Art + Ideas

PODCAST: Pierre Koenig’s Modernist LA Homes

Architectural historian Neil Jackson explores key works by this important Los Angeles architect.

PODCAST: The Lives of Velázquez

Getty curator Anne Woollett explores the life of this great painter through two biographies by his contemporaries.

PODCAST: Real and Fantastical Beasts from the Medieval World to Contemporary Art

What did people in medieval Europe believe about animals and how have those beliefs impacted art and culture then and now?

PODCAST: Talking Art History with Getty Research Institute Director Mary Miller

A wide-ranging discussion with the new director of the Getty Research Institute.

PODCAST: An American Odyssey—Mary Schmidt Campbell on Artist Romare Bearden

Romare Bearden’s life provides a fascinating window into the history of the United States and its art.

PODCAST: The Provocative Anti-Establishment Anti-Art of Fluxus

A collaboration between the LA Philharmonic and the Getty Research Institute brings Fluxus scores to life.

PODCAST: Thelma Golden on the Past and Future of the Studio Museum in Harlem

The museum’s director shares insights into the institution’s beginnings, its influential role in broadening the art historical cannon, and its exciting future plans.

PODCAST: New Insights into Jacopo da Pontormo’s Style with Curator Davide Gasparotto

Exploring the art and politics of Florence in the late 1520s through the works of one painter.

PODCAST: How Photographer Carleton Watkins Chronicled the West

Art historian Tyler Green discusses the life and legacy of an understudied photographer.

PODCAST: The Unusual Life of Photographer Julia Margaret Cameron

The story of a pioneering artist as told by Virginia Woolf, critic Roger Fry, and the artist herself.

PODCAST: Thomas Hines on Arthur Drexler and MoMA’s Department of Architecture and Design

Tracing the development of architecture and design at MoMA through the career of its longest-serving curator.

PODCAST: Artist Tacita Dean and Her Many Mediums

Gaeta (Fifty Photographs Plus One), 2015, Tacita Dean. 9 hand-printed gloss black and white fibre-based photographs mounted on paper, 11 hand-printed matte black and white fibre-based photographs mounted on paper, 12 hand-printed matte color photographs mounted on paper, 12 hand-printed high-gloss color photographs mounted on dibond, 7 hand-printed Cibachromes, Dimensions vary between 18 x 27 cm / 7-1/16 x 10-5/8 in. and 105 x 157.5 cm / 41-5/16 x 62 in. Courtesy of the artist, Frith Street Gallery, London and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York / Paris.

PODCAST: Artist Tacita Dean and Her Many Mediums

A wide-ranging conversation on the life and practice of a thoughtful and provocative contemporary artist.