By The Way: A Contemporary Art News Podcast Cultural Bandwidth

Daniel Birnbaum, Director of Moderna Museet in Stockholm leaves to join the virtual reality company Acute Art based in London. Eric and Ando discuss the future of VR technology in art and the role it already has played.
We are also announcing that Cultural Bandwidth has invited 4 new podcasts to the platform. The Artword, The Conversation (Art Podcast), Art Attack W/ Lizy Dastin and Justin Bua, and the Danish language podcast Lydkunst. Find out more and links to the podcasts on Cultural Bandwidth.
Links: 
https://acuteart.com/
https://www.artforum.com/news/moderna-museet-director-daniel-birnbaum-steps-down-to-helm-new-vr-company-75960
https://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/daniel-birnbaum-lamnar-moderna-museet/
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/acute-art-daniel-birnbaum-1314710
http://www.artnews.com/2018/07/10/daniel-birnbaum-depart-moderna-museet-direct-vr-company-acute-art/
This episode is sponsored by Artland App.
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By The Way: A Contemporary Art News Podcast is created by Eric Wall and Ando.
Music credits: Favorite Secrets by Waylon Thornton is licensed under an Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License and permission of the artist.
 

It finally has come to Eric and Ando talking about Instagram. Take about 5 minutes to watch the video clip in the links below to get a better understanding of what we are discussing today.
 
Audiences are more comfortable viewing and buying art via their phones than ever before. Why would there not be curators creating exhibitions with that interaction in mind? A trend of “MADE-FOR-INSTAGRAM” exhibitions are trying to change the way we engage with our traditional institutions. In this episode, Eric and Ando discuss two specific spaces. The Museum of Ice Cream in New York, and the Color Factory in San Francisco.
 
 
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By The Way: A Contemporary Art News Podcast is created by Eric Wall and Ando.
 
Links
Wired, youtube.
Jeff Koons and Snapchat.
 
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.
 

Recently, the artist Anish Kapoor filed a lawsuit against the NRA over the use of one of his most famous work in a recruitment campaign. For our longtime listeners, I think you might find it Eric and Ando’s opinions on the story surprising. And as always, send us your opinion to the stories that we cover here at By The Way. 
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By The Way: A Contemporary Art News Podcast is created by Eric Wall and Ando.
Links:
NRA video: https://youtu.be/tOfLjGg5gP0
Artsy: https://www.artsy.net/news/artsy-editorial-anish-kapoor-sued-national-rifle-association-iconic-chicago-sculpture-ad
Artnews: http://www.artnews.com/2018/06/19/anish-kapoor-sues-nra-copyright-infringement-bean-sculpture/
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.

Back with a vengeance is By The Way with episode #13 “52 & They Art All Against You”.  On this episode listen to Eric Wall and Ando discuss what may become the largest US public art project ever. The political Super Pac For Freedoms launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kick Starter to fund 52 billboards by major contemporary artists as a “get out to vote” initiative ahead of the 2018 mid-term elections. Listen in on their conversation as I think it might surprise the you where Eric and Ando stand regarding the project.
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By The Way: A Contemporary Art News Podcast is created by Eric Wall and Ando.
Links:
New York Time: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/03/arts/design/public-art-campaign-political-billboards.html
Artnet News: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/fall-artist-made-billboards-will-installed-50-states-1296806
Kick Starter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/978911160/alabama-50-states-50-billboards-for-freedoms
For Freedom's Website: http://www.forfreedoms.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.

We follow up on a few stories in this By The Way Mini-episode titled Returned, Removed, and Yippee Ki Yay MotherFucker.  
 The first topic is a follow up from BTW #1 - Thievery, when Ando and I discussed the smuggling of Iraqi artifacts by the American craft store giant Hobby Lobby.   
“Art and China After 1989: Theater of the World.” is a controversial exhibition we spoke about in BTW #4 - Theater of the Protest. It is now traveling to Spain with a few new modifications to the exhibition.  
As always Jeff Koons has to peek his nose into the podcast even-though we covered the lawsuit filed against him in BTW #12 “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark”. He his now being sued by the Hollywood producer that gave us the movie Die Hard. 
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By The Way: A Contemporary Art News Podcast is created by Eric Wall and Ando.
Links:
https://www.culturalbandwidth.com/cultband/by-the-way-episode-1-thievery
https://www.culturalbandwidth.com/cultband/by-the-way-episode-theater-of-the-protest
https://www.culturalbandwidth.com/cultband/btw-12-something-is-rotten-in-the-state-of-denmark
Music credits: Big Birds Date Night Full Version by Twin Musicom (twinmusicom.org)

By The Way: A Contemporary Art News Podcast is back with episode #12 “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark”
Join Eric Wall and Ando again as they discuss the basis' of the lawsuit that accuses Jeff Koons and Gagosian Gallery of running a "Ponzi-like scheme". We talk a little about how editions are works are produced, the difference between an art investor and an art collector, is Jeff Koons an artist or manufacture of art, and he is using his current collector's money as interest-free loans. Hope you enjoy the bashing of Jeff Koons in this episode.  
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 www.Culturalbandwidth.com.
By The Way: A Contemporary Art News Podcast is created by Eric Wall and Ando.
Links:
Hyperallergic - https://bit.ly/2vqZDrc
Art Forum - https://bit.ly/2qUlbYJ
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.