A brush with... Ellen Gallagher

Ellen Gallagher talks about her life and work through the art, literature, music and other cultural experiences that have profoundly affected her. She tells Ben Luke about the extraordinary opportunity she had to live with an original Keith Haring print while at Oberlin College, Ohio; her love of Diego Velázquez and Stanley Brouwn; the influence of the Afrofuturist mythology of the Detroit techno band Drexciya; how Herman Melville, in his novels and novellas, wrote more perceptively about race than he is often credited with, and much more. And, of course, she answers the ultimate questions we ask in each episode: if you could live with just one work of art, what would it be? And what is art for? This episode is sponsored by Bloomberg Connects.Links for this episode:Ellen Gallagher at Hauser & WirthEllen’s page for the Sonsbeek 20-24 quadrennialThe Freud Museum, LondonMatisse: The Fabric of Dreams, His Art and His TextilesKeith Haring's Untitled (1982), The Keith Haring FoundationDiego Velázquez at the PradoVelázquez’s Infante Felipe Prospero (1559) at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, ViennaHeadrest: Female Caryatid Figure (19th century) by the Master of the Cascade CoiffureEllen Gallagher’s Ecstatic Draught of Fishes (2020) at Hauser & Wirth, LondonPieter Paul Rubens’s Miraculous Draft of Fishes in the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne from the Rheinisches Bildarchiv, CologneThe Art Newspaper’s report on the racist joke beneath Kazimir Malevich’s Black SquareEllen Gallagher’s Art Institute of Chicago exhibition, Are We Obsidian?, featuring her series Negroes Battling in a CaveOscar van den Boogaard on Stanley Brouwn in Frieze magazineGo-go legend Chuck Brown on Spotify Hugo van der Goes’s Diptych with the fall of man and redemption (Lamentation of Christ) in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, ViennaWoods Hole Oceanographic InstitutionThe Dew Breaker by Edwidge DanticatMaryse Condé at World EditionsOde à la Guinea by Aimé Césaire and more on Césaire at the Poetry FoundationLéopold Sédar Senghor at the Poetry FoundationDrexciya’s Futuristic Electro—a guide, by Albert Freeman at Bandcamp and Drexciya on SpotifyHerman Melville at Penguin BooksKraftwerkAlice Coltrane’s album Kirtan: Turiya Sings Stuart Maconie’s Freak Zone, BBC Radio 6 MusicJan Mostaert’s Portrait of an African Man (Christophle le More?) (1525-30) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.