After the live 100th episode, Lizy and BUA opened up the floor to audience questions--about absolutely anything and everything art related. Check out this impromptu, interactive conversation about hip hop, the legacy of Duchamp, and one artist's choice to use excrement as his art material.
Dec 03, 2019•39 min•Ep. 101
Hip Hop emerged as a fully postmodern, intersectional art expression during the 1980s in the Bronx. Interweaving graffiti writing, b-boy dance, MC sounds and DJ mixing, Hip Hop continues to energize disparate, and yet connected, facets of society and culture. Join our hosts as they delve into the history of Hip Hop, its progression over time, and contemporary artists who continue to live its ethos.
Nov 26, 2019•37 min•Ep. 100
From the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao to the Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles to the Dancing House in Prague, Frank Gehry has designed some of the most celebrated buildings across the world. Join our hosts as they discuss his playful, innovative, and idiosyncratic designs.
Oct 28, 2019•27 min•Ep. 99
Offering the highest compliment an artist can give, Picasso acknowledged Paul Cézanne as the father of modernism, "the father of us all." Join our hosts as they investigate why this is, describing the Post-Impressionist's most significant paintings, his profound flattening of space and introduction of the concept of movement into the otherwise static viewing experience.
Oct 21, 2019•32 min•Ep. 98
Graffiti, quite literally scratching something into an outdoor surface without permission, has been happening for thousands of years. The graffiti that we know today--rebellious, visceral and counter-culture--was born in New York City in the '70s and practiced by some of the most fearless and inventive artists. Join our hosts as they deep-dive into this dynamic and dangerous time.
Oct 14, 2019•35 min•Ep. 97
Under the conservative Reagan administration, the 1980s was a constraining time for any artist who tried to push the envelope. Especially vilified during this era were photographers Andres Serrano and Robert Mapplethorpe. Join our hosts as they reveal governmental censorship and discuss the work that was considered an aberration on society.
Oct 07, 2019•33 min•Ep. 96
When we think of words used to describe significant art, chances are that "caricature" doesn't make the list. But maybe it should. Join our hosts as they unearth the history of caricatures, common misconceptions about the genre, and its most phenomenal players.
Sep 30, 2019•32 min•Ep. 95
The 1960s art scene is primarily associated with Pop, kitsch and Warhol; however, it was also the era of sleek, stark, hard-edged Minimalism. Join our hosts as they digest this influential--if short-lived--movement and its embrace of the death of the artist and deskilling of the art object.
Sep 23, 2019•31 min•Ep. 94
Wassily Kandinksy was a major aesthetic innovator--he saw spiritual symbolism in color, sought to translate musical sounds into painterly shapes, and is credited for painting the first entirely abstract canvas in 1913. Join our hosts as they explore all the facets of this Russian genius.
Sep 16, 2019•24 min•Ep. 93
For 91 episodes, this show has celebrated the best of the best. But what about the worst of the worst? Join our hosts as they maneuver around the work and lives of three artworld clunkers.
Sep 09, 2019•30 min•Ep. 92
Louise Bourgeois worked in a variety of diverse media throughout her 8 decades-long career. Her evocative, provocative themes dance between her personal experience with trauma to desire, abjection, gender and the body. Join our hosts on this feisty conversation surrounding Bourgeois' art and its impact.
Aug 26, 2019•26 min•Ep. 91
In a moment of prophetic brilliance, Andy Warhol said everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes. However, his fame has endured millions of minutes beyond those 15 with no sign of fading. Join our hosts as they explain why--outlining his art, his process, his persona and his themes of consumerism, celebrity and tragedy.
Aug 19, 2019•33 min•Ep. 90
Contemporary artist Olafur Eliasson uses light and space in the way traditional painters use pigment and canvas. The public space becomes his painterly surface and nontraditional materials, ranging from water, fans, air currents, color dye, fog, ice and moss, become his tools for mark-making. Join our hosts as they passionately debate the legitimacy and value of his practice.
Aug 12, 2019•27 min•Ep. 89
The most respected Italian Renaissance historian, Giorgio Vasari, cited Giotto di Bondone as the absolute first Renaissance artist. Join our hosts as they unravel this statement and explore what the Italian Renaissance is, in what way Giotto's art epitomizes its style and how Humanism changed art forever.
Aug 05, 2019•33 min•Ep. 88
With paintings full of palm trees, outdoor pools and seductive stretches of the open road, David Hockney is the quintessential artist of L.A. Pop. Join our hosts as they celebrate the man who celebrates their city.
Jul 22, 2019•28 min•Ep. 87
Edward Hopper is an icon of American art. His paintings are celebrated in museums throughout the country, are reproduced on countless posters, postcards, cell phone cases--even mousepads--and are constantly referenced in pop-culture. But what is it about his work that people find so mesmerizing and meaningful? Join our hosts to find out!
Jul 15, 2019•28 min•Ep. 86
In the 1920s, Los Tres Grandes--Rivera, Orozco and Siqueiros--created murals throughout Mexico in an effort to reunify the country under the new Mexican Communist Party regime. After the 1929 stock market crash, the United States government commissioned these same men to paint murals that would lift the spirits of the American people and restore their faith in their capitalistic government. Problems ensued. Join our hosts as they unravel this artistic showdown between Communism and Capitalism....
Jul 08, 2019•27 min•Ep. 85
In 1913, European Modernism landed in the U.S. and changed the art game forever. Join our hosts as they discuss the groundbreaking Armory Show and viewers' dramatic reactions to the avant-garde art within its halls.
Jul 01, 2019•31 min•Ep. 84
The fact of the matter is, there are art forgeries everywhere. Fakes are, wittingly or not, sold in galleries, auction houses and displayed on museum walls around the world. Join our hosts as they share their knowledge on these fakes and discuss some of the greatest art forgers of all time.
Jun 06, 2019•26 min•Ep. 83
With her psychologically rich work installed both on the streets but also in museums throughout the world, Swoon captivates art viewers of all types. Join our hosts as they discuss the complexities of her practice, her imagery, her installations--even her name.
May 30, 2019•31 min•Ep. 82
Pablo Picasso is often heralded as the most significant artist of the 20th century--maybe even of all-time. But why? Join our hosts as they debate and discuss all things Picasso: his work, his innovations, his missteps and his misgivings.
May 21, 2019•28 min•Ep. 81
A real G, Auguste Rodin rejected the rigid neoclassical training that dominated 19th century academic sculpture and became the first modern sculptor in the process. Join our hosts as they explain Rodin's radical innovations to the field and explore his most iconic works, like The Thinker and The Kiss .
May 14, 2019•32 min•Ep. 80
The most notorious artist to emerge in the late 1980s and early 90s, Damien Hirst produces work that not only seduces his viewers but also forces them to confront the inevitability of their own mortality. Using dead animals, diamonds and human skulls as his materials, Hirst neatly calculates to offend, provoke and dazzle. Join our hosts as they peel back the layers of his most significant work.
May 07, 2019•26 min•Ep. 79
Philadelphia, celebrated for its hoagies and for being the birth place of U.S. independence, should also be known as a powerhouse art scene. Join our hosts as they discuss iconic art and art moments in the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection.
Apr 30, 2019•24 min•Ep. 78
For 9 turbulent weeks in 1888, artists Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin lived together in Arles. During this time, the two men produced some of their most insightful and iconic paintings. Also during this time, the artists had bitter arguments, one of which ended with van Gogh's infamous ear-cutting episode. Join our hosts as they discuss the work and the interpersonal dynamics.
Apr 23, 2019•25 min•Ep. 77
American landscape paintings from the mid-19th century might not appear terribly complex or interesting. Oh but they are! Join our hosts as they discuss the racism, religiosity and rampant nationalism subtly encoded in these works.
Apr 15, 2019•25 min•Ep. 76
With his ballerina paintings hanging in every museum across the world, there's no denying French Impressionist Edgar Degas was dope. He was also difficult, disruptive, questionably intolerant and a creative visionary. Join our hosts as they explore the various shades of Degas' work and his personality.
Apr 08, 2019•32 min•Ep. 75
Kara Walker is one of the most celebrated and controversial contemporary artists around. Her work is both evocative, but also provocative, exploring intersectional themes of history, race, gender and power. Join our hosts as they unpack her silhouetted installations and explore the effect of their inflammatory content.
Apr 01, 2019•20 min•Ep. 74
Frank Lloyd Wright, the brilliant American architect, irrevocably changed the way homes are lived in and designed. He was also quite the eccentric. Join our hosts as they discuss his incredible contributions to the field of architecture but also his personal irreverence for rules.
Mar 25, 2019•25 min•Ep. 73
During the 1930s, U.S. photography was profoundly determined by responses to the Great Depression. Photographers, including Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange, were commissioned by the government to document Dust Bowl America--at times the landscape but mainly the people living there. But with commissions come agendas. Join our hosts as they analyze the most iconic of these photographs, like Lange's Migrant Mother, and prove that "Documentary" does not equal "document."
Mar 18, 2019•25 min•Ep. 72
