Kim Jones: A Retrospective in Three Conversations

Kim Jones emerged from the 1970s performance art movement in Southern California, where he became widely known for his alter ego, Mudman. Kim Jones: A Retrospective shows the network interconnecting his performance, drawings, and sculpture. This ArtCast episode provides an intimate look at the exhibition through three conversations. It begins with a discussion on the exhibition’s installation with Jim Rittimann, Dan Gurney and Eric Adami of the Henry’s prep crew. Then, Kim Jones and the Henry’s Chief Curator Elizabeth Brown take a brief tour in one of the exhibition’s galleries. The episode ends with an excerpt from a University Art Institute roundtable on the way the Vietnam War in viewed through contemporary art.

http://henryart.org/mediathing/upload/801/Kim_Jones_Podcast.mp3