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How The Art World Works

by Karen Atkinson & Megan Flanders

“How The Art World Works” is an inquiry into the logistics, values, ethics, expectations and operations of how an artist “makes it” in the art world. Unmarred by academic impetus and vocabulary, your hosts Karen Atkinson and Megan Flanders condense experiences commercial, academic and otherwise from their special guests, cut the sludge and get straight to the point: Can someone please tell us how the art world works?

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Episodes

  1. Artist Nayland Blake

    Karen scheduled a “secret guest” to swing by our place and introduce themselves while we were in NYC earlier this year. This week’s guest is a “blue chip gallery artist” and a real-ass homie. They’re being honored with a retrospective at the ICA-LA opening September 29th, 2019 called “No Wrong...

  2. Artist Dominique Moody

    We kick off season two with our very dear friend Dominique Moody as she invites Karen and Megan into her home-slash-art on this remote-location episode. Learn about Dominique’s work and check out the next location of the NOMAD at: www.dominiquemoody.com Our music is brought to us by Shawn Lee’s...

  3. Art Critic Charles Desmarais

    Megan and Karen took a trip up to SF to catch up with Charles Desmarais (@Artguy1) and see what’s good at the San Francisco Chronicle. You can catch up on any episodes you might’ve missed, or view the supplemental material at our website: www.ArtworldPodcast.com While you’re there, please…

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  4. Artist Jay De Feo

    Thanks to The Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution for their permission to use the artist’s audio. Thanks to the Jay De Feo Foundation (http://www.jaydefeo.org/) and the di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art (http://www.dirosaart.org/) Thanks also to Shawn Lee’s Ping Pong Orchestra for...

  5. Minisode Jay De Feo

    A very special thank you to the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution for allowing us to use the audio of wonderful artist Jay De Feo. While you’re waiting for this week’s full episode, please enjoy this short story Jay shared during her oral history interviews now preserved at the...

  6. Supplier and Artist Activist: Mark Golden of Golden Artist Colors

    Mark Golden sits down with our favorite duo to explain how he's not a made-up marketing figure like the paper towel guy. Don’t forget to call in and ask him to sing the song! Or win awesome paint prizes if you can anagram the phone number into something cool! 800-959-6543 is the Golden Artist…

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  7. Art Writer Hunter Drohojowska-Philp

    We welcome @HunterDPhilp to the GYST studios and talk about giving proper credit to stuff you use, Magical Thinking in the new wave of artists and the importance of mountains of junk in the making of Chris Burden's work. #HTAWW

  8. Artist Peter Wolf Toth

    Thank you first and foremost to Peter Wolf Toth for allowing us to share his vision with the world. If you'd like to help Peter complete his next series of sculptures along the Amazon river, please drop us a line [email protected] You can check out photos of the works we talked about on…

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  9. Minisode Happy New Year

    Probably the only episode where Megan doesn't curse and Karen doesn't explode into giggles. With our extensive thanks to our narrator, Ross French (@ross_french)

  10. Artist Edgar Arceneaux

    Prepare your ear holes ready for some wiiiiiiild talk with Edgar Arceneaux. We talk sheep-shearing gas stations, making art in your own damn community, how Disney stole intellectual property from his grandfather, and more #HTAWW

  11. Art Dealer Patricia Hamilton

    We discuss gallery life, the difference between art dealers and gallerists, and the five necessary items you should have when buying art from galleries so you don't get-got. Thanks to our guest, Patricia Hamilton for dropping by. You can catch her work as a gallerist at the Smithsonian’s archive...

  12. Artist Audrey Chan

    Megan and Karen welcome artist Audrey Chan to the studio, discuss the very specific panic of getting awarded a big project, how weird it is that our association with 'Love' involves a fat baby, what it's like to work on a permanent and large-scale public project, throwing your own retrospective…

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  13. Artist Anne Bray and LA Freewaves

    This episode: Karen and Megan sit down to interview the amazing Anne Bray and discover why the Pasadena City Hall is covered in ...lions? #LAFreewaves #NoogiesInTheArm #ChrisBurden #MFAempathy #SelfTeachingGroups #CatastropheOfStudentLoans #PublicArt #Metro #PawneeCityHall #SideStreetProjects…

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  14. Kasebier Discussions

    Megan Flanders and Karen Atkinson discuss episode 1 and the parallels between Gertrude’s experiences and today. Also, what happened to her brother? And other stuff. This week’s sponsor is “GYST”, a dynamic and important resource for contemporary artists of all kinds. Check out the book,...

  15. Intros // Gertrude Kasebier

    Dismissed for failing to embrace the traditional roles of motherhood, Gertrude was able to successfully navigate the choppy waters between a sustainable art career and responsible matriarch deftly and continued to chart a course for other women to achieve success as well. Her striking images of...

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

“How The Art World Works” is an inquiry into the logistics, values, ethics, expectations and operations of how an artist “makes it” in the art world. Unmarred by academic impetus and vocabulary, your hosts Karen Atkinson and Megan Flanders condense experiences commercial, academic and otherwise from their special guests, cut the sludge and get straight to the point: Can someone please tell us how the art world works?

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Karen Atkinson & Megan Flanders

Produced by GYST

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