Recording Artists
Artists in their own words from the Getty Research Institute archives
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Season 2 – Intimate Addresses
Exploring the bonds between artists and their colleagues, collaborators, friends, and lovers
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Season 2 Coming Soon—Intimate Addresses
Hear artists explore, in their own words, their work and their relationships, both personal and professional.
In season two of Recording Artists, titled Intimate Addresses, host Tess Taylor dives into the lives of six artists. From personal letters pulled from Getty’s archives, discover more about artists you’ve probably heard of like Frida Kahlo and meet some who might be less familiar like Benjamin Patterson. Listen as they collaborate, fight for justice, ask for money, work through pain, and affirm their resilience. Anna Deavere Smith reads the letters, and contemporary artists and art historians join the conversation. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts.
Season 1 – Radical Women
What it meant—and still means—to be a woman and an artist
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Coming Soon—Recording Artists: Radical Women
What was it like to be a woman making art during the feminist and civil rights movements?
In this season of Recording Artists, host Helen Molesworth delves into the lives and careers of six women artists spanning several generations. Hear them describe, in their own words, their work, relationships, and feelings about the ongoing march of feminism. Contemporary artists and art historians join the conversation, offering their own perspectives on the recordings and exploring what it meant—and still means—to be a woman and an artist. This podcast is based on interviews from the 1960s and ’70s by Cindy Nemser and Barbara Rose, drawn from the archives of the Getty Research Institute.
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