(Now Playing) Yoshua Okon - Episode 30 of 30
Jun 24, 2008
Back in the 80s and 90s the art scene in Mexico was filled with boring, solemn, abstract shit. But then video artist Yoshua Okon and his buddy, the painter Miguel Calderon made it fun again.
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In Art Talk! VBS storms the brains and studios of our favorite makers of beautiful and awesome things. It’s fine arts coverage at its most invasive.
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Daniel Richter
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Lance Acord
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Oct 12, 2009
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Casey Storm
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Oct 10, 2009
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Eric Zumbrunnen
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Oct 08, 2009
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Sonny Gerasimowicz
Where the Wild Things Are: Creature Designer
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Oct 08, 2009
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K.K. Barrett
Where the Wild Things Are: Production Designer
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Sep 28, 2009
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Osang Gwon
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Aug 22, 2009
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Miki Guadamur
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Jul 31, 2009
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Leonard Knight
10,000 gallons of paint and God-love in the middle of the California badlands.
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Jul 02, 2009
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Andreas Golder
A Russian artist obsessed with death and dismemberment? Who'da thunk it.
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Jun 29, 2009
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Carlos Amorales
Mexico's favorite performance artist sets a plague upon an unsuspecting galle...
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Jun 18, 2009
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Vito Acconci
Vito Acconci first gained recognition as a New York City poet who edited the ...
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Jun 29, 2009
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Gary Panter
Gary Panter has been up to so much shit over the past three decades it is lit...
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Jun 28, 2009
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Wes Lang
Brooklyn artist Wes Lang and his illustrated bulletin walls
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Jun 09, 2008
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Barry McGee
The king of West Coast street art in robotic conversation with Aaron Rose of ...
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Apr 21, 2008
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Misaki Kawai
The simplicity of creating psychedelic craft-art.
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Dec 17, 2007
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Richard Prince
Taking a trip to Richard's upstate studio.
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Laurel Nakadate
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Nov 05, 2007
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K8 Hardy
Our favorite queer performance artist is READYYYYY!!!
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Aug 04, 2008
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Ryan Foerster
Our favorite Canadian photographer takes us to his frozen cabin of gloom.
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Mar 24, 2008
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Dan Colen
From NBA dreams to skate-rat to art school.
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Dec 03, 2007
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Enrique Metinides
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Nov 17, 2007
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Michelle O'Marah
Michele O’Marah has been one of our favorite video artists ever since y...
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Feb 11, 2008
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Terence Koh
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AA Bronson
Enrolling at the School for Young Shamans and touring the fruits of its stude...
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Feb 25, 2008
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Lizzi B
Lizzi Bougatsos: Artist. Musician. Gap-toothed vixen.
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May 12, 2008
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Assume Vivid Astro Focus
AVAF's latest foray into severe sensory overload.
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May 26, 2008
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Aurel Schmidt
Channeling paranoia and overstimulation into her work.
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Jan 14, 2008
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Miguel Calderon
When I called Miguel to see if he would let us visit him at his studio to sho...
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Jul 07, 2008
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Yoshua Okon
Back in the 80s and 90s the art scene in Mexico was filled with boring, solem...
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Jun 24, 2008
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anonymous
8 months ago
The photos of the police "fiesta-ing" kind of remind me of the Abu Ghraib photos. Authority figu...
anonymous
9 months ago
You should’ve seen the amazing social practice stunt Yoshua Okon pulled at High Desert Test Site...
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