About this episode
Ellen Gallagher talks about her life and work through the art, literature, music and other cultural experiences that have profoundly affected her. She tells Ben Luke about the extraordinary opportunity she had to live with an original Keith Haring print while at Oberlin College, Ohio; her love of Diego Velázquez and Stanley Brouwn; the influence of the Afrofuturist mythology of the Detroit techno band Drexciya; how Herman Melville, in his novels and novellas, wrote more perceptively about race than he is often credited with, and much more. And, of course, she answers the ultimate questions we ask in each episode: if you could live with just one work of art, what would it be? And what is art for? This episode is sponsored by Bloomberg Connects . Links for this episode: Ellen Gallagher at Hauser & Wirth Ellen’s page for the Sonsbeek 20-24 quadrennial The Freud Museum, London Matisse: The Fabric of Dreams, His Art and His Textiles Keith Haring's Untitled (1982), The Keith Haring Foundation Diego Velázquez at the Prado Velázquez’s Infante Felipe Prospero (1559) at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Headrest: Female Caryatid Figure (19th century) by the Master of the Cascade Coiffure Ellen Gallagher’s Ecstatic Draught of Fishes (2020) at Hauser & Wirth, London Pieter Paul Rubens’s Miraculous Draft of Fishes in the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne from the Rheinisches Bildarchiv, Cologne The Art Newspaper’s report on the racist joke beneath Kazimir Malevich’s Black Square Ellen Gallagher’s Art Institute of Chicago exhibition, Are We Obsidian?, featuring her series Negroes Battling in a Cave Oscar van den Boogaard on Stanley Brouwn in Frieze magazine Go-go legend Chuck Brown on Spotify Hugo van der Goes’s Diptych with the fall of man and redemption (Lamentation of Christ) in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat Maryse Condé at World Editions Ode à la Guinea by Aimé Césaire and more on Césaire at the Poetry Foundation Léopold Sédar Senghor at the Poetry Foundation Drexciya’s Futuristic Electro—a guide, by Albert Freeman at Bandcamp and Drexciya on Spotify Herman Melville at Penguin Books Kraftwerk Alice Coltrane’s album Kirtan: Turiya Sings Stuart Maconie’s Freak Zone, BBC Radio 6 Music Jan Mostaert’s Portrait of an African Man (Christophle le More?) (1525-30) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.