Less Time Than Ideas - Art Across the Americas
Surprising shows, unique artists, society and history - discussing art which expands horizons and heightens the precarious nature of us.
Episodes
14 episodes
IN CONVERSATION: Young Lords in Chicago at DePaul Art Museum — with Dr. Jacqueline Lazú
Jon Bonfiglio speaks to Dr. Jacqueline Lazú about the history of the Young Lords in Chicago, a group which was initially a street gang and evolved in a seminal civil rights organization.For more information on the work of Dr. Lazú: https...
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MUSINGS: Brazilian Artist Carybé’s Forgotten Work at Miami International Airport
The murals of Brazilian artist Carybé at Miami International Airport, gateway to Latin America and the Caribbean.Youtube link to view the murals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=68&v=dNNGteCIM9M&embeds_referring_euri=...
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MUSINGS: Sans-Souci Palace & Discarded Art
The bust at San Souci palace also exists in an abandoned palace, within Haiti, a country which also has been discarded, abandoned. Different to forgotten. It’s a wilful act. It didn’t fall overboard, it was pushed. ...
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MUSINGS: Frida Kahlo
If you come across work by Frida Kahlo, try to make it a surprise, try to go alone. Print out a painting on bad paper, only when your printer’s ink cartridge is running out, and go to a park with it. Take nothing else. Forget that i...
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REVIEW: A Glitch in the System, American Artist’s Homage to Octavia Butler — MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachussets
Questioning what is radical, American Artist draws on Octavia Butler's prescient vision of humanity to explore racial capitalism, technology and notions of humanity. https://artsfuse.org/319285/visual-arts-review-a-glitch-in-the-sys...
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IN CONVERSATION: Latinx Artist Yvette Mayorga — with Candace Locklear
In coversation with Candace Locklear of Good Chaos, discussing the wide-ranging work of Latinx artist Yvette Mayorga. Recent reviews of Mayorga's work by Jonathan Bonfiglio are linked here: https://glasstire.com/2025/10/...
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REVIEW: Temitayo Ogunbiyi — The Work of an Earthy, Unruly Art Faerie — The Arts Club, Chicago, Illinois
The first Midwest solo show by Lagos-based artist Temitayo Ogunbiyi brings together whimsical and playful work that's hard to pin down.https://art.newcity.com/2025/10/23/the-work-of-earthy-unruly-art-faerie-at-the-arts-club/
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MUSINGS: Art Reviews
As a physical reaction, an art review, like a poem, should make the reader stop, take a breath or a moment, and look out of the train window at the passing landscape. Even if the reader is not on a train, able to stop and look out, ...
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REVIEW: Luke Agada’s Paintings Are Spectral Depictions of Time — Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
A new exhibition at Monique Meloche Gallery in Chicago conveys the universal human act of grasping at wisps, distilled through a palette of earthy colors.https://art.newcity.com/2025/10/20/luke-agadas-paintings-are-spectral-depictions-of...
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REVIEW: More Than Bubble-Gum Pink Press-Ons: Yvette Mayorga’s “Pop-Up Nail $alon” — Marfa Ballroom, Marfa, Texas
Jonathan Bonfiglio considers the depth behind Yvette Mayorga's “Pop-Up Nail $alon,” a temporary immersive installation at Ballroom Marfa.https://glasstire.com/2025/10/14/more-than-bubble-gum-pink-press-ons-yvette-mayorgas-pop-up-nail-alo...
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MUSINGS: Chinati Weekend, Marfa
Why every gallery should have a roving spirit guard dog, off its leash, with very big teeth, and there should be consequences.
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MUSINGS: Marfa, Donald Judd, 1985
Marfa, and Donald Judd, in his own words.For the full text:https://juddfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Marfa_Texas_1985.pdf
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IN CONVERSATION: Pablo Delano's 'Caribbean Matters' at the Chazen Museum of Art — with Jorell Meléndez-Badillo & Aurora Santiago Ortiz
In coversation with curators Jorell Meléndez-Badillo & Aurora Santiago Ortiz on the topic of Pablo Delano's seminal show at the Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Madison-Wisconsin.For more information on the exhibition: ...
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