American artist Tabboo! discusses his love of painting, collection of glitter, and early friendships with Nan Goldin and Jack Pierson. He talks about his performances at the legendary Pyramid Club alongside drag legends like Rupaul and Lady Bunny. Tabboo! also contributed graphic design for album covers, including Deee-Lite's World Clique. His paintings are described as delicious, fresh, and transparent, revealing every touch of color.

Talk Art NYC special episode! We meet American art critic ROBERTA SMITH from her apartment in Greenwich Village. We explore her career over the past 50 years - Smith first began publishing art criticism in 1972. This epic feature-length conversation gets deep as we discuss visual literacy within education and the 'meaning' of art! In 2011, Smith became the first woman to hold the title of Co-Chief Art Critic of The New York Times.Roberta Smith regularly reviews museum exhibitions, art fairs and gallery shows in New York, North America and abroad. Smith began regularly writing for the Times in 1985, and has been on staff there since 1991. She has written on Western and non-Western art from the prehistoric to the contemporary eras. She sees her main responsibility as “getting people out of the house,” making them curious enough to go see the art she covers, but she also enjoys posting artworks on Instagram and Twitter. Special areas of interest include ceramics textiles, folk and outsider art, design and video art. Before the NYT, she was a critic for the Village Voice from 1980 to 1984. She has written critic’s notebooks on the need for museums to be free to the public; Brandeis University’s decision to close its museum and sell its art collection (later rescinded), and the unveiling of the Google Art Project, which allowed online HD views of paintings in the collections of scores of leading museums worldwide. Born in New York City, Smith was raised in Lawrence, Kansas, and earned her BA from Grinnell College in Iowa. She was introduced to the art world in the late 1960s, first as an intern at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, in Washington, DC, and later as a participant in the Whitney’s Independent Study Program. During her time at the Whitney, she became familiar with the New York art world, and she met the artist Donald Judd, who would figure large in her early career. Smith wrote about Judd’s development from two to three dimensions, between 1954 and 1964, and began collecting and archiving his writings. Smith began working at the Paula Cooper Gallery in 1972, at which time she also began writing for Artforum, the New York Times, Art in America, and the Village Voice, where she has written important considerations of Philip Guston’s late paintings, the sculptures of Richard Artschwager, and Scott Burton’s performances. Smith has written many essays for catalogues and monographs on contemporary artists, as well as on the decorative arts, popular and outsider art, design, and architecture. In 2003, the College Art Association awarded her with the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Art Criticism.Furthermore in 2019 Smith was presented a $50,000 lifetime achievement award from the Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation. Due to NYT's editorial guidelines, Smith was unable to accept the cash prize and donated the entirety to the Art for Justice Fund, an organization launched by philanthropist Agnes Gund, whose goals include “safely cutting the prison population in states with the highest rates of incarceration, and strengthening education and employment options for people leaving prison.”: "Roberta Smith has been responsible for building an audience for the art of the self-taught, for ceramic art, video art, digital art, systems of re-presentation and much more. Across many traditional boundaries, she has offered a frank, lovingly detailed assessment of new art and artists to her expansive readership. Hers is a voice listened to by millions of readers."Follow @RobertaSmithNYT on Instagram and Twitter.Read www.nytimes.com/by/roberta-smith Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

New Talk Art! We meet artist Sara Sadik, presented by BMW.Sara Sadik (b. 1994, FR) is inspired by what she terms “beurcore”: the youth culture developed by working-class members of the Maghrebi diaspora. Her work brings together video, performance, installation and photography in order to explore beurcore’s manifestations, while her references span music, language, fashion, social networks and science fiction. These narratives, which the artist regularly features in, often document and analyse beurcore’s social and aesthetic symbols. Starting from a semiological and sociological analysis of the “beurness”, Sadik  goes on to hijack these social clichés by deconstructing and reintegrating them into fictions.For the seventh consecutive year, Frieze and BMW continue their long-term partnership with the art initiative BMW Open Work. French artist Sara Sadik worked closely with BMW to present “LA POTION (EH)” - a video and gaming experience, using BMW’s My Modes and the new AirConsole technology of the BMW i5 as a playing device. Both works premiered in October at KOKO inside the BMW Open Work Lounge during Frieze London. In celebration of their collaboration, Frieze and BMW also invited London-based musician Loyle Carner as this year's Frieze Music performer. We loved seeing his concert!BMW Open Work is a joint initiative between Frieze and BMW, bringing together art, innovation, technology and design in a pioneering multi-platform format. Curated by Attilia Fattori Franchini, BMW Open Work invites an artist to develop an ambitious project utilising BMW technology and design to pursue their practice in new directions. This year, the invited artist is Marseille-based Sara Sadik, whose practice lies halfway between fiction and documentary. Her work, be it video or performance, is inspired by video games, anime, science-fiction as well as French rap, and puts forward characters facing challenges and striving to achieve moral and physical transformation through initiatory stories.Conceived as part of BMW Open Work 2023, “LA POTION (EH)” continues the artist’s interest in the possibilities of computer-generated scenarios and her investigation into the changing emotional states of young male characters. The project unfolds as an interactive video game, devised to be played exclusively in the new, fully electric BMW i5 as well as a video installation presented both on the public-facing terrace of KOKO and inside the BMW Lounge. Guided by the Avatar Neregy, a virtually alienated character who struggles to connect with people, the viewer follows him across different worlds, tasks, and challenges to complete his quest for psychological healing and transformation.Learn more at https://frieze.com/bmw-open-work Follow @SaraSadik and @BMWGroupCulture on Instagram. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Marina Abramović, an art world icon and performance art pioneer, discusses her five decades of making art, the challenges of explaining performance art, her artistic journey from childhood to spirituality, the discipline of art and the body's capabilities, exploring ancient water and the power of crystals, an imaginary art heist, favorite color, and future work, and her desire to go to space.

🍷🎨💫 New @TalkArt! We welcome the MOST WANTED COLLECTIVE!! Over the last few months we have collaborated with Most Wanted Wines to commission a series of limited-edition bottles designed by artists from lesser-represented communities.  ❤ A true celebration of diversity through creativity, and in this podcast we get to hear from the artists.  🎨 We chose the 3 artists because we felt their work would connect with diverse audiences and inspire people with their symbolic, captivating and striking artwork. Each artist has a unique perspective and style which creates a very special series of designs for each wine bottle. 🎤 In the episode we chew the fat with Tejumola Butler Adenuga @butlerarchive, Ana Curbelo @untepid and Anshika Khullar @aorists, as well as Calum Hall from @creativedebuts who we worked with to select the artists. We discuss their work, influences and pinpoint social issues that present barriers to creativity...and trust us when we say that there are some amazing personal and emotive stories. 🍷 Most Wanted Wines believe that good wine, just like good art, should and can be enjoyed by everyone, and aim to make both wine and art as inclusive as possible. 🔗 Follow @MostWantedWines and visit www.mostwantedwines.co.uk🔗 Follow Anshika Khullar @aorists🔗 Follow Ana Curbelo @untepid🔗 Follow Tejumola Butler Adenuga @butlerarchive🔗 Follow Calum Hall @creativedebuts  🍷 The special edition Collective 2.0 bottles are available nationwide #AD Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Artist and Stage Designer, Es Devlin’s work explores biodiversity, linguistic diversity and collective ai-generated poetry. She views the audience as a temporary society and encourages profound cognitive shifts by inviting public participation in communal choral works. Her canvas ranges from public sculptures and installations at Tate Modern, V&A, Serpentine, Imperial War Museum and United Nations General Assembly, to kinetic stage designs at the Royal Opera House, the National Theatre and the Metropolitan Opera, as well as Olympic ceremonies, Super-Bowl half-time shows, and monumental illuminated stage sculptures for Beyoncé, The Weeknd, Dr Dre, Kendrick Lamar and U2. She is the subject of a major new monographic book, An Atlas of Es Devlin, described by Thames & Hudson as their most intricate and sculpturalpublication to date, and a retrospective exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Museum of Design in New York. She was the first female designer of the UK pavilion at Expo 2020 and her practice was the subject of the Netflix documentary series Abstract: The Art of Design. She has been awarded the London Design Medal, three Olivier awards, a Tony award, an Ivor Novello award, Doctorates from the Universities of Bristol, Kent and the University of the Arts London as well as Royal Designer for Industry by the Royal Society of Arts and CBE.Visit: https://EsDevlin.com/ and Follow @EsDevlinBuy Es Devlin's major new book An Atlas of Es Devlin at all good bookstores including Waterstone's.Published by Thames & Hudson: https://www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/books/an-atlas-of-es-devlin-hardcover Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We meet artist Phoebe Collings-James whose work often eludes linear retellings of stories. Instead, her works function as “emotional detritus”: they speak of knowledges of feelings, the debris of violence, language and desire which are inherent to living and surviving within hostile environments. Recent works have been dealing with the object as subject, giving life and tension to ceramic forms. As young nettle, a musical alias, she loves sound that totally envelopes her and is part of B.O.S.S., a QTIBIPOC sound system based in South London.Drawn to high octane sensual emotional sound, with heavy bass and wild lyrical flows, she creates sound design for original music productions. Including Sounds 4 Survival, an undulating live performance created with SERAFINE1369, which asks the question of what an anti-assimilationist practice can be. As the 2021 Freelands Ceramic Fellow she has an upcoming exhibition at Camden Arts Centre, London, in autumn 2021. Collings-James’s Mudbelly ceramics studio began as a personal practice and research outlet, but has since grown to encompass a shop and a teaching facility offering free ceramics courses for Black people in London, taught by Black ceramicists.Phoebe's new exhibition Bun Babylon; A Heretics Anthology, runs until 28 October 2023 at Arcadia Missa gallery, London.https://arcadiamissa.com/bun-babylon-a-heretics-anthology/Follow @PhoebeTheGorgon and @ArcadiaMissaVisit: https://www.phoebecollingsjames.com/and https://arcadiamissa.com/phoebe-collings-james/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Artist Sophie von Hellermann discusses her epic installations and Margate-themed paintings. Her latest work for a solo booth at Frieze London 2023 is inspired by Margate's iconic funfair, Dreamland. The paintings feature carousels, Ferris wheels, and soothsayers, creating a carnival atmosphere. Sophie von Hellermann explores themes such as seaside culture, Victorian seafronts, and the playfulness of art.

Talk Art Special LIVE EPISODE with Ruinart! We met leading French artist EVA JOSPIN! Live from London's Frieze week, this inspiring episode was recorded in the Serpentine Pavilion designed by Lina Ghotmeh in front of a live audience. With the belief art can enlighten and connect us, Ruinart gives Carte Blanche to leading contemporary artists every year to pay tribute to the Maison’s legacy, this year French Artist Eva Jospin.As part of the Carte Blanche program Eva Jospin imagined an artistic and sensory encounter offering her vision of the terroir of Maison Ruinart. Like a cross-sectional landscape, the site of the Montagne de Reims appeared to the French artist as composed of different geological and temporal strata, real and imaginary. Eva Jospin is passionate about the richness of this region and the know-how transmitted there: from the underground world of the crayères to the roots and interlacing vines; from the coronation of the kings of France in Reims Cathedral to the ennoblement of the Ruinart family under Charles X; and from the conversion of the old chalk quarries into cellars to the Maison’s expanded commitment to supporting biodiversity. PROMENADE(S), a series of drawings, sculptures and embroideries, invites each of us to immerse ourselves in this landscape, as if plunging into a mysterious story intertwining the cycles of history and plants, life and creation.  It is on show now at Frieze London in the Ruinart Art Bar until 15 October. More can be found out at Ruinart.comFollow @RuinartPlease drink responsibly THANKS FOR LISTENING!!! Special thanks to everyone who got a ticket and came to watch this episode recording Live in London!!! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We meet artist Rafał Zajko (b.1988, Białystok, Poland). Zajko’s work deals with issues around the industrial past, exploring its environmental impact in relation to working class heritage and queer identities. His sculptural practice incorporates diverse materials and processes including ceramics, ventilation systems, prosthetics and performance as a means to examine folklore, science fiction and queer technoscience, placing an emphasis on the industrial materials and processes that resonate with his heritage. Zajko is currently working on a public commission with Wysing Arts Centre and St. Peters School in Cambridge, performance commission ‘Techno Harvest’ for Deptford X festival and a new sculptural commission for Kunsthalle Vienna in autumn 2023. He studied for an an MFA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London and a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art, London, UK. Recent solo exhibitions include ‘Amber Waves II’, Galeria Fran Reus, Palma, Mallorca, SP (2022), ‘Song to the Siren', Cooke Latham Gallery, London, UK (2022), ‘Amber Waves’, Public Gallery, London, UK (2021), ‘Resuscitation’, Castor Projects, London, UK (2020), ‘We Were Here/My Tu Bylismy’, Galeria Im. Slendzinskich, Białystok, PL (2019) and ‘Unputdownable’, White Cubicle, London, UK (2018). Selected group exhibitions include ‘Support Structures’, Gathering, London (2023), ‘Swiat nie wierzy lzom’, Galeria Arsenal, Białystok, Poland (2022), ‘London Open 2022’, Whitechapel Gallery, London Uk (2022), ‘New Contemporaries 2021’, South London Gallery, London, UK (2021), ‘26 Degrees East’, Wiels Annex, Brussels, Belgium (2020), ‘Age of Ephemerality’, X Museum, Beijing, CN (2020), 'Clay TM’, TJ Boulting, London, UK (2020) and ‘Bold Tendencies 2020’, London, UK (2020). In 2020 Zajko was the recipient of the Bow Graduation Studio Award.Visit: RAFAŁ ZAJKO CLOCKING OFF open now and runs until 26th November 2023: https://queercircle.org/rafal/Nearest tube: North Greenwich. Free entry.Follow @Rafal_Zajko and @QueerCircleRafal's website is: https://www.rafal-zajko.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.