Creative Flow | The Artifice of Summer in Art and Life | Climate, Desire and Loss
How and why do art and Summer join forces? Art, and visual arts especially, show imminent change–but so does Summer and its ideal of creative flow. How did–or did not–art speak of the climate emergenc...
11 Aug 33min
Rachel Cusk | Can Men Be (Good) Artists? | Art & Literature edition
Writer Rachel Cusk asked: "Can a Woman who is an Artist Ever Just Be an Artist?" (NYT). Our host Joana, your favourite contemporary art writer and curator, turns this question of gender and skill on ...
28 Juli 53min
Art Criticism | Does it Still Matter? An Art Curator's Honest Reckoning
Art criticism is vanishing from mainstream media, but here's the uncomfortable question: does art and culture still need critics? Our host, Joana P. R. Neves, art curator and writer, examines why crit...
13 Juli 56min
Art Wonderment Manifesto | ft Lao Tzu, Susanna Inglada, Fernando Pessoa's Best Heteronym
AI is forcing us to define what being human is. So, did our host, an art curator and writer, dare to create a Manifesto? Awkward? Or are we not used to women proclaiming things? How can art–seemingly ...
29 Juni 45min
Art Copies v Originals | Is Art Wonderment Possible with a Reproduction of an Art Work?
As an art curator and writer, our host is often faced with printed or digital art portfolios – does this art digital hygiene go against art etiquette? Is art appreciation valid, or even possible throu...
15 Juni 57min
Time for Digital Hygiene | Why Analog Art Wonderment is Required Online
Art curator, writer and host Joana P. R. Neves, asks the ultimate art question of art questions: could art appreciation be a powerful combination of the analog and the digital? Even stranger: how does...
1 Juni 50min
Chris Kraus | Creative Freedom and Visual Art in “I Love Dick” | Art & Literature Edition
Does obscurity lead to creative freedom? Why do I ask? Because of one sentence in American writer Chris Kraus' "I Love Dick" saying that once we accept obscurity, we can do what we want. Could this be...
18 Maj 1h 18min
Marcel Proust | The Art Anxiety of Missing Artistic Quality with "La Berma" | Art & Literature Edition
There is a little discussed sub-plot in Proust's books: the narrator growing into art wonderment. Joana unfolds this storyline about art and life: How can you spot artistic talent? To what extent the...
4 Maj 1h 16min
