This week on episode 54 of The Curatorial Blonde we speak with Laura Lester, owner of Lester Fine Art LLC is a full-service art advisory specializing in modern, post-war, and contemporary

art. Laura works with clients in Chicago and beyond— from first-time buyers and established collectors, to

real-estate developers and interior designers. Her clients rely on our reputation for discretion,

confidentiality, and transparency in all aspects of our business.

Tune in to learn more on all major streaming platforms.

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This week on The Curatorial Blonde, Ep. 53 Artist, Na’ye Perez discusses his artistic journey, navigating exhibition, and  how he approaches painting, drawing, and performance in his practice resulting in “This transmedia approach grounds each work to the communities and memories they were derived from.” 

Listen now on all major streaming platforms including Apple Podcasts, and Spotify, and view visuals on YouTube.

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This week on The Curatorial Blonde, Caira sits down with painter Christina Nicola, an expressionist figure painter whose paintings capture the elasticity of the black feminine identity and originated the phrase "afroromantic". Caira and Christina talk about the New York and Miami art scene, what being an artist means, and what Back female bodies in our communities.

You can follow Christina Nicola @ https://www.instagram.com/christina.nicola/?hl=en

In this multiple part installment of The Curatorial Blonde, Caira sits down with Seema Rao, of Artlust (237k followers, 16.4 million likes) TikTok and season museum professional to get extremely transparent about the art world. Touching on compensation, what the art world does not want you to talk about, and the best parts of the major, Seema and Caira truly peel the layers off the core of the fine art industry. 

Seema Rao tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@artlust?lang=en

This week on The Curatorial Blonde, Caira sits down with Argentinean artist Isadora Capraro. Isadora Capraro is a Southampton, New York-based figurative painter. The boundaries between both abstraction and intention are experimented with in Isadora's paintings, creating an optical illusion in which the observer can discover human attributes, living things, and symbols veiled within the colors and surfaces. Her use of exquisite color palettes allows the visitor to experience that sensation of peacefulness and tranquility when seeing her work.

Traci Johnson, an artist who was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, joins Caira this week on The Curatorial Blonde. Johnson is an expert in sculpture, installations, and textile design explores mental health, experience, and the joy of color. 

Follow here: https://www.instagram.com/kailuaa/

Caira sits down with Artist Akshita Gandhi, a Mumbai-based photographer, and multimedia artist. Gandhi examines the concepts of home and belonging while addressing colonialism, as well as the social and aesthetic effects of India's conflicting capitalist system. Her pictures, which primarily focus on metropolitan landscapes and places, emphasize architectural details through repetition and distortion, creating paintings-like interpretations of escape.

This week Caira talks about the impact of these recessions and prior recessions on the art market and if you should be buying art as money gets strained.

This week on Happy Little Accidents Caira speaks on how Roe V. Wade has brought to light not only human rights but the rights of women of color. Caira sheds light on the relevant of a movement over 50 years old and how it can be used as a reference point during this time in America.

This week on Happy Little Accidents, Caira explains the importance of art education and the current status of art education in the American school system.

Art is defined as any action or product created by people for a communicative or aesthetic purpose—something that expresses an idea, an emotion, or, more broadly, a point of view. It is a cultural element whose design reflects economic and social contexts. This week on Happy Little Accidents, Caira explores what makes good art.

This week on Happy Little Accidents, Caira talks about Jake Troyli's latest show at Monique Meloche Gallery in Chicago. She ties in his concept of being a former athlete and a Black man with the larger conversation of being Black in Sports. 

This week on The Curatorial Blonde, Ep. 52 features Kimmah Dennis (b. 1996, Yamoussoukro, Cote d'Ivoire), who received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, for Studio Art (2020) and is an MFA candidate in the Painting and Drawing

program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago as well as a recipient of the New Artist Society Scholarship and the 2024 Terra Foundation Affiliated Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in

Rome.

Listen now on all major streaming platforms including Apple Podcasts, and Spotify, and view visuals on YouTube.

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The art world has reacted to the shocking news from Ukraine by vocally opposing the ongoing onslaught. Despite the possibility that they could face penalties, a number of Russian artists have publicly expressed their displeasure with their government's policies. This week on Happy Little Accidents, Caira explores the current changes in the art world due to the Russian-Ukrainian conflict and gives more insight to the current issues. 

This week on Happy Little Accidents, Caira is talking about the impact of the secondary market in regardless to the fashion industry and the Art World.

The color of the season: Bottega Green. Caira this week dives into the influence of the color of the season and how green has always been a staple in humanity.

This week Caira explores The iconic HOPE poster that was seen all over during Obama's presidential campaign. Mr. Fairey, who sued The Associated Press in 2009 after it accused him of copyright infringement for using one of its pictures as the foundation for the poster, claimed that he did not steal any copyrightable content and that his use of the photograph was not unauthorized. This week, we'll look at how fair use and copyright are involved in this case, as well as what it means for future fair use cases.

This week on Happy Little Accidents Caira explore the case of Blanch V Koons. Blanch filed a lawsuit against Koons for copyright infringement. Blanch testified that the use of her picture by Koons did not affect her career, nor that she had ever authorized her pictures for artists to use.

Art is all around us. This week on Happy Little Accidents, Caira takes a look at how the government plays a role in art and the historical role of patronage from the Italian Renaissance to present-day practices. 

On this week of Happy Little Accidents, Caira dives into the California Resale Royalty Act and how that impacted the art world. She also explores the broader idea of the international art market as it pertains to legality. 

This week on Happy Little Accidents, Caira dives into the gray area of copyright infringement and appropriation art. She discuss case-law example, which diving into the legal definitions and situations that occur during this gray area of the art world. 

This week on Happy Little Accidents, our host Caira dives into what on earth the term art law means. From the branches of law that exist under it to the legal issues currently going on in the art world hold tight for a reality check of the gray art of the art world and why this sector of law is so crucial. 

In this episode of Happy Little Accidents our host, Caira explores the term exotic. From the current fad of using the word as a compliment to the art historical narrative of the word.

This week on The Curatorial Blonde, Ep. 51 features Reevah Agarwaal who is a multi-disciplinary artist from New Delhi, India, currently based in Chicago, IL. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) in 2024. Through textiles and print media, her work explores girlhood, memory, and the complex dualities that exist in domestic relationships. Using repurposed found textiles that have a personal history, she creates quilts and collages that reference her childhood, relationships, and the domestic spaces she has lived in. By employing material history, intuition, and memory, she aims to reconstruct and reclaim narratives of women and girls. 

Her work has appeared in various shows including Stainless Gallery in New Delhi, and at Zhou B Art Center, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Purple Window Gallery, Color Club, South Asia Institute, FLXST Contemporary, Free Range, and The Martin in Chicago. She also has permanent public artwork on view in South Chicago which was funded by Chicago Public Art Group (CPAG) and South Chicago Parents and Friends. Recently she received the New Futures Award from The Other Art Fair. Currently, her work is on view in a two-person show at FLXST Contemporary with Lisa DeAbreu titled "Becoming".

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This week our host Caira welcomes us into 2021 by questioning the beauty standards that our society thinks too often about. While it is a new year we have the same expectations that negatively impact our society on a daily emotional basis. From exploring her own experiences in how she fits into the American Beauty canon, Caira looks at facts and fiction to get one step closer to clarity. 

This episode explores the influence of post-blackness. As the main research point in her writing, she breaks down where post-blackness comes from and what it means in 2020. 

This week on Happy Little Accidents, Caira takes her final opinion before the 2020 election. Donald Trump has continued to say that he is doing the most for Black and Brown Americans, but is that really true? Caira explores all of his public statements and policies that you might know be privy to or overlooked. 

Period Poverty is a global issue impacting females across the world, but what do you actually know about this? On this episode of Happy Little Accidents, Caira explores how Period Poverty is impacting our communities and challenging the stigmas associated with menstration. 

This week on Happy Little Accidents, Caira kicks off Season 3 with talking about Trump's supreme court pick and what she is all about. 

One more time for the people in the back! It is season 3 of Happy Little Accidents and we are going to explore, question, and grasp what this year has to offer!

This week on Happy Little Accident, our host, Caira dives in to the stereotypes and concepts of Western and holistic medicine. 

This week on Happy Little Accidents Caira explores the topic people hate to talk about: Politics. From honing in on what makes you associated with one of the major parties to talk about the current political candidates. Get ready, get set, VOTE!

This week on Happy Little Accidents we are talking about our current new work uniforms: loungewear. As big businesses file for bankruptcy we see that our fast fashion methodology is being questioned and what does COVID has in store for these trends. 

From initial layoffs,  changes in budget, questionable curatorial perspectives, and the BLM Museums have gone MIA. The real question is why and what does this mean for the larger landscape of America when it comes to documenting the cultural relics, and movements that need to be documented. 

This week on The Curatorial Blonde, Ep. 50 features Jasmine Weber. Weber is a writer, editor, and artist from Long Island, New York, now based in Brooklyn. 

Her experience includes news editor of Hyperallergic, editing and writing about contemporary arts and culture since 2018. She has participated in panels hosted by the Brooklyn Rail, Medgar Evers College, ICP-Bard, Creative Time, the International Association of Art Critics, and the New York Academy of Art, also appearing on NPR’s All of It with Alison Stewart. 

 Her photography and collage work has been published in multiple publications, including Them, Gumbo Magazine, Rookie. Her artwork was presented in a 2019 exhibition hosted by BRIC.

 In 2018, she received her Bachelor of Arts in Ethnicity and Race Studies from Columbia University, specializing in Black Cultural Production and receiving departmental honors for her undergraduate thesis. She also completed a concentration in Visual Arts.

 

#arttalks #JasmineWeber #ContemporaryArt #arttalks #Blackwomen #CairaMoreira #TheCuratorialBlonde

This week on Happy Little Accidents, Caira takes on the definition of feminism and how it really impacts you, and why at the core of the issue you should care.

As racial tensions rise around the world, Caira takes on the uncomfortable topic of race, racism, and racist on this week's episode of Happy Little Accidents. 

The first episode of Happy Little Accidents jumped into the changes of covid-19, two months later Caira updates us on what has changed and what the future holds for the art sector and how we operate. 

This season on Happy Little Accidents Caira is taking a spin on exploring topics by combining historical references with modern revelations to bring you Happy Hour History coming every Friday at 5 PM CST.  So grab a drink, grab a snack, and grab a seat.

In the midst of the racial conversations happening on social media Caira re-examines white privilege and the reality of how we go about diversity. Touching base on personal antidotes, statistics, and resources this episode is straight to the point on what is wrong with how we view racism on social media. For Additional Educational Resources on White Privilege, and Black Lives Matter: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTWoQzfscZ5JTw1Jdix7cwMEjHn8xYfzs_2XxEke-CfOO8rVgbIDFlkXCiltPi9QYsWFIDcqLi0Uolz/pubhtml

This week on Happy Little Accidents Caira examines some of the sore spots in Covid-19 and the gendered roles that are coming to question with these social distancing practices as it pertains to feminist theory. 

This week on Happy Little Accidents, Caira explores the impact of colors on our lives through color psychology and how to integrate this into your space. 

This week on Happy Little Accidents, Caira explores how Black females have been devalued through society by the means of art historical references and the conflicting notions that are posed upon their bodies.  Grab a notebook and take some notes. 

On this week of Happy Little Accidents, Caira explores how our culture views women as sexual objects and the platform OnlyFans. The Male gaze has been prevalent for years but now as people look to profit from the visual society we live in important issues in our elementary understandings of the body that need to be addressed. 

This week on Happy Little Accidents, Caira touches bases on her history and education in Art History and why you understand, participating, and promoting the subject is important. From diving into the emotional, historical, and sensory aspects the internal message creates the external manifestation. 

This week on The Curatorial Blonde, Ep. 49 features entrepreneur, Rebecca Daniel. Mottley, Founded by Rebecca Daniel, serves artists, art institutions, galleries, museums, and creative leaders in the art world by providing careful public relations strategy and art historical legacy preservation. Rebecca is dedicated to bringing attention to the broader Chicago cultural landscape and the art ecosystem within it. Listen now on all major streaming platforms including Apple Podcasts, and Spotify, and view visuals on YouTube. #arttalks #RebeccaDaniel #ContemporaryArt #arttalks #Chicago #CairaMoreira #TheCuratorialBlonde

This week on Happy Little Accidents, Caira dives into the big business of Art Lending. Breaking down the principal players, motives, and process. The Price of Art is heavy and art lending is here to stay. 

This week Happy Little Accidents host, Caira examines the multi-billion dollar art market and demystifies the pricing of art. Through understanding the structure of pricing, the key players, and the history of the market Happy Little Accidents explore the questionable practices that occur and the reality of the market. 

Happy Little Accidents Host, Caira this week dives into what it takes to establish an art collection, the psychology behind the buyer and the current market. 

As the world comes to a halt due to the global pandemic Happy Little Accident's host, Caira dives into the current main issues contributing to the issue in the art world, how this is intertwining with other social needs, and what seems to be up next for art world professionals.