Recording Artists

Introducing OMMM: Our Museum Mindfulness Meditation Podcast

Today, we're sharing the first episode of OMMM, Getty's newest podcast and first video podcast. This series encourages you to engage with works of art mindfully, whereve

Introducing ReCurrent: Backlot and Barrio

Check out season two of ReCurrent, a Getty podcast about what we gain by keeping the past present. Hosted by Jaime Roque, this season explores cultural stories hidden in

Experiments in Art and Technology: We Are, Ourselves, Information Processors (Bonus)

How does a mid-20th-century experimental art and science group help us make sense of our social media ecosystem today? In this extended excerpt from Stanford professor F

Introducing If Objects Could Talk, a Podcast for Kids and Their Families

Check out Getty’s first podcast for kids and their families, If Objects Could Talk! Listen as artifacts leave the museum vault and come alive to share their side of the

What could be more beautiful than a laser? (Bonus)

Laser physicist Billy Klüver really loved his lasers. But what divided the beauty of the laser (at least in Klüver’s eyes) from art? As the co-founder of the nonprofit gr

I Thought It Was a Jewish Delicatessen (Bonus)

What do engineers get out of working with artists? In a series of talks designed to attract new engineers and artists to the group Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.

It’s a Likely Threat (Bonus)

What makes good art good and what makes that experience stick with you? Engineer Billy Klüver, who co-founded the nonprofit group Experiments in Art and Technology, has a

Why Doesn’t He Dance a Little Better? (Bonus)

Did you know Robert Rauschenberg was fired by John Cage? Us either—until we heard Rauschenberg telling his side of the story to Barbara Rose in one of the interviews in G

Introducing ReCurrent: The Recipe of Us

Check out Getty’s newest podcast, ReCurrent, a series about what we gain by keeping the past present. In this inaugural episode, host and producer Jaime Roque shares a he

Robert Rauschenberg: A Very Small Club

Robert Rauschenberg is one of the best-known artists of the 20th century, in part because he never stopped exploring new mediums and styles. His work with new technology,

Billy Klüver: Better Than Another Golf Course

Laser physicist Billy Klüver had always been interested in art. So when he started working at Bell Labs in New Jersey in the late 1950s, he began going into Manhattan and

Fujiko Nakaya: The Most Beautiful Way

Artist Fujiko Nakaya is best known for her ethereal sculptures made with fog. But her very first fog sculpture, which kicked off decades of working with this unusual and

Season 3—Experiments in Art and Technology

In season three of Recording Artists, artist and futurist Ahmed Best examines the groundbreaking art-science organization Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.). Thro

Recording Artists Live

In this special live episode of Recording Artists, season two host Tess Taylor speaks with Getty Research Institute curator Pietro Rigolo about the making of the series,

Meret Oppenheim: Femme Fatale Is an Insult

In 1975, Meret Oppenheim’s small painting Würgeengel, or Angel of Death, is included in a sprawling exhibition organized by famous curator Harald Szeemann. She had painte

Nam June Paik: I Don’t Want to Be Over Whelmed by Glory

In the mid-1960s, Nam June Paik is living in a run-down studio in SoHo, struggling to make ends meet. But even as he jokes about his ongoing battle against cockroaches, h

Benjamin Patterson: Full Moon, Warm, Silver Clouds

On May 20, 1962, the morning after his first child is born, Benjamin Patterson writes a touching birth announcement to his own parents. The letter covers all the usual de

M. C. Richards: I Am Dancing with These Words Around You

By 1956, M. C. Richards has earned a PhD in English, taught poetry at Black Mountain College, gotten married (and divorced) twice, dedicated herself to pottery, helped fo

Frida Kahlo: Do You Think of Me Some Time?

In 1944, Frida Kahlo is at a crossroads, both in terms of her health and her career. In April of that year, with World War II dragging on, she writes to her gallerist—and

Marcel Duchamp: Write Me Often, Just a Line or Two

It’s July 1942, and the artist Marcel Duchamp has recently arrived in New York City after fleeing the Nazis in Vichy France. As he settles in, he writes to his longtime f