The Art Equation: A Now Be Here Podcast

Yayoi Shionoiri on Art’s Past, Present, and Future (The Art Equation Series Finale)

Welcome to the final installation of The Art Equation! In our last episode, Kim sits down with Yayoi Shionoiri of NYC’s Powerhouse Arts to discuss her long and varied career as an arts worker, the professionalization of the art world, and new and emerging models of art fairs. The two examine where we are as an art world, where we’ve been, and (possibly) where we’re going. Enjoy one last episode as we wrap up this series!   Mentions: Yayoi Shionoiri; Powerhouse Arts; Chris Burden; Nancy Rubins; Artsy; Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation; Takashi Murakami; Asia Art Archive; Holt Smithson Foundation; City Lights Law; Startbahn; Harvard University; Cornell Law School; Columbia University; Sarah Conley Odenkirk; Art Converge; Megan Noh; Pryor Cashman’s Art Law Group; Madison Beale; Artalogue podcast; Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair; Conductor Fair; Dia Foundation.

Season Finale: But Is It Art?

It’s the season finale! We’re revisiting all of our fantastic guests from this season, as they answer our biggest blue-sky question of them all: but is it Art? Kim and Patricia provide some background on the question’s interesting origins – and their own reflections – as we wrap up a season that has featured 10 incredible folks from all different areas of the art world. Whatever your favorite episode of the season was, this is the one you won’t want to miss! Mentions: Pazo Fine Art;  Brian Michael Dunn;  E.E. Ikeler;  Jonah Frank;  Weissman Museum of Art;  Karl Handel;  Andrea Gyorody;  Susanne Vielmetter; Vielmetter Los Angeles;  Whitney Bedford;  John Divola;  John Baldessari;  Al Held;  Herman Maril Teaching and Research Gallery;  Marcel Duchamp;  Lisa Diane Wedgeworth;  Elyse Driscol;  Melissa Huddleson;  Anne Gauldin;  Yayoi Shionoiri;  Powerhouse Arts;  Julie Wolfe;  Molas;  The Getty Museum;  Sala Elise Patterson;  Elizabeth Botten;  Ruby Lerner;  Nancy Baker Cahill;  Arcane series;  La Jetée;  The Rehearsal/Nathan Fielder;  Matilde Guidelli Guidi;  Walter De Maria;  Rika Burnham;  Marina Abramović;  National Endowment for the Arts;  Creative Capital;  Anonymous Was A Woman.

Matilde Guidelli Guidi: What Do Curators Do All Day?

We’re back in New York! Kim sits down with Dia Art Foundation curator Matilde Guidelli Guidi. The two unpack the central question of what a curator truly is and the work that they do to take an artist’s ideas into reality. Covering Dia’s programming (encompassing both changing and permanent sites and the work of a focused group of artists across the 1960s and 70s), Kim and Matilde chat about the process of realizing works sited in the natural landscape, the complexities of pulling off year-long exhibitions, and reimagining the gallery as a discursive and community space. Finally, Matilde gives us an overview of one day in a curator’s life (and it’s jam-packed, as you might expect)! Mentions:  Matilde Guidelli Guidi;  Dia Art Foundation;  Leslie Hewitt;  Mario Merz;  Senga Nengudi;  Cameron Rowland;  Meg Webster;  Jack Whitten;  Walter De Maria;  Max Neuhaus;  Joseph Beuys;  Musée du Louvre;  Paula Cooper Gallery;  Whitney Museum of American Art;  Artists on Artists Lecture Series;  Lynne Cook;  Dia:Beacon;  Steve McQueen;  Museum of Modern Art (MoMA); Christian Marclay;  The Clock (Christian Marclay);  Venice Biennale;  Lucy Raven;  Martine Syms;  The Lightning Field (Walter De Maria);  Dan Graham;  Robert Irwin;  Louise Lawler;  Bird Calls (Louise Lawler);  Randy Gibson;  Bridget Donahue Gallery;  Jordan Carter;  Ella den Elzen;  Kim Golding.

Art & Tech Series: Nancy Baker Cahill on Unflattening the Irresolvable

In this episode, Kim and Patricia revisit our ongoing Art & Tech series with transdisciplinary artist Nancy Baker Cahill! Nancy walks us through the origins and inflection points within her artistic practice, spanning paper drawings, virtual reality projects, and monumental augmented reality exhibitions. Our trio discusses some of Nancy’s key literary influences, the animal experience of motherhood, and an artist’s cannibalization of her archive. We also dive into complicated questions of resource use in AR artworks and the translation and transmutation of creative forces. This is a sparkling conversation you won’t want to miss! Mentions: LA Forum for Design and Architecture;  LA Metro Art;  Rebecca Mendez;  Jamie Scholnick;  Shinique Smith;  Kim Schoenstadt;  Kentura Davis;  Nancy Baker Cahill;  4th Wall app;  The Art Newspaper;  Frieze;  The New York Times;  Los Angeles Review of Books;  Nam June Paik Art Center;  October Magazine;  The Berggruen Institute;  LACMA Art+Tech Lab;  Infinity Festival;  Harvard Institute MetaLAB;  Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art;  Whitney Museum;  Georgia Museum of Art;  Smart Museum;  RFC Art Collection;  Winthrop University Collection;  Hex Collection;  Virtual Reality;  Mixed Reality;  Augmented Reality;  Carole Ann Klonarides;  Pasadena Museum of California Art;  Drive Studios;  Shaking Earth Digital;  Clarice Lispector;  Neoconcretistas/Neo-Concrete movement;  Franz Kafka;  Charlie James Gallery;  Shana Nys Dambrot;  Gene Youngblood;  Jean Baudrillard;  The Hammer Museum;  Christiane Paul;  Walter Annenberg Lecture;  Machine learning;  “Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism” by Yanis Varoufakis;  “Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power” by Byung-Chul Han;  New York University Tandon School of Engineering;  Carla Gannis;  Zay Amsbury;  “Unflattening” by Nick Sousanis;  Len Lye;  MASS MoCA.

Ruby Lerner: Solutionizing and Success Methodology

Join us for a conversation with the founding director of Creative Capital and longtime arts advocate Ruby Lerner! In this solo episode, Kim sits down with Ruby as she shares invaluable advice about how artists can build a stronger network of long-term support. Ruby draws on her long history as an arts worker and supporter, and shares resources that people in the arts might already have that can move their career to the next level. Mentions: Ruby Lerner (rubylerner.com); Creative Capital; Herberger Institute; Arizona State University; Patty Disney Center for Life and Work; CalArts; Open Society Foundations; Soros International Arts Fellowship; Manhattan Theater Club; Goucher College; University of North Carolina; Alternate ROOTS; National Endowment for the Arts: NEA v. Finley; Archibald Gillies; Andy Warhol Foundation; John Baldessari; Niegel Smith; The Flea theater; Mass MoCA.