Art as Experience: Podcasts

Art as Experience: Podcasts
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Sheila Blake and Tom Xenakis demystify art and guide listeners through the glittering pandemonium of current exhibitions.

  1. 21.11.2022

    Finale

    This is our last regularly-scheduled episode for WOWD-LP Takoma Park, although we may, from time to time, present a special unscheduled episode. After almost 150 shows, we decided to take a break and figure out where we’re going from here.  In this episode, Tom, Sheila, and Peter discuss the history of the show, and what […]

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  2. 23.10.2022

    Vermeer’s Secrets

    The National Gallery of Art, in Washington DC, has mounted a small exhibition showing three sublime Vermeer paintings and three false Vermeers. Our episode discusses: what makes Vermeer so good  (a little art criticism/theory) the scientific research done by the museum’s conservation department, how forgeries are made, marketed, and detected, and more.

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  3. 09.10.2022

    Sargent and Spain

    Sargent, as revealed in Sargent and Spain, the new exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, gives us visions that are full of desire and celebration – both documentary and dreamlike. John Singer Sargent was, in his day, one of the most celebrated artists in Europe; but his obituary in the London Times described him […]

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  4. 02.10.2022

    Robert Rauschenberg and John Cage

    We explore the art of Robert Rauschenberg, the influence of John Cage, and two of Rauschenberg’s paintings, Factum 1 and Factum 2, currently on view at the National Gallery of Art in their current exhibition, Then Double: Identity and Difference in Art since 1900. We find a lot of terrific information in a new book […]

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  5. 10.09.2022

    We are Made hof Stories: Self-Taught Artists at the SAAM

    Hosts Sheila and Peter Blake visit the outsider/folk/self-taught art exhibit at the Smithsonian American Art Museum: We are Made of Stories: Self-Taught Artists in the Robson Family Collection. This is perhaps our third show on folk art, and every time, we probe deeper into this rewarding art world.  Artists include Bil Traylor, Dan Miller, Judith […]

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  6. 27.08.2022

    The Double

    Sheila and Peter Blake use the current exhibition, The Double, Identity and Difference in Art Since 1900, at the East Wing of the National Gallery, to explore art over many decades, mixing famous masters with contemporary artists, all creating with some aspect of visual doubling, reversal, or the split or doubled self.

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  7. 03.08.2022

    American Portraiture Today

    Sheila Blake and Peter Blake discuss portraiture as a art form, and the current exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, the finalaists of the Outwin 20221 competition. You can find images of the exhibition works here: https://portraitcompetition.si.edu/exhibition/2022-outwin-boochever-portrait-competition/

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  8. 18.07.2022

    New Ways of Being Together: Laurie Anderson and John Cage

    With insights from our recent episode on postmodernism, we reprise our conversation about the Laurie Anderson exhibit currently at the Hirshhorn Museum of Art in DC.  We draw out the connections between Anderson’s work and that of John Cage: even though their music is completely different, their ethical purposes are in alignment.

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Sheila Blake and Tom Xenakis demystify art and guide listeners through the glittering pandemonium of current exhibitions.

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