Our season concludes with a discussion about David Medalla, an internationalist who – much like his work – resists easy categorization. Best known for his kinetic sculpture series Cloud Canyons, David Medalla’s whimsical art invites people to see beyond borders and limitations.

Jane England, the director and founder of the gallery England Co, and Contemporary Art Professor at McGill University Chanon Kenji Praepipatmongkol join Dr. Donna Honarpisheh to discuss the life, philosophy, and art of David Medalla.

Tomorrow is the Problem is brought to you by the Knight Foundation Art + Research Center and is produced in partnership with FRQNCY Media.

stanley brouwn is one of the most enigmatic and elusive artists of this century. brouwn created performative conceptual experiments in identity, perception, scale, and relation, among other topics. Almost as important as his conceptual practice is his refusal to share biographical information and requests for his work to never be photographed, replicated, or even analyzed. In other words, what we don’t know about brouwn is almost as important as what we do know.

Host Dr. Donna Honarpisheh is joined by Adrienne Edwards, the Ingalls Speyer Family Senior Curator and Associate Director of Curatorial Programs at the Whitney Museum, E.C. Feiss, Assistant professor of modern and contemporary art at Providence College, and writer, art historian, and editor, Annie Ochmanek to discuss this enigmatic artist.

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Tomorrow is The Problem, kicks off its fifth season with a deep-dive into the groundbreaking work of conceptual artist, Charles Gaines. Over the course of his ongoing career, Gaines repeatedly revolutionized understanding of art: how it can be made, what makes it meaningful, and why art criticism consistently fails Black artists.

Host Dr. Donna Honarpisheh sits down with art historian and curator Ellen Tani, contemporary artist Edgar Arceneaux, and Charles Gaines himself to discuss Gaines’ prolific work.

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Zapatista Orchestration recording courtesy of Charles Gains and the Hammer Museum.