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Ready to plunge into the depths of art history to resurface with weird art fair histories from Prehistory, the Aztecs to today? Which is a way of asking: is the compulsion to buy rare goods and exemplary artefacts immemorial? How have we evolved into the format of the art fair? Art fairs seem to defy romantic visions of creativity: artists: the art wonderment necessary to free oneself from conventional ideas and dusty traditions while reinventing them. Art works require freedom,  Their art etiquette can puzzle: selling art works feels deeply contradictory with the creativity and meditative explorations that we expect from our contemporary artists.  You wouldn’t leave your favourite coffee shop, flat white in hand, without paying for it, would you? Indie media like Exhibitionistas is free of access. That leaves you with a responsibility-dare I say, an ethical obligation– to pay for what you consume if you can. You can drop £3 if you enjoyed the episode here: : https://buymeacoffee.com/exhibitionista Or you can sign up for a tiered monthly support if you’ve been listening for a while:  https://www.buzzsprout.com/2624749/monetization/supporter_settings  Your contribution keeps us going. Read the article by Christian Monger The Evolution of the Art Fair: https://www.jstor.org/stable/0671e890-72d2-323b-964e-767f655980fe?seq=3#page_scan_tab_contents Visit the page about The Birth of the Art Market: Rembrandt, Ruisdael and Van Goyen and the Artists of the Dutch Golden Age: https://www.codart.nl/guide/agenda/birth-art-market-rembrandt-ruisdael-van-goyen-artists-dutch-golden-age/ Caroline Monnet's website: https://carolinemonnet.ca and gallery page: https://blouin-division.com/en/artists/34-caroline-monnet/overview/ The Venus de Renancourt (the Amiens Museum Prehistory female figurines): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vénus_de_Renancourt (FR) Jingle: "Wunder", experimental poem by Joana P. R. Neves. Did the episode stir Art Wonderment memories? Share them via text or voice message. Save the World PodcastIn-depth lectures and interviews on issues affecting the continued survival of human...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify Support the show Created & Hosted by Dr. Joana P. R. Neves, art curator and writer with over 20 years of experience in the contemporary art field. Artistic director of Drawing Now Paris since 2018, she has worked across the industry, from the art market to education. She co-launched the art residency and project space Worlding in 2020. Exhibitionistas’ first year offered exhibition discussions with guest co-host Emily Harding; organically, it grew into a more experimental show exploring art topics, stories and interviews complemented by Joana’s publication Art Thinkosaurus on Substack. She champions ‘Art Wonderment’s’ embrace of complexity against the lure of ready-made opinions. A polyglot, she grew up in Lisbon, studied and lived in Paris, to finally settle in London with her artist husband, four children and two cats.  READ JOANA'S TEXTS: Joana on Substack: https://joanaprneves.substack.com Where you find the Exhibitionistas Files, our Newsletter: ...

Can poetry provide clues to questions raised by contemporary art? Art sets the world in motion, sparks changes which we’re not always equipped to absorb, and even understand. Luís de Camões, the great Portuguese Renaissance poet wrote beautifully about art and change… and life. Our host, contemporary art writer and curator Joana P. R. Neves picks a poem per episode in this special series. Did you enjoy the episode? Think about supporting Exhibitionistas by leaving a small donation: https://buymeacoffee.com/exhibitionista Poem delivery service is a new bonus series where Joana explores a poem in a non English language that she loves, but whose translation doesn’t do it justice. She focuses on one poem per episode, briefly contextualising it and shedding light on the specific meaning she took from it, guiding you through the translation. At the end, Joana reads the poem in its original language. Sign up for a tiered monthly support: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2624749/monetization/supporter_settings Your contribution keeps us going. Jingle: "Wunder", experimental poem by Joana P. R. Neves. Did the episode stir Art Wonderment memories? Share them via text or voice message. Support the show Created & Hosted by Dr. Joana P. R. Neves, art curator and writer with over 20 years of experience in the contemporary art field. Artistic director of Drawing Now Paris since 2018, she has worked across the industry, from the art market to education. She co-launched the art residency and project space Worlding in 2020. Exhibitionistas’ first year offered exhibition discussions with guest co-host Emily Harding; organically, it grew into a more experimental show exploring art topics, stories and interviews complemented by Joana’s publication Art Thinkosaurus on Substack. She champions ‘Art Wonderment’s’ embrace of complexity against the lure of ready-made opinions. A polyglot, she grew up in Lisbon, studied and lived in Paris, to finally settle in London with her artist husband, four children and two cats.  READ JOANA'S TEXTS: Joana on Substack: https://joanaprneves.substack.com Where you find the Exhibitionistas Files, our Newsletter: ...

So many definitions of contemporary art… but what if the notion of skill took us deeper into it? As a curator, our host often hears: “my kid could do this”. So, she put her art writer and curator talents to the task of uncovering expectations and misconceptions about visual arts that it expresses. This is also an artist conversation episode: the first part explores 20th century art through the notion of skill, and the second invites the Swiss self-taught artist Reto Pulfer to provide his own art experience and education insights into this matter. Did you enjoy the episode? Think about supporting Exhibitionistas by leaving a small donation: https://buymeacoffee.com/exhibitionista Skill, takes us to art tradition, craft, art education, curatorial work, exhibition expertise and more. Together, Reto Pulfer and our host explore art as a raw and dynamic relation with ourselves and the world around us. Sign up for a tiered monthly support: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2624749/monetization/supporter_settings Your contribution keeps us going. To know more about Reto Pulfer: Follow him on Instagram: @zustand_retopulfer Visit his website: www.retopulfer.com | www.artmap.com/retopulfer Or have a look at his gallery, Hollybush Gardens, London https://hollybushgardens.co.uk/artists/reto-pulfer/ You can find his novel, Gina (2020) in the links below: Les Presses du Réel Presse Books Hollybush Gardens Jingle: "Wunder", experimental poem by Joana P. R. Neves. Did the episode stir Art Wonderment memories? Share them via text or voice message. Save the World PodcastIn-depth lectures and interviews on issues affecting the continued survival of human...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify Support the show Created & Hosted by Dr. Joana P. R. Neves, art curator and writer with over 20 years of experience in the contemporary art field. Artistic director of Drawing Now Paris since 2018, she has worked across the industry, from the art market to education. She co-launched the art residency and project space Worlding in 2020. Exhibitionistas’ first year offered exhibition discussions with guest co-host Emily Harding; organically, it grew into a more experimental show exploring art topics, stories and interviews complemented by Joana’s publication Art Thinkosaurus on Substack. She champions ‘Art Wonderment’s’ embrace of complexity against the lure of ready-made opinions. A polyglot, she grew up in Lisbon, studied and lived in Paris, to finally settle in London with her artist husband, four children and two cats.  READ JOANA'S TEXTS: Joana on Substack: https://joanaprneves.substack.com Where you find the Exhibitionistas Files, our Newsletter: ...

Biography enlightens the work of an artist but, in rare occasions, it can obliterate it. A polemic curatorial choice in Ana Mendieta's exhibition at Tate Modern illustrates this puzzling question. This unexpected curatorial twist may lean into anti-feminism if we stay on the surface of the discourse. Dive into it with our host Joana P. R. Neves, a curator and an art writer.  What decision did Valentina Umansky and Michael Wellen, the curators of the show make, and what third person, instrumental in delivering the work, helped them?  To tell or not to tell?  Did you enjoy the episode? Think about supporting Exhibitionistas by leaving a small donation: https://buymeacoffee.com/exhibitionista Have you ever wondered what it's like to curate a big, blockbuster exhibition? If you have, this episode is for you. It unveils certain ethics of curatorial work, an extremely important aspects of the job, especially when the artist is no longer alive. Sign up for a tiered monthly support: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2624749/monetization/supporter_settings Your contribution keeps us going. Jingle: "Wunder", experimental poem by Joana P. R. Neves. Did the episode stir Art Wonderment memories? Share them via text or voice message. Save the World PodcastIn-depth lectures and interviews on issues affecting the continued survival of human...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify Support the show Created & Hosted by Dr. Joana P. R. Neves, art curator and writer with over 20 years of experience in the contemporary art field. Artistic director of Drawing Now Paris since 2018, she has worked across the industry, from the art market to education. She co-launched the art residency and project space Worlding in 2020. Exhibitionistas’ first year offered exhibition discussions with guest co-host Emily Harding; organically, it grew into a more experimental show exploring art topics, stories and interviews complemented by Joana’s publication Art Thinkosaurus on Substack. She champions ‘Art Wonderment’s’ embrace of complexity against the lure of ready-made opinions. A polyglot, she grew up in Lisbon, studied and lived in Paris, to finally settle in London with her artist husband, four children and two cats.  READ JOANA'S TEXTS: Joana on Substack: https://joanaprneves.substack.com Where you find the Exhibitionistas Files, our Newsletter: ...

What if weaving released untold stories? And how does textile art with such narrative yet abstract powers fit into contemporary art and its traditionally European systems? Joana’s conversation with contemporary artist Paula do Prado takes unexpected turns and spreads across at least 3 different continents–if not more. What influence did the lost language of the Charrúa people and her Uruguayan past and lineage have on her work? Or, rather, is it even possible to locate the intuitive, dreamt and compulsive patterns and figures that emerge from her fingers, without any preconceived sketches or pre-established patterns?  Did you enjoy the episode? Think about supporting Exhibitionistas by leaving a small donation: https://buymeacoffee.com/exhibitionista This episode is a partnership with Worlding, a non-profit co-founded by our host, Joana P. R. Neves, in Elephant and Castle, London. Paula do Prado’s Residency is a proposal by Adelaide Bannerman / Never Done. The artist’s residency is supported by Creative Australia. Paula do Prado is represented by Station Australia and is current a studio resident at Artspace, Woolloomoloo. Following her Worlding residency, Paula will hold her first institutional show as part of the Artspace x Art Gallery of New South Wales Co-Commission as part of the Contemporary Arts Project Space, Art Gallery of New South Wales 28 November 2026 to 14 February 2027. See more https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/whats-on/exhibitions/paula-do-prado/ To know more about Worlding, visit the website: www.worldingproject.com/ Sign up for a tiered monthly support: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2624749/monetization/supporter_settings Your contribution keeps us going. Resources: Conversation between Paula do Prado and Mónica Michelena: https://vimeo.com/835732257?fl=pl&fe=sh (Spanish) Paula do Prado’s website (art / projects / workshops): www.studiodoprado.com Jingle: "Wunder", experimental poem by Joana P. R. Neves. Did the episode stir Art Wonderment memories? Share them via text or voice message. Save the World PodcastIn-depth lectures and interviews on issues affecting the continued survival of human...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify Support the show Created & Hosted by Dr. Joana P. R. Neves, art curator and writer with over 20 years of experience in the contemporary art field. Artistic director of Drawing Now Paris since 2018, she has worked across the industry, from the art market to education. She co-launched the art residency and project space Worlding in 2020. Exhibitionistas’ first year offered exhibition discussions with guest co-host Emily Harding; organically, it grew into a more experimental show exploring art topics, stories and interviews complemented by Joana’s publication Art Thinkosaurus on Substack. She champions ‘Art Wonderment’s’ embrace of complexity against the lure of ready-made opinions. A polyglot, she grew up in Lisbon, studied and lived in Paris, to finally settle in London with her artist husband, four children and two cats.  READ JOANA'S TEXTS: Joana on Substack: https://joanaprneves.substack.com Where you find the Exhibitionistas Files, our Newsletter: ...

There are pockets of creativity in our everyday life. The embodied art of READING ALOUD is an overlooked source of joy, containing so many aspects that contemporary art and artists explore in their practice... Performance, drawing, text, breathing patterns... It all starts with Joana P. R. Neves, our host, asking what the body can do by itself, or with very little assistance, inspired by the last episode dedicated to artist Ana Mendieta. This is also our way of introducing the upcoming bonus mini-series POEM DELIVERY SERVICE, a poem-per-episode... with a twist. Mentions of: #anthonymccall #eteladnan #emilydickinson #gerhardrichter #rebeccahorn #jimjarmush and more... KEEP US GOING: Support the research for this podcast with a coffee, or a book: https://buymeacoffee.com/exhibitionista Become a paid member: https://tinyurl.com/5d9kj5m2 Donate: https://donorbox.org/support-exhibiti... Sound residencies WORLDING SOUNDINGS RESIDENCY TICKETS: https://tinyurl.com/52yjtu2r WORLDING SOUNDINGS JAM TICKETS: https://tinyurl.com/yey2sdyrFind out more about WORLDING: https://www.worldingproject.com/ Jingle: "Wunder", experimental poem by Joana P. R. Neves. Did the episode stir Art Wonderment memories? Share them via text or voice message. Save the World PodcastIn-depth lectures and interviews on issues affecting the continued survival of human...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify Support the show Created & Hosted by Dr. Joana P. R. Neves, art curator and writer with over 20 years of experience in the contemporary art field. Artistic director of Drawing Now Paris since 2018, she has worked across the industry, from the art market to education. She co-launched the art residency and project space Worlding in 2020. Exhibitionistas’ first year offered exhibition discussions with guest co-host Emily Harding; organically, it grew into a more experimental show exploring art topics, stories and interviews complemented by Joana’s publication Art Thinkosaurus on Substack. She champions ‘Art Wonderment’s’ embrace of complexity against the lure of ready-made opinions. A polyglot, she grew up in Lisbon, studied and lived in Paris, to finally settle in London with her artist husband, four children and two cats.  READ JOANA'S TEXTS: Joana on Substack: https://joanaprneves.substack.com Where you find the Exhibitionistas Files, our Newsletter: ...

What does the artist’s body do? No one pushes us to ask this more than the Cuban-American artist Ana Mendieta. Her excavated silhouettes in the landscape, where her body would at times lie, covered with petals or feathers, are but one of the actions and rituals that she performed during her short career. What did occur in her own body? Community? Communion? What was the origin and the purpose of her embodied art? And what is the medium for this kind of art, happening in and with the body of the artist?   Did you enjoy the episode? Think about supporting Exhibitionistas by leaving a small donation: https://buymeacoffee.com/exhibitionista Celebrated for being a visionary eco-feminist, an activist against violence women, Ana Mendieta’s work is often obliterated by the sensationalism around it. The exhibition at Tate Modern feels like meeting the artist for the first time. For more info: https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/ana-mendieta  Sign up for a tiered monthly support: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2624749/monetization/supporter_settings Your contribution keeps us going. Art Etiquette Segment guest:  Esther Stanford, is the co-host of award winning podcast Limited Time Only (with Susie Riddell, WINNER: ‘BEST COMEDY MOMENT’ International Women In Podcast Awards 2025 sponsored by BBC SOUNDS), she is a sketch and TV writer. You can find her on Instagram, on YouTube, March House, a channel she has just launched where you can also find her podcast Conversations with Creatives. Or simply her website: ww.estherstanford.co.uk.  Soon: Bonus – full length Art Etiquette episodes. Segment: Brainstorm in a Teacup: Come for the art, stay for the creative writing segment, where Joana reads short texts from her notebooks exposing her inner thoughts and unexpected fictional / poetic / non-fiction / flash writing. Jingle: "Wunder", experimental poem by Joana P. R. Neves. Did the episode stir Art Wonderment memories? Share them via text or voice message. Save the World PodcastIn-depth lectures and interviews on issues affecting the continued survival of human...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify Support the show Created & Hosted by Dr. Joana P. R. Neves, art curator and writer with over 20 years of experience in the contemporary art field. Artistic director of Drawing Now Paris since 2018, she has worked across the industry, from the art market to education. She co-launched the art residency and project space Worlding in 2020. Exhibitionistas’ first year offered exhibition discussions with guest co-host Emily Harding; organically, it grew into a more experimental show exploring art topics, stories and interviews complemented by Joana’s publication Art Thinkosaurus on Substack. She champions ‘Art Wonderment’s’ embrace of complexity against the lure of ready-made opinions. A polyglot, she grew up in Lisbon, studied and lived in Paris, to finally settle in London with her artist husband, four children and two cats.  READ JOANA'S TEXTS: Joana on Substack: https://joanaprneves.substack.com Where you find the Exhibitionistas Files, our Newsletter: ...

We have great news! We're an Award Winning Podcast–Women Who Podcast award in the LGBTQIA+ category Bonus Episode: Le Guin / Indigenous History / Lao Tzu / and more... What was Ursula K. Le Guin's favourite book, and what did it uncover about the revered author's world-building and family legacy? Did you enjoy the episode? Leave a small donation: https://buymeacoffee.com/exhibitionista When she was a guest on the podcast, art Curator Catherine Li brought in a revelation about Ursula K. Le Guin's favourite book, tied in with her family's history, which didn’t make it to the final cut. Here it is for you, as a little end of Summer bonus, while we prepare the rentrée with panache. Sign up for a tiered monthly support: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2624749/monetization/supporter_settings Your contribution keeps us going. This reminded our host, art curator and writer Joana P. R. Neves, about a traumatic episode in Le Guin's family and close peer circle, which reflects indigenous trauma and the hidden history of the USA that was certainly crucial for Le Guin's worldview.  For a tiered support for less than 1£ / 1€, go to Patreon–exclusive content coming up soon: https://www.patreon.com/c/exhibitionistaspodcast/membership With a short reading from the The Wave in the Mind, Le Guin's collection of essays about writing, reading and more, and of the Tao Te Ching / text 48, translated by Le Guin. Become a member of Art Thinkosaurus on Substack and expand your Exhibitionistas experience with Joana's writing: https://joanaprneves.substack.com/subscribe [Unpublished segment of Joana's conversation with art curator Catherine Li around the writer Ursula K' Le Guin's seminal text The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction with a few quick curiosities that shed a different light on the science fiction author.] SAFE PRACTICE OF *ART WONDERMENT* GUARANTEED WITH EXHIBITIONISTAS. LINKS: Catherine Li's episode:  APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/exhibitionistas-notes-on-contemporary-art-and-life/id1727615833?i=1000734364234 YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/N97yd5t3pFY?si=i5kLWV6dXO5NPRic Award winning episode with Gemma Rolls Bentley and E-J Scott: APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/exhibitionistas-notes-on-contemporary-art-and-life/id1727615833?i=1000719853150 YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/RQvmgEXMAlQ?si=gu3fJlVPiPRDgSCN Jingle: "Wunder", experimental poem by Joana P. R. Neves. Did the episode stir Art Wonderment memories? Share them via text or voice message. Save the World PodcastIn-depth lectures and interviews on issues affecting the continued survival of human...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify Support the show Created & Hosted by Dr. Joana P. R. Neves, art curator and writer with over 20 years of experience in the contemporary art field. Artistic director of Drawing Now Paris since 2018, she has worked across the industry, from the art market to education. She co-launched the art residency and project space Worlding in 2020. Exhibitionistas’ first year offered exhibition discussions with guest co-host Emily Harding; organically, it grew into a more experimental show exploring art topics, stories and interviews complemented by Joana’s publication Art Thinkosaurus on Substack. She champions ‘Art Wonderment’s’ embrace of complexity against the lure of ready-made opinions. A polyglot, she grew up in Lisbon, studied and lived in Paris, to finally settle in London with her artist husband, four children and two cats.  READ JOANA'S TEXTS: Joana on Substack: https://joanaprneves.substack.com Where you find the Exhibitionistas Files, our Newsletter: ...

How and why do art and Summer join forces? Art, and visual arts especially, show imminent change–but so does Summer and its ideal of creative flow. How did–or did not–art speak of the climate emergency, gender policing, the war–in short, of loss? What role does this hot and luscious season play in the hubris of conquest, or the black hole of grief? Art curator and writer Joana P. R. Neves, our host, reminisces about Agnes Martin and John Cheever, and their opposing ideas of Summer and of creation, touching on two paintings by David Hockney and a poignant text by Luigi Pirandello. Joana loved a text sent to her by its author, Vittorio Zappa, on Substack, that guided the last part of the episode, leading to its denouement.  Is Summer the season of creative flow of life and art making, full of light and sensorial stimuli? Is creativity about desire or meditative art? Or are all these myths, perpetuated by capitalist simplifications? Has art contributed to create them? Or has it always been alerting us to the cruelty of change via Art Wonderment, the art of paradox? Did you enjoy the episode? Think about supporting Exhibitionistas by leaving a small donation: https://buymeacoffee.com/exhibitionista The painting A Bigger Splash, 1967, by David Hockney, is the epitome of hubristic summer. But it hides another painting, Portrait of an Artist (Pool with two figures), 1972, with a far more poignant story: they both tell the extremes of summer, and investigate the very special artifice telling a story of desire, change, loss and healing?  Sign up for a tiered monthly support: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2624749/monetization/supporter_settings Your contribution keeps us going. Joana P. R. Neves reads a text by Vittorio Zappa: https://substack.com/@vittoriozappa/p-209760240 Other references include: The Swimmer, John Cheever, 1964, New Yorker. The Swimmer, a film by Frank Perry, 1968. Did the episode stir Art Wonderment memories? Share them via text or voice message. Save the World PodcastIn-depth lectures and interviews on issues affecting the continued survival of human...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify Support the show Created & Hosted by Dr. Joana P. R. Neves, art curator and writer with over 20 years of experience in the contemporary art field. Artistic director of Drawing Now Paris since 2018, she has worked across the industry, from the art market to education. She co-launched the art residency and project space Worlding in 2020. Exhibitionistas’ first year offered exhibition discussions with guest co-host Emily Harding; organically, it grew into a more experimental show exploring art topics, stories and interviews complemented by Joana’s publication Art Thinkosaurus on Substack. She champions ‘Art Wonderment’s’ embrace of complexity against the lure of ready-made opinions. A polyglot, she grew up in Lisbon, studied and lived in Paris, to finally settle in London with her artist husband, four children and two cats.  READ JOANA'S TEXTS: Joana on Substack: https://joanaprneves.substack.com Where you find the Exhibitionistas Files, our Newsletter: ...

Writer Rachel Cusk asked: "Can a Woman who is an Artist Ever Just Be an Artist?" (NYT). Our host Joana, your favourite contemporary art writer and curator, turns this  question of gender and skill on its head: can men be (good) artists? Cusk's book "Parade" (2024) is this Art & Literature episode book of choice to tackle the issue. Can art and life be a continuous flow for female artists, as it seems to be for male ones? Joana embarks on an art and feminism quest: is gender a prison? Or is it the forceful power of the patriarchy's creative flow? She is helped by living and fictional contemporary artists and writers, intersectional feminism, and philosophy of art via Vilem Flusser and his "theory of gestures". Did you enjoy the episode? Think about supporting Exhibitionistas by leaving a small donation: https://buymeacoffee.com/exhibitionista Art and Feminism claim to walk hand in hand, but what if the structure of the art system itself was an inheritance of archaic patriarchal systems? The famous artist Georg Baselitz, who passed away this year, is a central figure in Cusk's book "Parade". Was he a product or an instigator of the system? And what is the patriarchal system? How and where does it manifest? And finally, where are modern men now, within this system that seems to block creative flow and artistic expression? Sign up for a tiered monthly support: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2624749/monetization/supporter_settings Your contribution keeps us going. Listen to the Women who Sarcast Episode" Sarcasm and Contemporary Art. Read Cusk's article in the New York Times (07/11/ 2019). Jingle: "Wunder", experimental poem by Joana P. R. Neves. Did the episode stir Art Wonderment memories? Share them via text or voice message. Save the World PodcastIn-depth lectures and interviews on issues affecting the continued survival of human...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify Support the show Created & Hosted by Dr. Joana P. R. Neves, art curator and writer with over 20 years of experience in the contemporary art field. Artistic director of Drawing Now Paris since 2018, she has worked across the industry, from the art market to education. She co-launched the art residency and project space Worlding in 2020. Exhibitionistas’ first year offered exhibition discussions with guest co-host Emily Harding; organically, it grew into a more experimental show exploring art topics, stories and interviews complemented by Joana’s publication Art Thinkosaurus on Substack. She champions ‘Art Wonderment’s’ embrace of complexity against the lure of ready-made opinions. A polyglot, she grew up in Lisbon, studied and lived in Paris, to finally settle in London with her artist husband, four children and two cats.  READ JOANA'S TEXTS: Joana on Substack: https://joanaprneves.substack.com Where you find the Exhibitionistas Files, our Newsletter: ...

Art criticism is vanishing from mainstream media, but here's the uncomfortable question: does art and culture still need critics? Our host, Joana P. R. Neves, art curator and writer, examines why critics are leaving big outlets without being replaced—and what this means for art criticism, artistic quality assessment, curatorial etiquette, and the future of art evaluation itself. What is art criticism actually for? And where does Joana's feminist critique of critique lead to? And who decides what's good art now? Or, rather, is “good art” the yardstick by which art experiences should be measured? Did you enjoy the episode? Think about supporting Exhibitionistas by leaving a small donation: https://buymeacoffee.com/exhibitionista Joana explores 3 questions in this episode: What is Art Criticism? Who reads it and who or what does art criticism serve? And finally, what is her own relation with it as someone who admittedly is not fond of the genre? Sign up for a tiered monthly support: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2624749/monetization/supporter_settings Your contribution keeps us going. Art Etiquette Segment guest:  Elizabeth Botten, Reference Specialist at the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art  Art question: what can we do to accommodate visitors and make their exhibition experience enjoyable while preserving art etiquette? Soon: Bonus – full length Art Etiquette episodes. Segment: Brainstorm in a Teacup: Come for the art, stay for the creative writing segment, where Joana reads short texts from her notebooks exposing her inner thoughts and odd fictional flash writing. Jingle: "Wunder", experimental poem by Joana P. R. Neves. 0:00: Intro: Where to continue your Exhibitionistas experience. 2:27: Today's question: is art criticism still valid? 4:56: Why are art critics vanishing? And how? 7:05: 3 guiding questions of the episode: what is it, who does it serve and who is reading - or not 8:46: What is art criticism? A scandal and a text. 15:35: Genius, excellence, quality: are these outdated questions? 24:35: Who is reading art criticism? 27:12: Art Etiquette with Elizabeth Botten 38:08: What does art criticism do, and what or who is it upholding? 46:44: Joana's honest reckoning with art criticism 54:14: Brainstorm in a Teacup (Creative Writing segment) Did the episode stir Art Wonderment memories? Share them via text or voice message. Save the World PodcastIn-depth lectures and interviews on issues affecting the continued survival of human...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify Support the show Created & Hosted by Dr. Joana P. R. Neves, art curator and writer with over 20 years of experience in the contemporary art field. Artistic director of Drawing Now Paris since 2018, she has worked across the industry, from the art market to education. She co-launched the art residency and project space Worlding in 2020. Exhibitionistas’ first year offered exhibition discussions with guest co-host Emily Harding; organically, it grew into a more experimental show exploring art topics, stories and interviews complemented by Joana’s publication Art Thinkosaurus on Substack. She champions ‘Art Wonderment’s’ embrace of complexity against the lure of ready-made opinions. A polyglot, she grew up in Lisbon, studied and lived in Paris, to finally settle in London with her artist husband, four children and two cats.  READ JOANA'S TEXTS: Joana on Substack: https://joanaprneves.substack.com Where you find the Exhibitionistas Files, our Newsletter: ...

AI is forcing us to define what being human is. So, did our host, an art curator and writer, dare to create a Manifesto? Awkward? Or are we not used to women proclaiming things? How can art–seemingly at the brink of commodification–bear new forms of being human? Or is does it spotlight you, art wanderer? The self-help book "Tiny Experiments " by Anne-Laure Le Cunff sparked this art question: why did it excite such a meditative exploration of the role of art, and its urgent proclamation? Tune in to find out. Did you enjoy the episode? Think about supporting Exhibitionistas by leaving a small donation: https://buymeacoffee.com/exhibitionista What else to do when we live in a society of images, but don't know what they are? In Joana's words: "Art Wonderment is me, howling, in recognition, in celebration, in fear, in respect, in defiance." Read the rest of her text here because a podcast episode is not the same beast as a text. The complete experience combines the two. Sign up for a tiered monthly support: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2624749/monetization/supporter_settings Your contribution keeps us going. With the wonderful Catalan artist Susanna INGLADA; the timeless wisdom of LAO TZU's Tao Te Ching translated by Ursula K. LE GUIN–, the most innovative Portuguese poet, Fernando PESSOA and his mind blowing creation of more than 100 heteronyms (poets he invented with a persona, a life, and their own authored poetry), amongst which the most extreme of them all, Alberto Caeiro. Art Etiquette Segment guest:  Spencer Moore, Creator and host of The Hairy Chin Podcast Art question: why is contemporary art not considered art? Soon: Bonus – full length Art Etiquette episodes. Come for the art, stay for the creative writing–segment, Brainstorm in a Teacup, where Joana reads short texts from her notebooks exposing her inner thoughts and strange fictional flash writing. Jingle: "Wunder", experimental poem by Joana P. R. Neves. 00:00:00 - Intro: A Different Start + Featured Artist Susanna Inglada 00:02:06 - The Self-Help trap 00:13:36 - Art Wonderment Manifesto 00:19:26 - Art Etiquette with S. Moore: why is contemporary art not considered art? 00:28:25 - Art Wonderment Manifesto – Holding the paradox wit artist Susanna Inglada 00:33:07 - The mysterious life of Portugal’s most intriguing poet, Fernando Pessoa 00:42:06 - Brainstorm in a Teacup 00:43:55 - A message, a rant, a call for voice notes, a see you soon Did the episode stir Art Wonderment memories? Share them via text or voice message. Save the World PodcastIn-depth lectures and interviews on issues affecting the continued survival of human...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify Support the show Created & Hosted by Dr. Joana P. R. Neves, art curator and writer with over 20 years of experience in the contemporary art field. Artistic director of Drawing Now Paris since 2018, she has worked across the industry, from the art market to education. She co-launched the art residency and project space Worlding in 2020. Exhibitionistas’ first year offered exhibition discussions with guest co-host Emily Harding; organically, it grew into a more experimental show exploring art topics, stories and interviews complemented by Joana’s publication Art Thinkosaurus on Substack. She champions ‘Art Wonderment’s’ embrace of complexity against the lure of ready-made opinions. A polyglot, she grew up in Lisbon, studied and lived in Paris, to finally settle in London with her artist husband, four children and two cats.  READ JOANA'S TEXTS: Joana on Substack: https://joanaprneves.substack.com Where you find the Exhibitionistas Files, our Newsletter: ...

As an art curator and writer, our host is often faced with printed or digital art portfolios – does this art digital hygiene go against art etiquette? Is art appreciation valid, or even possible through a copy of an art work? Through art images in a book? This issue hides a bigger one: how do you experience art if you live in a country far from the big museums and collections? Our host gets candid and starts with a personal anecdote–she's not always lived in London... Did you enjoy the episode? Think about supporting Exhibitionistas by leaving a small donation: https://buymeacoffee.com/exhibitionista This ‘art anxiety’ is reinforced by the concept, coined by the German thinker Walter Benjamin, of “the aura”, the "here and now of the work of art" understood as a defense of the unique art experiences ‘in the flesh’. The episode relies on his seminal book, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction", and asks the following art questions: how does one experience art in spaces where there isn't any? How important is art as an object? If the art object ceases to be important, then what does art become? Sign up for a tiered monthly support: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2624749/monetization/supporter_settings Your contribution keeps us going. What if we’d failed to see what Benjamin alerts us to in his seminal art book "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"? What if mass reproduction of images brought an art liberation? What is preserving the here and now of the aesthetic experience was a form of gatekeeping? And how can we read the concept of aura today? Art Etiquette Segment guest:  Kathy Baron, Creator and host of  Women Who Sarcast; and her amazing publication Women who Podcast Magazine.  Art question: why is contemporary art not considered art? Soon: Bonus – full length Art Etiquette episodes. Come for the art, stay for the creative writing–segment, Brainstorm in a Teacup, where Joana reads short texts from her notebooks exposing her inner thoughts and strange fictional flash writing. Jingle: "Wunder", experimental poem by Joana P. R. Neves. Interested in Worlding, my art space & residency in London? https://www.worldingproject.com/ Interested in seeing the exhibition with Collective Aid and SOS MEDITERRANEE for Refugee Week? https://www.zeffy.com/en-GB/ticketing/across-lands-and-seas-exhibition Interested in our Workshops? https://www.zeffy.com/en-GB/ticketing/workshops-across-lands-and-seas-exhibition And our talk about courage? https://www.zeffy.com/en-GB/ticketing/across-lands-and-seas Know more about Collective Aid and SOS MEDITERRANEE. And here is the link to Kathy's awesome film Navel Gazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogy1nTiCms0&t=205s Chapters: 00:00 Can we be moved by a reproduction of an artwork? 07:04 Walter Benjamin's "Aura" is often misunderstood 15:52 My 2nd hand art experience: 2 paintings by Caspar D. Friedrich 20:12 Benjamin, a fellow podcaster? And the real change brought by tech 29:07 Art Etiquette segment! 40:13 Walter Benjamin's Influence on Art and Technology 40:13 Copy v automated reproduction 53:26 Brainstorm in a teacup segment! 54:37 Answer to the question: can we be moved by a copy of art? Did the episode stir Art Wonderment memories? Share them via text or voice message. Save the World PodcastIn-depth lectures and interviews on issues affecting the continued survival of human...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify Support the show Created & Hosted by Dr. Joana P. R. Neves, art curator and writer with over 20 years of experience in the contemporary art field. Artistic director of Drawing Now Paris since 2018, she has worked across the industry, from the art market to education. She co-launched the art residency and project space Worlding in 2020. Exhibitionistas’ first year offered exhibition discussions with guest co-host Emily Harding; organically, it grew into a more experimental show exploring art topics, stories and interviews complemented by Joana’s publication Art Thinkosaurus on Substack. She champions ‘Art Wonderment’s’ embrace of complexity against the lure of ready-made opinions. A polyglot, she grew up in Lisbon, studied and lived in Paris, to finally settle in London with her artist husband, four children and two cats.  READ JOANA'S TEXTS: Joana on Substack: https://joanaprneves.substack.com Where you find the Exhibitionistas Files, our Newsletter: ...

Art curator, writer and host Joana P. R. Neves, asks the ultimate art question of art questions: could art appreciation be a powerful combination of the analog and the digital? Even stranger: how does it hinge on the meaning of word "wonder" and "wander"? In a nutshell, are we in need of art digital hygiene? Is Art Wonderment the response to the decline of 20th century art criticism? As ever, Joana gets candid and exposes her own journey into the art digital spaces and social digital platforms?  Did you enjoy the episode? Think about supporting Exhibitionistas by leaving a small donation: https://buymeacoffee.com/exhibitionista Art and culture go hand in hand in this episode. But what does Wordsworth's poetry have to do with art philosophy? And why is it connecte with Agnes Martin's meditative exploration of life and art? Learn about real art etiquette, plus the night Joana's curated performance went viral and Snoop Dogg reposted it. A new era. A new episode structure. New segments. Your art theory explained through unexpected perspective shifts. Sign up for a tiered monthly support: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2624749/monetization/supporter_settings Your contribution keeps us going. Segment: Brainstorm in a Teacup: Come for the art, stay for the creative writing segment, where Joana reads short texts from her notebooks exposing her inner thoughts and odd fictional flash writing. Music by Sarturn.  Visit Worlding online and sign up to our newsletter or follow us on Instagram: @worldingproject https://www.worldingproject.com Small donations are great! "Buys us a book": https://buymeacoffee.com/exhibitionista Do you LOVE podcasts? Do you want to support female-led businesses? Get your podcasting magazine here: Women Who Podcast Magazine - https://www.womenwhopodcastmag.com/ Sources: My definition of wonderment is actually taken from the noun ‘wonder’: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/wonder  Hollis Frampton’s text: Digression on the Photographic Agony, Artforum, November 1972: https://www.artforum.com/features/digressions-on-the-photographic-agony-209932/ Agnes Martin’s photo credits: Agnes Martin in the mesas near Cuba, New Mexico, 1974. Photo Gianfranco Gorgoni. Pliny the Elder’s mention of the origin myth of art is in Natural History Book XXXV My strange viral experience article Going Viral: if your exhibition is reposted by Snoop Dog, does it matter? https://substack.com/home/post/p-157358364 The article where I mention Katy Hessel’s strange Art Self Help Book, Art as Function, Automatic Education, and Self-Care: the Politics of Culture Replaced by the Commodification of Creativity: https://substack.com/@joanaprneves/p-190450394 Find Walter Benjamin’s first “read Walter Benjamin with me” here” https://joanaprneves.substack.com/s/your-crazy-aunt-book-shelf 00:00 Introduction to Exhibitionistas and New Format 01:30 Wonderment 06:03 Reading Out Loud 08:25 Agnes Martin on Joy 12:58 Ekphrasis 19:51 Digital Hygiene 41:32 Build Exhibitionistas With Me! 46:33 Brainstorm in a Teacup Segment 47:37 Outro Did the episode stir Art Wonderment memories? Share them via text or voice message. Save the World PodcastIn-depth lectures and interviews on issues affecting the continued survival of human...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify Support the show Created & Hosted by Dr. Joana P. R. Neves, art curator and writer with over 20 years of experience in the contemporary art field. Artistic director of Drawing Now Paris since 2018, she has worked across the industry, from the art market to education. She co-launched the art residency and project space Worlding in 2020. Exhibitionistas’ first year offered exhibition discussions with guest co-host Emily Harding; organically, it grew into a more experimental show exploring art topics, stories and interviews complemented by Joana’s publication Art Thinkosaurus on Substack. She champions ‘Art Wonderment’s’ embrace of complexity against the lure of ready-made opinions. A polyglot, she grew up in Lisbon, studied and lived in Paris, to finally settle in London with her artist husband, four children and two cats.  READ JOANA'S TEXTS: Joana on Substack: https://joanaprneves.substack.com Where you find the Exhibitionistas Files, our Newsletter: ...

Miniseries–Does obscurity lead to creative freedom? Why do I ask? Because of one sentence in American writer Chris Kraus' "I Love Dick" saying that once we accept obscurity, we can do what we want. Could this be the most daring feminist art statement? But then, why does it intersect with a cliché of sexual desire, the cowboy? Enter artists Sophie Calle, Hannah Wilke, intellectual Sylvère Lotringer, experimental art, the New York art scene of the 90s and more... Did you enjoy the episode? Think about supporting Exhibitionistas by leaving a small donation: https://buymeacoffee.com/exhibitionista Welcome to our Art & Literature series where we asked: where are the books that talk about art appreciation, art enjoyment, art judgement, being art enthusiast? Where is the fiction, the literary essays that discuss topics such as art wonderment, art criticism, creative freedom, creative flow, meditative explorations of art, and even art and technology? Well, we found a few art nuggets for you! Sign up for a tiered monthly support: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2624749/monetization/supporter_settings Your contribution keeps us going. Art Etiquette Segment guest:  Elizabeth Botten, Reference Specialist at the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art  Art question: what can we do to accommodate visitors and make their exhibition experience enjoyable while preserving art etiquette? Soon: Bonus – full length Art Etiquette episodes. Segment: Brainstorm in a Teacup: Come for the art, stay for the creative writing segment, where Joana reads short texts from her notebooks exposing her inner thoughts and odd fictional flash writing. Chapters: 00:00 Intro: On creative freedom and obscurity 02:51 A feminist sensation: "I Love Dick" by Chris Kraus  09:47 Dick, Sylvère... and Chris 15:12 The Structure of the Book 23:29 The Triangle of Obscurity 26:05 Exposure of Self or Obscurity of the Muse? 30:53 Transgression as Sexlessness 41:04 Economic Obscurity 47:21 Sex, Desire, and Visibility 54:26 Art, Identity, and Obscurity 55:44 The Life and Legacy of Hannah Wilke 01:09:39 Art Monsters 01:17:56 Outro Did the episode stir Art Wonderment memories? Share them via text or voice message. Save the World PodcastIn-depth lectures and interviews on issues affecting the continued survival of human...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify Support the show Created & Hosted by Dr. Joana P. R. Neves, art curator and writer with over 20 years of experience in the contemporary art field. Artistic director of Drawing Now Paris since 2018, she has worked across the industry, from the art market to education. She co-launched the art residency and project space Worlding in 2020. Exhibitionistas’ first year offered exhibition discussions with guest co-host Emily Harding; organically, it grew into a more experimental show exploring art topics, stories and interviews complemented by Joana’s publication Art Thinkosaurus on Substack. She champions ‘Art Wonderment’s’ embrace of complexity against the lure of ready-made opinions. A polyglot, she grew up in Lisbon, studied and lived in Paris, to finally settle in London with her artist husband, four children and two cats.  READ JOANA'S TEXTS: Joana on Substack: https://joanaprneves.substack.com Where you find the Exhibitionistas Files, our Newsletter: ...