Art Attack w/ Lizy Dastin and Justin BUA
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Art Attack w/ Lizy Dastin and Justin BUA
Art Attack with Lizy Dastin and Justin BUA is a new kind of art podcast—engaging, informed, accessible and raw. Join artist BUA and art historian Lizy as they debate topical artworld happenings, bringing their unique—often contradictory—perspectives to the conversation. BUA is an internationally...
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In Conversation with Positive Creator, Chris Dyer
Multimedia artist Chris Dyer is a dynamic innovator, treating skateboards, linen, the street, NFTs and traditional canvas all as surfaces to transform...
Leaping into the Void with Yves Klein
Known for his avant-garde, conceptual art and patented ultramarine blue, Yves Klein created work during the late 1950s and early '60s that push bounda...
Sam Gilliam: Exuberant Color, Unfurling Canvas
Heralded by many as one of the most innovative contemporary abstract painters, Sam Gilliam created art over decades and decades that challenges the pa...
Maurice Sendak: The Wildest Thing of All
Maurice Sendak, award-winning writer and illustrator of children's books, is a ubiquitous staple of so many people's imaginations and memories. He ill...
If it ain't Baroque, it ain't Bernini
Propelled by the Catholic Church and the Counter-Reformation, 17th century Baroque art was pious, dramatic, theatrical and emotionally intense. Gian L...
Under the Covers with Hanksy aka Adam Lucas aka Adam Himebauch
Contemporary artist, Adam Himebauch, has lived a lot of lives. He peppered the streets of Lower Manhattan with punny street art for years under the mo...
Lady Pink: First Lady of Graffiti
Lady Pink, born Sandra Fabara, was a prominent figure in 1980s graffiti culture, and continues to be a trailblazing woman in the field. Although the w...
AI Copy-right or Copy-wrong?
AI technology is starting to transform every area of life, including the process of making art. Artists are using AI more and more in their work, some...
Grant Wood, An American(a) Icon
Grant Wood's 1930 painting "American Gothic" is one of the most recognizable images in art. Quoted, satired and parodied, this painting's legacy is un...
Cindy Sherman, the Original Selfie?
Among the most ground-breaking of contemporary photographers, Cindy Sherman explores themes of fantasy, feminism, (art) history, the abject, and the s...
Ushering in Modernity with Manet
During the mid-19th century, there was a schism among artists between painting in a traditional manner that evoked the past, and disrupting that past...
Getting Romanced by Delacroix
Eugène Delacroix--innovative, creative, with a flare for drama--was a transformative figure in the art world during the 19th century. Bucking the trad...
This is Not a Magritte Episode
The work of René Magritte's is so iconic that one of his apple paintings inspired Paul McCartney to name the Beatles' company Apple Corps., which, in...
NFTs FTW
NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, are in their relative infancy, but nevertheless taking the artworld by storm. Are these digital, object-less works a tec...
Art & Addiction
Across the art spectra, there is unfortunately a correlative connection between artists and addiction or addictive behavior. From Henri Toulouse-Lautr...
The Ballad of Yoko Ono
Biography often plays an integral role in how any given artist is historicized; however, in the case of Yoko Ono, that biography hasn't done her much...
Que Serra, Serra
The sculptures and public artworks of post-Minimalist Richard Serra are dazzling in their massive scale and quietly contemplative in their aesthetic s...
Art in the Wake of Pandemics
With the terrifying outbreak of COVID-19, we're all living in a new reality. Pandemics; however, are not new and have, throughout history, generated h...
Photography: the Real Beginnings
It's widely written that photography was "invented" by Louis Daguerre in 1839; however, nothing has such a clear or clean origin story. Join our hosts...
Down for Dali
Salvador Dalí is one of history's most iconic, ironic, illogical, irreverent, and integral artists. Best known for his melting clocks and curvy mustac...
Ai Weiwei Go!
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is arguably the most vehemently anti-authoritarian living artist. In his work across media, Ai tackles the tropes of history,...
Art in Nature, Nature as Art
In the late 1960s, artists began to expand the parameters of art in exciting ways: what it can look like, what it can be made from, where it can be lo...
Love is in the Art
Art is often political--a discerning lens scrutinizing its surroundings--or perhaps satirical, culturally inquisitive or rebellious in nature. Art can...
What's Up, Whistler
"Whistler's Mother" is one of the most recognizable and parodied paintings of all-time. The man who painted it, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, is one...
O'Keeffe's Flower Power!
Georgia O'Keeffe is an American icon. Best--and most controversially--known for the series of "flowers" she painted between 1918-1929, O'Keeffe addres...
Munch the Punk
"The Scream" by Edvard Munch is one of the most iconic, ubiquitous and parodied paintings of all-time. Join our hosts as they explore why that is, wha...
Art Critics & Culture Changers
Ever since Giorgio Vasari published Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects in 1550, historians have played a key role in shap...
Latinx Artists in L.A.
For decades, Los Angeles has been the home to significant Latinx artists who use their work to celebrate their cultural heritage and form meaningful c...
Happy Little Bob Ross
Bob Ross, landscape painter and PBS legend, could always be counted on to have a fantastic hair-day and even more fantastic attitude. His TV show, The...
Is Jackson Pollock the World's Greatest Painter?
In 1949, Life Magazine published an article on the (in)famous Abstract Expressionist Jackson Pollock asking whether he was the greatest living painter...
Ask Us Anything! Live Q&A
After the live 100th episode, Lizy and BUA opened up the floor to audience questions--about absolutely anything and everything art related. Check out...
100th Episode Live! Hip Hop & Art
Hip Hop emerged as a fully postmodern, intersectional art expression during the 1980s in the Bronx. Interweaving graffiti writing, b-boy dance, MC sou...
Architecture Guru Gehry
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 mo...
Cézanne: Game Changer
Offering the highest compliment an artist can give, Picasso acknowledged Paul Cézanne as the father of modernism, "the father of us all." Join our hos...
Graffiti: Tags, Toys, Throw-Ups, and All-City
Graffiti, quite literally scratching something into an outdoor surface without permission, has been happening for thousands of years. The graffiti tha...
The War on Culture!
Under the conservative Reagan administration, the 1980s was a constraining time for any artist who tried to push the envelope. Especially vilified dur...
Why do we LOL at Caricatures?
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 t...
The Misunderstood Minimalists
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...
Concerning the Spiritual in Kandinksy
Wassily Kandinksy was a major aesthetic innovator--he saw spiritual symbolism in color, sought to translate musical sounds into painterly shapes, and...
Three of the Worst Artists Ever
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...