One of the great pleasures of making this show is having conversations with people who have some history behind them, people who have seen the ins and outs of the art world through many years, and to hear what is and is not important to them. The guest today is Jean Marc Bustamante, and he is a perfect example of the type of experienced artist and person we speak of. He of course has a long and storied art career, but he also has...
Read MoreAnd just like that we are back again! Happy time related holiday folks, we hope you had a good one. We are blazing into the new year with this fantastic talk with two of the folks from SixtyEight Art Institute, based here in Copenhagen. For those who might not know SixtyEight is a forward-thinking curatorial and research platform which is run by some tremendously engaged folks who are thinking about art and how it can interact with...
Read MoreWelcome to episode 75! That's some sort of milestone, right? We are continuing our run of the movers and shakers in the art world, and we are happy to share our conversation with Merete Jankowski, the director of Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art with you. As far as we are concerned, someone like Merete makes the best kind of institute director out there. She is consistently anti-careerist, she is a soldier in service of art and she isn't afraid to...
Read MoreWelcome back to the final installment of our talk with the engaged and enthusiastic director of the Danish National Gallery of Art, Mikkel Bogh. Last week we heard about where Mikkel comes from, and what brought him to his current job. This week we hear about the challenges and compromises one must make in a position like his. He talks about the inherent politics of his job and the role of the state in the...
Read MoreAn interesting thing about being an adult in the this crazy world is that at a certain point you realize that you can’t do it all. That is, unless you are Mikkel Bogh. He is the director of The National Gallery of Denmark, and the former head of the Royal Art Academy and he really clarified some things about the upper echelons of art institutions for us. We thought that the system favored the pencil pusher type, the business man, the high school principal, and their role was mostly just to slap reality into the face of artist types and scream we can’t...
Read MoreToday in the midst of website chaos and falling idols we are joined by the face of calm himself, Jacob Fabricius. He is the directory of Charlottenborg Kunsthall here in Denmark and...
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