Podcasts by Raw Material
Raw Material is an arts and culture podcast from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA). Each season focuses on a different topic, featuring voices of artists working in all media and exploring the inspiration and stories behind modern and contemporary art.
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Visions of Black Futurity Episode 4: Black Futurity Rightnowish from 2022-02-16T21:26:48
In Episode 4 of Visions of Black Futurity, Babette shares an update on their search for Evangeline. Plus, we hear two episodes of Rightnowish hosted by Pendarvis Harshaw, exploring what it looks li...
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Visions of Black Futurity Episode 3: Big Black Open Spaces from 2022-02-02T21:55:13
In Episode 3, Babette tries to answer the question, “Where will we host our Black art spaces of the future?” In the woods, by the ocean, or in a city center? They turn to artists who deal with matt...
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Visions of Black Futurity Episode 2: Preparing for Launch from 2022-01-19T21:27:35
In Episode 2 of Visions of Black Futurity, Babette visits a museum with no walls: the Noah Purifoy Outdoor Desert Museum in Joshua Tree, CA. Purifoy tells us what led him to the desert and Cauleen ...
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Visions of Black Futurity Episode 1: Finding Kinship in the Archive from 2022-01-03T00:00
In Episode 1 of Visions of Black Futurity, Babette Thomas takes us on a journey through time. We travel to a 1968 Black arts exhibition in Oakland, California, called New Perspectives in Black Art....
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Visions of Black Futurity Playlist: The Vibes are Free from 2021-12-21T13:00:16
Babette sets the sonic table for Season 7 of Raw Material with a playlist of songs inspired by the ethos of the Black Bay Area during the 1960s and 1970s.
Spotify playlist: https://spoti....
Luvvers Bonus Episode: Stocking Stuffer from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
A short, holiday bonus episode of Season 4 of Raw Material: Luvvers.
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Luvvers Episode 3: Make Time, Make Love from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Through looking at a variety of relationships, Chelsea investigates the many ways desire can be expressed. Hear the famed love letters Frida Kahlo sent to Diego Rivera, as well as to the lesser-kno...
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Luvvers Episode 2: There's No Such Thing As Too Easy from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Sex sells. In this episode, Chelsea Beck analyzes the history of persuasive sexual imagery, and imagines a world where titillation fosters compassion rather than divisiveness. Image: Carolee Schne...
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Manifest Episode 6: The Community from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Art brings us together. In this episode, members of Bay Area art collectives discuss what it means to make work for, by and with their communities. They reflect on the power of art to heal, inspi...
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Anselm Kiefer by The Lonely Palette from 2020-08-10T10:00:52
The art of postwar German artist Anselm Kiefer and the poetry of Holocaust survivor Paul Celan are both layered, dense, and hard to read.
Sometimes the best starting point is through the layer...
Alexander Calder by Accession from 2020-08-03T09:00:16
This episode talks about a number of pieces by Alexander Calder. Calder is most well known for his mobiles, giant hanging pieces that move subtly with the currents in the room.
This episod...
Kara Walker by The Way I See It from 2020-08-03T08:55:06
Roxane Gay reflects on Kara Walker's Christ's Entry into Journalism (2017).
The Way I See It, "Roxane Gay and Kara Walker's Christ's Entry into Journalism" was produced by the BBC in assoc...
Agnes Martin by Bow Down from 2020-08-03T08:50:06
The best-selling novelist and essayist, Olivia Laing explores the influential abstract artist Agnes Martin (1912-2004). Martin – a gay, working class woman who forged a path in a male-dominated art...
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Roberto Matta by Art History For All from 2020-08-03T08:40:06
Art History For All guides you through Roberto Matta’s surreal mental landscape, Invasion of the Night (1941), and explores its connections to physics and psychology.
This episode was pr...
Betye Saar by Recording Artists from 2020-08-03T08:20:06
This episode focuses on Betye Saar (b. 1926). In a 1975 interview, she discusses the diverse sources for her art and how she prevailed in the face of racism and gender discrimination.
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Mark Rothko by The Lonely Palette from 2020-08-03T08:10:06
“A painting is not a picture of an experience. It is the experience.”
— Mark Rothko
This episode is produced by The Lonely Palette. More episodes at http://www.thelonelypalette.com/.
Connor by Everything Is Alive from 2020-08-03T08:00:16
Connor is a portrait of President William Howard Taft. He's hanging on a wall, but is anybody looking at him?
This episode is produced by Everything Is Alive. More episodes at https://www...
Barnett Newman by 99% Invisible from 2020-08-01T08:30:06
This episode, "The Many Deaths of a Painting" was produced by 99% Invisible. More episodes at 99percentinvisible.org.
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Raw Material Mixtape: The Beholder's Share from 2020-06-01T11:00:37
Catch a sneak peak of what’s coming this season on Raw Material's "summer mixtape," from SFMOMA.
Season update: Raw Material is temporarily suspending this season to create space for more ...
Welcome to Raw Material from 2020-03-20T19:22:24
Welcome to Raw Material from SFMOMA! Start here for a quick introduction to our seasonal arts + culture podcast, by SFMOMA Content Producer and Raw Material creator Erin Fleming.
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Six Degrees Episode 6: Nikhil from 2019-12-13T18:58:34
Sayre Quevedo, Raw Material’s podcaster-in-residence for Season 6, is at the end of his journey. It all started with a curiosity about the surprising ways humans are connected, and a wild plot to m...
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Six Degrees Episode 5: Every connection from 2019-11-25T12:00:43
After a series of false starts, rabbit holes, and mind maps, the time has come for Sayre to (possibly) meet internationally acclaimed artist Nikhil Chopra, the sixth degree of separation. Nikhil is...
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Six Degrees Episode 4: Nooshin from 2019-11-18T13:00:13
Nooshin Rostami is a United States–based Iranian artist living in exile. While her father was dying in Iran, Nooshin was 6000 miles away from home. How will she process her grief without physical c...
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Six Degrees Episode 3: Yetunde from 2019-11-04T13:00:04
The sounds of rain, a family kitchen, a song, a late-night conversation—do the moments they encapsulate make us who we are? In this episode, Sayre Quevedo travels through artist Yetunde Olagbaju’s ...
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Six Degrees Episode 2: Jazmin from 2019-10-28T12:00:02
Jazmin Jones is pathologically inept at returning phone calls. In an attempt to clear her conscience (and voice-mail box), the artist decides to make a series of anxiety-inducing phone calls she’s ...
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Six Degrees Episode 1: Sayre from 2019-10-21T12:00:02
Sayre Quevedo begins Raw Material season six by breaking into his ex-boyfriend’s apartment. His goal is to retrieve twenty-two love letters he wrote to a man who doesn’t deserve them. Join Sayre as...
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Season 6 Trailer: Six Degrees from 2019-10-14T12:00:14
Season 6 Trailer: Six Degrees by SFMOMA
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Raw Material Season 5: San Francisco— Stories From The Model City from 2019-06-24T21:15:10
Season 5 of Raw Material takes inspiration from a 41 x 37-foot scale model of the city that was recently unearthed, refurbished, and distributed in pieces to neighborhood libraries. Listen in as re...
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Season 5 Trailer: San Francisco— Stories from the Model City from 2019-06-18T10:00:19
Catch a sneak peak of what’s coming this season on Raw Material, from SFMOMA.
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Luvvers Episode 5: My Art is Gay from 2018-12-10T19:54:26
Facing persecution in her native Uganda and unwilling to live an inauthentic life, fierce queer artist Leilah Babirye made a choice. She fled her home to discover a world of sexual and artistic ex...
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Luvvers Episode 4: Silence Equals Death, So Fuck Loudly from 2018-11-26T11:00:14
The connection between the art world and the queer scene has not always been as openly discussed as it is today. Delve into the complex relationships between art, activism, and queer identity, and...
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Luvvers Episode 1: What Get's You Hot? from 2018-10-15T10:00:09
Nayland Blake doesn’t create art to express who they are, they create art to investigate the possibilities of identity. Hear the artist discuss their explorations of the queer, BDSM, kink, and fur...
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Season 4 Trailer: Luvvers from 2018-10-01T11:00:09
Catch a sneak peak of what’s coming this season on Raw Material, from SFMOMA.
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Mixtape Episode 8: Amy Sherald by Note to Self from 2018-08-06T10:00:44
In the long history of portraits of First Ladies of the United States, none has drawn a reaction quite like the painting of Michelle Obama by Baltimore native Amy Sherald. Hear the artist discuss a...
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Mixtape Episode 7: Carolee Schneeman Yoko Ono by A Piece Of Work from 2018-07-30T10:00:05
Carolee Schneemann and Yoko Ono have created provocative art throughout their careers. Learn how these artists have dedicated their lives to exploring the pleasures and the vulnerabilities of the h...
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Mixtape Episode 6: Patti Smith and Judy Linn by The Kitchen Sisters from 2018-07-23T10:00:05
Back when Patti Smith and Judy Linn were kids, they used art to shape the world around them, posing for each other in photographs and starring in each other’s home movies. Hear Linn discuss how th...
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Mixtape Episode 5: Maria Tallchief by Stuff You Missed in History Class from 2018-07-16T14:54:39
An Oklahoman of Osage heritage, Maria Tallchief rose to stardom through years of hard work and dedication. Peek behind the curtain at the globetrotting life of America's first prima ballerina—her l...
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Mixtape Episode 4: Hazel Scott by The Memory Palace from 2018-07-09T09:00:04
Hazel Scott was a child prodigy, a New York jazz icon, the first African American woman to host her own television series, and an outspoken critic of discrimination in all its forms. Find out how h...
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Mixtape Episode 3: Georgia O'Keeffe by The Artsy Podcast from 2018-07-02T09:00:05
Many people know Georgia O’Keeffe for her flower paintings and depictions of the New Mexico landscape. Discover the very different setting that captured O’Keeffe during her time as a commissioned a...
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Mixtape Episode 2: Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein by Stuff You Missed in History Class from 2018-06-25T10:00:05
Gertrude Stein is often credited as a driving force behind Modernism and Cubism while her lifelong partner, Alice B. Toklas, is frequently left out of the story. Learn about this power couple and ...
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Mixtape Episode 1: Mary Cassatt by The Lonely Palette from 2018-06-18T10:00:05
Women artists are often compared to one another but not to their male contemporaries. Learn how Mary Cassatt became one of the most important Impressionist painters of—and ahead of—her time by usin...
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Raw Material Mixtape: Meeting in the Ladies Room from 2018-06-11T11:32:03
Catch a sneak peak of what’s coming this season on Raw Material's "summer mixtape," from SFMOMA.
Music used in this this track: Klymaxx “Meeting In The Ladies Room.” Remix by Bernadette Co...
Landfall Episode 6: This Land is Your Land from 2018-02-12T08:02:01
“There is something cartoonish about life in California… something out of proportion, fantastical, even a little absurd.” End this season’s road trip back in the Bay Area, and explore the Emeryvill...
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Landfall Episode 5: No Contradictions from 2018-01-29T07:16:08
“It looks crazy, surreal, like a mirage or magic. You want to walk towards that, don’t you?” Join hosts Jessica Placzek and Maddie Gobbo as they continue their West Coast road trip with a visit to ...
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Landfall Episode 4: Bewilderment from 2018-01-15T08:05:14
“Great leaders in all ages have sought the desert and heard its voice.” Land artists such as Michael Heizer and Robert Smithson found inspiration in the desert, but they were not the only—or the fi...
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Landfall Episode 3: Atmospheres from 2017-12-18T08:18:52
“If that had been men, doing that for a day, it would have been famous. Everyone would have known about it. But since it was women . . . it’s just gone.” Encounter some of the historically overlook...
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Landfall Episode 2: Below and Beyond from 2017-12-04T08:57:56
“Earth turns to gold in the hands of the wise.” Meet visionaries who work with and against the landscape to yield something fruitful, shop the local farmers market, and then explore ways to beat th...
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Landfall Episode 1: Mounds, Jetties, Trails from 2017-11-20T08:21:52
“As long as you’re going to make sculpture, why not make one that competes with a 747, or the Empire State Building, or the Golden Gate Bridge?” Discover artists who did just that by creating monum...
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Season 3 Trailer: Landfall from 2017-09-29T20:09:30
Catch a sneak peak of what’s coming this season on Raw Material, from SFMOMA.
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Manifest Episode 5: The Legacy from 2017-06-26T11:10:15
Art is a form of remembrance. This episode features two artists, both born in Iran, discussing the very different ways their practices have been influenced by the country’s turbulent history. They...
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Manifest Episode 4: The Mind from 2017-06-12T07:13:51
Art is an exercise in perspective. This episode highlights works that invite new ways of seeing. Artists reflect on how they see themselves, how others see them, and how to look at the world throug...
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Manifest Episode 3: The Home from 2017-05-30T04:46:53
Art is emotional. This episode examines the concept of “home.” Through their work, a sculptor, a painter, and a singer express feelings about being at home, being in exile, safety, fear, connection...
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Manifest Episode 2: The Body from 2017-05-15T07:03:06
Art is material. This episode explores art in relation to the body. Hear artists reflect on gender and performance, transform themselves into cockroaches, and sculpt self-portraits from chocolate a...
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Manifest Episode 1: The Land from 2017-05-01T13:28:39
Art is a journey. This episode considers hidden histories through artworks that explore the movement of people, goods and ideas across distant lands. Hear about works made from curry, a 25-part ins...
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Season 2 Trailer: Manifest from 2017-04-17T22:02:48
Catch a sneak peak of what’s coming this season on Raw Material, from SFMOMA.
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Otherworld Bonus Episode: The Visitor from 2016-12-26T14:25:31
An artist discusses her interest in extraterrestrials, including sightings, abductions, and other memories of aliens. She examines how descriptions of these interactions have both changed with cult...
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Otherworld Episode 6: The Presence from 2016-12-12T14:17:07
Artists share personal experiences they have had with ghosts and the paranormal. A conceptual sculptor describes creating a piece using a “presence” as his primary material.
Artists featu...
Otherworld Episode 5: The Vibration from 2016-11-28T14:39:02
Artists discuss how they both add to and draw from from Earth’s vibrations. A conceptual artist presents a chapel he has built for bees, and a free jazz improviser talks about making music with nat...
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Otherworld Episode 4: The Diviner from 2016-11-14T14:01:08
Artists discuss intuition and divination, techniques used to perceive and foresee the unknown. They explore the intersections of their work with palmistry, poetry, astrology, and clairsentient read...
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Otherworld Episode 3: The Sigil from 2016-10-31T13:42:18
Experimental musician, pioneering performance artist, and general cult phenomenon Genesis Breyer P-Orridge reveals the role of magic in h/er life and artistic practice. S/he describes h/er decades...
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Otherworld Episode 2: The Ceremony from 2016-10-17T15:05:54
A folk musician conducts an ayahuasca ceremony, a performance artist describes her shamanic rituals, and a pioneer of conceptual art communes with animals and inhabits his own unconscious.
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Otherworld Episode 1: The Vessel from 2016-10-03T14:59:13
A performance artist, a philosopher, a violinist, and a new age composer make art by harnessing unknown forces, deities, and interdimensional beings. An artist at the turn of the twentieth century ...
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Season 1 Trailer: Otherworld from 2016-09-19T05:06:01
Discover Raw Material, a new arts and culture podcast from SFMOMA, coming October 2016.
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