220. CalArts Story: Pictures/Disappearing, Trailer for the Future - 1960's-Now *Preview*

Full 3.5 hour episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/220-calarts-for-141751002?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

Topics: the pictures generation and the War on Representation, Baldessari’s Cremation Project as a gesture of artistic erasure and renewal, Troy Brauntuch, Metro Pictures and Mary Boone art wars of the 1980's, David Salle and the rise of the post-painter art-star, the late 1970's and the end of the FIAT shock, Cady Noland, the disappearance of Jan Bas Ader, Tom Lawson and the complex tension between sincerity and ironic distance, origins of Post-Studio art, Europe and the influence of Fluxus, Hollywood filmmaking technology, John Maus and the early 2000's, the Disney animation department and the dwarf homes of Los Feliz

Originally published 10/28/25