Chart is back. Yes, you read right. WE ARE BACK for a second season of your favorite art podcast ever. And what better way of starting a new chapter than with a spotlight of one of the greatest contemporary artists. Yayoi Kusama is one of the most visionary artists of all time, pioneering the exploration of themes such as sexual identity and mental health in a time where these things were either taboo or very rarely discussed. Despite a harsh upbringing in an unhappy household with a physically abusive mother, Kusama grew up to become one of the most important artists of the 20th century, her studio sharing building with those of Donald Judd and Eva Hesse in the 1960s, during which she worked on her arguably best known series: Mirror/Infinity. If you’d love to know more and can’t wait to hear our beautiful voices again (specially Finn’s), tune in and have a blast!   For email enquiries: chart podcastgmail.com Make sure to follow us on our socials!  INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/chartpodcast/  Here you can see on which different platforms you can listen to our podcasts! https://pod.link/1517293067  That's it for now! Hope to see you again in our next episode!  chART out!  (Love you, bye)

In this week’s episode the Chart squad has the pleasure of interviewing Alexandra Choa Tan, founder of the FRAMED initiative for coaching creatives and art curator based in Hong Kong. In our conversation we discussed the importance of the curator, what their role entails when it comes to bringing an exhibition to life, and some tips for people pursuing a curating career. We talked about where each of us would love to curate an exhibition, and we came up with super crazy locations. Give it a listen to learn more!   For email enquiries: chart podcastgmail.com Make sure to follow us on our socials! INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/chartpodcast/ Here you can see on which different platforms you can listen to our podcasts! https://pod.link/1517293067 That's it for now! Hope to see you again in our next episode!    chART out!  (Love you, bye)

This week the Chart squad meets The X Collab squad! Brandon, Andrei, Josh and Darragh’s journey as creators of this platform for artists mirrors that of Chart Podcast in that we both overcame the challenges of COVID lockdowns by taking them as an opportunity to create something new and revolutionary for the arts. In the case of the X Collab, common ground for all artists all around the UK to come together to collaborate and network. If you are interested in this amazing initiative as well as in cool stories about how it was developed, be sure to give this episode a listen!   For email enquiries: chart podcastgmail.com Make sure to follow us on our socials! INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/chartpodcast/ Here you can see on which different platforms you can listen to our podcasts! https://pod.link/1517293067 That's it for now! Hope to see you again in our next episode!  chART out!  (Love you, bye)

Start Episode 09:00 New week, new interview! This time Chart has the pleasure of bringing you our conversation with Cassandra Bowes, art curator, collector and the mastermind behind the Instagram page @the_arts_editor. What advice does she have for emerging artists that are struggling to find gallery representation? What are her thoughts on how social media is shaping art? And most importantly, what historical artworks would she purchase were she to have unlimited funds? The answers to all these questions await you in this week’s episode! For email enquiries: chart podcastgmail.com Make sure to follow us on our socials! INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/chartpodcast/ Here you can see on which different platforms you can listen to our podcasts! https://pod.link/1517293067 That's it for now! Hope to see you again in our next episode!    chART out!  (Love you, bye)

Our new series of interviews continues! And this week Chart is proud to announce that our guest will be Mollie Barnes, art curator and founder of She Curates. During our conversation we discussed topics such as how female artists are perceived in art history, as well as the arts in the age of social media: how to navigate websites such as Instagram as a curator and the challenges and perks of artists tailoring their works to appeal to the standards of social media. If you wish to learn more, tune in to this week’s episode!  For email enquiries: chart podcastgmail.com Make sure to follow us on our socials! INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/chartpodcast/ Here you can see on which different platforms you can listen to our podcasts! https://pod.link/1517293067 That's it for now! Hope to see you again in our next episode!    chART out!  (Love you, bye)

Start of the episode  05:00   Some may say that we are late for releasing an episode about ghost stories in late April, but we at Chart like to think that we are actually early for this year’s Halloween. That is right, we are the fastest spook in the west, and as such today we bring you four paintings that are reported to be haunted and around which supernatural phenomena has been witnessed by many, in some occasions, to deadly effect. So get out your candles, sit tight and enjoy the ride in Chart Podcast’s first ever Horror Week (but it shan’t be the last, mwaa haaa haaa…)   For email enquiries: chart podcastgmail.com Make sure to follow us on our socials!  INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/chartpodcast/  Here you can see on which different platforms you can listen to our podcasts! https://pod.link/1517293067  That's it for now! Hope to see you again in our next episode!  chART out!  (Love you, bye)

Start of the episode - 05:08 NFT's - 48:56 Today Chart has the privilege of being in conversation with one of our professors from Sotheby’s Institute of Art: Dr. David Bellingham. Even though he only taught some of us for our elective period during the final months of the MA, we were all inspired by his wisdom and inquisitive nature. His passion for both classical and contemporary art has turned into an insatiable desire to stay aware and informed about the constant changes and developments in the art world. As a consequence, today we will not only chat with him about where his passion for Old Masters comes from and their relevance to contemporary artists, but also his thoughts on what NFTs mean for the art world and how they might affect it in the coming years. If you can’t wait to learn more, tune in!   For email enquiries: chart podcastgmail.com Make sure to follow us on our socials!  INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/chartpodcast/  Here you can see on which different platforms you can listen to our podcasts! https://pod.link/1517293067  That's it for now! Hope to see you again in our next episode!  chART out!  (Love you, bye)

Timestamp for the episode: 8:30 Those who claim that superheroes having secret identities that nobody can figure out is unrealistic, they should check out the artist that chART will talk about in this week’s episode. Banksy is the pseudonym of an England-based artist (or group of artists, as some conspiracy theorists claim) whose real identity remains a secret since they became active in the 1990s. Although their journey began as a graffiti artist, Banksy has transcended to several other mediums and disciplines, going as far as being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2011 for Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010), as well arranging the installation of Disneyland’s dark amusement park twin, Dismaland, in 2015. There is plenty more to be learned about this mysterious and fascinating figure, so be sure to tune in for this week’s episode! For email enquiries: chart podcastgmail.com Make sure to follow us on our socials!  INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/chartpodcast/  Here you can see on which different platforms you can listen to our podcasts! https://pod.link/1517293067  That's it for now! Hope to see you again in our next episode!  chART out!  (Love you, bye)

Today, chART offers you a spotlight on yet another member of the Young British Artists. Sarah Lucas was, according to many, the wildest of the generation, a constant source of shocking and provocative art that was, in many ways, ahead of her time. Her use of bawdy humor and visual puns is just the façade of a deeper message of sex and gender deconstruction. Her artworks constantly attack stereotypes and expectations, challenging the viewer to see them in the outside world for themselves once the exhibition is over. To learn more about her fascinating production, tune in to this week’s episode!    For email enquiries: chart podcastgmail.com Make sure to follow us on our socials!  INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/chartpodcast/  Here you can see on which different platforms you can listen to our podcasts! https://pod.link/1517293067  That's it for now! Hope to see you again in our next episode!  chART out!  (Love you, bye)

Timestamp for the start of the episode: 11:30 Art historians and academics often agree that three artist defined the turn of the 20th century in art history. This trio was Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso and Marcel Duchamp, the latter being the subject of this week’s chART episode. Born in France in 1887, Duchamp showed great interest to join the avant-garde from a very early age. His 1912 painting Nude Descending A Staircase No. 2 was an unusual blend of cubism and futurism, and many consider his installation The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (1925-1923) as the first conceptual artwork. However, we would be immortalized by his Fountain (1917) piece, a urinal that arched more than a few eyebrows in the art world. But as we say in chART, he was much more than just a toilet, so if you want to learn more about this misunderstood genious, tune into our new episode!  For email enquiries: chart podcastgmail.com Make sure to follow us on our socials!  INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/chartpodcast/  Here you can see on which different platforms you can listen to our podcasts! https://pod.link/1517293067  That's it for now! Hope to see you again in our next episode!  chART out!  (Love you, bye)