Coagula: Secrets of the Art World

(Originally recorded December 6, 2020) Artist Rick Jones joins us to discuss something everyone is talking about. The world was agog when a metal sculpture mimicking the appearance of classic minimalism appeared on public lands in the Utah Desert. We digress into all sorts of art nerd conversation.

(Originally recorded January 6, 2020) recorded Conceptual art giant John Baldessari died at age 78 just after the new decade dawned. This tribute to him was recorded as news of the passing broke.

(Originally recorded December 6, 2019) Perhaps symptomatic of art world excess or merely a poetic meditation on the absurdity of concept as a commodity, Maurizio Cattelan taped a banana to a wall and priced it in six figures and brought the 2019 Art Basel Miami Beach fair to a standstill.

(Originally recorded November 27, 2019) Long before he painted the official portrait of President Barack Obama, artist Kehinde Wiley was making historic inroads into the mainstream art world. With this signature piece in his oeuvre he got more recognition for a signature style that defines its very times. Does this make him the artist of the decade?

(Originally recorded November 24, 2019) The Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art saw its employees vote to unionize in November of 2019. It was a momentous shift in institutional consciousness in a time when museums are demanding a higher political consciousness of their audiences. How does that shoe feel on the other foot?