Podcast appearances and mentions of hamza walker

#305:  What's the deal with the new mural on Western Avenue? A man holding a flowerpot crawling out of the sky?  That's performance artist Pope L., inviting folks into the new, permanent home of the non-profit formerly known as LAX Art. They've rebranded as The Brick, and their new brick and mortar gallery and exhibition space is formally opening in September. How To LA host Brian de los Santos spoke with artistic director Hamza Walker, and artists in the 3B Collective, to get the scoop on what this space means for contemporary art in L.A.  For more on the artists mentioned: Pope L.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N7OnQkch7s 3B Collective: https://www.craftcontemporary.org/exhibitions/highway-hypnosis/   Guests: Hamza Walker, the 3B collective

It's the Friday news roundup! A controversial diorama at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History is being removed after a new decision about displaying human remains. But questions remain about the fate of the Christopher Columbus statue in Schenley Park. Plus, Downtown isn't getting its long-awaited movie theater after all. We love to cite our sources!  TribLive reported on the fate of the diorama at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History Listen to our previous conversation about “Lion Attacking a Dromedary” with museum director Gretchen Baker  We also looked into why it's so complicated for the museum to return human remains WESA and The Pitt News covered the decision to remove the Columbus statue in 2020 TribLive and WESA reported on Wednesday's court hearing over the future of the Columbus statue Pittsburgh City Paper asked two Indigenous women for their perspectives on the Columbus statue We talked with Hamza Walker of LAXART about the future of Pittsburgh's Stephen Foster statue The plans for the cineplex Downtown got canceled, but smaller theaters are making a comeback in Mt. Lebanon and Dormont Francesca shared all the details on where to watch Halloween movies this year Want some more Pittsburgh news?  Sign up for our daily morning Hey Pittsburgh newsletter. We're also on Instagram @CityCastPgh! Not a fan of social? Then leave us a voicemail at 412-212-8893. Interested in advertising with City Cast? Find more info here.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For a long time, the birthday of 19th century composer Stephen Foster was a big deal in Pittsburgh. People here were proud that Foster, who was born on July 4th in Lawrenceville, was the popular songwriter behind a bunch of hits at the time — “Beautiful Dreamer,” “Camptown Races,” “O Susanna,” and more. And while Foster himself was not a confederate leader, there was a statue of him in Oakland for 118 years depicting a barefoot Black man playing a banjo at his feet. The controversial piece came down by unanimous decision in 2018, and we wondered where it's been since. It turns out, there's a museum director in LA who wants it, and has a plan. We're with co-curator Hamza Walker of LAXART. ***This conversation originally published June 29, 2022. Check out the city and surrounding region's fireworks itineraries here. Want some more Pittsburgh news?  Make sure to sign up for our daily morning Hey Pittsburgh newsletter. We're also on Twitter @citycastpgh & Instagram @CityCastPgh! Not a fan of social? Then leave us a voicemail at 412-212-8893. Interested in advertising with City Cast? Find more info here.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The headlines that make breaking news in the art world most often concern a piece's financial worth, which nearly always means how much a private collector paid for it. But for most of us, the value of art has very little to do with a dollar amount. Rather, art provides an avenue to a diverse range of critical discussions, evokes a feeling or a memory, helps us process deep emotions, or calls us to action—and the stronger the response, the higher the value. Where do these economic and non-monetary forms of value meet? How can art world movers and shakers—artists, curators, museum professionals, and nonprofits—continue to leverage the money and attention around blue chip artists into support for social change and community building? And what larger, deeper questions posed by art does our obsession with skyrocketing price tags obscure? The week before the international art fair Frieze Los Angeles descends upon Southern California, contemporary artist and activist Andrea Bowers; artist, cultural organizer, and co-founder of Meztli Projects Joel Garcia; and LAXART director Hamza Walker visit Zócalo to consider the value of art beyond a financial investment.

Ep.139 features Storm Ascher, an artist, curator, writer and founder of Superposition Gallery. Ascher has a BFA in Visual & Critical Studies from the School of Visual Arts and an MA in Art Business from Sotheby's Institute and Claremont Graduate University. She worked at various galleries and institutions prior to starting her own curatorial program, such as LAXART under Hamza Walker, David Lewis Gallery, and Spruth Magers. In 2018, Ascher founded Superposition Gallery as a nomadic gallery and curatorial platform with a mission to subvert gentrification tactics used in urban development through art galleries. Storm is a Forbes 30 Under 30 2022 Art & Style Honoree and was named in The New Generation of Black Women Gallerists by Artsy. She has curated for the Eastville Museum in Sag Harbor, Phillips New York, Phillips Los Angeles, and is slated to curate OOLITE Residency's Annual Miami Art Basel show in 2023. She contributed the foreword for The Brilliance of the Color Black Through the Eyes of Art Collectors (2021) and has contributed writing to Cultured, PHILLIPS, Tilt West, the Getty Archives, Foundwork and the Melinda Camber Porter Archive. She has been featured in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, W Magazine, Artsy and more.   Photo credit ~ 9th Annual PAMM Art + Soul Photography by World Red Eye, Kyle McLaughlin, Daniel Rodriguez on February 5th, 2022 in Arts, Lifestyle Storm Ascher https://stormascher.com/ Superposition Gallery https://superpositiongallery.com/ Phillips Los Angeles https://www.phillips.com/article/113465292/nine-questions-for-artists-in-a-love-letter-to-la-storm-ascher-superposition-gallery-art-exhibition-los-angeles      Images - https://superpositiongallery.inventory.gallery/superpositionlashow2023?docKey=iluuct&statusKey=6k4fgf&vatKey=mu22p0 Phillips New York City  https://www.phillips.com/article/88172558/phillips-x-house-of-crowns Artsy https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-new-generation-black-women-nonbinary-gallerists-redefining-gallery-model Forbes https://www.forbes.com/profile/storm-ascher/?sh=4f9cbf5950ba NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/07/arts/design/sag-harbor-black-artists-long-island.html Cultured https://www.culturedmag.com/@/storm-ascher W Magazine https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/resilience-sag-harbor-art-exhibition-eastville-community-historical-society-superposition-gallery-interview SVA https://sva.edu/features/storm-ascher-in-the-new-york-times-and-phillips-x-house-of-crowns Foundwork https://foundwork.art/guest-curators/storm-ascher Issuu https://issuu.com/svavisualartsjournal/docs/f21_journal_ issuu/s/13610322 Medium https://medium.com/@curate.LA/curator-storm-ascher-on-bringing-black-art-to-the-hamptons-12e0b1962062

You know the one — Stephen Foster is well-dressed and seated, looking down over a barefoot Black man playing a banjo at his feet. After 118 years in Oakland, the controversial piece came down by unanimous decision in 2018, and we wondered where it's been since. It turns out, it's still in a local basement. But there's a museum director in LA who's got a plan. We're with co-curator Hamza Walker of LAXART. Our newsletter is fresh daily at 6 a.m. Sign up here. We're also on Twitter @citycastpgh & Instagram @CityCastPgh! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hope & Dread Extra: Hamza Walker brings you more from a season favorite—Hamza Walker, the director of LAXART in Los Angeles—who talks about an exhibition of decommissioned Confederate monuments he is co-organizing with artist Kara Walker. Hope & Dread Extra is a series of short, sharp bonus episodes featuring your season favorites from Hope & Dread. Our guests were brimming with additional ideas and extra insights that we just didn't have room for within the documentary series. But we didn't want to leave them on the cutting room floor. Join hosts Charlotte Burns and Allan Schwartzman for new Hope & Dread Extra every Tuesday and Thursday. For more, follow @artand_media on Instagram / Twitter / LinkedIn / Facebook

Hope & Dread Extra: Hamza Walker brings you more from a season favorite—Hamza Walker, the director of LAXART in Los Angeles—who talks about an exhibition of decommissioned Confederate monuments he is co-organizing with artist Kara Walker. Hope & Dread Extra is a series of short, sharp bonus episodes featuring your season favorites from Hope & Dread. Our guests were brimming with additional ideas and extra insights that we just didn't have room for within the documentary series. But we didn't want to leave them on the cutting room floor. Join hosts Charlotte Burns and Allan Schwartzman for new Hope & Dread Extra every Tuesday and Thursday. For more, follow @artand_media on Instagram / Twitter / LinkedIn / Facebook

As shifts in power scramble the chessboard, how are our guests reacting to the pace of change? Our interviewees—from critics to museum directors, philanthropists to an astrologer—share their tips for dealing with discomfort. The stakes are high: tune in to hear some of the solutions.  New episodes available every other Wednesday.  For more, follow @artand_media on Instagram / Twitter / LinkedIn / Facebook Guests: Lulani Arquette, Maya Benton, Tim Blum, Roxane Gay, Deana Haggag, Kathy Halbreich, Phyllis Mitz, Dr. Kelli Morgan, Tiffany Sia, Hank Willis Thomas, The Rt Hon Lord Vaizey of Didcot, Hamza Walker and Amy Webb

As shifts in power scramble the chessboard, how are our guests reacting to the pace of change? Our interviewees—from critics to museum directors, philanthropists to an astrologer—share their tips for dealing with discomfort. The stakes are high: tune in to hear some of the solutions.  New episodes available every other Wednesday.  For more, follow @artand_media on Instagram / Twitter / LinkedIn / Facebook Guests: Lulani Arquette, Maya Benton, Tim Blum, Roxane Gay, Deana Haggag, Kathy Halbreich, Phyllis Mitz, Dr. Kelli Morgan, Tiffany Sia, Hank Willis Thomas, The Rt Hon Lord Vaizey of Didcot, Hamza Walker and Amy Webb

In Charleston and in communities across the country where Confederate and related monuments have been removed, there's still a big question left to be answered: What should be done with them now?For the last several years, Los Angeles-based curator Hamza Walker has been working on an exhibit that will gather some of those monuments in the same place, displayed and in dialogue with works of contemporary art.Tentatively called “Monuments,” the exhibit will debut in fall 2023 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles.They're approaching local municipalities, asking to borrow these monuments for the exhibition, and, in the process, stirring up some difficult, but necessary, discussions about these monuments, their legacies and what these communities are going to do with them now that they've been removed from their public pedestals.Charleston is one of those communities.The city has been asked to loan out its statue of John C. Calhoun for the exhibit.Calhoun was a fierce defender of slavery, and the city's decision to remove the 12-foot-tall bronze statue to him in Marion Square, came after weeks of protests over the death of George Floyd.Now, a year and a half after its removal, the statue may out of view, but the question of what to do with it still looms. This episode was hosted and edited by Emily Williams. Guests featured on today's episode are Emma Whalen, city of Charleston reporter for The Post and Courier; Michael Allen, a retiree of the National Park Service and a member of Charleston's Commission on History and Hamza Walker, director of LAXART.More coverage:Across the US, cities face ‘what's next' for Confederate monumentsCharleston history commission recommends lending Calhoun statue to LA art exhibitSC heritage group backs lawsuit against proposal to loan Calhoun statue to LA art showLawsuit aiming to keep Calhoun statue in South Carolina moved to new courtCalhoun statue not protected by SC monument law deemed constitutional by state AG

America's public spaces have been throbbing with the sounds of loud arguments about history and identity, encapsulated by the debate over Confederate monuments. In this episode, hosts Charlotte Burns and Allan Schwartzman introduce you to artists and curators suggesting new ways of dealing with American history—taking you behind the arguments about whether statues should stay or go and offering a nuanced perspective on a haunted history. Guests: Maya Benton, Thomas Finkelpearl, Roxane Gay, Jackson Polys, Hamza Walker

What is it that makes something Art? If we find a show or exhibit strange, what does that mean? Listen in as Hamza Walker, Director of LAXART, tells us his experience with these subjects as a curator and the impact art can have on our mind. ReferencesRicky Swallow David Cardensky Doyle Lanehttps://www.laxart.org/aboutMade in LA 2016https://hammer.ucla.edu/made-in-la-2016Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/laxart/?hl=enFind us online:Website:http://www.clss.studioEmail:leah@leahsmithson.comchanningsmithson@gmail.comHang out with us on Instagram:@leahsmithsonart@justglazechanningSupport the show (https://www.paypal.me/leahsmithson)

Episode 30 of the Datebook podcast is a conversation between San Francisco Chronicle art critic Charles Desmarais and Bay Area art collector Komal Shah, who along with her husband Gaurav Garg is presenting the Artists on the Future series at Stanford. The first event in the Komal Shah and Gaurav Garg Artist Conversation Series is set for Monday, March 4 at the CEMEX Auditorium, and features artist Dana Schutz in conversation with Hamza Walker. Admission is free but registration is required. Register here. This episode produced by Peter Hartlaub. Music is Mozart's Symphony 40 in G Minor by Blue Dot Sessions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hamza Walker and Arthur Jafa play Name That Tune

Hosted by Lindsay Preston ZappasWriter's Room:Lindsay is joined by Carla contributor, Catherine Wagley to discuss her article from Carla Issue 14 called “Celeste Dupuy-Spencer And Figurative Religion,” which discusses Dupuy-Spencer's recent show The Chiefest of Ten Thousand at Nino Mier Gallery. We talk about figurative art in Christianity, the subjectivity of figuration, and how Dupuy-Spencer straddles these lines within her work. L.A. at LargeLindsay is joined by Frieze L.A.'s executive director Bettina Korek, and the Talks and Music curator Hamza Walker. Here, we discuss what to expect from the upcoming art fair, why it's coming to L.A., and ways they hope the fair engages the art community in Los Angeles. Dear Carla:Lindsay continues the conversation with Sam Parker (Parker Gallery) to answer a listener submitted question about how to price an artwork. 

  Where is the great art being made in America today? In this episode, our guests Chrissie Iles (Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz curator at the Whitney Museum of American art), Carolyn Ramo (executive director, Artadia) and Hamza Walker (executive director, LAXART) join our host Charlotte Burns to discuss the subject. They talk about art being made throughout the United States in places outside the major market hubs, as well as ways to broaden the lens through which we view contemporary art in this country. “We're currently in an extremely dynamic moment for emerging artists and for culture,” Iles says in conversation with our other guests, who talk about how collectors and curators might discover—and steward—the art of their region. Transcript: http://www.artagencypartners.com/transcript-art-across-america-with-chrissie-iles-carolyn-ramo-and-hamza-walker  “In Other Words” is a presentation of AAP and Sotheby's, produced by Audiation.fm.

  Where is the great art being made in America today? In this episode, our guests Chrissie Iles (Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz curator at the Whitney Museum of American art), Carolyn Ramo (executive director, Artadia) and Hamza Walker (executive director, LAXART) join our host Charlotte Burns to discuss the subject. They talk about art being made throughout the United States in places outside the major market hubs, as well as ways to broaden the lens through which we view contemporary art in this country. “We're currently in an extremely dynamic moment for emerging artists and for culture,” Iles says in conversation with our other guests, who talk about how collectors and curators might discover—and steward—the art of their region. Transcript: http://www.artagencypartners.com/transcript-art-across-america-with-chrissie-iles-carolyn-ramo-and-hamza-walker  “In Other Words” is a presentation of AAP and Sotheby’s, produced by Audiation.fm.

The fourth Serious Introspection episode @ IHME 2016 featured musician Pierre Bastien, curator Hamza Walker, and artists Päivi Raivio and Robin Ellis.

‘Why Does Michael Asher’s Art Make Me Laugh?’

This week Richard, Duncan, Brian and Meg the-sexy-single-lesbian-intern talk to one of the Seven Most Important Curators, Hamza Walker. We talk about everything under the sun from Neal Adams to Duncan being a "dour Canadian". also: Brian Andrews and Marc LeBlanc talk about galleries in San Francisco and make fun of us Midwesterners for living in the cold. Those assholes. DO NOT MISS THE RESIDENCY EVENTS THIS WEEK TUESDAY: Live recording with Kerry James Marshall SATURDAY: Art media pancake breakfast get the scoop at http://www.three-walls.org/

Watch in Quicktime.Click text or picture to view iPod ready video.Click the post below to view this video in Windows Media.Running time: 6:16GREAT RIVERS BIENNIAL 2006January 20, 2006 - March 26, 2006_________________________MOSES: The Audiophile SeriesMATTHEW STRAUSS: Dead LanguageJASON WALLACE TRIEFENBACH: Hero, Compromised (Autobiographical Fiction/Narrative Medley)The Great Rivers Biennial is a collaboration between the Contemporary and the Gateway Foundation designed to strengthen the local art scene in St. Louis. As many as three artists are selected by a panel of esteemed national jurors to receive an award of $15,000 each and an exhibition at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis.The goal of this innovative awards program is to identify talented emerging local artists, provide them financial assistance, raise the visibility of their work in both the Midwest and national art community, and provide them with professional support from visiting critics, curators and dealers.Emerging artists in the St. Louis area were invited to submit work from any of the following categories: drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, mixed media, and multi-media. An emerging artist is someone in the early stages of his or her career development who has not yet received wide exhibition exposure locally or nationally or significant financial awards from other organizations.During summer 2005, Great Rivers Biennial jurors reviwed all submissions and selected three emerging artists to receive the award. This year's high profile panel of jurors included Elizabeth Dunbar, Curator at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City; Gary Garellis, Senior Curator at UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and Helen Molesworth; Chief Curator of Exhibitions at Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus.The recipients of the inaugural Great Rivers Biennial 2004 were Jill Downen, Adam Frelin, and Kim Humphries who were selected by jurors Lisa Corrin, Director, Williams College Museum of Art; Debra Singer, Executive Director and Chief Curator, The Kitchen; and Hamza Walker, Department Director, Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago.Information courtesy Great Rivers Biennial 2006 catalogue, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (www.contemporarystl.org)In these three interviews, produced during the week of the opening exhibition, by Hugh Beall and illusionJunkie.com, William Griffin, Artistic Director of the St. Louis Veiled Prophet Parade, talks with Moses, Matthew Strauss and Jason Wallace Triefenbach. All three artists are represented by Bruno David Gallery (www.brunodavidgallery.com).A free subscription to www.illusionJunkie.com saves time by automatically downloading future videos to your computer. Requires only one-click from the sidebar on this page.