Art Snap

Art Snap A podcast for art lovers exploring one famous piece of art at a time.

Tune in to the final episode of Art Snap season 1, where Zach goes to Italy to see the work of artist Jeffrey Gibson, wh...
04/06/2024

Tune in to the final episode of Art Snap season 1, where Zach goes to Italy to see the work of artist Jeffrey Gibson, who creates a multidisciplinary and multidimensional exhibition called, “The Space In Which To Place Me,” for the United States pavillion at the 60th Venice Biennale Art Exhibition this year. 

Zach had the chance to see the exhibition in person, a celebration of traditional indigenous materials and culture with a modern twist. As an indigenous and q***r artist, Gibson, incorporates themes of identity, democracy, tradition, and what it means to evolve as a culture and people through time.

On display through November 24th, 2024, if you can make it to Venice, it’s worth the trip! If not, check out the official exhibition website for detailed images and descriptions.

Thanks for joining us for season 1! You’ve been everything a great audience could be. See you around the corner.

27/05/2024

For the final episode of season 1, Zach shares artist Jeffrey Gibson who creates a multidisciplinary and multidimensional exhibition called, "The Space In Which To Place Me," for the United States pavillion at the 60th Venice Biennale Art Exhibition this year. Zach had the chance to see the exhibiti...

14/05/2024

Zach heads to Venice for the Biennale and an epic art tour, Claire talks about the Order of the Third Bird, and season 1 starts to wind down with our final espisode coming up!

Found this great photo of Jean Cocteau when he visited Peggy Guggenheim at her home in Venice - wearing her sunglasses! ...
14/05/2024

Found this great photo of Jean Cocteau when he visited Peggy Guggenheim at her home in Venice - wearing her sunglasses! From the Jean Cocteau retrospective show at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, happening now through September 16, 2024.

It’s almost that time of year when people flock en masse to museums around the world to view art and learn about history...
09/05/2024

It’s almost that time of year when people flock en masse to museums around the world to view art and learn about history. Where are you heading this year?

📸: .pod, Castello Sforzesco, Milan, IT

This episode’s work of art was Claire’s pick, by her perhaps all-time favorite artist, Sandy Skoglund, called “Fox Games...
22/04/2024

This episode’s work of art was Claire’s pick, by her perhaps all-time favorite artist, Sandy Skoglund, called “Fox Games” (1989). Skoglund is an American born installation artist and photographer, currently teaching at Rutgers University while actively creating and exhibiting around the world.

Her Installation Art delights lovers of Pop Art and Surrealism with colorful and clever commentary. Creatures and treats invade the mundane worlds as if a brightly colored plague has infected the space. We are left wondering if this abundance is a delight, or a threat! One thing the viewer knows for sure: you simply can’t look away.

Some favorite Installations discussed in the podcast include “Radiactive Cats,” 1980, “Fox Games,” 1989, “The Wild Inside,” 1989, and “Cocktail Party,” 1992. Learn more about this work at the Denver Art Museum.

Listen and follow along using the link in our bio!

Images:
1. “Fox Games” 1989, Sandy Skoglund. Denver Art Museum. Denver, Colorado. Zach said he really liked the fox that was just sitting in a chair waiting for a cocktail!
2. Sandy Skoglund, born in Massachusetts in 1946 hand sculpts and paints elements for her intriguing Installations.
3. Sandy Skoglund making sure each detail is assembled correctly for “Fox Games,” 1989.
4. Fox Games” in reverse color scheme (1989).
5. Sandy Skoglund making sure each detail is assembled correctly for “Cocktail Party,” 1992.


22/04/2024

This episode’s work of art was Claire’s pick, by her perhaps all-time favorite artist, Sandy Skoglund, called "Fox Games" (1989). Skoglund is an American born installation artist and photographer, currently teaching at Rutgers University while actively creating and exhibiting around the world. H...

15/04/2024

Zach and Claire check in with each other and chat about the legacy and passing of Faith Ringgold at 93, followup on the recent Frank Lloyd Wright episode, and even get into a little environmental conservation.

In this week’s episode, Zach brings Judy Chicago’s iconic feminist work, “The Dinner Party” (1979), which debuted at the...
08/04/2024

In this week’s episode, Zach brings Judy Chicago’s iconic feminist work, “The Dinner Party” (1979), which debuted at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art to both rave reviews and stark criticism. Listen using the link in our bio!

Laid out as a dinner party, the formal table is set for 39 distinguished guests complete with elaborate handmade runners and 3D ceramic plates. It’s a table celebrating famous women in history and the female archetype - a place where women usually prepared the meal and then receded out of view.

Nothing like it had been done before, a push to bring the stories and histories of these women into the modern narrative. Do you have a favorite place setting?

A revolutionary artist with works spanning over 60 years, Judy Chicago continues to push the conversation with her themes of identify, self-exploration, and challenges to the status quo.

See it in person at the Brooklyn Museum. .chicago



Images:
1. The Dinner Party
2. The Dinner Party
3. Judy Chicago for Time Magazine, 2018 Most Influential People
4. Virginia Wolf place setting
5. Sojourner Truth place setting
6. Emily Dickinson place setting

08/04/2024

This week, we look at Judy Chicago’s iconic feminist work, “The Dinner Party” (1979), which debuted at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art to both rave reviews and stark criticism. Laid out as a dinner party, the formal table is set for 39 distinguished guests complete with elaborate handma...

Happy Birthday, Claire! To our creative maven who brings life and color to the world around her. And for dreaming up the...
01/04/2024

Happy Birthday, Claire! To our creative maven who brings life and color to the world around her. And for dreaming up the idea for this podcast. ❤️

It’s not a painting or a sculpture... but another form of art that deserves attention as we meander through the world of...
25/03/2024

It’s not a painting or a sculpture... but another form of art that deserves attention as we meander through the world of famous works of art together.

In this episode, Claire brings Fallingwater, designed by the famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright for the Kaufmann family in 1935, and constructed between 1936 - 1938. The woodland residence in the Appalachian Mountains of rural Pennsylvania has become an iconic work of organic architecture.

Built partly over a waterfall along the Bear Run River, the home embodies the idea that the surrounding natural world can be seamlessly incorporated into the design and made an experiential part of the living spaces. It blends in with its environment while presenting a unique and daring engineering challenge.

It’s on the UNECSO World Heritage List, the Smithsonian named it one of the “Places to See Before You Die,” and called “best all-time work of American architecture” by the American Institute of Architects.

To visit in person, find out more at fallingwater.org and learn about how the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy has preserved and maintained the property since 1963.

Now is your chance to visit this incredible work of art and architectural history!

Images:
1. Fallingwater from the exterior
2. Interior of the home and living spaces
3. The cantilevered elements of each floor, flying over the waterfall focal point
4. Frank Lloyd Wright portrait. Frank Lloyd Wright. © Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York

25/03/2024

It’s not a painting or a sculpture... but another form of art that deserves attention as we meander through the world of famous works of art together. In this episode, Claire brings Fallingwater, designed by the famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright for the Kaufmann family in 1935, and constructed b...

18/03/2024

In this week's bonus chat, Zach and Claire sift through some feedback from the recent Rothko episode, Claire explores why some people feel like art is pretentious, and Zach just wants to work at a hot dog stand on Long Island.

Whether you love his works or you’re moved to apathy by them (instead of tears!), you have to admit that Mark Rothko has...
11/03/2024

Whether you love his works or you’re moved to apathy by them (instead of tears!), you have to admit that Mark Rothko has made a huge impact on the art world - and many people have strong opinions about it.

One of Zach’s favorite artists, Zach chooses a piece by Rothko in episode 4 to look at the transcendental and often emotional journey his pieces can take the viewer on. Can Claire be convinced?

🖌️ See the piece discussed in person at the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, Spain.
🖌️ Or check out the Rothko Room at the Phillips Collection Museum in Washington, D.C.
🖌️ Or the the Rothko Chapel in Houston, Texas.

Field trip anyone?

If you’re enjoying the show, please rate us and follow along wherever you get your podcasts!

Image notes:
1. “Untitled” (Green on Maroon), 1961, Museo Nacional Thyssen-BornemiszaInv. 258 x 229 cm (101.5” x 90.1”)
2. Mark Rothko
3. The Rothko Room at the Phillips Collection
4. The Rothko Chapel in Houston, Texas

11/03/2024

Whether you love his works or you're moved to apathy by them (instead of tears!), you have to admit that Mark Rothko has made a huge impact on the art world - and many people have strong opinions about it. One of Zach's favorite artists, Zach chooses a piece by Rothko to look at the emotional journe...

Celebrating International Women’s Day, we’re highlighting another favorite - Jaune Quick-to-See Smith - an inspiring voi...
08/03/2024

Celebrating International Women’s Day, we’re highlighting another favorite - Jaune Quick-to-See Smith - an inspiring voice and maker.

An artist, teacher, curator, and activist, she has been creating and sharing her works for over 50 years. As a young woman, she was told that “Indians don’t go to college,” and “women cannot be artists.” She got her art education degree anyhow and began making art, eventually finding ways to share and show her works.

A storyteller, she uses color, humor, and pointed reflection in her art that examines myth and stereotypes. Not taking no as an answer so many years ago, now she is sharing the journey of indigenous peoples and tribes navigating racism, destruction of their native landscapes, and often the fight to be heard.

A citizen of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation of Montana, she was born on the reservation but lived much of her life in New Mexico. She’s an inspiration to us and to many around the world. 



Image Credits:
1. Brad Trone/The New York Times
2. “Indian Madonna Enthroned,” from 1974. Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times
3. Orchestrating a Blooming Desert, 2003, oil on canvas

Always one of my favorite pieces. I would love to see an art class create a piece in the same style - maybe with an obje...
06/03/2024

Always one of my favorite pieces. I would love to see an art class create a piece in the same style - maybe with an object found in nature or commonly around the house! Where are my art teachers at?

“Display Stand with Madonnas” by Katharina Fritsch
1987-1989; Aluminum, plaster, and paint

“Artist Katharina Fritsch has often worked with mass-produced objects from consumer culture, removing them from their original contexts and altering their scale, texture, and/or color to conjure both the familiar and the fantastical. The Virgin Mary has been a recurring figure in Fritsch’s art since the early 1980s, and in this case the”original” source is itself a multiple: a souvenir of Our Lady of Lourdes sold at a pilgrimage site in France. For Display Stand with Madonnas, the artist created 288 identical plaster reproductions of the statuette, stacking them as if set out for sale in a department store. Painted an almost hallucinogenic yellow, the work becomes a mesmerizing shrine to the enduring iconography of the pure and selfless Virgin figure, and to its perpetual salability as commodified image. The work’s overlapping associations call to the complex value systems that underpin our ideal versions of self, and suggest how an image of femininity can be codified, packaged, and sold.”

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Caption from the Hirshhorn Museum

            

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This week Claire brings Sandy Skogland’s “Fox Games” (1989) to the table to discuss. And apparently the difference between Cheetos and Cheese Puffs… Listen using the link in our bio. @artsnap.pod #sandyskoglund #artpodcast #contemporaryart

In our bonus chat this week, we talked about the passing of Faith Ringgold, an iconic artist from Harlem, NY who was well known for her storyquilt style of works highlighting her lived experiences and prominent black voices. #faithringgold #faithringgoldart #faithringgoldquilt

This week’s episode looking at Judy Chicago’s iconic feminist work, “The Dinner Party” (1979), now at the Brooklyn Museum. #judychicago #thedinnerparty #artistsoninstagram #artpodcast #brooklynmuseum

In this week’s episode, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater takes central stage. #fallingwater #architectureasart #architecture #franklloydwright #franklloydwrighthouse

In this week’s bonus chat, we talk about making art accessible, sift through the listener feedback we got on our last episode and dream about our new careers.

In this week’s bonus chat, we sift through the listener feedback we got on our last episode and dream about our new careers.

Zach recently visited the @vmfamuseum to see Dawoud Bey’s solo exhibition. The 42 photographs and 2 films examine the lived experiences of the Virginia slave trail, Louisiana plantations, and the underground railroad. A beautifully curated show, Bey takes you on a journey – a reflection of African American experiences rarely represented in collective US history. Listen to this week’s bonus chat using the link in our bio for more. @dawoudbey #dawoudbey #richmondva #photographyexhibition #artexhibition

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