Ep: 61 - Ken Johnson - Do I Like it?
from Art Grind Podcast Hosted by Ken Johnson, Sophia Kayafas and Marshall Jones
This week Marshall and Sophia speak with writer and art critic Ken Johnson about a life full of looking at art. We covered a ton of interesting topics including the humor in art, the brain as the epic anticipator, consciousness, psychedelics, and of course writing art criticism for the New York Times. Stay tuned to the end for a little mini art critique reaction to some funny paintings we showed Ken. Ken's IG: Link Ken's Tumblr: Link Ken's Ball & Cone paperback: Link Ken's interview as an art critic: Link Recent New York Times articles by Ken: Link * NOTE: Since the images are not showing up on Apple Podcast , I've added them to the Episode Web Page: Link Go there to check out the images mentioned near the end. Support the show
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This week Marshall and Sophia speak with writer and art critic Ken Johnson about a life full of looking at art. We covered a ton of interesting topics including the humor in art, the brain as the epic anticipator, consciousness, psychedelics, and of course writing art criticism for the New York Times. Stay tuned to the end for a little mini art critique reaction to some funny paintings we showed Ken. Ken's IG: Link Ken's Tumblr: Link Ken's Ball & Cone paperback: Link Ken's interview as ...
Chapters
- 1:54 Musical Interests of Ken Johnson
- 4:52 The Humor in Art
- 10:00 Humor as Surprise
- 11:00 Humor as Connection
- 12:40 Tension and Release
- 14:00 Humor as Compassion
- 16:40 Humor as Irreverence
- 17:45 Neuroscience, The Purpose of the Brain is to Anticipate
- 20:00 Humor as the Unexpected
- 22:19 The Absurd, Dissolving in Laughter
- 23:54 Art History is the Progression of Human Consciousness
- 26:30 Consciousness, Psychedelics, A Higher Power
- 30:00 Reality is Procwss
- 40:25 The 60's
- 41:21 Desire for Unity
- 45:00 More than Just Identity Politics
- 50:00 The Philip Guston Show, Addressing Racism or Cancel Culture?
- 58:40 It's Good to Learn Something New
- 1:00:00 What is the importance of the art critic?
- 1:07:00 Oversimplification of opinions reduced down to a "like" on Instagram
- 1:09:00 Sports - The Game of Connection
- 1:11:00 Writing, the Journey
- 1:18:00 New York Times "Do I Like This?"
- 1:21:00 Criticism, Art is all about Value
- 1:22:00 The Diluted Discussion, What is Quality?
- 1:26:00 "I Don't Shut out Anything"
- 1:27:00 Robert Morris, and the uncomfortable, unpredictable pressures of art criticism
- 1:35:00 The Art Word is a Boring Mystery
- 1:36:00 Ken's Side career as a cartoonist: Ball and Cone
- 1:38:00 Ken's Reactions to "Humorous" Paintings
- 1:39:00 Painting of a little white dog by Jamie Wyeth
- 1:40:00 The Intention of Being Funny
- 1:41:00 Juxtaposing two Incompatible Vectors
- 1:42:00 Unknown Painter, English - 1600's (Two Women with fishbabies?)
- 1:45:00 Philip Guston - Making Art that's Personal comes from the 70's
- 1:46:00 Sophia's Self portrait Painting
- 1:47:00 John Currin Humor is Mean Spirited? / Taking the Temperature of the Room
- 1:49:00 Nick Alm - Laughing AT it, not with it / Vapid
- 1:51:00 Thomas Kinkade - Unashamedly Sentimental
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