{"id":15149,"date":"2022-03-28T18:33:45","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T22:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=15149"},"modified":"2022-03-28T18:33:48","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T22:33:48","slug":"episode-479-sebastian-smee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-479-sebastian-smee","title":{"rendered":"Episode 479 – Sebastian Smee"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 479:
\nSebastian Smee<\/a><\/p>\n

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“There’s a tendency with everything being online to think of images \u2014 infinitely reproducible and tweetable \u2014 but to actually be at the museum and have this space between you and the physical object, there’s a charge that happens between you and the artwork, and that simply doesn’t exist in the online world.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Sebastian Smee<\/a> joins the show to talk about his career and the notions of artistic rivalry, influence and love, and how they came together in his 2017 book, The Art of Rivalry: Four Friendships, Betrayals and Breakthroughs in Modern Art<\/a>. We get into how he got his start in art criticism in Australia, his love for Matisse and Manet, his friendship with Lucian Freud<\/a>, why American has the best museums, the importance of seeing art in the physical world and not just as images onscreen, the joy of writing for The Washington Post<\/a> and why his wonderful Great Works, In Focus<\/a> series needs a better name, and his new project about Berthe Morisot<\/a> and the Siege of Paris. We also discuss the exhibitions he’d love to curate, why he’s jealous of my art-practice, the influence of Robert Hughes, the balance of color and line, the identities we gain and lose online<\/a>, the one piece of art he’s really hoping to see before the end, why the Philip Guston controversy<\/a> was so disturbing, and more! Give it a listen!<\/a> And go read The Art of Rivalry<\/a>!<\/p>\n

“While my first love is painting, drawing and the more traditional arts, there’s no question that some of the best work made in the last 20 or 30 years has been video art, and other new media.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n