOH001.htm
Frank Lloyd Wright - 6/8/1867 - 4/9/1959
Jeanne Gang - 3/19/1964 - Present - ​https://studiogang.com/people/jeanne-gang
Zaha Hadid - 10/31/1950 - 3/31/2016 - ​https://www.zaha-hadid.com/
Heydar Aliyev Center - ​heydaraliyevcenter.az/#main
Frank Gehry - 2/28/1929 - Present
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum - ​www.guggenheim.org/
Sydney Opera House - ​www.sydneyoperahouse.com/
Ecstasy of Saint Teresa (wrongly attributed to Brancusi - it was actually made by Bernini - ​Bernini, The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa, 1647-1652, marble
Art Deco - sometimes referred to as Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture and design that first appeared in France just before World War I

Episode 9. Who is Yayoi Kusama?

​In this episode we reference/mention the following: 

Yayoi Kusama - 3/22/1929 - Present
​                             yayoi-kusama.jp/e/information/
Infinity Rooms - ​https://www.twowaymirrors.com/yayoi-kusama-infinity-mirrors/
James Turrell - 5/6/1943 - present
Hulu Documentary - Kusama: Infinity
Claes Oldenburg - 1/28/1929 - present
Andy Warhol - 8/6/1928 - 2/22/1987
Donald Judd - 6/3/1928 - 2/12/1994
​Peter Gabriel "Lovetown" music video - www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrjuxgQVxiE
Soft sculptures - a type of sculpture made using cloth, foam rubber, plastic, paper, fibers and similar material that are supple and nonrigid.
Georgia O'Keeffe - 11/15/1887 - 3/6/1986
Barbara Hepworth - 1/10/1903 - 5/20/1975
Vincent van Gogh - 3/30/1853 - 7/29/1890
Paul Gauguin - 6/7/1848 - 5/8/1903
"Aggregation: One Thousand Boats Show", 1963, soft-sculpture phalluses, made of cotton-stuffed canvas
"Accumulation No. 1", 1962, sewn stuffed fabric, paint, and chair fringe
Cindy Sherman, 1/19/1954 - present
Infinity Mirror Room - Phalli's Field, 1965, stuffed cotton, board, and mirrors
John Mulaney, 8/26/1982 - present - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pftxSfWH3s
"Narcissus Garden", 1966, 1,500 mirrored plastic orbs, Venice Biennale
Claes Oldenburg quote about his work being similar to Kusama's - “She is not making soft sculpture, or, she is, but it is one thing that is repeated. The object is just one way of ending what she is starting. They are devices, and form as these individual things repeating themselves and the proliferation. That’s very different from my work which is about whole form and which is also related to a certain view of reality, to a realistic view. I’m not sure if it meant much to her what object she covered. To me, that tends to be important…. The topic was not the object, [but] the thing that was on the object. Her sculpture is a small thing that covers.”
Andy Warhol's crediting art dealer Ivan Karp with the repeated cow imagery - “He said, ‘Why don’t you paint some cows, they’re so wonderfully pastoral and such a durable image in the history of the arts.’ (Ivan talked like this.) I don’t know how ‘pastoral’ he expected me to make them, but when he saw the huge cow heads—bright pink on a bright yellow background—that I was going to have made into rolls of wallpaper, he was shocked.”
Lucas Samaras, "Mirrored Room", 1966, mirror on wood
Picasso's roommate, Carles Casagemas - 9/27/1880-2/17/1901 
Infinity Net, 1961, acrylic on canvas - this is a series that she has done since the 1960's and there are some she has completed as recently as 2017
​"A polka-dot has the form of the sun, which is a symbol of the energy of the whole world and our living life, and also the form of the moon, which is calm. Round, soft, colorful, senseless and unknowing....Polka-dots are a way to infinity." - Yayoi Kusama

Episode 8.​ What is sculpture?

 In this episode we ask Ekoru “What is sculpture?”
In this episode we reference/mention the following:

'in the round’ - meaning you can view the piece from all sides/angles/etc.
Charles Ray – 9/23/1930 – 6/10/2004
Charles Ray artist talk at The Art Institute of Chicago - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJpImqjoAGs
Gian Lorenzo Bernini – 12/7/1598 – 11/28/1680
Bernini, St. Peter’s Baldachin (Baldacchino di San Pietro), 1623-1634, bronze
Bernini, The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa, 1647-1652, marble
Donatello, David, 1440-60, bronze
Bernini, David, 1623-24, marble
Michelangelo, David, 1501-04, marble
Michelangelo, David getting cleaned - https://www.magentaflorence.com/10209-2/
Malvina Hoffman – 6/15/1885 – 7/10/1966
Malvina Hoffman finishing the head of “England” http://www.hampton.lib.nh.us/hampton/biog/malvinahoffman.htm
Michelangelo, David, 1501-04, marble
Renaissance art period, 16th century, Middle Ages
Earthworks sculpture movement
Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty, 1970, earth, mud
​Nancy Holt, Sun Tunnels, 1973-76, concrete, steel, earth
The Nazca Lines – geoglyphs in South Peru
“Chalk Giant of England” - Cerne Abbas Giant, Dorset, England, possibly 700 to 1100AD
“Easter Island Heads” - Moai, Easter Island, 1400-1650
Andy Goldsworthy – 7/26/1956 – present
Gutai Group - artistic group/movement started in 1954
Felix Gonzalez-Torres – 11/26/1967 - 1/9/1996
James Turrell – 5/6/1943 – Present
James Turrell, The Way of Color, 2009, stone, concrete, stainless steel and LED lighting
James Turrell, Akhob, 2013
Mark Rothko – his color field paintings were a series of work he did in the 1940’s which were part of the Abstract Expressionism movement.
Michelangelo, David, 1501-04, marble
Damien Hirst – 6/7/1965 - present
Dale Chihuly – 9/20/1941 - present
Louise Bourgeois, 12/25/1911 – 5/31/2010
we could not think of the artist that did the large wooden, monochrome works – it was Louise Nevelson, 9/23/1899 - 4/17/1988
Marcel Duchamp – 7/28/1887 – 10/2/1968
Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917
Nam June Paik, TV Garden, 1974
Bauhaus Movement – movement through the 1920’s-30’s
Dada Movement – movement from around 1916-1924
Jason Hackenwerth – 1970 - present
2Fik - https://2fikornot2fik.com/
Blue Man Group - https://www.blueman.com/
Sigalit Landau, Salt Bride, 2014
Pierre-Paul Prud’hon – 4/4/1758 - 2/16/1823
Barry X Ball – 1955 - present
Camille Claudel – 12/8/1864 - 10/19/1943
Judy Chicago – 7/20/1939 - present
Yayoi Kusama – 3/22/1929 - present
Yayoi Kusama, some of soft sculptures work - https://www.dannywithlove.com/blog/about-yayoi-kusamas-aggregation-one-thousand-boats-show

the story is recounted in Give the Man Room: The Story of Gutzon Borglum
by Robert J. Casey, Mary Borglum

Episode 7. What is color theory

In this episode we ask Swisscows "What is color theory?"
​In this episode we reference/mention the following: 

ROY-G-BIV - Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet
Complimentary Colors - pairs of colors on opposite sides of the color wheel 
Tertiary Colors - a color made by mixing full saturation of one primary color with half saturation of another primary color
Hues - when you add black or white to any color to create value, or a tint
New Color Discovery - a New Blue - 
https://hyperallergic.com/615971/meet-yinmn-the-first-new-shade-of-blue-in-two-centuries/
Isaac Newton - https://library.si.edu/exhibition/color-in-a-new-light/science
Georges Seurat - A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, 1884-86, oil on canvas
Neil Harbisson - ​https://www.ted.com/talks/neil_harbisson_i_listen_to_color?language=en
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Blue vs. Gold dress - www.businessinsider.com/is-the-dress-white-and-gold-black-and-blue-2015-2
Pointillism - a technique of neo-impressionist painting using tiny dots of various pure colors, which become blended in the viewer's eye
Pop Art - an art movement that emerged in the United Kingdom and the United States during the mid-to late-1950's. The movement presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including imagery from popular and mass culture, such as advertising, comic books and mass-produced object.
Andy Warhol - 8/6/1928 - 2/22/1987
Roy Lichtenstein - 10/27/1923 - 9/29/1997
Rococo - exceptionally ornamental and theatrical style of architecture, art and decoration with combines asymmetry, scrolling curves, gilding, white and pastel colors, sculpted molding, and trompe-l'oeil frescoes to create surprise and the illusion of motion and drama.
Jean-Honore Fragonard - 4/5/1732 - 8/22/1806
Pre-Impressionists/Realists
Local Color - the natural color of an object unmodified by adding unrealistic light and shadow or any other distortion. The color that the eye observes is altered by lighting conditions such as time of day or the surrounding environment. 
Edgar Degas - 7/19/1834 - 9/27/1917
Non-Local Color - refers to the use of accent colors, or unnatural colors, to achieve depth, brilliance and spontaneity 
Edvard Munch - "The Scream", 1893, oil, tempera pastel and crayon on cardboard 
Degas' several dancer paintings - mymodernmet.com/edgar-degas-dancers/
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec- "At the Moulin Rouge", 1892-1895, oil on canvas
Paul Cezanne - 1/19/1839 - 10/22/1906
Piet Mondrian - 3/7/1872 - 2/1/1944
Symbolism - both an artistic and literary movement that suggested ideas through symbols and emphasized the meaning behind the forms, lines, shapes and colors. Can be viewed as being the forefront of modernism since it developed new and often abstract means to express an idea.
Mark Rothko - 9/25/1903- 2/25/1970
Mark Rothko's Color Field paintings - www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-mark-rothko-unlocked-emotional-power-color
Helen Frankenthaler - 12/12/1928 - 1/27/2011
Wassily Kandinsky - 12/16/1866 - 12/13/1944
James Turrell - 5/6/1943 - present
James Turrell - The Way of Color (James Turrell's Skyspace), 2009, stone, concrete, stainless steel and LED lighting
James Turrell - "Akhob" - when looking for the piece details, we couldn't find much other than how to make reservations for viewing the piece. So if you are going to Vegas, here's how to get a viewing scheduled - Call (702) 739-8520, it is located in the Louis Vuitton store at The Shops at Crystals
Bruce Nauman - "Green Light Corridor", 1970, Wallboard and green fluorescent light
Yayoi Kusama - 3/22/1929 - present
Disney painting department - www.waltdisney.org/blog/look-closer-women-disney-ink-and-paint-department
Don Bluth - 9/13/1937 - present
Anish Kapoor - 3/12/1954 - present
Stuart Semple - 9/12/1980 - present 
Their feud - www.wired.com/story/vantablack-anish-kapoor-stuart-semple/

Episode 6. Where to buy art?

In this episode we ask Bing "Where to buy art?"
​In this episode we reference/mention the following: 

Claude Monet - His 'Water Lilies' series are around 250 oil paintings he painted during the late 1800's to around the 1930's 
Pablo Picasso - the quote is actually "a woman responded to Picasso drawing on a napkin and it being $10,000.00, "But you did that in thirty seconds". "No, it has taken me forty years to do that".

Episode 5. What's up with NFT's?

​In this episode we ask Ecosia “what is an NFT?”
 In this episode we reference/mention the following:
​
Fungible – currency
Non fungible – like a guitar or a car
Block-chain – like a record or provenance
Beeple – real name is Mike Winkelmann 7/20/1982 – present
‘sculpture downtown San Antonio’ - we were referencing the ‘La Antorcha de la Amistad’ (The Torch of Friendship)
Bitcoin
Ethereum coin
Beanie Babies
Couple divorcing splitting up beanie babies
Thomas Kinkade – 1/19/1958 – 4/6/2012
Dogecoin
American Eagle stealing ideas from artists 
Forever 21 stealing ideas from artists 
Crypto-mining
Jeff Koons – 1/21/1955 – present



Episode 4. Who is Felix Gonzalez-Torres?

In this episode we ask "Who is Felix Gonzalez-Torres?"
​In this episode we reference/mention the following:

Felix Gonzalez-Torres, edited by Julie Ault
Felix Gonzalez-Torres America, by the United States Pavilion, 52nd Venice Biennale, 2007
Felix Gonzalez-Torres, interview by Tim Rollins, Essay by Susan Cahan, Short story by Jan Avgikos, Artpress
Post-Modern Theory - mid to late 20th century movement that took a critical look at the universal ideas of objective reality, truth, institutions and was a departure from what modernism was thought of at the time 
Candy Spill works - include Untitled (L.A.), 1991, candy, Untitled (Public Opinion), 1991, and Untitled (Placebo), 1991
Blue Chip Gallery - these galleries typically have been operating for several decades and selling the work of artists whose work will more than likely keep increasing in value. This name came about because of how the artworks were starting to be valued more for their investment quality than for the actual enjoyment of the works; think of the stock market.   
Poster Stack works - these works include Untitled (Double Portrait), 1991, stack of printed paper
Untitled (Portrait of Ross in L.A.), 1991, candy ---- *miss-named Untitled (For Ross) 
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Felix Gonzalez-Torres - Untitled (Perfect Lovers), 1987-1990, synchronized clocks
Postmodernism, A Very Short Introduction, Christopher Butler
Pablo Picasso - misquoted as 'learn to steal like an artist' - the quote is actually "Good artists copy, great artists steal"
Marcel Duchamp - 7/28/1887 - 10/2/1968
Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, ready-made, 1917
The Metropolitan Museum statistics are actually (as of the 1989 Guerrilla Girls campaign), 85% of the nudes in the museum are female, but less than 5% of the artists are women. 
Orientalism - imitation or depiction of aspects in the Eastern world during the 18th century
Noble Savage - representing the Native American as an idealized, romanticized symbol of the good of humanity during 
Minimalism -  a movement that believed in the elegance of the simplistic form
Pablo Picasso - 10/25/1881 - 4/8/1973
Paul Gauguin - 6/7/1848 - 5/8/1903
Keith Haring - 5/4/1958 - 2/16/1990
Jeff Koons - Balloon Dog, mirror-polished stainless steel 1994-2000

We also wanted to have a link to the Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation if you want to do more reading:
https://www.felixgonzalez-torresfoundation.org/ 

Episode 3. What is a Emerging Artist?

In this episode we ask Duck Duck go " What is a emerging artist?" 
In this episode we reference/mention the following:

Vincent Willem van Gogh - 3/30/1853 - 7/29/1890
Christies 
ThreeWalls Art Gallery 
Natalia Fabia
Lora Zombie 

Episode 2. What is a Medium?

In this episode we ask Bing " What is a medium?"
In this episode we reference/mention the following:

Heidi Hooper
Salavat Fidai 
Brian Dettmer
Felix Gonzalez-Torres - Untitled (Portrait of Ross in L.A.), 1991, candy
Felix Gonzalez-Torres - Untitled (Perfect Lovers), 1987-1990, synchronized clocks
​Felix Gonzalez-Torres - Untitled (Double Portrait), 1991, stack of printed paper
​ORLAN - The Reincarnation of Saint Orlan, 1990, plastic surgeries
​Damien Hirst - this was a misattribution to the quote 'money is my medium'. While Hirst has spoken of money in the art world and defended his stance on the art market, we were unable to find that this quote was actually stated by him.
Yayoi Kusama - Aftermath of Obliteration of Eternity, 2009, wood, metal, glass mirrors, plastic, acrylic paint, and LED, part of her Infinity Mirror Room series 
​Richard Prince - New Portraits, 2017, installation
Ansel Adams - 2/20/1902 - 4/22/1984
Cristiano Ronaldo 
Cecilia Gimenez 
Marina Abramovic - 11/30/1946 - present
Gutai Group - artistic group/movement started in 1954
Gutai Group - Challenging Mud, 1955, performance piece - performed by Kazuo Shiraga

Episode 1. What is Art?

In this episode we ask Google "What is art?"
In this episode we reference/mention the following:

Immanuel Kant - Kant, A Very Short Introduction, by Roger Scruton
Pablo Picasso - Guernica, 1937, oil on canvas
Leonardo da Vinci, 4/15/1452 - 5/2/1519
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni - 3/6/1475 - 2/18/1564
Donatello, Donato di Niccolo di Betto Bardi, 1386 - 12/13/1466
Michelangelo - David, 1501-04, marble
Sol LeWitt - 9/9/1928 - 4/8/2007
Jeff Koons - 1/21/1955 - present
Chuck Close - 7/5/1940 - present
Salvador Dali - 5/11/1904 - 1/23/1989
Haim Steinbach - 1944
Nam June Paik - 7/20/1932 - 1/29/2006
Damien Hirst - 6/7/1965 - present
Anthony Bourdain - 6/25/1956 - 6/8/2018
Chris Ofili - The Holy Virgin Mary, 1996, Acrylic, oil, polyester resin, paper collage, glitter, map pins, and elephant dung on canvas
Richard Prince - New Portraits, 2017, installation
Wrongly attributed 'Rothinsburg' for large colorfield paintings - it is Mark Rothko
Christies 

Upcoming Episodes:
​What is the difference between art and craft?
What is drawing?
What is printmaking?
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