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First Aired - 08/11/2010 07:00PM
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This week on Burning Down the House Curtis spoke to David McFadden, chief curator at the Museum of Art and Design in Manhattan. David spoke about two of MAD's current exhibitions, "Dead or Alive" (focusing on man's relationship with animals and nature) and "Bespoke" (an exhibition of glorious handmade custom bicycles). Be sure and tune in for an intriguing look inside one of NYC's best places to see art, artists in residence at work, and an open look at the construction of every exhibition. This episode was sponsored by Tekserve: your one stop Apple superstore.
Photo #1: Dead or Alive exhibit, Photo #2: The Museum of Art & Design
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Burning Down The House Intro - The Meaning in the Making (17:30)
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Burning Down The House, Curtis B. Wayne, the only weekly design show all over the planet, Tekserve, everything related to the Mac computer, East Williamsburg Industrial Park, Bushwick, Roberta's, David McFadden, Museum of Arts & Design, Columbus Circle, The MAD Museum, Dead or Alive, The magic of creative transformation, multiples of things that used to be alive, resuscitated by the artist, a paleolithic quality, relationship with the living world, Mad Cow Motorcycle, Billie Grace Lynn, Museum of Contemporary Craft, focus on materials and process, there's meaning in the making of things, current show open through October 24th, Tim Hawkinson, Ab Ova, knitting together eggshells, curating, Cooper Hewitt Museum, The Nelson Rogers Museum, Herman Hesse, desperate for culture, technical theater, every object has purpose, Bob Israel, Minnesota, Midwestern mafia, the DIY movement, the cooking phenomenon, getting back into the process of making, Keith Bentley, horsehair, Susie Macmurray, black feathers, The Red House, The English's special relationship with nature, Depeche Mode,The Nimble Exhibitions (28:43)
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Everything counts, www.tekserve.com, David McFadden, chief curator of the Museum of Arts & Design, the world of museums, every art informs every other art, craft, the melding of idea with execution, the old hierarchies of art, no boundaries anymore between art forms, Tischen, intentionally crude art, interrelationships between science and art, Leonardo da Vinci, the art of cooking, museum curators love to cook, the raw elements of life, all the senses, artists working with unusual materials, Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary, Tara Donovan, using organic materials, thank goodness for the internet, the cube of dead flies, Kate McGuire, Discharge, waterfall of pigeon feathers, donated pigeon feathers, painting with cockroach wings, reliquaries, Joseph Cornell's boxes, apothecary bottles, glass artists, The Apothecarium Moderne, Tim Tate, Marc Petrovic, museum as a treasure house, whimsy and humor are profound human emotions, laughing out loud in the gallery, expanding the art audience, prehistoric times, Michael Maharem, Maharem fabrics, Bespoke, custom handmade bicycles, revealing the beautiful bones of the bicycle, the largest mountain bike tires Curtis has ever seen, bicycle chains look like jewelry, unusual initiative, the nimble exhibitions, redesigning radiators, Moma, icons of design, get inside the mind of the designer, what woven mesh can do, open artist studios on the 6th floor of the MAD Museum, artists in residence, opens up a world of accessibility, New Yorkers don't always get out to galleries, most people haven't had a chance to talk to a professional artist, metal work, glass work, one of the reasons Burning Down The House exists, architecture as art, access to people in the field, the phenomenon of television cooking shows, documenting work processes, create the work right in the studio, installation in progress, watching the exhibition installation, understanding art, not feeling stupid when you leave the museum, the social contract, a willingness to pay for art, Bank Bailout, where's the money for the creative arts?, individuals fund the arts, Karim Rashid, Peter Gabriel,Beatifully Crafted (8:26)
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David McFadden, Museum of Arts & Design, Columbus Circle, dandelions, Studio Drift, Lonneke Gordijn, Ralph Nauta, Fragile Future, 2000 dandelion seed heads glued to LED lights, as nature created them, the intersection of art and technology, Pantyhose and Red Lentils, Larry Simms, a couple of interesting changes at the MAD museum, The Global Africa Project, international art and design from the African diaspora, Otherworldly, dioramas, miniature versions of other worlds, One Rule: No Photoshop, beautifully crafted, claymation, an incredible number of artists are making snow globes, zoetrope, buying a membership, no advertising budget, all word-of-mouth, Robert restaurant on the 9th floor, one of the great views, Robert Isabelle, Curtis B. Wayne, Dan Breindel,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 12/14/2009 12:00PM
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This week on The Naturalist, Bernie Wides continues his discussion on astronomy with fellow Natural History Museum docent Mike Hamburg.
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The Naturalist Introduction (12:36)
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Bernie Wides, The Naturalist, 2001: A Space Odyssey, the Earth is 4.6 billion years old, the solar system formed from the same body of material, life started approximately a billion years after the formation of Earth, conditions used to be very different, there was no breathable oxygen, black smokers, deep sea volcanoes, thermal vents, we don't need direct sunshine, lightning storms, carbon based proteins and enzymes, we need water carbon hydrogen oxygen and nitrogen for life on earth, those are very common elements, out gassing of the cooling earth produced hydrogen and oxygen, the impact of hundreds of thousands of comets, early cooling periods of the earth, comets are frozen water and dust, they create bodies of water, some people believe that life traveled from another origin, viruses, panspermia, transpermia, Gaia hypothesis,Life On Earth (7:34)
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early life on Earth was very simple, when the Earth was 2 billion years old the atmosphere changed drastically, methane, carbon dioxide, little one celled organisms gave off oxygen during photosynthesis, carbon dioxide changed and free oxygen was released, life became more complex, some lifeforms got wiped out by cosmic impacts, life seems to want to be on Earth, evolution, there is not a straight line from bacteria to humans, dinosaurs, Galapagos, Mars, liquid water, Europa, Jupiter, Cambrian explosion, Darwin finches, astronomer, The Museum Of Natural History,Planets & The Night Sky (9:21)
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Hayden Planetarium Space Theater, virtual universe, Tuesday night shows, Celestial Highlights, night sky lecture, meteor showers, planets are bright enough to shine through light pollution, the word planet means wanderer, they wander compared to stars, fixed stars, stars are very far away, Jupiter,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 12/07/2009 12:00PM
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This week on The Naturalist, Bernie Wides talks astronomy with fellow Natural History Museum docent Mike Hamburg.
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The Naturalist Introduction: Mike Hamburg (10:33)
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Roberta's, Bushwick, The Naturalist, Mike Hamburg, The Museum Of Natural History, astronomy, planets, aliens, rocket ships, heavenly bodies, The Big Bang Theory, the birth of the universe, nickname from a competitor, Edwin Hubble, matter seemed to be moving further apart, things probably used to be closer together, at one point everything must have been in one place, singularity, 13.7 billion years, The Hubble Constant, how fast is the universe expanding, The Hubble Telescope, Hubble was an astronomer, 100 inch telescope, The Hooker Telescope, there is a speed limit to light, 3000 kilometers per second, the speed of light, light years, light minute, light second,Light & The Secrets Of The Universe (11:23)
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by the end of the 19th century astronomy was a dead science, light contained the secret to the universe, all the ingredients that make up our universe have a chemical signature, spectroscopy, the story of the universe opened up, the light of stars and galaxies, gamma rays, x rays, microwaves, light energy, wavelengths of light, different energy level, the moon reflects light, the sun, never look at the sun with you bare eyes, temperature is a good indication of an energy level, heat, atoms, light in its various components, helium, compounds and elements, the sun is a star, a star is the only object in the universe that creates its own energy, thermonuclear fusion, planets are much smaller bodies, we see planets by reflected sunlight, this month in New York we can see Jupiter, Jupiter is shining, Mars, www.astronomy.com, www.skyandtelescope.com, Astronomy Made Simple, written by Michael Hamburg, published by Doubleday, Tekserve,Technology & Space Exploration (11:41)
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we are no longer bound by Earth based observatories, there are telescopes in space above the Earths atmosphere, the atmosphere absorbs a lot of frequencies, The Spitzer Infrared Telescope, The Chandra X Ray Telescope, black holes, Mars is most like Earth, the two rovers on Mars were designed for three months and are going into their sixth year, one has gotten stuck in the sand, rovers confirmed that there is water on Mars, extra solar planets, extra solar means that planets go around stars others than the sun, we have cataloged 400 planets going around other stars, there planets resemble a hot Jupiter, The Kepler Mission, this instrument is capable of finding worlds as small as the Earth, the hope is to find a planet with life, it is very expensive to launch objects into space, dark matter, dark energy,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
