In honor of Brian Eno's 71st birthday I'm sharing a quote of his regarding Russian avant-garde. The art movement was an early inspiration to Eno during art school, finding parallels between abstract art and the non-figurative quality of music.

Dealing with Criticism as an Artist

May 6th, 2019 10m 46s

Tips on dealing with criticism from Julia Cameron's 1992 bestselling book 'The Artist's Way'

Hilma af Klint at The Guggenheim

May 1st, 2019 12m 15s

Hilma af Klint is all the buzz this year after her record-breaking exhibition at the NYC Guggenheim. It seems Klint met the broader public at the right time aesthetically, with the recent popularity of geometric abstraction, muted tones, and sc

The Crushing Loss of a Lucian Freud Painting

Apr 30th, 2019 6m 1s

Sometimes the works of master artists get ripped, punctured, burned, or in the case of a Lucian Freud painting, crushed in a trash compactor.

Zombie Formalism - How the Art Market Dominates Creativity

Apr 29th, 2019 5m 48s

The market for art has become the influencer on what type of art is being made. I read a paragraph from Walter Robinson's "Flipping and the Rise of Zombie Formalism" where he coins the term "Zombie Formalism" to describe this twist of the art m

Picasso Doesn’t Paint to Decorate Apartments

Apr 18th, 2019 3m 39s

Today I read a 1945 Pablo Picasso quote in defense of the power of art.

Van Gogh's Death Instrument is on the Auction Block

Apr 17th, 2019 5m 12s

The rusty old revolver believed to have taken the life of Vincent Van Gogh will soon be up for auction. The artifact was discovered in a field in Auvers-sur-Oise, France decades after Van Gogh fired it. Also in this episode: you get to hear me

Kandinsky and Synesthesia

Apr 16th, 2019 6m 49s

Although Wassily Kandinsky wrote extensively about his experience with color, which went beyond the average viewer's perception, it's unclear whether or not he was a true synesthete or a just an artist who required textbook-like structure to cr