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Ellen Gallagher talks about her life and work through the art, literature, music and other cultural experiences that have profoundly affected her. She tells Ben Luke about the extraordinary opportunity she had to live with an original Keith Haring print while at Oberlin College, Ohio; her love of Diego Velázquez and Stanley Brouwn; the influence of the Afrofuturist mythology of the Detroit techno band Drexciya; how Herman Melville, in his novels and novellas, wrote more perceptively about race than he is often credited with, and much more. And, of course, she answers the ultimate questions we ask in each episode: if you could live with just one work of art, what would it be? And what is art for? This episode is sponsored by Bloomberg Connects.


Links for this episode:


Ellen Gallagher at Hauser & Wirth


Ellen’s page for the Sonsbeek 20-24 quadrennial


The Freud Museum, London


Matisse: The Fabric of Dreams, His Art and His Textiles


Keith Haring's Untitled (1982), The Keith Haring Foundation


Diego Velázquez at the Prado


Velázquez’s Infante Felipe Prospero (1559) at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna


Headrest: Female Caryatid Figure (19th century) by the Master of the Cascade Coiffure


Ellen Gallagher’s Ecstatic Draught of Fishes (2020) at Hauser & Wirth, London


Pieter Paul Rubens’s Miraculous Draft of Fishes in the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne from the Rheinisches Bildarchiv, Cologne


The Art Newspaper’s report on the racist joke beneath Kazimir Malevich’s Black Square


Ellen Gallagher’s Art Institute of Chicago exhibition, Are We Obsidian?, featuring her series Negroes Battling in a Cave


Oscar van den Boogaard on Stanley Brouwn in Frieze magazine


Go-go legend Chuck Brown on Spotify 


Hugo van der Goes’s Diptych with the fall of man and redemption (Lamentation of Christ) in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna


Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution


The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat


Maryse Condé at World Editions


Ode à la Guinea by Aimé Césaire and more on Césaire at the Poetry Foundation


Léopold Sédar Senghor at the Poetry Foundation


Drexciya’s Futuristic Electro—a guide, by Albert Freeman at Bandcamp and Drexciya on Spotify


Herman Melville at Penguin Books


Kraftwerk


Alice Coltrane’s album Kirtan: Turiya Sings 


Stuart Maconie’s Freak Zone, BBC Radio 6 Music


Jan Mostaert’s Portrait of an African Man (Christophle le More?) (1525-30)


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