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 & Wirth
Ellen’s page for the Sonsbeek 20-24 quadrennial
Matisse: The Fabric of Dreams, His Art and His Textiles
Keith Haring's Untitled (1982), The Keith Haring Foundation
Velázquez’s Infante Felipe Prospero (1559) at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Headrest: Female Caryatid Figure (19th century) by the Master of the Cascade Coiffure
Ellen Gallagher’s Ecstatic Draught of Fishes (2020) at Hauser & Wirth, London
Pieter Paul Rubens’s Miraculous Draft of Fishes in the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne from the Rheinisches Bildarchiv, Cologne
The Art Newspaper’s report on the racist joke beneath Kazimir Malevich’s Black Square
Oscar van den Boogaard on Stanley Brouwn in Frieze magazine
Go-go legend Chuck Brown on Spotify
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat
Maryse Condé at World Editions
Ode à la Guinea by Aimé Césaire and more on Césaire at the Poetry Foundation
Léopold Sédar Senghor at the Poetry Foundation
Drexciya’s Futuristic Electro—a guide, by Albert Freeman at Bandcamp and Drexciya on Spotify
Herman Melville at Penguin Books
Alice Coltrane’s album Kirtan: Turiya Sings
Stuart Maconie’s Freak Zone, BBC Radio 6 Music
Jan Mostaert’s Portrait of an African Man (Christophle le More?) (1525-30)
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