The Curatorial Blonde

This week on The Curatorial Blonde, Ep. 50 features Jasmine Weber. Weber is a writer, editor, and artist from Long Island, New York, now based in Brooklyn. Her experience includes news editor of Hyperallergic, editing and writing about contemporary arts and culture since 2018. She has participated in panels hosted by the Brooklyn Rail, Medgar Evers College, ICP-Bard, Creative Time, the International Association of Art Critics, and the New York Academy of Art, also appearing on NPR’s All of It with Alison Stewart. Her photography and collage work has been published in multiple publications, including Them, Gumbo Magazine, Rookie. Her artwork was presented in a 2019 exhibition hosted by BRIC. In 2018, she received her Bachelor of Arts in Ethnicity and Race Studies from Columbia University, specializing in Black Cultural Production and receiving departmental honors for her undergraduate thesis. She also completed a concentration in Visual Arts. #arttalks #JasmineWeber #ContemporaryArt #arttalks #Blackwomen #CairaMoreira #TheCuratorialBlonde

This week on The Curatorial Blonde, Ep. 49 features entrepreneur, Rebecca Daniel. Mottley, Founded by Rebecca Daniel, serves artists, art institutions, galleries, museums, and creative leaders in the art world by providing careful public relations strategy and art historical legacy preservation. Rebecca is dedicated to bringing attention to the broader Chicago cultural landscape and the art ecosystem within it. Listen now on all major streaming platforms including Apple Podcasts, and Spotify, and view visuals on YouTube. #arttalks #RebeccaDaniel #ContemporaryArt #arttalks #Chicago #CairaMoreira #TheCuratorialBlonde

This week on The Curatorial Blonde, Ep. 47 features Artist, Lisa DeAbreu. Lisa is driven by her feelings of rootlessness being American-born and Caribbean-raised, exploring different mediums and familiar artifacts to piece together fragments of her family's collective past. In an attempt to repair familial traumas, she reflects on how we build memory and that innate human desire for connection. Listen now on all major streaming platforms including Apple Podcasts, and Spotify, and view visuals on YouTube. #LisaDeAbreu #cairamoreira #arttalks #artistpodcast #BIPOCartist #contemporaryart #chicago #carribeanartist #brooklyn

This week on The Curatorial Blonde, Ep. 48 features Artist, Luke Agada. Luke Agada is a Nigerian artist living and working in Chicago. His practice examines themes of globalization, migration, and cultural dislocation within the framework of a postcolonial world, as he reflects on the African diaspora and its impact on neo-cultural evolution. He obtained an MFA in Painting and drawing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2023. In recent years, Agada has participated in shows in Lagos, New York, Chicago, Beijing, Accra, Berlin, and Casablanca. His work has been featured in several publications including The Pinch Journal publication at the University of Memphis, Tennessee, Nigeria Art archives, Juxtapoz, Newcity, and Whitewall. Listen now on all major streaming platforms including Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. Link in bio. . . . . . . . . . #lukeagada #thecuratorialblonde #nigerianartist #chicagoartist #artjorunalism #artpodcast #cairamoreira

This week on The Curatorial Blonde, Ep. 46 features Photographer, Christian K. Lee. His experience as a documentarian drives his desire to utilize Art as an investigative tool. Christian’s goal is to create imagery that reflects the world in which he currently lives. Listen now on all major streaming platforms including Apple Podcasts, and Spotify, and view visuals on YouTube. Link in bio. #Christianklee #cairamoreira #arttalks #artistpodcast #BIPOCartist #contemporaryart #chicago

This week's guest on The Curatorial Blonde is Rugiyatou Ylva Jallow (b. 1990, Stockholm, Sweden) is an artist based in Los Angeles, California. Rugi and Caira sit down to discuss the representation of mixed race and Black women in artistic spaces, the experience of growing up mixed race in Sweden, and the costal art hubs of America.

This week on The Curatorial Blonde, Caira sits down with painter Christina Nicola, an expressionist figure painter whose paintings capture the elasticity of the black feminine identity and originated the phrase "afroromantic". Caira and Christina talk about the New York and Miami art scene, what being an artist means, and what Back female bodies in our communities. You can follow Christina Nicola @ https://www.instagram.com/christina.nicola/?hl=en

In this multiple part installment of The Curatorial Blonde, Caira sits down with Seema Rao, of Artlust (237k followers, 16.4 million likes) TikTok and season museum professional to get extremely transparent about the art world. Touching on compensation, what the art world does not want you to talk about, and the best parts of the major, Seema and Caira truly peel the layers off the core of the fine art industry. Seema Rao tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@artlust?lang=en

This week on The Curatorial Blonde, Caira sits down with Argentinean artist Isadora Capraro. Isadora Capraro is a Southampton, New York-based figurative painter. The boundaries between both abstraction and intention are experimented with in Isadora's paintings, creating an optical illusion in which the observer can discover human attributes, living things, and symbols veiled within the colors and surfaces. Her use of exquisite color palettes allows the visitor to experience that sensation of peacefulness and tranquility when seeing her work.

Traci Johnson, an artist who was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, joins Caira this week on The Curatorial Blonde. Johnson is an expert in sculpture, installations, and textile design explores mental health, experience, and the joy of color. Follow here: https://www.instagram.com/kailuaa/

Caira sits down with Artist Akshita Gandhi, a Mumbai-based photographer, and multimedia artist. Gandhi examines the concepts of home and belonging while addressing colonialism, as well as the social and aesthetic effects of India's conflicting capitalist system. Her pictures, which primarily focus on metropolitan landscapes and places, emphasize architectural details through repetition and distortion, creating paintings-like interpretations of escape.

This week Caira talks about the impact of these recessions and prior recessions on the art market and if you should be buying art as money gets strained.

This week on Happy Little Accidents Caira speaks on how Roe V. Wade has brought to light not only human rights but the rights of women of color. Caira sheds light on the relevant of a movement over 50 years old and how it can be used as a reference point during this time in America.

This week on Happy Little Accidents, Caira explains the importance of art education and the current status of art education in the American school system.

Art is defined as any action or product created by people for a communicative or aesthetic purpose—something that expresses an idea, an emotion, or, more broadly, a point of view. It is a cultural element whose design reflects economic and social contexts. This week on Happy Little Accidents, Caira explores what makes good art.

This week on Happy Little Accidents, Caira talks about Jake Troyli's latest show at Monique Meloche Gallery in Chicago. She ties in his concept of being a former athlete and a Black man with the larger conversation of being Black in Sports.

The art world has reacted to the shocking news from Ukraine by vocally opposing the ongoing onslaught. Despite the possibility that they could face penalties, a number of Russian artists have publicly expressed their displeasure with their government's policies. This week on Happy Little Accidents, Caira explores the current changes in the art world due to the Russian-Ukrainian conflict and gives more insight to the current issues.

This week on Happy Little Accidents, Caira is talking about the impact of the secondary market in regardless to the fashion industry and the Art World.

The color of the season: Bottega Green. Caira this week dives into the influence of the color of the season and how green has always been a staple in humanity.

This week Caira explores The iconic HOPE poster that was seen all over during Obama's presidential campaign. Mr. Fairey, who sued The Associated Press in 2009 after it accused him of copyright infringement for using one of its pictures as the foundation for the poster, claimed that he did not steal any copyrightable content and that his use of the photograph was not unauthorized. This week, we'll look at how fair use and copyright are involved in this case, as well as what it means for future fair use cases.