Episodes
Wednesday Feb 14, 2018
Art and Our Uncertain Future
Wednesday Feb 14, 2018
Wednesday Feb 14, 2018
Friday Feb 09, 2018
Prospect 4 New Orleans—The Lotus In Spite of the Swamp
Friday Feb 09, 2018
Friday Feb 09, 2018
Come with us to explore Prospect New Orleans, the Crescent City’s triennial of contemporary art. Titled The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp, the fourth iteration evokes the musical character of New Orleans and the surrounding natural environment—the bayous, lakes and wetlands near the mouth of the Mississippi River.
Voices in this episode: Prospect.4’s artistic director Trevor Schoonmaker, former executive director Brooke Davis Anderson, artists Quintron and Miss Pussycat, Paulo Nazareth, Sonia Boyce, Rusty Lazer, Darryl Montana, Davia Nelson of the Kitchen Sisters, and more!
Thursday Feb 01, 2018
Making a Mountain in Miami: Ugo Rondinone's Bright Boulders
Thursday Feb 01, 2018
Thursday Feb 01, 2018
Today, we take you to South Florida, for a conversation about public art with Swiss born artist Ugo Rondinone. Miami Mountain is the latest in his iconic Mountain series. The North American Badlands inspire the towering stack of five brightly colored neon stones that he designed to hold sway over the palm trees in Collins Park on Miami Beach. The Bass Museum of Art’s 2016 public art acquisition arrived in pieces. The boulders came from a quarry in Nevada, making their way to the beachfront park on flatbed trucks. A professional installation crew was ready and waiting. With industrial lifts and cranes, they erected the stone monument in a carefully calculated process that took just over 13 hours.