Artist Series Episode 80: George Rickey — Wind, Balance, and Minimalist Motion
George Rickey made steel move with wind, gravity, and nerve. Wait until the sculpture starts behaving like…
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Artist Series Episode 79: Jean Tinguely, or How to Build a Machine That Has No Job and Still Deserves a Museum
He built machines that danced, clanked, drew, collapsed, and made modern art feel like it had swallowed a toolbox…
Artist Series Episode 78: Alexander Calder — Mobiles, Balance, and the Fine Art of Making Gravity Nervous
Alexander Calder made sculpture float, drift, wobble, and behave like gravity had finally agreed to loosen up…
Episode 77: Theo Jansen, or How to Teach PVC Pipe to Take a Walk Without Complaining About Sand in Its Shoes
Theo Jansen taught beach sculpture to walk, and now PVC pipe has more personality than most meetings…
Episode 76: David Alfaro Siqueiros, or How to Paint a Wall Like It Just Joined the Revolution
He painted walls like history had just kicked the door open, and honestly, the door never stood a chance…
Episode 75: José Clemente Orozco, or How to Paint Humanity Like It Just Walked Through Fire and Forgot Its Shoes
Orozco did not paint history politely. He painted it like the wall had seen everything and finally decided to speak…
Episode 73: Thomas Hart Benton, or How to Paint America Like It Just Drank Three Cups of Coffee and Joined a Parade
Thomas Hart Benton painted America like it had muscles, music, gossip, and a wagon wheel loose in the best possible way…
Episode 72: Grant Wood, or How to Paint America So Stiffly It Starts Making Eye Contact
Grant Wood painted America so calmly that the pitchfork became famous and the farmhouse started looking suspicious…
Episode 71: Edward Hopper, or How to Paint Loneliness So Well the Room Starts Avoiding Eye Contact
A lonely diner, a brutal beam of light, and the painter who made silence feel louder than…
Episode 70: James McNeill Whistler, or How to Paint So Quietly the Critics Start Yelling
Whistler painted mood, sued a critic, won a farthing, and still changed modern art because of course he…