Last week, art & technology pioneer Julie Martin raised questions about Rhizome’s Seven on Seven event. We were able to finagle a ticket to the event (not easy!) and we have to say, it was pretty inspiring. In this episode, we have a follow-up interview with Rhizome’s Lauren Cornell, as well as clips from the [...]
This week, contemporary art gets Snookied. Claire went to the press launch of Bravo’s forthcoming reality show, Work of Art, the Next Great Artist and caught up with Simon de Pury about the process of casting the show. As Rhizome gears up for its Seven on Seven event, which pairs up artists with technologists, we [...]
This week, we talk to Art Fag City’s Paddy Johnson about Richard Flood’s ‘prairie dog’ comments and whether the Internet spells doom for the professional art critic; we find out how you can exchange artwork for health care (for real); we review Barbara Kruger at Mary Boone and Lyle Ashton Harris at CRG Gallery. We [...]
We’ve got a hard-hitting episode for you this week, folks! The important issues of the day are discussed: health care reform and its possible effects on artists; Ai Weiwei’s comments at a panel discussion at the Paley Center this week; Pawel Wojtasik’s monumental installation at Smack Mellon; and Rainer Ganahl’s new show at Alex Zachary.
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In our silliest episode yet, we learn the shocking truth about Shaq O’Neal: he’s a cheat! (At art. Not basketball). We pit Shaq against Jeff Koons in a battle of celebrity curators; we visit Triple Canopy’s new space in Brooklyn. We review the Brucennial, the Biennial, the Rhizome/Triple Canopy-ennial. We talk to Michael Mandiberg about [...]
Episode 3 is here, and it’s a doozy! This week, we talked to Jerry Saltz about whether his Facebook page is a sign of social media-pocalypse. Andrew Jeffrey Wright discussed his fourth grade art project; Michael compared Amy Granat’s camera to lady parts, while Claire spoke to FLAG Art Foundation’s Stephanie Roach and got excited [...]
What a week. We Skyped with Haitian artist Mario Benjamin, we learned that Cory Arcangel really doesn’t know how to use Photoshop, we review work by Elisabeth Subrin, LaToya Ruby Frazier and Gelitin. As X-initiative closed its doors and went to sleep, we discussed our various medical symptoms with a sympathetic Brian Dillon, critic and [...]
Here it is, folks! The first ever episode of Radiovisual, the new podcast about contemporary art in New York hosted by Michael Connor and Claire Hamilton. It’s fast, it’s funny, it has Thurston Moore in it. We discuss Jeffrey Deitch’s appointment to MOCA, we lament the closure of Monkeytown, and we review Omer Fast, Patti [...]