Pussy, Drugs, and Jeff Koons

01/31/18 • 29 min

By The Way: A Contemporary Art News Podcast

Today Eric and Ando blaze through 4 topics. Pussy Riot seeks asylum in Sweden, and the Guggenheim offers Donald Trump a golden toilet by Maurizio Cattelan. Topics become more serious when they bring up Nan Goldin and the opioid crisis in the US. Goldin calls on her fellow artists and art institutions to resist the Sackler Family and Purdue Pharma. What would be an episode BTW without an interjection of Jeff Koons. We discuss how he wants to "honor" of the victims of the recent terrorist attacks in Paris.

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By The Way: A Contemporary Art News Podcast is created by Eric Wall and Ando.

Links:

Pussy Riot - Swedish http://t.sr.se/2EjXq1I , German http://bit.ly/2EmYXUR

Nan Goldin -‘http://bit.ly/2FrSlDV , http://nyti.ms/2nbVoIy

Trump and Maurizio Cattelan: “America” - http://bit.ly/2cLr037

Jeff Koons - http://bit.ly/2Gs5RZA

Music credits: Favorite Secrets by Waylon Thornton is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License and permission of the artist.

Thanks for listening to By The Way.

If you enjoy our podcast please consider becoming a Patreon and support us on our Patreon page.

For more By The Way, follow us on Twitter@ByTheWay_ArtPod, Facebook@By The Way: A Contemporary Art News Podcast, and Instagram@Bythewaypodcast. Or on our website Culturalbandwidth.com.

By The Way: A Contemporary Art News Podcast is created by Eric Wall and Ando.

Links:

Pussy Riot - Swedish http://t.sr.se/2EjXq1I , German http://bit.ly/2EmYXUR

Nan Goldin -‘http://bit.ly/2FrSlDV , http://nyti.ms/2nbVoIy

Trump and Maurizio Cattelan: “America” - http://bit.ly/2cLr037

Jeff Koons - http://bit.ly/2Gs5RZA

Music credits: Favorite Secrets by Waylon Thornton is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License and permission of the artist.

Previous Episode

So Baroque That You Have No Monet

Is the Contemporary art world growing or shrinking? Are there more or less opportunities for artists today than in past decades? What is the future gallery model? In this episode Eric and Ando talk about the mega-art dealer David Zwirner's expanding global empire. And how over recent years the mid-level galleries have been closing their doors. The closure of these mid-level galleries have often been due to poor finances, high operating costs, art fair expenses, and lack of new risk-taking collectors. New models are emerging to combat some of these pressures, but will any of them sustain? We also call attention to spaces like TEGN: Art-space (DK), Nordic Stories (SWE), The 14th Factory (US), and Condo (US).

Thanks for listening to By The Way.

If you enjoy our podcast please consider becoming a patreon and support us on our Patreon page. For more By The Way, follow us on Twitter @ByTheWay_ArtPod, Facebook @By The Way: A Contemporary Art News Podcast, and Instagram @bythewaypodcast. Or on our website Cultural Bandwidth.

By The Way: A Contemporary Art News Podcast is created by Eric Wall and Ando.

Links

David Zwirner - New York Times

New Models - Nordic Stories, The 14th Factory, Condo Complex, TEGN: Art-space, okey-dokey, New York Times article about several spaces.

Books and other articles - Alain Servais, Magnus Resch, Sharon Louden.

Music credits: Favorite Secrets by Waylon Thornton is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License and permission of the artist.

Next Episode

What Do Bhutan, France, and Iran All Have In Common?

Eric and Ando take a trip around the world in this episode. Iranian contemporary art gallerist is facing a jail time, corporal punishment, and confiscation of their assets for their involvement in the art world. We discuss street artist Invader and his tasteless placement of his works in the country of Bhutan. We first spoke about Invader in BTW episode #1 - Thievery. Lastly, we discuss a legal case in France, where Facebook is being charged with limiting the freedom of expression of a school teacher. The teacher charges that Facebook deleted his account when he posted Gustave Courbet’s The Origin of the World (1866).

If you enjoy our podcast please consider becoming a patreon and support us on our Patreon page.

For more By The Way, follow us on Twitter@ByTheWay_ArtPod, Facebook@By The Way: A Contemporary Art News Podcast, and Instagram@Bythewaypodcast. Or on our website Culturalbandwidth.com.

By The Way: A Contemporary Art News Podcast is created by Eric Wall and Ando.

Links: Nudes in France - http://bit.ly/2G8jyvw, http://artnt.cm/2EYExSc, http://bit.ly/2Hb9xiL. Iranian Gallerist - http://bit.ly/2Hc3ACa, http://bit.ly/2EALjjb, http://artnt.cm/2HdeXtw. Invader Update - http://artnt.cm/2ElMfVk, http://artnt.cm/2Etg0EH. Eric Wall’s Website - https://www.ericwall.org/

Music credits: Favorite Secrets by Waylon Thornton is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License and permission of the artist.