BTW - The Virtual Art World

Daniel Birnbaum, Director of Moderna Museet in Stockholm leaves to join the virtual reality company Acute Art based in London. Eric and Ando discuss the future of VR technology in art and the role it already has played.

We are also announcing that Cultural Bandwidth has invited 4 new podcasts to the platform. The Artword, The Conversation (Art Podcast), Art Attack W/ Lizy Dastin and Justin Bua, and the Danish language podcast Lydkunst. Find out more and links to the podcasts on Cultural Bandwidth.

By The WayGuest UserJuly 25, 2018Modern Museet, Art News, Virtual Reality, Daniel Birnbaum, Acute Art, StockholmComment

By The Way Mini-episode - Returned, Removed, and Yippee Ki Yay MotherFucker

We follow up on a few stories in this By The Way Mini-episode titled Returned, Removed, and Yippee Ki Yay MotherFucker.

The first topic is a follow up from BTW #1 - Thievery, when Ando and I discussed the smuggling of Iraqi artifacts by the American…

By The WayGuest UserMay 8, 2018Art News, Guggenheim Museum NYC, Jeff Koons, Hobby Lobby, Art TheftComment

BTW #12 “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark”

By The Way: A Contemporary Art News Podcast is back with episode #12 “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark”

Join Eric Wall and Ando again as they discuss the basis' of the lawsuit that accuses Jeff Koons and Gagosian Gallery of running a "Ponzi-like scheme". We talk a little about how editions are produced, the difference between…

By The WayGuest UserApril 24, 2018Art News, Art Critic, Jeff Koons, Art Martket, CrimeComment

By The Way Mini-episode - Postmasters Gallery NYC

On this Mini-episode of By The Way: A Contemporary Art News Podcast Eric talks about Postmasters Gallery NYC and their recent Patreon campaign strategy. He has his doubts, but what do you think?

By The Way, also wants to give a shout out to The Conversation Art Podcast, as Jenny Danielsson, our co-host from episode #11 Los Angeles and Shrinkage In The Art Market was interviewed. They are making a great podcast and you all should go take a listen.

By The WayGuest UserApril 13, 2018Art News, Podcast, New York, Postmaster Gallery, Mini-episodeComment

By The Way Mini-episode Announcement

News from the art world does not stop when we are unable to bring it to you on By The Way: A Contemporary Art News Podcast. Many of the stories that we discuss on BTW continue to evolve after the release of an episode. Those of us here at Cultural Bandwidth have decided to introduce By The Way Mini-episodes. These are short episodes that will update all you the listeners on all those stories.

By The WayGuest UserMarch 17, 2018Art NewsComment

BTW #9 - What Do Bhutan, France, And Iran All Have In Common?

Eric and Ando take a trip around the world in this episode. Iranian contemporary art gallerist is facing a jail time, corporal punishment, and confiscation of their assets for their involvement in the art world. We discuss street artist Invader, and his tasteless placement of his works in the country of Bhutan. We first spoke about Invader in BTW episode #1 - Thievery. Lastly, we discuss a legal case in France, where Facebook is being charged with limiting the freedom of expression of a school teacher. The teacher charges that Facebook deleted his account when he posted Gustave Courbet’s The Origin of the World (1866).

By The WayGuest UserFebruary 14, 2018Podcast, Art News, Street ArtComment

BTW #8 - Pussy, Drugs, and Jeff Koons

Today Eric and Ando blaze through 4 topics. Pussy Riot seeks asylum in Sweden, and the Guggenheim offers Donald Trump a golden toilet by Maurizio Cattelan. Topics become a little more serious when they bring up Nan Goldin and the opioid crisis in the US. Goldin calls on her fellow artists and art institutions to resist the Sackler Family and Purdue Pharma. And what would be an episode BTW without...

By The WayGuest UserJanuary 31, 2018Galleries, Sweden, Denmark, Podcast, Art News, Pussy Riot, Maurizio Cattelan, Nan Goldin, Jeff KoonsComment