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Audio Tour of The Hess Collection Contemporary Art Museum. Learn more at http://www.hesscollection.com/art/

The Hess Collection


    • Dec 8, 2014 LATEST EPISODE
    • infrequent NEW EPISODES
    • 2m AVG DURATION
    • 40 EPISODES


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    Katsura Funakoshi-Donald Hess

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 8, 2014 2:12


    Ouattara Watts

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2013 1:19


    Donald Hess discusses Ivory Coast Artist Ouattara Watts

    Robilee Frederick-Art and Music

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2013 3:03


    Trained as a concert pianist, Frederick discusses her growth from musician to painter.

    Rauschenberg Empire 1

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2013 1:41


    Robert Rauschenberg reacts to what he saw as the United States’s Imperial aspirations.

    Robert Rauschenberg

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2013 2:44


    Donald Hess on Rauschenberg's overnight fame

    Hifumi Ogawa

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2013 1:55


    End VersionHow Donald Hess and Hifumi Ogawa met

    Rolf Iseli

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2013 3:37


    EhrdbildAn artist changes the business principles of his patron by refusing to sell him his work.

    Franz Gertsch

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2013 1:23


    WoodcutsFranz Gertsch's enormous woodcuts show a delicacy that and precision that belies their size. Robert Ceballos discusses the process of making a woodcut.

    Franz Gertsch

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2013 2:14


    Johanna 2Franz Gertsch and on e of the Icons of the Hess Art Collection

    Magdalena Abakanowicz

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2013 4:32


    CrowdA polish artist creates works that express her experiences growing up in communist Poland.

    Robilee Frederick and Donald Hess

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2013 0:01


    Robilee Frederick discusses how she came to meet Donald Hess.

    Robilee Frederick

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2013 1:09


    Robilee Frederick on Her ArtNapa artist, and “late bloomer” Robilee Frederick discusses her art and how she would classify her art.

    Bruce Robbins

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2013 2:33


    From the Ladder Series"And he dreamed and beheld a ladder set up on earth and the top of it reached into heaven" The ladder as metaphor for reaching higher.

    Robert Rauschenberg

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2013 1:38


    Successful ArtistWho says artists only become famous after death? Many artists are successful markers of themselves. Robert Ceballos discusses this notion.

    Robert Rauschenberg

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2013 1:35


    DiversityRobert Raushenberg in search of diversity and continual artistic investigations. Director, Robert Ceballos talks about conceptual art and the beauty of functional form in every day disposable objects.

    Armando

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2013 3:02


    A Dutch painter addresses his memories of German occupation in world war two.

    Francis Bacon

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2013 6:24


    Study of a man talking to himself

    Markus Raetz Hase Beuys

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2013 2:02


    Seeing is not always believing. A Markus Raetz visual conundrum pays Hommage to a famous Joseph Beuys performance piece involving gold leaf, honey and a dead hare.

    Markus Raetz-Samba feur Johnny

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2013 1:02


    A seemingly simple method is not really that easy.

    Lynn Hershman Phantom Limb

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2013 1:29


    Lynn Hershman’s phantom limbs ask you to think about how visual media may objectify individuals.

    Lynn Hershman - Room

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2013 0:30


    a Room One's OwnAn interactive peep show based on Edison’s Kinetoscope and the Nickelodeon. Who is looking at whom?

    Lynn Hershman Cyber Roberta

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2013 1:53


    A web-enabled piece allows you to become a Cyborg.

    The Boyle Family

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2013 3:22


    White Cliffs of Dover StudyA Scottish family asks you to think about what you miss. The Boyles create incredibly realistic representations of the earth’s surface out of fibreglass and paint.

    Andy Goldsworthy Torn Stones

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2013 1:08


    A video work of sedimentary sand stones being returned to igneous rock.

    Andy Goldsworthy

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2013 1:10


    Rock PoolsStones melted in a fantastically hot kiln.

    Per Kirkeby

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2013 1:24


    UntitledTerrestrial quality from a former geologist.

    Anselm Kiefer Am Anfang

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2013 3:45


    An iconic German painter paints “very German” paintings. Director, Robert Ceballos and Founder, Donald Hess discuss Anselm Kiefer’s work, Am Anfang.

    Frank Stella Silverstone II

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2013 1:20


    Using your imagination in abstract art.

    Robert Motherwell

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2013 2:28


    Elegy to the Spanish Republic.Expression in painting and the use of titles to help guide individual response.

    Theodoros Stamos-Levant

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2013 3:07


    Sometimes one must suffer to buy good art.

    Morris Louis - Alpha Nu

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2013 2:15


    A Post Painterly Abstract Expressionist painter and his method. When is less more?

    Introduction to Abstract Art

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 6, 2013 2:12


    A cursory overview of abstract art. Could your kid do this? What did the CIA have to do with American Abstract Expressionism?

    Leopoldo Maler – Homage

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 6, 2013 3:08


    A discussion on one of the Hess Art Collections most recognized and popular works.

    Lynn Hershman Leeson on Cyber Roberta

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 6, 2013 0:48


    Alan Rath Run Man Run

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 4, 2013 2:40


    Robert Ceballos discusses Alan Rath's artistic machines.

    Magdalena Abakanowicz Crowd

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 4, 2013 4:32


    A polish artist creates works that express her experiences growing up in communist Poland.

    Introduction to the Hess Collection

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 4, 2013 3:26


    Welcome to the Audio Tour of the Hess Collection Museum of Contemporary Art. Featuring narration by the collector Donald Hess and museum director Robert Ceballos.

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