Podcast: Kara Walker

April 11th, 2008

Kara Walker, “Negress Notes (Brown Follies)”, 1996-1997, Watercolor on paper. Courtesy the Hammer Museum.

A new podcast featuring Art21 artist Kara Walker is now available¬†through iTunes¬†or¬†KCET.org. Walker discusses her work with Gary Garrels,¬†chief curator¬†at the Hammer Museum,¬†where the artist’s¬†touring survey¬†My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love is currently on view.

Podcast: Mark Dion lecture in Toronto

January 28th, 2008

Mark Dion, <i>Alexander Wilson Studio</i>, 1999. Wooden structure with taxidermic specimens, sketches and miscellaneous objects from the Carnegie Museum Collection, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh.

Learn more about Season 4 artist Mark Dion in an audiocast of a talk Dion gave the inaugural 2008 Canadian Art International Lecture Series on January 18 at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. Listen as he discusses the development of his work over the past ten years. (running time: 1 hour 15 minutes)

[via Canadian Art Online]

Podcast: Roni Horn at Frieze 2007

January 25th, 2008

Roni Horn, Art:21 Production Still,

From the Frieze archives: a podcast of artist Roni Horn (Season 3) describing the site-specificity and seriality in her work. In this 40-minute keynote lecture from the 2007 Frieze Art Fair in London (”Cultural Cartography,” October 14), Horn talks about her time and works in Iceland and her most recent project, Library of Water, in particular. It is the culmination of a lifelong interest in the relationship of language to place.

Access this podcast here.

[via Frieze]