Podcast appearances and mentions of roberto behar

Argentine architects Rosario Marquardt and Roberto Behar share their passion for creating emotional monuments. Their billboard-size greetings of Peace and Love and Besame Mucho at the Miami International Airport, Supernova at the 2018 Coachella Music Festival, and WOW, a new skate-able sculpture for the Lauridsen Skatepark in DesMoines, Iowa, are just a few of the iconic landmarks they've produced. Founded in 1995 and based in Miami, R & R Studios is a multidisciplinary studio focusing on public artworks, architecture and urban design. Related episodes: Miami Art Week 2018 Preview, Rodrique Mouchez on Choreographing Art Encounters, The Private Life of Public Art Related links: R&R Studios, Untitled Podcast Miami Beach 2018,  Wynwood Radio Sound Editor: Anamnesis Audio

Today's conversation reveals the role of private investment in temporary and permanent public art across the U.S. Contemporary art collector Cricket Taplin, who with her husband Martin Taplin once owned the legendary Sagamore Art Hotel on Miami Beach, explains her philosophy on collecting as a mode of civic engagement. Curators Claire Breukel and Dina Mitrani tell how they introduce the work of local and international artists through public art. Miami-based artists Rosario Marquardt and Roberto Behar of R&R Studios share stories behind their privately sponsored and public-funded projects from Florida to California. In a special Fresh Art International flashback, Dejha Carrington talks about the waterfront intervention she realized in 2016, through the Miami Foundation's Public Space Challenge. Sound Editing: Anamnesis Audio | Special Audio courtesy the artist and James Cohan Gallery: Hiraki Sawa’s Hidden Tree, 2007  Related links: Cricket Taplin and the Sagamore Art Hotel, Unscripted Bal Harbour, R&R Studios

This week we present the artists Roberto Behar and Rosario Marquardt of R & R Studios. We talk displacement, Miami's writing of it's art history, and how artist reclaim and present public space.  Thanks to Cannonball, Pulse Miami, and Art Practical. This interview was recorded in Miami, December 2013.     

Roberto Behar speaks to students at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, CA