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JTTSpecial live episode! Dena Yago and Ben Davis discuss structures of feeling from inside Yago's solo show CapacityIn this special live episode, Dena Yago and Ben Davis discuss "Capacity", Dena's first solo show at JTT. This conversation was recorded with a live audience on Tuesday, June 6th.
Dena Yago is an artist, writer, and founding member of the trend forecasting group K-HOLE (2010-2016). Past exhibitions and presentations include Industry City, High Art, Paris, 2022; Art Basel Statements, Basel, 2021; Image Power, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, 2020; Dry Season, Derosia (Bodega), New York, 2020; Force Majeure, High Art, Paris, 2019; and Made in L.A., Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2016. Recent publications include: Fade the Lure (After Eight Books, 2019...2023-06-2256 minJTTSam McKinniss on Costume Dramas, Nancy Reagan and popular imagery's relationship to desireJasmin Tsou interviews Sam McKinniss on his solo shows “Costume Drama” on view at the Ovitz Collection, “Misery” on view at Almine Rech, “Mischief” at JTT and two new works he made for us for Art Basel Miami Beach. You can view images of McKinniss’s work at jttnyc.com2022-12-0351 minJTTDena Yago discusses cultural capitalism and forms of labor that trade in affect, emotion and creative production.Jasmin Tsou interviews Dena Yago on the progression of her career from an undergrad student to her recent show at High Art in Paris titled "Industry City" which was on view from April 6 through July 16 2022. In this episode Dena Yago talks about cultural capitalism and forms of labor that trade in affect, emotion and creative production. You can view images of Dena's work at jttnyc.com2022-11-2445 min
JTTinstruments of fraud: Anna-Sophie Berger on her solo show at JTT titled "Sin"Jasmin Tsou interviews Anna-Sophie Berger on her solo show at JTT titled "Sin" which was on view from May 13 through June 18. In this episode Anna-Sophie talks about the many ways to decipher a Hieronymus Bosch painting, how reading symbols in art can parallel forms of biblical interpretations, and the ever evolving significance of the Unicorn Tapestries at The Met Cloisters. You can view images of "Sin" on the gallery's website.2022-07-2056 min
NOTA BENE: This Week in the Art WorldResale Rights Lawsuits PLUS an interview with Gallerist Jasmin Tsou of JTT gallery.The boys get down to the dirty business of a lawsuit between "collector" Federico Castro Debernardi and museum founder and maybe art advisor Michael Xufu Huang. We take a peek the what the story behind the story is including the role of resale rights agreements (and their validity) as well as if gallerists can continue to say with a straight face that in demand works are "on hold for a private Chinese institution". It's JUICY.
Then, for something completely different we are joined by the esteemed gallerist Jasmin Tsou to discuss the ten year history of her...2022-01-1342 min
Intersections: The Art Basel PodcastLive From The Art Basel 2021 EditionRecorded live on the show floor during Art Basel in Basel, this special episode brings together seven distinguished art world voices. Artists AA Bronson and Mario García Torres, curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, gallerists Jeffrey Deitch and Jasmin Tsou, and museum directors Elena Filipovic and Ann Demeester reflect on the art world’s coming together again, how the pandemic changed them and how they see the future. 2021-09-2433 minJTTJames Yaya Hough discusses a series of line drawings and watercolors that delineate the economy of desire within America’s carceral systemJames Yaya Hough discusses his development as an artist while incarcerated. On view at JTT from May 1 through June 11 is a solo show of work by Hough titled "Invisible Life". The show features a series of line drawings and watercolors that delineate the economy of desire that emerges from within America’s carceral system. All are drafted on what Hough refers to as “institutional paper:” any state-issued documents required to process an inmate’s daily activities from weekly cafeteria menus to questionnaires for inmates to complete on triplicate copy paper. In today's episode Hough discusses the environment from which this bod...2021-06-021h 04JTTCharles Harlan discusses his most recent solo show Celtic CrossCharles Harlan discusses his most recent solo show at the gallery titled Celtic Cross. On view were nine sculptures laid out in the Celtic Cross tarot spread, each an interpretation of a specific card. While the show takes a tarot reading as a starting point, interpretation itself is the central focus of the show.2021-05-0333 min
JTTDiane Simpson Interview part 1: Ben Chaffee and Jasmin Tsou interview Diane SimpsonThis is the first in a two part interview with Diane Simpson. Ben Chaffee, Associate Director of Visual Arts at the Center for the Arts at Wesleyan University, and Jasmin Tsou ask Diane about her early career.2021-01-221h 16JTTAnna-Sophie Berger discusses her solo show at the Bonner Kunstverein with Jasmin TsouAnna-Sophie Berger discusses with Jasmin Tsou, "Duel", her first institutional solo exhibition in Germany at the Bonner Kunstverein. Berger and Tsou begin by discussing Berger's larger practice and how her interest in language, clothing, distribution and notions of private and public space make their way into this specific institutional show.2020-11-101h 03JTTDan Herschlein and Jasmin Tsou discuss narrative identity.Sculpture and installation artist Dan Herschlein’s practice renders the interior and exterior of domestic spaces with great detail in accordance with a supernatural logic. By appropriating tropes from horror cinema and gothic fiction, Herschlein explores aspects of narrative identity as an efficient tool for self-deception, and the lengths an individual may unconsciously go to in order to craft and mediate their own narrative. Herschlein and Jasmin Tsou discuss narrative identity and his solo exhibition on view from September 2 - October 17, 2020 at JTT. For more information visit jttnyc.com2020-10-1638 minJTTSculpture artist Doreen Garner on vanitas still lifes and the history of medical experimentation in AmericaJasmin Tsou interviews sculpture artist Doreen Garner on new work inspired by vanitas still lifes, the 16th and 17th century Dutch painting genre that focused on the transience of life, the futility of pleasure and the certainty of death. Garner's work at large deals with the history of medical experimentation in America and this interview unpacks our current pandemic moment.2020-09-2929 min
Talk ArtJamian Juliano-Villani (NYC special episode)It's Talk Art's ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY! Russell & Robert meet American painter Jamian Juliano-Villani in her Brooklyn studio to discuss topics as varied as being a noisy neighbour, Weezer's Green Album, an encyclopedic knowledge of both music & art history, watching Live Leak to stay tough, political correctness, a childhood growing up in her parents silk-screening factory printing merchandise for pop bands, her friendships with NYC artists Brian Belott, Billy Grant & Borna Sammak, her favourite artists including Mario Merz (and Arte Povera), Chilean painter Roberto Matta, Ivan Albright, Allen Jones, Walter Price and Ashley Bickerton, plus we explore her extensive & entertaining lists...2019-10-181h 07Talk ArtJasmin Tsou (NYC special episode)Talk Art New York!!! Russell & Robert visit NYC to meet gallerist Jasmin Tsou (JTT Gallery). We discover why she set up her Lower East Side gallery in 2012, initially exhibiting her peers, but soon expanding her program to include emerging artists in a climate that she describes as ‘scary and intimidating.’ Tsou has a very collaborative approach: ongoing conversations with colleagues have shaped JTT’s program and remain at the heart of her activity as a gallerist. We explore the work of her artists Marlon Mullen, Diane Simpson, Issy Wood, Jamian Juliano-Villani & Borna Sammak. For more details visit www.jttnyc.com and vi...2019-09-271h 05