Press Play's favorite visual artists of the year

Dec. 29, 2017

Photo Collage:
Photo by Barack Obama (Pete Souza)
Photo by Gina Pollack (Lari Pittman)

From this Episode:

Pete Souza on photographing President Obama

Pete Souza has taken nearly two million photos of former President Barack Obama -- from when Obama was in the Situation Room the night Bin Laden was killed, to meetings with...

17 min

Ken Gonzales-Day on challenging ideas about who and what murals are for

Ken Gonzales-Day spent two years driving around Los Angeles, documenting hand-painted signs, street art, graffiti and murals. The images tell us a lot about history, race,...

8 min

Edgar Arceneaux on history, race and identity

Edgar Arceneaux is from South LA, went to art school in LA, and grad school at CalArts. He teaches at USC, and runs a nonprofit in Watts. Arceneaux’s work deals with history...

13 min

Lari Pittman on finding beauty in the grotesque

Lari Pittman’s work has been shown at every major museum in LA. He’s on the board at MOCA and the Hammer. He’s been a tenured professor at UCLA since the late ‘90s. Museum...

9 min

Credits

Host:

Madeleine Brand

Producers:

Gina Pollack, Sarah Sweeney, Michell Eloy, Amy Ta, Christian Bordal, Quinn O'Toole