BTW #11 Los Angeles and Shrinkage In The Art Market with Guest Jenny Danielsson
BTW #11 Los Angeles and Shrinkage In The Art Market with Guest Jenny Danielsson

By The Way, welcomes guest Jenny Danielsson from the Danielsson & Carlson podcast.  

Jenny shares the news about the recent firing of Helen Molesworth at Los Angeles’ Museum of Contemporary Arts. Jenny and Eric then speculate what might have led to the firing. In the second news story, Eric shares the most recent “health report” of the art market by USB and Art Basel. Are the big galleries and collectors really all that good for the art market?

Let us know what you think. Why was Helen Molesworth fired? And what is your assessment of the health of the art market?

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By The WayGuest UserArt Martket, Los Angeles, Art Basel, PodcastComment
The Level of Truth ft. Johan Furåker (#115)
The Level of Truth ft. Johan Furåker (#115)

When you talk process with an artist, many similarities between practices begin to pop up over time, but there are also those occasions where you hear about more independent ways of working and thinking. Todays conversation with Johan Furåker is of that ilk, one of the ones which are quite inspiring. He’s a thoughtful artist, and methodical, and if you look at his work, you can...

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The Undergang ArmchairThe UndergangJohan Furåker, Sweden, Denmark, Painting, Sculpture, Galleri Flach, Visual Art, PodcastComment
By The Way Mini-episode Announcement
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. 

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BTW #10 - Should Thomas Kinkade Paint Trump's National Portrait?
BTW #10 - Should Thomas Kinkade Paint Trump's National Portrait?

It’s episode 10!

 

Barack and Michelle Obama’s National Portraits were revealed and the gossipy side of the internet was a buzz. On this episode, Ando and Eric discuss the good, the bad, and crazy surrounding these two interesting paintings. They dive into the history of The National Portrait Gallery at The Smithsonian, and the other Contemporary artists represented in the collection. A bizarre and racist interpretation of the Barack’s painting by the Alt-Right. The most important is topic though is who should be commissioned Donald Trump’s portrait?

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By The WayGuest UserArt Critic, politics, Painting, social mediaComment
The Muse ft. Ditte Ejlerskov (#114)
The Muse ft. Ditte Ejlerskov (#114)

Ah, the march of time, the learning of lessons, the rediscovery of delight! What a great talk we have for you today! In the middle of significant personal and political chaos we are so very proud to bring to you today a wonderful conversation with Ditte Ejlerskov recorded a couple of months ago. Talking to her was a reminder of so many important things one must hold dear as an artist; choosing the...

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The Undergang ArmchairThe UndergangDitte Ejlerskov, Denmark, Norway, Painting, Kristiansand Kunsthal, Visual Art, Sound Art, PodcastComment
BTW #9 - What Do Bhutan, France, And Iran All Have In Common?
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).
 

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Defending the Collective ft. Yazan Khalili (#113)
Defending the Collective ft. Yazan Khalili (#113)

We had the great pleasure of meeting and speaking with Yazan Khalili last week, who is the winner of the extract prize 2015 from GLStrand, and just opened his solo show there, by the name of No One Saw The Colours. We had a really fantastic talk about making art, politics, representation and working under tough conditions. Yazan is very dedicated to...

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The Undergang ArmchairThe UndergangYazan Khalili, Palestine, Visual Art, GL Strand, Podcast, Video Art, Installation, PhotographyComment
BTW #8 - Pussy, Drugs, and Jeff Koons
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...

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By The WayGuest UserGalleries, Sweden, Denmark, Podcast, Art News, Pussy Riot, Maurizio Cattelan, Nan Goldin, Jeff KoonsComment
A Different Time ft. Todd James (#112)
A Different Time ft. Todd James (#112)

One of the great things about making this show is the wide variation in experiences and interests we get to hear from the guests. After Nanna last time, we have a completely different type of artist on the show today, with a very different kind of story. It’s nice, because as artists, you slowly start to realize that there isn’t a single way forward, or a rule, or a technique to“make it”. So in that spirit, we have...

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The Undergang ArmchairThe UndergangTodd James, America, Eighteen Gallery, Graffiti, Street Art, Podcast, Painting, Puppetry, Visual ArtComment
BTW #7 - So Baroque That You Have No Monet
BTW #7 - So Baroque That You Have No Monet

Is the Contemporary art world growing or shrinking? Are there more or less opportunities for artists today than in past decades? What is the future gallery model? In this episode Eric and Ando talk about the mega-art dealer David Zwirner expanding global empire. And how over recent years the mid-level galleries have been closing their doors. The closure of these...

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By The WayGuest UserGalleries, Sweden, Denmark, United StatesComment
Botanizing the Asphalt ft. Nanna Debois Buhl (#111)
Botanizing the Asphalt ft. Nanna Debois Buhl (#111)

Welcome back, and happy New Year to all! We have a great artist and incredibly sweet human on the show today; Nanna Debois Buhl. I have gotten to know her a bit over the last year or so and the more I hear about what she does, and how she does it, the more I fall in love with her work. It’s thoughtful, well-researched and also very...

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The Undergang ArmchairThe UndergangNanna Debois Buhl, Denmark, Photography, Conceptual Art, Artist Books, Royal Danish Library, ARoS, Humboldt Books, Visual Art, PodcastComment
BTW #6 - A da Vinci and the Flaming Bag of Dog Poop
BTW #6 - A da Vinci and the Flaming Bag of Dog Poop

How could we not talk about this most recent Christie’s contemporary art auction.  The record breaking painting "by" Leonardo da Vinci titled Salvator Mundi sold for $450,312,500.  We aren’t talking about the obvious talking points, instead we go deeper into the painting’s history. It all plays out like Dan Brown novel. Yes, the guy who used to own Salvator Mundi was imprisoned in the 1990’s for...

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By The WayGuest UserLeonardo da Vinci, Christies, Auction, Money, America, Visual Art, Painting, PodcastComment
Introducing By The Way: A Contemporary Art News Podcast
Introducing By The Way: A Contemporary Art News Podcast

Hello friends - we are tremendously proud to announce the launch of our new podcast network Cultural Bandwidth, as well as the new podcast we are blasting off with on the new network, By The Way: A Contemporary Art News Podcast. Cultural Bandwidth is the world's first podcasting network based around art, and we couldn't be happier to share this with you. There will be a lot of information about exactly...

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The Undergang ArmchairThe UndergangNetwork News, Cultural Bandwidth, PodcastComment
BTW #5 - All About My Selfie
BTW #5 - All About My Selfie

It finally has come to Eric and Ando talking about Instagram. Take about 5 minutes to watch the video clip in the links below to get a better understanding of what we are discussing today. 

Audiences are more comfortable viewing and buying art via their phones than ever before. Why would there not be curators creating exhibitions with that interaction in mind. A trend of “MADE-FOR-INSTAGRAM” exhibitions are trying to change the way...

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By The WayGuest UserInstagram, Exhibition Space, The Museum of Ice Cream, The Color Factory, PodcastComment
A Strange Business ft. Niels Pugholm (#110)
A Strange Business ft. Niels Pugholm (#110)

Greetings and salutations friends, nice to be back for another episode here. Things are cranking along here, you might have noticed that we have started to make some changes, especially on the website. But first, let’s talk about the guest today, Niels Pugholm. We were introduced to him through a captivating artist run space out in Valby, (an outer neighborhood of CPH) called KVADRAT16, and we...

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The Undergang ArmchairThe UndergangNiels Pugholm, Denmark, KVADRAT16, Visual Art, Conceptual Art, PodcastComment
BTW #4 - Theater of the Protest
BTW #4 - Theater of the Protest

Pressure from outside the art world, threats of violence, and an online petition nearing a million people have compelled the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York to remove several artworks from an exhibition. Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World is the title of the exhibition. The cause of the firestorm came when animal rights activists, such as Peta became aware of 3 art works. These 3 works could be misunderstood as...

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By The WayGuest UserGuggenheim Museum NYC, Protest, America, PETA, Animal Rights, Sun Yuan, Peng Yu, Huang Yong Ping, Xu Bing, China, PodcastComment
Vox Populi ft. Gillian Wearing (#109)
Vox Populi ft. Gillian Wearing (#109)

A couple of weeks ago the National Gallery of Art (SMK) here in Copenhagen unveiled a bronze sculpture in front of the museum by Gillian Wearing called A Real Danish Family. This is also in conjunction with an exhibition of her works, they are both well worth seeing. We were lucky enough to have the chance to sit down with Gillian to talk both about the sculpture she made about this danish family, and...

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The Undergang ArmchairThe UndergangGillian Wearing, England, Conceptual Art, Mixed Media, Photography, SMK, Podcast, YBAsComment
Take Your Time ft. Jean-Marc Bustamante (#108)
Take Your Time ft. Jean-Marc Bustamante (#108)

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...

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The Undergang ArmchairThe UndergangJean-Marc Bustamante, France, Visual Art, Photography, Conceptual Art, Director, Art Education, Gallery Susanne Ottesen, PodcastComment
BTW #2 - Death
BTW #2 - Death

A bit of change up on this episode of By The Way, as Eric and Ando  talk about Sam Durant’s sculpture titled Scaffold. Originally created by Sam Durant for dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel, Germany, the work has since been purchased by the Walker Art Center, USA. The story does not end there. We hope you listen to hear about why some people say ‘That's a...

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By The WayGuest UserSam Durant, Walker Art Center, America, dOCUMENTA, Sculpture, Protest, Visual Art, PodcastComment