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Recording Artists
Artists in their own words from the Getty Research Institute archives
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Introducing If Objects Could Talk, a Podcast for Kids and Their Families
Check out Getty’s first podcast for kids and their families, If Objects Could Talk!
Listen as artifacts leave the museum vault and come a...
Experiments in Art and Technology: What could be more beautiful than a laser? (Bonus)
Laser physicist Billy Klüver really loved his lasers. But what divided the beauty of the laser (at least in Klüver’s eyes) from art? As the co-founder...
I Thought It Was a Jewish Delicatessen (Bonus)
What do engineers get out of working with artists? In a series of talks designed to attract new engineers and artists to the group Experiments in Art...
It’s a Likely Threat (Bonus)
What makes good art good and what makes that experience stick with you? Engineer Billy Klüver, who co-founded the nonprofit group Experiments in Art a...
Why Doesn’t He Dance a Little Better? (Bonus)
Did you know Robert Rauschenberg was fired by John Cage? Us either—until we heard Rauschenberg telling his side of the story to Barbara Rose in one of...
Introducing ReCurrent: The Recipe of Us
Check out Getty’s newest podcast, ReCurrent, a series about what we gain by keeping the past present. In this inaugural episode, host and producer Jai...
Robert Rauschenberg: A Very Small Club
Robert Rauschenberg is one of the best-known artists of the 20th century, in part because he never stopped exploring new mediums and styles. His work...
Billy Klüver: Better Than Another Golf Course
Laser physicist Billy Klüver had always been interested in art. So when he started working at Bell Labs in New Jersey in the late 1950s, he began goin...
Fujiko Nakaya: The Most Beautiful Way
Artist Fujiko Nakaya is best known for her ethereal sculptures made with fog. But her very first fog sculpture, which kicked off decades of working wi...
Season 3—Experiments in Art and Technology
In season three of Recording Artists, artist and futurist Ahmed Best examines the groundbreaking art-science organization Experiments in Art and Techn...
Recording Artists Live
In this special live episode of Recording Artists, season two host Tess Taylor speaks with Getty Research Institute curator Pietro Rigolo about the ma...
Meret Oppenheim: Femme Fatale Is an Insult
In 1975, Meret Oppenheim’s small painting Würgeengel, or Angel of Death, is included in a sprawling exhibition organized by famous curator Harald Szee...
Nam June Paik: I Don’t Want to Be Over Whelmed by Glory
In the mid-1960s, Nam June Paik is living in a run-down studio in SoHo, struggling to make ends meet. But even as he jokes about his ongoing battle ag...
Benjamin Patterson: Full Moon, Warm, Silver Clouds
On May 20, 1962, the morning after his first child is born, Benjamin Patterson writes a touching birth announcement to his own parents. The letter cov...
M. C. Richards: I Am Dancing with These Words Around You
By 1956, M. C. Richards has earned a PhD in English, taught poetry at Black Mountain College, gotten married (and divorced) twice, dedicated herself t...
Frida Kahlo: Do You Think of Me Some Time?
In 1944, Frida Kahlo is at a crossroads, both in terms of her health and her career. In April of that year, with World War II dragging on, she writes...
Marcel Duchamp: Write Me Often, Just a Line or Two
It’s July 1942, and the artist Marcel Duchamp has recently arrived in New York City after fleeing the Nazis in Vichy France. As he settles in, he writ...
Season 2—Intimate Addresses
In season two of Recording Artists, titled Intimate Addresses, host Tess Taylor dives into the lives of six artists. From personal letters pulled from...
Alice Neel: Viva la Mujer
This episode focuses on Alice Neel (1900–1984). Joining host Helen Molesworth are artists Simone Leigh and Moyra Davey. Neel is known for striking, ex...
Lee Krasner: Deal with It
This episode focuses on Lee Krasner (1908–1984). Joining host Helen Molesworth are artists Lari Pittman and Amy Sillman. In interviews from 1972, 1975...
Betye Saar: Working My Mojo
This episode focuses on Betye Saar (b. 1926). Joining host Helen Molesworth are artist Linda Goode Bryant and art historian Marci Kwon. Saar is the on...
Helen Frankenthaler: Let ’er Rip
This episode focuses on Helen Frankenthaler (1928–2011). test Joining host Helen Molesworth are artist Rodney McMillian and art historian Alexander Ne...
Yoko Ono: A Kind of Meeting Point
This episode focuses on Yoko Ono (b. 1933). Joining host Helen Molesworth are artists Catherine Lord and Sanford Biggers. In an interview from 1990, O...
Eva Hesse: Oh, More Absurdity
This episode focuses on Eva Hesse (1936–1970). Joining host Helen Molesworth are artist Mary Weatherford and art historian Darby English. Hesse is one...
Season 1—Recording Artists: Radical Women
In this season of Recording Artists, host Helen Molesworth delves into the lives and careers of six women artists spanning several generations. Hear t...