(Originally recorded November 9, 2019) Mark Grotjahn is the leading proponent of antidepressant expressionism and his canvases have regularly brought in sums above ten million dollars. Is this “Talented Mister Stripey” the artist of the decade or a starburst that will soon fizzle?
(Originally recorded November 7, 2019) Yayoi Kusama is the rare artist to deliver the most impactful work of a long career in her eighties. With her global reach and signature style finding a detente between Pop and Expressionism, was Kusama the artist of the decade?
(Originally recorded November 3, 2019) How do we establish a methodology to rank artists by their achievements and impact? To begin a series of podcasts examining the greatest artist of the “TENS” …2010-2019 let’s talk about establishing a ranking methodology.
(Originally recorded November 6, 2019) The day after seventy of its employees voted to unionize, L.A.’s Marciano Museum announced that it was closing. Busting unions is a synonym of the Marciano brothers way more than art collecting is, but this time it looks like the union busted them!
Oh isn’t it just the epitome of the contemporary art world to plop an abandoned boat on which dozens of refugees drowned into the middle of an international biennial that caters to the tastes and investments of the global one percent? The “artist” behind this, Christoph Büchel, is symptomatic of a class of artist that …
L.A.’s MOCA named Mia Locks its chief curator. It would be impossible for her to treat the staff any more dehumanizing than her predecessor Helen Molesworth so the only way to go is up from here!
What’s Up Doc? Well, if you are Jeff Koons, the chance to become the world’s highest priced artist is at hand. How the hell did this happen? Let’s investigate how a steel rabbit cast from an inflatable vinyl toy became a money vacuum!
Michael Govan is the director of LACMA and is getting his way with bulldozing most of the museum’s campus to build a gazillionaire’s tarpit dream as architect Peter Zumthor has tried to create an exhibition space splash… but is it?
Perhaps the most famous celebrity photographer of the Baby-Boomer era, Annie Liebovitz, had a major photo survey at Hauser & Wirth in the Downtown L.A. Arts District. How boomer was it? From the Rolling Stones in Anaheim to Sid Vicious in Texas, from Jerry Brown in Sacramento to Hubert Humphrey in Chicago, it was all …
Larry Gagosian is opening… a restaurant? In Beverly Hills! Tune in to hear about dinner…