A Pop Quiz on the subject of art and show-biz: 1. Name the rapper who claims he’s the 21st century Picasso. 2. Who’s the contemporary…
Austin Museum of Art-Arthouse (AMOA-Arthouse) is a hybrid contemporary art institution with two architecturally distinct venues: Laguna Gloria and the Jones Center. At the edge…
This episode features Louis Grachos, new director of Austin Museum of Art-Arthouse (currently known as AMOA-Arthouse). Louis has been an arts leader on the move….
In summer 2012, we travel to New England to visit MacDowell, a New Hampshire retreat for artists, writers, and composers. We’re among hundreds of visitors…
Yane Calovski, a transmedia artist and curator based in Skopje, Macedonia, meets Cathy Byrd in Istanbul. Since 1998, his research-based works have been exhibited at…
On Skype, we connect with London-based curator Helena Reckitt about the artists she selected to participate in Nuit Blanche Toronto 2012. Each year, the citywide…
Cathy Byrd meets creatives at the intersection of contemporary art and food in Barcelona. Iranian-born Mariam Shambayati talks about her multi-media art project Moulinex-Me and the conceptual dinner parties she stages in the Food Cultura Museum. This anti-museum’s founders Montse Guillén and Antoni Miralda have mixed art and food around the world for decades.
Cathy Byrd talks on the phone with Franklin Sirmans, curator of contemporary art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Their conversation considers the essential role of public art at LACMA and Franklin’s upcoming curatorial projects.
Living and working in New York and Barcelona, Spanish artist Antoni Muntadas talks about the importance of language and the social body in the multi-media…
In 2012, Cathy Byrd shares stories and sounds from ARCO Madrid, Spain’s annual contemporary art fair. Stories: Suzanne Rietdijk, curator, ZINGERpresents, Amsterdam; Voluspa Jarpa, artist,…
