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This time getting lost in the weird and wonderful world of painter, photographer and printmaker Yasuo Kuniyoshi’s early works (Part 1) that feature wonky landscapes populated by dream logic, lumpy babies, curvaceous women, angular farm animals, and Japanese folk tales as well as American folk influences.

Yas’ early works became an amalgamation of his lifelong journey of self-identity, expertly blending sentimental past memories, like that of Japanese folktale Momotaro, with present feelings of fear and isolation due to the growing racism and tension he was experiencing on the daily.

As an Asian American immigrant, and like many other Nikkei, Yas found himself trapped somewhere in the middle - considered neither Japanese nor American enough - as relations between the US and Japan escalated.

We discuss “Little Joe with Cow” 1923, “Bad Dream” 1924, and “Self-Portrait as Golf Player” 1927.

Topics include shedding your husk, Weezer dance-a-thons, dual cup-holder LaZ boys, censoring comics and mermaids . . . and so much more!!

Music:

"A flower blooms in complete darkness"

From the album: "Visions, Prophecies, and Night Terrors" by The Hathaway Family Plot

Check out the album on Spotify or Bandcamp

https://thehathawayfamilyplot.bandcamp.com/album/visions-prophecies-and-night-terrors

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and diving into the origins of La Catrina, the quintessential skelicon of Day of the Dead. Over the past 100ish years, her image has transcended borders, becoming synonymous with sugar skulls, Frida Kahlo, the Virgin of Guadalupe and even Santa Muerte.

From her first incarnation by Mexican printmaker Jose Guadalupe Posada in 1910 as “Calavera Garbancera” (Chick-Pea Calavera) print, all the way back to early depictions of (and actual) skulls found in Aztec and Mayan tzompantli; Her rediscovery and re-imagining by the Mexican Muralists in the early 20th century, even making a cameo in the larger than life mural by Diego Rivera in 1947 “Sueño de una tarde dominical en la Alameda Central” or “A Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Park” and finally, the continuing rise of La Catrina’s visage in the present day.

We also discuss Europe’s Memento Mori moment in Hans Holbein the Younger’s “The Ambassadors” from 1533 as well as Francisco Goya’s Los Caprichos influence on Posada’s “Calavera de los Patinadores” or “Street-cleaning Calavera” from c.1900 and “Calavera Oaxaqueña” or “The Oaxacan Calavera” c.1910.

Topics include renegade saints, is Tim McCraw dead?, hybrid deities, Franceyness, psychedelic skulls, really just lots and lots and lots of skulls . . .

Jack Shoulder and Mark Small of Museum Bums fame take us on a curvy tour of Art Historical Gluteal Clefts!

If you’d rather watch - you can do so here: https://youtu.be/1mCpKG4nuoU

Topics include counting museum rumps, apotropaic blessings from Goddesses heinies, Kappa Yokai looking for soul spheres in your rear…

We’re all still stumped about what was up with Hieronymus Bosch’s… erhm… interest in butts.

And of course, the coded queerness hiding just between the cheeks of artists like Michelangelo and Henry Scott Tuke.

For your daily dose of bum - follow @museumbums on social, and while you’re at it pick up Museum Bums: A Cheeky Look at Butts in Art from (preferably) your local bookstore.

The featured song was Ｓ ｔ ｏ ｃ ｋ Ｍ ｕ ｓ ｉ ｃ from Anonymous420's album ＳＴＡＲＴＵＰ ＮＡＴＩＯＮ

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In this Purple Bonus episode, we break down some weird decorative object history with Ben Miller from Curious Object podcast. We get into a Japanese inspired Tiffany and Co. Chocolate Pot from 1876 made of mixed materials including ivory and silver featuring cabbage leaf and lobster motifs.

If you’d like to watch instead of listen, you can do so here: https://youtu.be/Cd0qffwnEXE

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Join us as we discuss maces? molinets? antique forgeries, nebulous grape-colored copper patina and so much more!

You can find Curious Objects podcast where ever podcasts are found - or here: https://www.themagazineantiques.com/podcast/

The featured music is "Lagenta" by ALIMINALFACE

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For its SEVENTH installment, the Art Slice Museum Laboratories Division of Color Theory and Color Studies brings you the extra-spectral, enigmatic (and sometimes controversial) PURPLE - and we have artist, illustrator, animator and (duncle) Caldwell Tanner of Not Another DnD Podcast (NaddPod), Drawfee, Big City Greens - on deck to help sort it out.

Is it actually violet? Or have color manufacturers fudged the visuals? Or is purple hidden in plain sight, filling in the voids of our imaginations and our physical world?

We get into all of this - discussing purple’s history - its ancient lineage beginning often laborious flora origins, its unwavering sense of mystery and wonder yet it’s reincarnation into pop cultural characters - as well as it's characteristics, and your color associations!

Key moments include: Grimace (original), Qin Shi Huang, world wide mollusk milking, purple kimonos, Klasky Csupo, Cleopatra, Grimace (current day), colorful Giallo horror flicks, Harry Clarke, Lois Dodd, and what kind of pants robots could wear...

Check out Caldwell's work here: https://twitter.com/caldy?lang=en

Check out NaddPod here: https://naddpod.com/

Music: Soft and Furious - Diving in the Self https://chezmonplaisir.bandcamp.com/album/diving-in-the-self

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We are so excited to share a new series from our Canadian podcast friends Once Upon a Time in Hollywood North

A series about a group of artists known as the Professional Native Indian Artists Incorporation (PNIAI) or as they were dubbed by the press: the Indigenous Group of Seven.

This was significant because the most famous Euro-Canadian painters then were known as the Group of Seven which put respect on their name - especially for Indigenous artists who were still thought of as less than their white counterparts as well as their work being seen more as anthropology than art…

The PNIAI artists include:

Daphne Odjig

Alex Janvier

Jackson Beardy

Eddy Cobiness

Norval Morrisseau

Carl Ray

Joseph Sanchez

Listen to the first episode here, then go and subscribe to Once Upon a Time in Hollywood North to finish the series over the coming weeks.

https://knockaboutmedia.com/podcasts/among-equals/

Once the series has wrapped up we will have a bonus episode covering some of our favorite works from the series.

Intro song: "Lagenta" by aliminalface

https://soundcloud.com/aliminalface?ref=clipboard&p=i&c=1&si=D601CB27C12E45FCBD082CEEC0ECE65D&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Want to watch instead of listen? Do so here: https://youtu.be/8qKNVCNWQaA

For its SIXTH installment, the Art Slice Museum Laboratories Division of Color Theory and Color Studies brings you our most controversial color so far. . . PINK (!!!)

Is this color just a light red? Or is the extra-spectral tone of our… life… energy…?

We dig through the history, characteristics, and your color associations with, artist, curator, activist - and creator of the Pinkest Pink - Stuart Semple @stuartsemple

And try - TRY - to make some sense of the sorted history of Pink, from its humble algae origins to its 20th century capitalist feminine turn.

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Key moments include Barbie’s girlhood domination, Pinko Pigment, the Pink Tide, Giovanni Barrista Moroni, Pontormo, Simpsons Pink, Portia Munson, Ketchup and Mayo mixed, and so much more.

Today we have a lil spooky BONE-US - chat with Rumwolf - a multi-disciplinary installation artist, - his work often includes combinations of animation, film, painting, printmaking, and sculpture whose works are inspired by horror and general spookiness ~

BUT also he’s a musician and visual production specialist…as well as a Hallo-Event-Creator.

We get into his non-traditional path to art making, horror as a genuine influence to art making, as well as his specially curated Halloween picks.

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