Art + Ideas

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.