By The Way: A Contemporary Art News Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

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.     For more By The Way, follow us on Twitter @ByTheWay_ArtPod, Facebook @By The Way: A Contemporary Art News Podcast, and Instagram @cultural_bandwidth. Or on our website Cultural Bandwidth.   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.  

Eric and Ando take a trip around the world in this episode. Iranian contemporary art gallerist is facing a jail time, corporal punishment, and confiscation of their assets for their involvement in the art world. We discuss street artist Invader and his tasteless placement of his works in the country of Bhutan. We first spoke about Invader in BTW episode #1 - Thievery.  Lastly, we discuss a legal case in France, where Facebook is being charged with limiting the freedom of expression of a school teacher. The teacher charges that Facebook deleted his account when he posted Gustave Courbet’s The Origin of the World (1866).

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By The Way: A Contemporary Art News Podcast is created by Eric Wall and Ando.

Links:                                                                                           Nudes in France - http://bit.ly/2G8jyvw, http://artnt.cm/2EYExSc, http://bit.ly/2Hb9xiL.                                                               Iranian Gallerist - http://bit.ly/2Hc3ACa, http://bit.ly/2EALjjb,  http://artnt.cm/2HdeXtw.                                                     Invader Update - http://artnt.cm/2ElMfVk, http://artnt.cm/2Etg0EH.   Eric Wall’s Website - https://www.ericwall.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.

Today Eric and Ando blaze through 4 topics. Pussy Riot seeks asylum in Sweden, and the Guggenheim offers Donald Trump a golden toilet by Maurizio Cattelan. Topics become more serious when they bring up Nan Goldin and the opioid crisis in the US. Goldin calls on her fellow artists and art institutions to resist the Sackler Family and Purdue Pharma. What would be an episode BTW without an interjection of Jeff Koons. We discuss how he wants to "honor" of the victims of the recent terrorist attacks in Paris.

Thanks for listening to By The Way.

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By The Way: A Contemporary Art News Podcast is created by Eric Wall and Ando.

Links:

Pussy Riot - Swedish http://t.sr.se/2EjXq1I , German http://bit.ly/2EmYXUR

Nan Goldin -‘http://bit.ly/2FrSlDV , http://nyti.ms/2nbVoIy

Trump and Maurizio Cattelan: “America” - http://bit.ly/2cLr037

Jeff Koons - http://bit.ly/2Gs5RZA

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.

Is the Contemporary art world growing or shrinking? Are there more or less opportunities for artists today than in past decades? What is the future gallery model? In this episode Eric and Ando talk about the mega-art dealer David Zwirner's expanding global empire. And how over recent years the mid-level galleries have been closing their doors. The closure of these mid-level galleries have often been due to poor finances, high operating costs, art fair expenses, and lack of new risk-taking collectors. New models are emerging to combat some of these pressures, but will any of them sustain? We also call attention to spaces like TEGN: Art-space (DK), Nordic Stories (SWE), The 14th Factory (US), and Condo (US).

Thanks for listening to By The Way.

If you enjoy our podcast please consider becoming a patreon and support us on our Patreon page.

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By The Way: A Contemporary Art News Podcast is created by Eric Wall and Ando.

Links

David Zwirner - New York Times

New Models - Nordic Stories, The 14th Factory, Condo Complex, TEGN: Art-space, okey-dokey, New York Times article about several spaces. 

Books and other articles - Alain Servais, Magnus Resch, Sharon Louden. 

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.

How could we not talk about this most recent Christie’s contemporary art auction? The record breaking painting "by" Leonardo da Vinci titled Salvator Mundi sold for $450,312,500. We aren’t talking about the obvious talking points, instead we go deeper into the painting’s history. It all plays out like Dan Brown novel. Yes, the guy who used to own Salvator Mundi was imprisoned in the 1990’s for contract killing of a rival. This episode's show notes are jam packed, so follow the links down the rabbit hole if you dare.   If you enjoy our podcast please consider becoming a patreon and support us on our Patreon page.    For more By The Way, follow us on Twitter @ByTheWay_ArtPod, Facebook @By The Way: A Contemporary Art News Podcast, and Instagram @cultural_bandwidth. Or on our website Cultural Bandwidth.   By The Way: A Contemporary Art News Podcast is created by Eric Wall and Ando.   Links Auction - Art Newspaper, Artsy Doubts and History- Vulture, The Guardian, The Observer Russian owner - Widewalls, Express, Seattle Times, Artnet   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. 

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.   For more By The Way, follow us on Twitter @ByTheWay_ArtPod, Facebook @By The Way: A Contemporary Art News Podcast, and Instagram @cultural_bandwidth. Or on our website Cultural Bandwidth.   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.  

Pressure from outside the art world, threats of violence, and an online petition nearing a million people have compelled the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York to remove several artworks from an exhibition. Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World is the title of the exhibition. The cause of the firestorm came when animal rights activists, such as Peta became aware of 3 art works.  These 3 works could be misunderstood as cruel to animals. Eric and Ando unpack this story, and in the process will most likely offend a few listeners. So let us know if they are missing the point on this episode of By The Way.

  If you enjoy our podcast please consider becoming a patreon and support us on our Patreon page.   For more By The Way, follow us on Twitter @ByTheWay_ArtPod, Facebook @By The Way: A Contemporary Art News Podcast, and Instagram @cultural_bandwidth. Or on our website Cultural Bandwidth.   By The Way: A Contemporary Art News Podcast is created by Eric Wall and Ando.   Links Artnet here, here, and here, Change.org petition, Newsweek   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.

Well dOCUMENTA happened to pop up again in the news for this episode. Ando actually heard about this story too!   One of the most prestigious art exhibitions, dOCUMENTA (15) is on the brink of bankruptcy. We try to unravel how that could have happened. Who is to blame? The curators, a local politician, and poor management. The future of dOCUMENTA is now threatened. Join us and see if we can make heads or tails of it.   If you enjoy our podcast please consider becoming a patreon and support us on our Patreon page.   For more By The Way, follow us on Twitter @ByTheWay_ArtPod, Facebook @By The Way: A Contemporary Art News Podcast, and Instagram @cultural_bandwidth. Or on our website Cultural Bandwidth.   By The Way: A Contemporary Art News Podcast is created by Eric Wall and Ando.   Links dOUMENTA (15): Artnet, Hyperallergic, e-flux, Artnet, e-flux, Artnet, New York Times   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.  

A bit of change up on this episode of By The Way, as Eric and Ando talk about Sam Durant’s sculpture titled Scaffold. Originally created by Sam Durant for dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel, Germany, the work has since been purchased by the Walker Art Center, USA. The story does not end there. We hope you listen to hear about why some people say ‘That's a killing machine.’ about the work.   If you enjoy our podcast please consider becoming a patreon and support us on our Patreon page.   For more By The Way, follow us on Twitter @ByTheWay_ArtPod, Facebook @By The Way: A Contemporary Art News Podcast, and Instagram @cultural_bandwidth. Or on our website Cultural Bandwidth.   By The Way: A Contemporary Art News Podcast is created by Eric Wall and Ando.   Links: Scaffold: Hyperallergic, Star Tribune. Video clip on youtube of the work at dOCUMENTA.   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.