Painters

Original air date: April 1, 2025

This episode is all about my rejection of the current dystopian state of things, and my belief that we are the light in this dark time is us - I believe that the way out is through love and empathy and art and music, I believe that the time has come for the tangible to be celebrated - art on canvas and vinyl records and handmade zines and meet cutes in real life ( an AI could NEVER). So I reached back into my art history education to talk about the beautiful humanity it takes to be an artist.

Playlist

• Andy Warhol - David Bowie

• Art School Girls of Doom - Panda Riot

• Art School Dropout - Lost In Clovers

• Art School - the Jam

• Max Ernst - Mission of Burma

• Art Class (Song for Yayoi Kusama) - Superchunk

• Meet James Ensor - They Might Be Giants

• Lichtenstein Painting - Television Personalities

• Vincent Van Gogh - Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers

• No One Was Like Vermeer - Jonathan Richman

• Übermut Cockiness - the Swiss Jazz Orchestra & Jim McNeely

• Poor De Chirico - 10,000 Maniacs

• Jackson Pollock - Artichoke

• Letters - Ollivier Mellano

• Magritte - John Cale

• Interiors (Song for Willem de Kooning) - Manic Street Preachers

• Mona Lisa - Nat King Cole

• The Ballad of Mona Lisa - Panic! At the Disco

• Pablo Picasso - Citizen Cope

• Lost Picasso - Hot Sauce Johnson

• David Hockney - Unicorn Dreams

• A Bigger Splash - Tones On Tail

• Modigliani (Lost In Your Eyes) - Book of Love

• Modigliani - Guy Farley

References

• The Cornish College of the Arts

• Ekphrasis

• Basquiat (1996 film)

My Stories

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

I used my old art history books for this, but also:

• The Pre-Raphaelites by Jennifer Meagher, October 1, 2004, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Timeline of Art History

• The Pre-Raphaelites by Dr. Rebecca Jeffrey Easby, The Center for Public Art History

Lee Krasner

In addition to my dusty old art history textbooks from college, I learned more about Lee Krasner and her insomnia inspired work from:

• The Irrepressible Emotion of Lee Krasner by Sophie Gilbert (The Atlantic, 2019)

• Reframing Lee Krasner, the artist formerly known as Mrs Pollock by Rachel Cooke (The Guardian, 2019)

• MoMA

• Frisson, The Richard E. Lang and Jane Lang Davis Collection at the Seattle Art Museum

• Eureka! How Painting at Night Transformed Lee Krasner’s Colors, by Tim Brinkhof (Artnet, 2024)

Poems

• In the Artist’s Studio by Christina Rosetti

• Romanze, or The Music Students, by Frank O’Hara

• The Starry Night by Anne Sexton

• Vermeer’s Little Girl, by Adam Zagajewski, translated by Renata Gorczynski

• René Magritte By Shuzo Takiguchi, translated by Mary Jo Bang & Yuki Tanaka

• A Painter’s Thoughts, by John Yau

• Musée des Beaux Arts, by H. Auden

• Nude Descending a Staircase by X.J. Kennedy