Episode 54: Grief in Art
A short, yet gloomy, podcast for summer. My mother Ruth Staff Brandl passed away very recently at the age of 87. In this tough, sad time, my mind still approaches the world through art, yet I find it ...
23 Jul 20196min
Episode 53: Dictatorship of the Consensoriat
The creation of a term for one of the problems in the artworld, one very obvious around June each year when we all go to the Basel Art Fair, often the Venice Biennale, documenta etc. A phrase for the...
31 Mai 20196min
Episode 52: Julia Kristeva, Metaphor as Resistance
Julia Kristeva, the Bulgarian-French philosopher, offers in her theorization hope for resistance against ruling ideologies within artworks themselves. Artists can produce "openings" by creating metaph...
12 Mai 20197min
Episode 51: Bluesman of Art
Dr Cornel West has described himself as a "Bluesman in the life of the mind, and a Jazzman in the world of ideas." I feel similarly, I am a Bluesman of the mind, a Rock n Roller of painting and instal...
27 Apr 20199min
Episode 50: Petr Brandl, Prague and Me
FIFTY! Petr Brandl, the once very famous Baroque painter from Bohemia/Czech Republic and my distant ancestor. And a Festival Brandl with Geisslers Hofcomoedianten in Prague!
14 Apr 201913min
Episode 49: Performance-Paintings
Peaceable Kingdom, Georama, Kamishibai. Edward Hicks, John Banvard, Toba Sojo. Inspirations and antecedants for my Dr Great Art performance-lecture paintings.
3 Mar 201912min
Episode 48: Artists' Side Jobs
This podcast episode concerns something important to many artists, yet seldom openly discussed. That is, what "side jobs" artists have to do to stay alive. Many do not want to admit to this AT ALL.
1 Feb 201920min
Episode 47: Braid Model of Art History
The future art is not posthistorical, but rather polyhistorical, plurogenic (multistrand), not monogenic (single strand). There are various models and/or master narratives of art history, from the imm...
30 Des 201814min
