16 episodes
Death of an Artist Pushkin
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- True Crime
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4.8 • 88 Ratings
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You’ve heard of Jackson Pollock but you may have never heard of Lee Krasner. Krasner was an artist, Pollock’s wife, and the woman who made him famous. She also changed everything about the landscape of modern art. This is a story about love, power, alcoholism and an ill-timed death. Hosted by curator, author, and broadcaster Katy Hessel, this 6-episode series, offers an inside look into two of the greatest artists of the 20th century, and how their vision impacts ours.
And listen back to season one, where host Helen Molesworth revisits the artist Ana Mendieta’s death and the trial that followed– interrogating both the silence and the protest that have accompanied her story ever since.
Death of an Artist Season 1 is a co-production between Pushkin Industries, Somethin’ Else, and Sony Music Entertainment.
Death of an Artist Season 2 is a co-production between Pushkin Industries and Samizdat Audio.
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Episode 1: Crash
1956. Paris. An artist named Lee Krasner learns that her husband is dead.
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Episode 2: Inner Rhythm
1936. Brooklyn. A young Lee Krasner leaves home and starts to create a kind of art America has never seen before.
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Episode 3: The Collector
1942. Midtown. Peggy Guggenheim arrives, opens a gallery and gives hungry artists hope.
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Episode 4: Jackson Pollock Inc.
1945. East Hampton. Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock start a new life in a farmhouse 100 miles east of New York City.
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Episode 5: The Kiss of Death
1955. Upper West Side. Jackson Pollock seeks help from a psychotherapist practicing controversial methods.
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Episode 6: A Phoenix From the Ashes
1956. New York City. After Pollock’s death, Krasner balances her new role as executor of his estate and her ambitions to continue making art.
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Customer Reviews
Palpable
I love this podcast, the writing, the visuals it portrays. I can listen to each episode over and over and feel like I’m among these great artists. I hope there are many more stories to come!
Fabulous!!
I binged listened to this podcast. It was riveting. It touched on so many issues around art, silence, fairness, common Fing decency, toxic masculine culture, pretensions. So very good!
Terrible sound design
Super disappointed in this. The design and presentation of the content is cheesy and cheap. Lee Krasner is a goddess; go and look at her paintings instead.