Warfare of Art & Law Podcast (Stephanie Drawdy)
Explore every episode of Warfare of Art & Law Podcast
| Pub. Date | Title | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 May 2022 | Arté Util: Dr. Hemma Medina and Alessandra Saviotti on Collaborative Art Projects, the Public as Users in a Museum Context and Why Art Should Be Used to Address Social Issues | 01:09:42 | |
Please visit the website for Arté Util to learn more. 0:02:20 overview of Arté Util 0:08:00 projects prior to Arté Util 0:14:00 Arté Util archive and museum 0:24:00 museum 3.0 0:24:30 vocabulary created for Arté Util 0:32:00 ‘expert culture’ term to be retired 0:36:00 the work of Dr. Jemma Medina and Alessandra Saviotti under the lens of usership 0:46:00 project applications 0:51:00 Please Love Austria project and Foreigners Out film 0:57:45 Alternative Energy Argentinian project 1:01:45 why art should be put into useful aspect 1:04:15 how Arté Util facilitates justice through its collaborative aspect 1:06:00 U.S. prisoners photo project Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 10 Jul 2022 | David de Jong on his book Nazi Billionaires and his call for Historical Transparency from Families that control brands like BMW, Porsche, Volkswagen, Dr. Oetker, Bahlsen, Allianz and Munich Re | 00:57:04 | |
To learn more, please visit David de Jong's website. 3:30 overview of Nazi Billionaires 5:15 families included in Nazi Billionaires control companies like BMW and Porche whitewashing patriarchs’ legacies 6:15 moral and historical reconstruction – acknowledging what’s transpired in history 9:00 Quandt dynasty and BMW Group 10:00 Flick dynasty and Daimler-Benz 11:10: Von Finck and Allianz and Munich Re 11:45 Porsche-Piëch - Volkswagen, Porsche, Bentley 13:40 Oetkers - baking powder, cake mixes, Germany’s largest beer brewery, one of Europe’s largest sparkling wine manufacturers, luxury hotels 14:00 Flick’s conviction of war crimes and post-war business success 19:20 Flick released on good behavior and saw himself as wrongfully convicted 20:30 Ferry Porsche’s autobiography We At Porsche 22:30 Rosenberger’s post-war settlement with Porsche 23:30 Porsche Sales & Marketing Representative Joachim Peiper’s death sentence commuted for the Malmedy Massacre of U.S. Army POWs 24:45 English version of We At Porsche 25:30 German version of We At Porsche 26:00 Porsche AG spokesperson and head of Porsche Foundation Dr. Sebastian Rudolph 28:30 research for Nazi Billionaires for 4 years starting in 2017 29:00 archive availability and Fold 3 access 30:30 German academic reporting of Nazi family histories 32:00 breadth and depth of families’ collaboration with Third Reich 33:00 Reimann family emerge in 2019 as Germany’s second wealthiest family 36:50 Reimann family’s Alfred Landecker Foundation 38:20 German family Bahlsen’s study expected summer 2023 39:20 ignorant remarks by Verena Bahlsen 41:00 how current ignorance and historical distortion are related to overlooking war crimes 41:50 dynasties’ lean on notion of collective guilt 46:00 de Jong’s family experience 47:00 Artist Max van Dam 49:30 his family experience makes him mindful of history 51:00 his motivation to get these stories out 51:50 plans for a second book about dynasties that shaped the U.S. and the Netherlands 52:50 evolution of his definition of justice over the course of writing Nazi Billionaires Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 31 Jul 2022 | Glance at Culture - Dr. Jennnifer Mass, President of Scientific Analysis of Fine Art, On Cultural Heritage Science, Modigliani's Palette, Creating Scientific Literacy and More | 00:49:34 | |
To learn more, please visit the website for Scientific Analysis of Fine Art, LLC. 2:30 history of cultural heritage science 4:00 founding Scientific Analysis of Fine Art LLC (SAFA) 5:40 Yves Tanguy’s Fraud in the Garden 5:50 catalogue raisonné by art historians Charles Stuckey/Stephen Mack 6:10 fascist attack at screening of Luis Bunuel’s satiric “L’Age d’Oro” 7:00 use of multi-spectral imaging on Fraud in the Garden - ultraviolet light and infrared radiation, x-rays to view slash pattern on painting 7:45 restorations on Fraud in the Garden dated through pigments/paint binders 9:00 value of artwork as historical documents v. restoration 9:45 cultural heritage as historical documents example of Victoria & Albert Museum 10:45 display of Rothko Murals at Harvard 11:45 analysis for attribution questions varies between antiquities, paintings, decorative art objects 13:20 non-destructive drive for protocols for elemental and molecular analysis 14:00 changes to work by Van Gogh and Met’s Irises and Roses 14:30 geranium lake known as Eosin red 15:00 paints like cadmium/chromium yellows from Industrial Revolution are also very sensitive to light and relative humidity 15:15 changes in Matisse’s 4 versions of Joy of Life – yellows fading to ivory white 15:30 mechanism of degradation 16:20 Picasso's 1901 The Blue Room 17:30 Cezanne 18:15 analysis of over 900 paint tubes from Munch 19:30 paints standardized in 1920s 21:00 flaking of zinc white: reaction of zinc oxide with oil creates crystalized molecules - zinc soaps 21:25 titanium white 23:00 heavy metal pigment paints strongly absorb x-rays like lead white/vermillion (a mercury sulfide red) prevent seeing underpainting 24:45 head of scientific vetting committee for TEFAF New York 27:15 Court of Arbitration for Art 28:35 trusting science for due diligence 30:30 stigma attached to use of science 33:00 Bard Graduate Center 34:00 wooden polychrome sculpture analysis: dendrochronology and radiocarbon dating 36:00 dirty dozen paint list 36:45 mixing drying linseed with non-drying oil paint (sunflower) 37:50 Eosin red, emerald green, cadmium yellow, chromium yellow, vermillion, copper blues 38:50 favorite paintings 39:10 Modigliani at the Barnes 39:45 Modigliani’s palette 40:35 The Burlington Magazine 41:10 Klimt’s Faculty Paintings 42:30 computational technologies 43:00 justice 43:45 invention of photography enabled Jacob Riis to document New York slums 44:00 20th Century photographer and sociologist Lewis Hine 44:20 BLM 44:30 environmental justice 45:40 recommendations 46:55 legacy to create scientific literacy for art conservators and historians Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 29 May 2022 | Glance at Culture - Author, Illustrator & Educator Marisabina Russo on How Her Heritage Informs Her Work, the Importance of Historical Justice, and Her Legacy as a Bridge Between Generations | 00:58:17 | |
To learn more, please visit Marisabina Russo's website. 2:00 A Visit With Oma 2:45 A House of Sports 3:30 Always Remember Me 3:45 I Will Come Back For You 4:00 Why Is Everybody Yelling? Growing Up In My Immigrant Family 5:00 Graphic memoir about cancer 7:00 Research at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC 7:40 Steven Spielberg’s USC Shoah Foundation 8:00 Research in Italy 8:25 Her brother’s identification of his murdered father 10:30 Immigration experience and being a child of divorced parents 12:30 Jewish Book Council Review 15:30 Sainthood 17:25 German and Yiddish included in graphic novel 18:30 Bengasi 1942 Italian war film directed by Augusto Genina 22:30 Cats of Krasinski Square by Karen Hesse 22:35 Nicky & Vera by Peter Sís 22:50 No Pretty Pictures by Anita Lobel 24:45 German program for Holocaust victims to visit Germany 25:20 Visit to Leipzig, Germany 25:45 Gewandhaus - opera and classical music venue in Leipzig, Germany 27:30 how her books work towards historical justice 29:00 Why books dealing with war are important for young readers 31:15 New York City’s Tenement Museum 32:10 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire 32:45 how Ms. Russo’s definition of justice has evolved; that justice is for all 33:30 Quote from James Baldwin “It is certain in any case that ignorance allied with power is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.” 34:50 The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson 35:25 After Such Knowledge: Memory, History and the Legacy of the Holocaust by Eva Hoffman 36:00 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 36:40 Maus by Art Spiegelman 37:40 Can We Talk About Something More Pleasant by New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast 38:00 Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by American cartoonist Alison Bechdel 38:05 Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi 38:15 Linda Barry’s books 38:30 Her recent appearance on comic creator panels in NYC 39:30 El Deafo by CeCe Bell 40:00 Spiegelman’s comments on not doing another Maus book 42:20 current book dummy project 42:30 Fiber Artist Liz Albert Fay collaboration for ‘Extraordinary Women’ project viewable on Instagram 45:15 her first book The Line Up Book 45:35 House of Sports was a turn from picture books 46:05 Always Remember Me was her first time addressing the Holocaust in a book 48:00 the passing of her Tante Annie 50:45 Tante’s response about prayer during her time in Auschwitz 53:30 The legacy of her work: to act as a bridge from the former generation to the next generations 55:10 two letters her mother received from employer who was forced to fire her that evidence the reality of the Holocaust era Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 13 Mar 2022 | Center for Art Law: Irina Tarsis on Pursuing Art Law, Founding the Center & Creating Community | 00:43:50 | |
The interview with Irina Tarsis took place before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Irina is a Russian-speaking American, with Ukrainian and Jewish roots. The events we are witnessing now in connection with the war in Ukraine are heartbreaking. Glory and Peace to Ukraine and Forgiveness and Awakening to Russia. 1:42 Tarsis’ reasons for pursuing art law 3:05 her work with Soviet nationalizations in the context of law libraries 4:15 Tarsis began studing art history 4:34 Founding Center for Art Law 5:17 Center’s growth 7:20 Center’s Judith Bresler Fellowship 9:24 Center’s legacy and estate planning clinic 12:51 clinic’s artists feature series. 13:42 Artist Molly Dougenis 14:16 Dougenis’ estate planning 15:00 next clinic about artists dealer relationships with a focus on New York law and will include resale royalty. 16:44 recent NFT case filed in Southern District of New York that involves the Guernica of India 17:30 many contracts include reference to all future media now known or to be to be invented down the line 18:00 suit involving Quentin Tarantin’s attempt to mint NFTs 18:48 future cases in art law 20:33 teaching at Sotheby's and FIT 23:09 Tarsis’ work with the European Shoah Legacy Institute 24:15 provenance research 26:50 Portrait of Wally 28:00 Center’s future mission 30:16 Knoedler Gallery story 31:45 idea for a Knoedler award 33:03 creation of a community of artists, art fans, art aficionados, and collectors and attorneys 34:30 fundraising efforts 36:13 career positions in art law Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 26 Jun 2022 | Glance at Culture - Author Menachem Kaiser on His Book Plunder, His Research and Property Claim in Poland, the Vilna Ghetto and the Frustrating Design of Judicial Systems | 00:59:22 | |
Cover photo of Menachem Kaiser by Beowulf Sheehan. 2:00 genesis of Plunder: A Memoir of family property and Nazi treasure 4:00 the memoir by Abraham Kajser 6:45 Kajser’s experience as a forced laborer during WWII in underground camp structures in Poland that were given the code name Project Riese 7:30 Polish version and Hebrew version of Kajser’s memoir 8:45 political decisions in what stories are given attention 10:30 the writer’s mandate to create work that’s honest 11:20 he went on a Fulbright to Lithuania 11:50 his unexpected research on the Vilna Ghetto 12:30 lessons missed in Holocaust education 13:00 his revelation of how morally and historically complicated and interesting the Holocaust is 14:00 Jews’ self-governance in ghettos included trials and hangings 15:00 How the ‘politics memory’ differs in countries like Lithuania and Poland 17:00 The arc of his thoughts on the moral and ethical questions raised by his inheritance claim for his grandfather’s building 21:00 status of his inheritance claim for his grandfather’s building 22:00 move by mayor of Sosnowiec to claim his grandfather’s building 25:30 Nationalist shift in Poland, resulting in failed/dismissed property claims 27:00 response to Plunder in Poland 28:30 KARTA publisher of Plunder in Poland 30:00 the challenges he dealt with in researching the book 31:50 research into forced displacement of Germans after WWII 34:30 myth-soaked Silesia became a character in the book 36:30 archive from Vilnius, Lithuania 38:00 David Fishman’s The Book Smugglers 40:00 value of archives in digitized form versus physical form 41:00 Vilnius archive re-surfaced in the late 1980s/early 1990s 43:00 arts programs in the Vilna ghetto during WWII 43:30 Artist Samuel Bak 44:00 Poet Abraham Sutzkever 44:15 Protest songs by poet, musician, writer and activist Szmerke Kaczerginski 44:40 civil war rumblings in Vilna ghetto 46:50 Jacob Gens, head of the Vilna ghetto government 47:45 death of Itzik Wittenberg, Hero of the Vilna Ghetto / leader of the Resistance 49:30 anti-Semitism in Poland 50:30 his thoughts on how the justice system is designed to frustrate efforts 52:15 his thoughts on how his legacy is being shaped as a writer 57:00 his current project related to an ongoing story in Montreal that involves allegations of hiding 4B in Nazi gold. Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 07 Aug 2022 | 2ND Saturday Art + Justice Bonus: Emily Gould on the Colston 4 Trial and Acquittal | 00:10:02 | |
Show notes: 1:00 evidence at trial from historian David Olusoga regarding Colston's ownership of more slaves than any other Brit in history, one of the earliest, biggest slave traders 1:30 Colston died circa 1720 1:45 statue of Colston erected by Victorian dignitaries in Bristol 2:10 half of the schools, streets and whatever in Bristol are named after Colston 2:20 circa 1990s, true history of Colston revealed 3:25 in the wake of the killing of George Floyd, the Black Lives Matter protests group pushed Colston statue into the harbor 3:55 Colston 4 jury trial over prosecution of four individuals involved in toppling Colston statute 4:05 Elected for a Crown Court jury trial and were acquitted 5:20 Conservatives and those in the government, including the cabinet, expressed surprise at the verdict 6:10 UK Attorney General considered whether to send the case to the appeal court to consider whether there was an error of law in the direction of the jury 7:50 bill going through Parliament with a provision to increase the potential sentence for criminal damage against a public monument 8:15 proposed bill to change threshold that currently exists for criminal damage against a memorial or public monument with value under 5000 pounds, maximum sentence magistrates that could impose was three months in prison 8:50 proposed bill is to remove financial threshold and make maximum sentence 10 years Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 10 Apr 2022 | Historical & Political Dramas: Writer and Director Jonathan Myerson on the First Nuremberg Trial, Raising Awareness About and Giving Context to History and His View of Justice | 00:45:08 | |
The following are links to Nuremberg: The Trial of Nazi War Criminals, 4AM Kyiv Is Bombed, Mueller: Trump Tower Moscow and Reykjavik. 3:00 Jonathan Myerson’s reasons for writing Nuremberg: the Trial of Nazi War Criminals 5:00 issues that almost kept Nuremberg trial from happening, including Winston Churchill’s disinterest in having a trial 7:45 Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg by Dr. Francine Hirsch 9:45 indictment of the wrong Krupp. 10:20 speed of the trial after VE Day in May 1945 11:35 one structural point for the Nuremberg podcast was to show the trial from the ground up 12:50 another structural point for the Nuremberg podcast was to focus on what the defendants caused in Europe not about the defendants 14:30 how witnesses were selected to include in the podcast 15:00 Episodes 5 and 6 include what it was like to hear from witnesses about the mass killing concentration camps for the first time 18:30 British bureaucratic coping in collection of evidence 20:00 Hadassah Binco, mother of Belsen – use of her testimony from the Belsen trial 21:30 Hermann Graebe’s testimony about witnessing mass shooting site in Ukraine 22:30 closing by British Chief Prosecutor Lord Hartley William Shawcross 24:45 feedback from Nuremberg podcast 27:00 This Is Your country Too podcast - seven plays about child refugees 29:00 Britian’s poor approach to accepting immigrants from Ukraine now and during WWII, Kindertransport 30:20 Lebanon, the Syrian army, Civil War 31:45 Ukraine podcast play, 4AM Kyiv is Bombed 33:30 Lviv otherwise known as Lemberg, otherwise known as Lvov 34:30 Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder 35:30 Ukrainian National Police Facebook page 37:30 his work serves to remind us about historical events 38:30 Payback about the 1973 Yom Kippur War and US’s decision to re-arm Israel 40:00 Reykjavik podcast - meeting between Reagan and Gorbachev 40:45 Francis Fukuyama's End of History 41:30 Star Wars program 42:00 a wider understanding of justice Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 12 Jun 2022 | Dr. Joanna Sliwa On Holocaust Distortion, Poland's ‘Politics of Memory’, Jewish Childhood in Kraków, an Undercover Jewess Who Negotiated with the Nazis, and a Legacy to Inspire Future Scholars of All Genocide | 01:05:14 | |
To learn more, please visit the website for Ms. Sliwa. 2:45 inspiration for her career as a historian of the Holocaust and Polish Jewish history 4:30 American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) 6:50 Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (the Claims Conference) 8:00 Claims Conference’s work on behalf of elderly survivors 10:00 current issues blocking claims that she’s encountered and how they differ between countries 12:00 history of the plunder and anti-restitution approach/laws in Poland 16:00 definition of who is a survivor for restitution purposes, e.g., exclusion of Jews who were in hiding during WWII from receiving pensions 17:45 lack of understanding and education about the gravity of the theft and restitution issues from WWII 19:00 claims like Menachem Kaiser 20:20 attitudes and behaviors towards Holocaust survivors and why claims are still ongoing 23:00 heirless property 24:00 JUST Act report’s findings on Poland about archives 26:00 It Is Still Night authors Historian Jan Grabowski and Professor Barbara Engelking 30:00 pursuit of the ‘Politics of Memory’ by the current government in Poland, Law and Justice as a distortion of Holocaust history 35:00 example of how Holocaust history is distorted: Poland’s commemoration of a Polish railway worker who is said to have given water to Jews in boxcars en route to Treblinka versus acknowledging Poles who robbed Jews in boxcars in exchange for water 41:00 Jewish Childhood in Kraków: A Microhistory of the Holocaust 43:45 historical drama film Schindler’s List 45:45 Children With a Star: Jewish Youth in Nazi Europe by Deborah Dwork 47:00 Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Mathematician Who Rescued Poles during the Holocaust co-authored with Dr. Elizabeth (Barry) White, expert on Majdanek Concentration Camp 52:00 genealogy methods supplemented research for Counterfeit Countess 56:15 The Beginning of the Holocaust in Poland 1939-1941? Other upcoming projects? 59:15 how Dr. Sliwa defines justice and how she sees her work facilitating justice 1:30:00 Dr. Sliwa’s hope for her legacy: to educate and inspire future scholars of all genocide Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 25 Sep 2022 | Glance at Culture - Ella Nowicki on Incarceration, Art and Defining Justice in Terms of Accountability | 01:02:44 | |
Please visit the following links to learn more: SHOW NOTES: 4:45 West wall’s mural representing prison reform 6:05 East wall’s mural of prisons in need of reform 8:20 New York’s Municipal Art Commission rejects murals as psychologically unfit for prisoners and as anti-social propaganda 9:00 1935 survey of Blackwell Island prisoners about murals 11:35 one incarcerated man likened Shahn’s murals to Diego Rivera’s Rockefeller Center mural 12:40 concerns about making incarcerated life a spectacle 14:10 responses by Ben Shahn and Lou Block to survey 17:20 utility of survey for art historians 19:10 survey archive 21:30 Ben Shahn’s New Deal Murals: Jewish Identity in the American Scene by Diana Linden 22:10 Ben Shahn’s New York by Harvard Art Musuems 22:50 Art for the Millions: Essays from the 1930s by artists and administrators of the WPA Project by Francis O’Connor includes material from Lucienne Bloch 23:10 Bloch’s “Cycle of a Woman’s Life” accepted for WPA Project in 1935 23:50 Bloch’s primary sources quote from letters by incarcerated females 29:30 Harold Lehman’s Man’s Daily Bread erected at Rikers and later removed 35:20 Faith Ringgold’s 1971 For the Women’s House 37:00 Reception to Ringgold’s For the Women’s House by male incarcerated population 38:45 2012 Prison Landscapes by Alyse Emdur 42:10 Antoine Ealy’s opinion of prison landscapes 43:20 utility of murals in correctional institutions 44:15 Nicole Fleetwood’s book and exhibition Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration 45:00 Shahn’s photograph of incarcerated man painting portrait at Blackwell’s Island 47:30 Utility of art as a direct and didactic tool 51:00 how a focus on art in correction facilities aids in facilitating justice 56:00 Marking Time includes incarcerated and non-incarcerated artists 56:20 Artist Larry Cook 57:30 Groundswell NYC 58:20 How Nowocki defines justice 59:20 Mariame Kaba’s view of justice in terms of accountability as compared with punishment Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 11 Sep 2022 | ASU Art Museum Director Miki Garcia On Art's Power to Address Inherited Notions About Mass Incarceration, the Undoing Time Exhibition, and Justice As Public Love | 00:43:04 | |
Cover photo of Miki Garcia by Alonso Parra. 2:40 inspiration for Undoing Time: Art and Histories of Incarceration exhibition as a cultural mark in time for ASU Art Museum 6:40 effort to address all dimensions of an exhibition on mass incarceration and its impact on viewers 8:00 Art for Justice Fund’s involvement in exhibition 9:05 prior exhibition with artist Gregory Sale who worked with incarcerated populations 9:15 Contemporary Art Museum Houston and Nicole Fleetwood’s work with the Walls Turned Sideways: Artists Confront the Justice System exhibition 10:20 Undoing Time’s focus began with a survey of how incarceration has been portrayed through images from the 18th Century Code of Hammurabi forward 11:30 12 artists invited to create commissions for Undoing Time, including Mario Ybarra, Jr. who created a pizza parlor vignette that dealt with Ybarra’s childhood friend Richard who later was incarcerated on a murder charge 13:55 Stephanie Syjuco’s commission abstracted images of black and brown incarcerated population 15:10 Juan Brenner’s commission about the Guatemalan Highlands and how the U.S. West Coast prison system gang culture was exported to Central America 16:10 destruction of Guatemalan Highlands’ residence due to erection of prison that houses Mara Salvatrucha gang 17:25 architecture of prisons, e.g, the panopticon, the fortress 18:00 Indigenous artists Raven Chacon and Cannupa Hanska Luger 19:15 Luger’s commission focus on the relationship of land to mass incarceration 19:25 Mass Liberation Arizona’s mission of people over property 21:00 Theater maker and Playwright Michael Rohd choreographed going through the exhibition 22:55 Raven Chacon’s musical composition about a juvenile detention center 24:10 Rohd’s positing of questions and cards for viewer feedback 26:45 Art for Justice Fund to ASU poet Natalie Diaz and the Center for Imagination in the Borderlands 30:00 undergoing critique of the purpose and operation of museums 33:30 museums are civic institutions of dialogue, engagement and storytelling and should be responsible to the communities they serve 35:30 art’s power to challenge inherited narratives about incarceration 37:15 how she sees her legacy to eliminate as many boundaries as possible and uphold all kinds of art forms and include more voices and to open up what a museum can be and who it’s actually for 39:20 evolution of her definition of justice 40:45 justice has to be fought for 40:55 justice as public love Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 27 Feb 2022 | Scrivener's Gazette Bonus - Dr. Eugenie Schwarzwald, Ukrainian-Born Educator & Philanthropist | 00:03:13 | |
The following are links used in preparation of this episode: To view rewards for supporting the podcast, please visit Warfare's Patreon page. Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 03 Mar 2022 | 2ND Saturday *Alert* Bonus Response to War In Ukraine | 00:01:42 | |
Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 06 Mar 2022 | 2ND Saturday Art + Justice Bonus - Artist & Attorney Andrew Smith on the Meaning of Justice and the Purity of Art | 00:01:48 | |
The featured image is titled My Mississippi Morning, Andrew Smith. Image: © and TM Andrew Smith. All rights reserved. Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 17 Apr 2022 | Scriviner's Gazette Bonus - Austrian Artist Broncia Koller-Pinell | 00:02:32 | |
The following are links used to prepare this episode: Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 20 Mar 2022 | Scrivener's Gazette Bonus - Ukrainian Artist Maria Prymachenko | 00:02:31 | |
The following are links used in preparation of this episode: https://adamovskiy.foundation/en/works/prymachenko-mariya/ https://www.cnn.com/style/article/maria-prymachenko-paintings-ukraine-peace-symbol/index.html https://theculturetrip.com/europe/ukraine/articles/the-most-inspiring-women-in-ukrainian-history/ https://findatwiki.com/Maria_Prymachenko https://www.messynessychic.com/2022/03/04/she-was-ukraines-folk-art-heroine/ Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 27 Mar 2022 | Glance at Culture - Ukrainian-American Artist Mira Hnatyshyn on Ukrainian History & Heritage, Art as Protest and Creating a Community of Empathy | 00:29:52 | |
Cover Image: Freedom Holding Bread, Mira Hnatyshyn (2022) 2:15 Hnatyshyn’s work focused on identity, gender roles and cultural constructs 3:00 influence of her Ukrainian culture and history 4:00 travels to Ukraine inspired The Braid Basket 4:40 Revolution of Dignity 8:00 Orange Revolution 11:30 Ukrainian flag’s meaning 12:45 Pieta inspired Freedom Holding Bread 13:45 Fatal Run-Kyiv 15:40 abstract painting Red 17:15 military exercises preceded invasion 18:30 Mariupol theatre bombing of children, діти 20:50 message with paintings of empathy, knowledge, truth and justice 22:10 feedback from paintings 22:40 painting titled Orange Revolution aka Invasion 24:30 art during war / potential for using art as protest 26:15 justice as a principle of fairness 26:45 hope for her work to facilitate justice and/or addressing injustice by not silencing empathy or truth 27:45 artists creating a community of empathy with their work 28:35 her message to those impacted by war and atrocity Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 03 Apr 2022 | 2ND Saturday Art + Justice Bonus - Institute of Art & Law's Assistant Director Emily Gould on Art, Propaganda and Russia's Invasion of Ukraine | 00:02:56 | |
Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 24 Mar 2022 | Artists At Risk *Alert* Bonus - Ukrainian Theater Director Oleksandr Kniga | 00:03:10 | |
For more information, please visit the Artists at Risk website. Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 28 Mar 2022 | BBC Drama: 4AM Kyiv Is Bombed *Alert* | 00:02:00 | |
Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 24 Apr 2022 | Glance at Culture - The Art Unit Founder Mariia Kashchenko on Making Art Accessible, Ukraine's Culture & Heritage, and Art In Times of War | 00:38:09 | |
To learn more, please visit The Art Unit's website. 1:40 reason for founding The Art Unit to make art more accessible for collectors and creatives 4:45 Ukrainian artist Nataliia Verbova based in Germany 5:00 Ukrainian artist Margo Sarkisova fled Eastern Ukraine in 2014 and recently fled Kharkiv 5:30 Ukrainian artist Bohdan Svyrydov 7:00 Ukrainian artist Sergiy Kondratiuk and his series of Soviet porcelain figurines 10:15 Challenges Ukrainians face with misappropriation of culture 12:50 The Gates of Europe by Ukrainian historian Serhii Plokhy 13:40 Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko 14:15 weaponization of culture and history 14:45 works by Ukrainian artist Maria Prymachenko damaged by Russian war 16:00 oppression of Ukrainian culture and history 17:20 Homeward by directed by Nariman Aliev and Crimean Tartars 18:35 Importance of art in times of war 19:20 Ukrainian artist Olena Shtepura 19:50 Ukrainian artist Polina Shcherbyna 20:15 Charcoal swirl mother and child 20:25 Artists acting as a conscience for society 21:20 Ukrainian artist Margo Sarkisova’s war diary – works on paper employing symbolic imagery 22:40 utility of art versus photography 24:00 war photographer Maksim Levin 24:40 Timur Dzhafarov aka John Object’s war diary on Instagram 26:00 The Art Unit’s impact on culture by helping to raise the voices of emerging artists 28:00 Change in her definition of justice 30:00 Russian propaganda that war is only targeting military bases 31:10 art addressing war by Olena Shtepura 31:20 art addressing war by Polina Shcherbyna with real & surreal imagery 32:00 works to come that will interprete the war as the war will continue to be a main topic 33:00 multiple generations of Ukrainians have experienced war 33:20 art creating the language to go forward with Russia as the neighbor after the war 35:45 looting during the war 36:15 how to deal with the destruction of Ukraine when she returns Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 22 May 2022 | Scrivener's Gazette Bonus - Artist Sofie Korner and Art Historian Dr. Stella Kramrisch | 00:04:22 | |
The following are links used to prepare this episode, including the research of Dr. Elizabeth Otto: Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 28 Aug 2022 | Glance at Culture - Dr. Henry Greenspan On Listening to Holocaust Survivors, Memory, Psychology, the Warsaw Ghetto and Minimalist Theatre | 01:00:10 | |
Please visit Dr. Greenspan's website to learn more. 00:00 impression of survivor about Greenspan’s representation of their story 03:00 1970s interview for psychologist 04:20 depth rather than breadth of his interviews with Holocaust survivors 6:25 collaborative meetings with survivors 7:00 Agi Rubin described good interviews as learning together 9:00 Process of creating courses, books, plays from conversations with survivors 13:45 Greenspan’s dissertation topic on this became his life’s work 15:10 Agi Rubin: I’m not a “Survivor” as a category. 18:35 On Listening to Holocaust Survivors: Beyond Testimony 19:00 Leon’s recollection of murder of Paul Lieberman 22:10 Leon’s correction that his recollection is not a story; it must be made a story 25:30 Remnants 29:50 Reflections: Auschwitz, Memory and a Life Recreated 35:40 Death/Play or the Mad Jester of the Warsaw Ghetto 41:20 source material for Death/Play or the Mad Jester of the Warsaw Ghetto 44:40 short play Gravediggers involving the Ukraine 47:20 Greenspan’s view of injustice 48:00 His work is ‘disposable people’ studies 49:40 Corruption 53:00 what we do together is where hope is 53:45 per Agi Rubin, legacy is not up to her Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 20 Nov 2022 | Glance at Culture - Peter Kupfer on his book "The Glassmaker's Son" | 00:56:21 | |
The Glassmaker's Son is available here. Please visit Peter Kupfer's website to learn more. 5:00 Kupfer exploration of identity 6:30 Kupfer’s name change 7:45 paternal family history in Germany prior to WWII 10:00 1979 first visit to Bavaria 11:00 NY attorney for Kupfer’s father 12:00 1937 passenger list that includes Kupfer’s father 13:00 Kupfer’s grandfather 14:30 Kupfer’s grandfather in Terezin 15:25 Kupfer Villa sold 16:50 letters between Mr. Kupfer’s father and grandfather regarding escape from Nazis 19:00 Kupfer’s glassmaking business 24:00 last meeting of Kupfer business 26:00 mixed feelings when meeting Germans who knew Kupfer family prior to/during WWII 29:00 level of anti-semitism in Germany 31:00 German school education on Holocaust 32:30 importance of visiting concentration camps 33:30 Terezin Concentration Camp 37:30 efforts to seek return of ancestral portraits 44:00 post-war restitution claims 46:30 how his story addresses justice 49:00 his definition of justice confirmed after exploring his family history 50:50 most surprising aspect of his research for this book 53:00 Stolperstein ceremony honors Kupfer’s family on November 22, which is also the release day of The Glassmaker’s Son Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 19 Jun 2022 | Scrivener's Gazette Bonus - Artist Julia Wolfthorn | 00:04:03 | |
The following are links used to prepare this episode: Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 14 Aug 2022 | Richard Harwood, QC, On Contested Heritage: Removing Art From Land and Historic Buildings with Co-Host Emily Gould | 00:58:48 | |
For those interested in obtaining a copy of Contested Heritage Removing Art From Land and Historic Buildings by Richard Harwood QC, Catherine Dobson and David Sawtell, please visit the publisher’s website and use code P8W4VZ for a 10% discount. 2:10 Lucien Freud mural of flower; removed from a house that was a listed building 3:14 Rustat Memorial plaque at Jesus College chapel 5:00 What is meant by contested heritage 5:50 co-authors Catherine Dobson and David Sawtell 6:00 dispute over public memorialization of certain person/events 8:20 whether work is part of building/who owns/to what extent it’s subject to listed building control 9:05 Dill case 10:15 pair of 18th C. lead urns by Flemish sculptor John van Nost in Wrest Park 12:00 2015 - planning authority learn urns not at Idlicote House; issue enforcement notice for their return 17:20 regulatory issues/export licensing 17:50 property ownership 19:00 Old Flo case 19:30 London Borough of Tower Hamlets v. London Borough of Bromley 19:40 Henry Moore statue Draped Seated Woman 21:20 purpose of annexation 27:00 listed building control 28:00 main considerations for authorities faced with application for removal of contested statue or other memorial or work of art 29:00 for listed buildings, strong presumption to protect special architectural/historic interest 30:00 Public Sector Equality Duty 31:00 Jen Reid statute appeal 32:35 Rustat Memorial case 37:40 Colston case 38:40 Colston – late 17th C. deputy governor of Royal African Company ran slave trade/benefactor of Bristol 40:45 ‘Colston 4’ trial – individuals charged with criminal damage/acquitted 41:00 acquittal now on appeal by Attorney General’s reference on lawfulness of some lines of defence run, including question of right to freedom of expression and extent that can justify attacking property 41:45 ‘retain and explain’ policy 43:10 changes to planning and listed building procedures 44:35 Cecil Rhodes statues and other memorials in Oxford 46:35 Rhodes commemorative plaque in Oxford recently listed by Secretary of State 46:45 increased public awareness about these issues 47:15 Arts education charity, Art UK recent catalogue of 13,500 British public sculpture - only 2% commemorate people of colour 48:35 public art 49:45 Old Flo example of post-war public authority support for public art 50:00 developers recently encouraged to include public art, e.g., Desert Quartet Sculptures by Dame Elisabeth Frink placed in back of Worthing shopping center and now a listed building 51:50 Ulster Defence Regiment memorial in Lisburn, N. Ireland includes a female 53:00 National Windrush Monument in Waterloo Station commemorates arrival of Caribbean migrants after WWII 54:20 political issues about colonialism and empire involved with cultural heritage dispute Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 03 Jul 2022 | 2ND Saturday Art + Justice Bonus: Artist & Law Student Yelena Khajekian on Cultural Heritage Restitution and the Best Path Forward | 00:03:32 | |
The featured image is titled red light, acrylic on canvas, 9"x12", Yelena Khajekian. Image: © and TM Yelena Khajekian. All rights reserved. Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 24 Jul 2022 | Scrivener's Gazette Bonus - Artist Felka Platek | 00:04:24 | |
The following are links used in preparation of this episode: Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 04 Sep 2022 | 2ND Saturday Art + Justice Bonus: Artist & Attorney Gina McKlveen | 00:07:08 | |
The featured image is titled Peggy Cooper Cafritz (2020), acrylic on canvas, 16"x20", Gina McKlveen. Image: © and TM Gina McKlveen. All rights reserved. Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 02 Oct 2022 | 2ND Saturday Bonus: Artist & Attorney Stefania Salles Bruins on the Issue of Removing Cultural Heritage from Its Homeland | 00:02:00 | |
Cover Image: "The Boardroom Was Taken", oil on aluminum, 28"x22" Copyright Stefania Salles Bruins 2022. Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 21 Aug 2022 | Scrivener's Gazette Bonus - Artist Helene von Taussig | 00:04:03 | |
This episode was prepared with information included here. Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 09 Oct 2022 | Artist Ben Kinmont on Experimenting With What Art Can Be, Antiquarian Bookselling, Economic Precarity, Artists' Contracts & More | 01:02:53 | |
Cover image: Ben Kinmont and the Antinomian Press at Section Seven Books, Paris, printing Project Series: Lee Lozano. 0:00 artist / attorney collaboration 3:30 initial art practice in NYC 3:50 work with antiquarian bookseller focused on medicine/science 4:20 antiquarian bookselling business - Sometimes a nicer sculpture is to be able to provide a living for your family 5:00 Occupational realism - term by Julia Bryant Wilson 5:35 Kinmont’s practice included painting, video, sculpture, photography 5:50 NYC/Cologne street project I am for you, ich bin fur sie - 3 sculptures 6:15 “The Social Sculpture” - Joseph Beuys 6:40 ‘The Thinking Sculpture’ - William James 7:10 cognitive process as a sculptural process 7:25 “The Third Sculpture” 8:00 I Am For You 9:00 Christo’s public projects about conversations with farmers/coastal commission 10:35 The Materialization of Life Into Alternative Economies 11:45 Antinomian Press 14:40 economic precarity subtheme 15:10 theme of art in everyday life, what we can and can’t call art 16:00 Borders of what can and cannot be called art 17:45 NYU Draper Institute lecture to grad class of anthropology 19:00 cultural differences in interviewing NYC and Cologne individuals 21:15 archives of his projects led to his interest in contracts and Promised Relations: or, thoughts on a few artists’ contracts? 24:20 Tilted Arc contract 24:30 Felix Gonzalez-Torres’ certificates 25:30 Kinmont’s contract 25:40 Attorney Jerry Ordover 25:55 Seth Seigelab and Bob Projansky artist contract 29:45 MoMA Department of Prints and Drawing’s purchase of Antinomian Press archive 31:40 why artists shy from contracts 36:45 circa 1990 - Trust as Sculpture – strangers invited to waffle breakfast in Kinmont’s home 38:15 understand history to create discourse around your experience 40:00 feedback from An Exhibition In Your Mouth 41:45 social/political meaning behind the study of gastronomy 42:50 Inter-sectionality of gastronomy with women’s studies, economic history, ethnography, class, medicine, health 44:40 Gastronomy and Economic Precarity 45:50 FBI’s attacks on the Black Panther’s Free Breakfast Programs 46:50 San Quintin death row inmate’s inquiry about publishing Death Row Cookbook 48:50 his projects addressing injustice 50:25 Ethical Considerations in Project Art Practice 51:10 justice 53:00 Olivier Mosset bought and later returned it 54:25 Andre’s involvement in Art Workers Coalition Group/work using proletariat mater Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 23 Oct 2022 | Glance at Culture - Marie-Christin Gebhardt on the Museum "Art of the Lost Generation" | 00:58:57 | |
To learn more, please visit the website for Museum Art of the Lost Generation. 2:10 Dr. Böhme's collection 2:50 2nd Generation of Modern Artists 3:00 Corinth, Beckmann, Klee, Kokashka 4:00 Museum’s goal to find/research Lost Generation artists 4:50 Salzburg 5:00 Using Brush and Paint Against the Time 5:20 Exhibition poster image – 1955 self-portrait by Heinrich Emil Adametz studied at Hamburg School of Arts and Crafts 5:50 1933 Heinrich Emil Adametz was banned 6:00 1945 Heinrich Emil Adametz returned to Berlin 7:00 exhibition on destinies of female artists 7:15 Until end of WWI, women were denied access to universities and art colleges 1933 – Jacobis refused to close school; fled to NY/re-opened school 9:30 1889 Felka Platek born in Warsaw 9:40 1923 - Platek moved to Berlin 9:50 Nussbaum 11:45 Felka and Felix 12:00 Frankfurt artist Hanna Becker Van Rath 12:40 Van Rath’s Blue House in Germany 13:00 We Haven’t Seen Each Other In So Long 14:00 Provenance research 14:50 Digitization aids in research 15:20 Provenance research defines them as a museum 17:00 sponsoring program 17:30 Frankfurt Artist Ruth Camp’s portrait of woman 18:00 Canvases by Heinrich Esser found in attic 18:20 Three People by Esser 19:40 Posthumous political Portrait of Dr. Friedrich Maase (1878-1959) by Gert Heinrich Wollheim 21:00 Female Destinies 21:45 Future of museum - coming to terms with past by focusing on artists/their fates 22:30 combines art history with contemporary history 23:00 Museum to be part of the movement to create justice for these artists 23:40 visitor comments and press feedback 25:05 library 26:00 Meet Me in Paris Exhibition 27:45 female artists seeking education in Paris 29:00 Paris co-ed classes 29:50 nude works by Martha Bernstein and Rudolf Levy 30:20 Montparnasse cafe scene 31:15 1933 Paris as a safe haven from National Socialists – life in exile 32:00 Occupied Paris 33:20 Russian artist Samuel Granovsky - worked with pastels/spatula 35:50 Granovsky nicknamed Cowboy of Montparnasse 36:45 Matisse student Martha Bernstein; 1911 Female Nude in Atelier 38:20 Bernstein became part of Berlin Secession 38:50 Malweiber (painting women) mocking term for female artists 40:30 Adolf Da Haer’s 1940 On the Beach; shifted from expressionism to conservative natural approach 43:45 Mack Koch – ex of inner immigration 46:45 Koch’s 1930 Woman With Pipe 48:45 Häfner family 49:55 Herbert Häfner’s 1935 Portrait of Miss Lilo Jüngst 52:35 Ilse Häfner-Mode’s Portrait of a Woman in front of a Wooden Door 54:20 Thomas Häfner’s Fantasy Landscape with Mask 56:00 Ilsa Häfner’s ink drawings while interned 56:30 feedback Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 21 Feb 2023 | *BONUS* "Restoration" from Elicit Justice: Conversations Off Grid | 00:04:23 | |
"Restoration" musical composition by Toulme, Copyright 2023. Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 17 Sep 2023 | Glance at Culture - Dr. Christoph Kreutzmüller and Katharina Menschick Discussing the #lastseen Project's Analysis of Nazi Deportation Photographs | 00:38:19 | |
To learn more, please visit the website for the #lastseen project. 0:00 Katharina Menschick on the response to #lastseen project 3:00 Menschick – research associate in Arolsen Archives’ historical research department dealing with digital memory projects, digital archival projects and archival theory 3:20 Dr. Christoph Kreutzmüller – historian with Arolsen Archives and House of the Wannsee Conference in Berlin 3:45 mission of the #lastseen initiative 5:00 missing deportation photographs 6:00 deportation photographs found by American GI and returned during Nuremberg trials 7:00 request for deportation photographs 7:20 types of deportation photographs 8:30 Eisenach deportation – Magda Katz 9:00 U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum research – donor identified uncle in photograph 11:15 deportation from Dr. Kreutzmüller’s hometown 12:30 questions about why photographers took the deportation photos 13:00 spectatorship / audience of the photographs 14:20 importance of photographs as a historical source 14:45 virtual interactive educational resource 16:45 German high school pupils’ assistance in developing educational resource 18:10 difficulty of discussing bystanders 19:30 photographs invite reflection 22:00 historical transparency by telling what they don’t know 25:00 giving context to photographs 28:30 gaze of those photographed 29:15 propaganda film in Warsaw Ghetto 30:20 legacy of their work 32:15 definition of justice – striving for fairness 33:00 real restoration cannot be achieved 34:00 doing justice to the photographs and to those in the photographs 34:45 restitution through archives Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 18 Sep 2022 | Scrivener's Gazette Bonus - Artist Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler | 00:04:58 | |
Nothing But Art by Regine Sondermann and the following links were used in preparation of this episode: https://womeningermanexpressionism.com/2018/07/11/elfriede-lohse-wachtler/ https://gseart.com/artist/elfriede-lohse-wachtler/bio Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 18 Dec 2022 | Glance at Culture - Rachel Stern on the Fritz Ascher Society, Inner Emigration & Art's Power to Create a Better World | 00:43:34 | |
Please visit Fritz Ascher Society's website and YouTube channel to learn more. 3:45 Fritz Ascher’s life and work 8:30 open composition of Ascher’s 1968 Trees in Hilly Landscape compared with blocked tree compositions circa 1940 11:15 recent discovery of portraits by Ascher 14:40 art historic term ‘inner emigration’ 15:45 Ascher’s poetry as ‘unpainted paintings’ 17:50 Artist Jeanne Mammen 19:35 Artists Lea and Hans Grundig 23:00 Art For No One exhibition in Frankfurt, Germany 26:40 creation of Fritz Ascher Society to highlight unknown artists 29:30 Identity, Art and Migration online exhibition 34:15 Felix Nussbaum’s work and Felix Nussbaum Haus in Osnabrück, Germany 35:15 founding director of Felix Nussbaum Haus Inge Jaehner 35:40 curator of Felix Nussbaum Haus Anne Schwetter 36:30 Nussbaum’s wife, Felka Platek 38:00 post-war focus communist control and Cold War 38:40 her work to create historical justice for these artists and educating about these artists in order to put them into their context 39:40 justice through telling stories of minorities 40:40 legacy 41:20 power of art to initiate discussion and to help create a better world Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 20 Aug 2023 | Glance at Culture - Michael Rohd on Theatre Arts, Social Cohesion, Social-Based Arts Programs and Civic Imagination | 00:58:03 | |
To learn more, please visit the sites for Sojourn Theatre, One Nation/One Project, and the Undoing Time: Art and Histories of Incarceration exhibition. Cover Photograph: "Rohd co-facilitating an arts convening in Boston this past fall with Nicole Brewer and musicians from Silkroad Ensemble" 3:45 Rohd’s background 4:50 'Hope is Vital' project in DC area 7:00 Sojourn Theatre 10:10 2003 disruption in Oregon legislature 11:50 'Witness Our Schools' project - role of public education today 14:30 impact of bringing voices in and building relationships for a different kind of dialogue 15:15 criteria for success of arts-based work around civic issues 16:10 One Nation / One Project rooted in post-Great Depression Federal Theater project 22:15 local community involvement centered on building relationships 25:30 approach to critics of social-based arts programs 28:10 Center for Performance and Civil Practice (CPCP) - collective of 9 33:45 Undoing Time: Art and Histories of Incarceration exhibition with Arizona State University Art Museum Director Miki Garcia (Episode 79) 37:45 choreography / dramaturgy for Undoing Time 40:20 questions posed in Undoing Time 42:10 future project for the cards created from Undoing Time 44:45 aspect of justice included in the question he focuses on: who are we responsible for? 47:30 influence of teachers that led Rohd to his current work 49:50 legacy 51:30 Co-Lab for Civic Imagination in Montana 53:50 ‘Communities of Care’ model 54:15 Definition of Civic Imagination - like functional democracy Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 22 Jan 2023 | Glance at Culture - Nnebundo Obi on Apartheid, Social Justice, and the #RhodesMustFall Movement | 00:58:27 | |
Cover Photograph: Mr. Sparks: A Quest for Truth & Reconciliation, Copyright Nnebundo Obi 2022. 3:20 Nagel Institute Research Associate - Engaging African Realities Project Presentation from annual conference in Capetown 4:05 Slide 2 - former S. African President Nelson Mandela’s cell at Robben Island 4:20 history of Robben Island, see slide 2 5:30 escapee from Robben Island David Stuurman 6:10 First female political prisoner on Robben Island, Krotoa or Eva 7:10 1961, Robben Island used as prison for non-white political activists exclusively 8:30 one letter and one visit per year for inmates at Robben Island 9:25 Hard labour in the limestone quarry 10:00 tour of Robben Island per Mr. Sparks, former inmate and current tour guide at Robben Island - slide 4 12:40 Puzamandla: The “energy giving drink”, a hidden poison 14:00 Mr. Sparks gives testimony about his suffering at Robben Island to free himself 14:50 Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden - see slide 5 15:00 Lion’s Head, Tabletop Mountain Range - see slide 6 15:30 1800s creation of Van Riebeeck’s Hedge to mark Dutch property, shown at slide 6 16:10 Boulder’s Penguin Colony 16:25 history of apartheid - see slide 8 17:20 - 1979 “total strategy” 12 point plan to crush opposition to apartheid 18:20 1996 Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) established by Nelson Mandela 18:45 hearings for restorative justice 19:20 1977 founding of MEDU Art Ensemble 20:30 female anti-pass protestors - see slide 10 22:30 1956 women’s march - see slide 11 23:00 Judy Sideman, member of MEDU Art Ensemble from 1980—1985 - see slide 11 24:20 MEDU Art Ensemble history - see slide 12 27:00 MEDU Art Ensemble posters - see slides 9, 12, 13 29:00 MEDU Art Ensemble targeted by the South African defense force 30:15 the power of testimony and collaboration and importance of mobilizing and gathering strength from community 30:45 University of Capetown 31:00 - 2015 ‘RHODES MUST FALL’ movement to remove the statue of British Imperialist Cecil Rhodes at the University of Cape Town - see slide 14 34:20 impact of removing statues like those of Cecil Rhodes 38:00 impact of MEDU Art Ensemble on end of apartheid 39:00 Terrorism Act 39:45 MEDU's community outreach 41:45 Cohesion and single-minded vision of MEDU 42:30 Nnebundo’s way of engaging with social justice issues 44:20 definition of justice 49:00 Netflix docu-series How To Become a Tyrant 51:00 Jan Felman’s comments 51:40 Stefania Salles-Bruins’ comments 53:25 Jarnick Vitters’ comments Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 11 Dec 2022 | M.C. Sungaila on her Journey as an Appellate Attorney, Author and Creator & Host of the Portia Project Podcast | 01:19:07 | |
To learn more, please visit the websites for M.C. Sungaila, the Portia Project podcast, and Mother's Thoughts For the Day. 5:00 US v. Lanier, 520 U.S. 259 (1997) 9:00 González et al. (“Cotton Field”) v. Mexico in the Interamerican Court of Human Rights 11:30 factors considered in drafting appellate briefs 14:30 her work on Holocaust art recovery cases began with Randy Schoenberg in Republic of Austria v. Altmann 16:00 procedural hurdles for heirs in Holocaust art recovery cases 18:00 Zuckerman cert petition raised questions about the meaning of the HEAR Act and how state equitable doctrines should interplay with the HEAR Act 20:00 potential issues surrounding drafting of HEAR Act 21:30 developing issue of how forced sales fit into Holocaust art recovery 22:40 Cassirer v. Kingdom of Spain, et al 25:30 Federal Republic of Germany, et al v. Philipp aka the Guelph Treasure case 30:25 Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith 39:20 need for procedural and substantive fairness in U.S. Legal system 41:40 mission of the Portia Project Podcast 49:40 Portia Project documentary 54:00 Girls Inc episode of the Portia Project 56:00 Sungaila’s mother as one of her role models 57:40 Judge Dorothy Nelson and Judge Ferdinand Fernandez of the 9th Circuit 57:50 Judge Alicemarie Stotler, Chief Judge of the Central District of California 58:45 Sungaila’s publishing of Mother’s Thoughts For the Day 1:02:00 Mother’s Thoughts For the Day self-guided journal and merchandise 1:04:40 how Sungaila’s book publishing led to the Portia Project 1:07:00 advice for mind-management and time-management 1:10:50 what justice looks like or should look like to Sungaila 1:13:35 the theme of her work is the importance and power of the individual 1:14:50 three of Sungaila’s favorite quotes from her mother that relate to making your own mark and persisting Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 19 Feb 2023 | Glance at Culture - Dr. Suzanne Evans on Womens' Stories, Propaganda During War, Creativity and Survival | 00:56:24 | |
To learn more, please visit the website for Dr. Suzanne Evans. 0:00 Suzanne Evans’ hope for the legacy she is creating to tell and compel more women’s stories 1:35 Evans’ degree in philopshy lead to teaching English in China 2:30 Evans’ writing themes are women in Canada and women in war and religion 2:40 Canadian International Development Agency to organize educational briefings for Canadians going to work overseas 4:00 PhD in religious studies 4:40 martyrdom 5:20 Palestinian mother/martyr 6:00 Mothers of Heroes, Mothers of Martyrs: WWI and the Politics of Grief 7:00 Silver Cross mother and its development 8:00 how soldiers of war were presented in the media 8:20 post-doctoral fellowship at the Canadian War Museum to study stories of Canadian women and war 9:40 diary of WWI masseuse 10:00 study of physio-therapist in WWI and WWII 11:40 occupational therapy, including basketweaving, for wounded WWI veterans 12:30 Changi quilts made in Singapore’s Changi jail overtaken by Japanese 13:15 Ethel Mulvany’s Starving Prisoners of War Cookbook 14:45 research for The Taste of Longing: Ethel Mulvany and Her Starving Prisoners of War Cookbook 22:20 couple housed by Mulvany 24:15 Museum on Manitoulin Island 27:45 Mulvany’s suffering from bipolar disorder 28:45 how women’s stories from the war have been downgraded 32:00 recommended reading: Freddy Bloom’s Dear Philip: A Diary of Captivity, Changi, 1942-45 32:35 Mary Thomas’ In the Shadow of the Rising Sun 32:35 P.C. B. Newington’s Good Food 33:45 record-keeping from the WWII era 36:00 treatment of Mulvany for her mental illness 37:00 electric shock therapy without sedatives 37:20 insulin therapy treatment in India 38:15 War Claims Commission’s medical records for Mulvany 40:00 virtual feasts for book launch during pandemic 43:15 use of propaganda in WWI and WWII 45:40 upcoming cookbook project 46:10 Five Roses Enriched Floor Cookbook 49:00 Evans’ definition of justice 50:00 Walter Allward's statue of justice 54:25 “justice is shifting in our time…I don’t want my justice to be blindfolded; I want her to be far sighted so that she can see change and adapt.” Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 16 Oct 2022 | Scrivener's Gazette Bonus - Artist Else Berg | 00:03:37 | |
The following are links used to prepare this episode: http://www.arthurkampf.de/biographie/arthur-kampf-biographie_en.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mommie_Schwarz Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 06 Nov 2022 | 2ND Saturday Bonus: Getty Docent Howard Turner on the Question of Human Remains in Museum Collections | 00:03:20 | |
The following are links used to prepare this episode: Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 05 Nov 2023 | Glance at Culture - Martha Szabo's NYC Solo Exhibition & MSeum's Celebration of Unknown Female Artists | 00:54:31 | |
Cover art: Martha Szabo, Rooftops in Snow 11, oil on linen, 24 x 35 in., circa 1964 Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 07 May 2023 | Careers in Art & Law - A 2ND Saturday Conversation | 00:52:20 | |
Please visit the following links to learn more: 1:00 Stephanie Drawdy - introduction 1:20 Emily Gould - overview of the Institute of Art and Law (IAL) 5:20 Gould’s background 7:35 careers in art law practice 9:35 Janan Foster - background and experience with Art, Business and Law LLM 11:35 Chiara Gallo - background and experience with Art, Business and Law LLM 15:40 Jane (Chang Yue) Liu - experience with Siena program and internship with IAL 18:40 Chelsea Conyers - experience with Siena program and internship with IAL 20:35 Gina McKlveen - experience as an artist, law student and now lawyer 27:40 Gould on IAL blog 28:40 Alan Robertshaw 29:10 McKlveen’s beginning interest in art and law 30:15 Jerry Alonzo’s experience in the law and arts 34:10 Charles Sabba’s experience in the military, law enforcement and the arts 43:05 Nnebundo Obi 44:45 Charles Sabba 45:40 Emily Gould re: interdisciplinary nature of art law cases 46:35 Alan Robertshaw’s law practice Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 22 Dec 2022 | *BONUS* "Prejudice" from Elicit Justice: Conversations Off Grid | 00:04:37 | |
"Prejudice" musical composition by Toulme, Copyright 2022. Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 08 Jan 2023 | Deadria Farmer-Paellmann on the Restitution Study Group, Slavery Justice and the Benin Bronzes' Hidden History Related to the Slave Trade | 01:16:40 | |
Please visit the following to view the Benin Bronzes and to learn more about the Restitution Study Group. 00:00 manillas used to trade for slaves as documented by Alan Ryder in Benin and the Europeans 02:50 mission and work of Restitution Study Group to fight for slavery justice 03:20 RSG’s focus on corporations, private estates and governments that were complicit in slavery 03:45 RSG’s suits against insurance companies for slavery policies 06:00 RSG’s suits against banks like J.P. Morgan Chase 0:630 RSG’s suits included consumer fraud and human rights arguments 07:30 DNA testing used by RSG 08:30 DNA results and TransAtlantic Slave Trade Database used to trace ancestry 08:50 RSG’s action filed for genocide compensation efforts 09:35 the Proxmire Act, Genocide Convention Implementation Act of 1987 12:30 RSG’s suit against the Smithsonian Institution over the Benin Bronzes 14:40 1896 massacre of British soldiers 15:30 Kingdom of Benin’s practice of sacrifice 16:15 RSG’s demand for a share of the Benin Bronzes 17:20 RSG’s meeting with Kingdom of Benin’s princess 19:20 Charleston, SC 19:30 Jamaica 21:00 The Benin Monarchy: An Anthology by Oba Ewuare II Foundation (2018) 21:55 Paula Girshik 22:25 Harz Mountains 23:50 Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African Art's Ngaire Blankenberg "confusion" on Kingdom of Benin's involvement in slave trade 24:45 per Dr. Paul Lovejoy, manillas were used in slave traded and to make Benin Bronzes for 300 years 26:00 RSG’s allegations that Smithsonian is violating US law that requires consideration for transfer of the Bronzes outside the Smithsonian 28:00 Board of Regents vote on transfer of Benin Bronzes 30:30 11 October 2022 - Smithsonian’s scheduled transfer of Benin Bronzes 31:30 Lack of media attention on this issue 31:50 Short film They Belong to All of Us 34:00 RSG’s suit against the Smithsonian is a restitution case 34:45 RSG’s efforts with institutions other than the Smithsonian 36:50 bronzes taken according to the laws of war 39:45 forensic research 41:50 16th-19th Century Bronzes 42:15 Dan Hicks’ book The Brutish Museum 43:50 removing labels from the Bronzes 44:50 Oba Head gifted by Nigerian leader 48:30 Benin City - hub of human trafficking 51:20 African scholar Dr. Ibrahima Seck 52:00 missing slave trade documentation for two main slave ports 54:00 one on one approach with American institutions 57:00 Petition submitted to UK’s Charities Commission 1:02:00 Smithsonian’s current holdings of Bronzes 1:04:00 RSG’s emergency motion 1:05:20 number of Bronzes in the U.S. 1:09:00 dual citizenship 1:11:00 Nigeria’s request for reparations 1:11:50 definition of justice 1:14:00 opportunity for Nigeria to speak up Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 05 Mar 2023 | Charles Vincent Sabba, Jr. on Italian Cultural Patrimony, Art Theft, Isabella Stewart Gardner's Collection Practices, the Gardner Heist, the Getty's Failure to Return the Lysippos di Fano and more | 01:12:46 | |
Cover art - The Scream, fingerprint ink on police print card done in thumb print, 2" x 1-1/4", 2004 copyright Charles Vincent Sabba 0:00 Sabba’s great-grandfather 3:45 retired police captain 4:15 duCret School of Art in Plainfield, NJ 4:50 1986 - Austrialian Cultural Terrorists stole Weeping Woman by Picasso 6:20 NYPD Art Theft Investigator 3:40 US Navy 7:30 Naples, Italy 8:35 federal corrections’ witness protection unit 11:20 School of Visual Arts 11:40 Betty Thompkins 11:44 Andrew Gensel 11:45 Anton van Dalen and his show at the PPOW Gallery 12:25 Fred DePalma 13:00 influence of his police work on his art 14:30 documentary Defending the Peninsula 18:00 the era of power and money over cultural patrimony 18:40 Napoleon’s looting of Italy 20:30 Monuments Men 21:55 1800s Papal Edict governing exportation of works from Italy 22:30 1947 article 9 of Italy’s Constitution 23:50 collection of Gardner Museum 24:35 Vermeer’s The Concert purchased by Gardner 26:00 Getty Trust - fight over Euphronios Krater with the Met 27:45 Manhattan DA’s office April 2022 seizure 28:30 Lysippos di Fano Bronze 34:30 agreement to table discussion about return of Lysippos pending Italian court ruling 36:45 assertion that the Lysippos is Greek not Italian 39:30 status of request for return of Lysippos 39:50 History Channel television series Histories Greatest Heists with Pierce Brosnan 41:00 paint chips sent to Boston Herald related to Gardner Heist 44:00 1997 - William Youngworth negotiated with Gardner Museum for return of stolen works via prosecutors 45:45 Chicago-based Expert Walter McCrone determined paint chips were from Rembrandt. 48:35 1998 - Vermeer expert 49:10 2003 - Dr. Hubert von Sonnenburg, Chairman of Paintings Conservation at The Met, found chips were consistent with the Vermeer 50:00 Dr. Jennifer Mass’ opinion about the Sonnenberg’s opinion on the paint chips 52:30 Sabba’s painting practice reflects his interest in art crime - fingerprint paintings 53:50 Sabba’s portraits of individuals involved in art crime 55:25 Art critic Jerry Saltz 56:30 Y Gallery 58:15 artists that speak to social issues, e.g., prison reform 1:01:25 Sophie Calle: Last Seen 1:02:05 climate activists’ attacks on soft targets 1:06:40 Justice defined 1:09:20 Legacy Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 21 May 2023 | Glance at Culture - Dr. Ashfaq Ishaq on the International Child Art Foundation, the World Children's Festival, the Child Art Magazine and CreativeEmpaths | 01:06:14 | |
To learn more, please visit the sites for International Child Art Foundation, World Children's Festival and the International Child Arts Olympiad (with coming plans for the Paris 2024 Olympics ). 3:30 empathy needed due to moral neutrality of creativity 4:30 adverse childhood experiences 5:20 transgenerational transmission of trauma and hatred 6:00 the International Child Art Foundation’s Arts Olympiad and World’s Children Festival 8:40 creative-empaths 9:30 Arts Olympiad winners at National Mall in Washington, DC for World’s Children Festival 11:50 overview of Ishaq’s background and work at World Bank 13:10 why adult’s imagination dries up 13:30 the fourth grade slump 15:40 2013 book “The Creativity Revolution: Reinvent Your Creative Self to Shape the Future and Prosper” 17:30 1 of 5 types of creators: Native 17:50 2 of 5 types of creators: Nomad 18:20 3 of 5 types of creators: Savant 18:55 4 of 5 types of creators: Empathic 19:15 5 of 5 types of creators: Spiritual 20:20 Book mixes history, economics and neuroscience 22:30 collaborated with National Institute of Health on its ABCD Study 24:00 MRI studies show 7-12 year olds are age group most prone to empathy 26:20 Healings Art Program began after Asian tsunami 29:10 Peace Through Art Program began after 9/11 attacks 31:10 ICAF’s collaboration on treasure hunt book “Xavier Marx and the Missing Masterpieces” 32:10 UN General Assembly’s efforts to revive human security campaign 35:40 ICAF has had approximately 5 million children participated in Arts Olympiad to date 38:30 American Academy of Arts and Sciences’s 2021 report on the attributes, values and skills that come from arts education, including social and emotional development, school engagement and civic and social participation 39:15 children from certain countries can’t participate, e.g., North Korea 40:40 participants from African countries 41:10 blind musical group from Zimbabwe 41:30 indigenous from New Zealand playing the a traditional dance of that country's Māori people, the haka 42:40 ICAF;s current work and structured lesson plans 43:45 fall semester 2023 for next program 44:30 summer 2024 for next festival 46:30 scholarships 47:00 participants from Romania 48:30 social function of art 50:10 9/11 began his thought about moral neutrality of creativity 53:00 upcoming festival project for partipants to create children’s earth flag for NASA’s first human mission to Mars 54:15 UN’s human securities artworks 56:30 new mothers as supporters 57:00 ChildArt Magazine 58:00 magazine’s theme on the power of words, mindfulness, Metaverse, animal Art 59:20 Legacy 1:00:00 pre-WWII, Olympics gave awards for the arts 1:00:50 Paris 2024 Olympics and LA 2028 Olympics 1:01:45 definition of justice Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 05 Feb 2023 | Nautilus Productions' Co-Founder Rick Allen On the Infamous Pirate Blackbeard, the Queen Anne's Revenge Shipwreck, Copyright Infringement, State Sovereign Immunity & Artists' Rights | 01:16:56 | |
Cover photo of Rick Allen - copyright Cindy Burnham, Lucky Shot Productions September 2022 2ND Saturday Discussion: 1:04 Background of Blackbeard and Queen Anne’s Revenge 4:00 Intersal handed shipwreck over to NC; kept media rights, replica rights 4:45 Allen’s shooting underwater footage to document recovery of shipwreck 5:50 Allen agreed to license his footage and give Intersal 25% gross profits from that 6:25 2013 - changes with new NC administration - NC had been using footage commercially 7:25 NC hired other production companies in violation of Intersal’s media rights 7:45 Intersal filed complaint in NC’s Office of Administrative Hearings 7:55 Allen revoked NC’s rights to use Allen’s footage 8:00 Oct 2013 settlement w/ NC, Intersal and Allen 9:10 NC violations of settlement 935 2015 Blackbeard’s Law 10:15 Dec 2015 - Allen's suit against NC 10:45 Copyright Remedy Clarification Act 12:10 9-0 ruling by SCOTUS that CRCA was unconstitutional 13:50 Motion for Reconsideration 14:25 takings clause argument 15:25 NC appealed district court’s grant of MFR to the 4th Circuit 16:00 summary of timeline 18:00 Jan Felman’s question 20:20 Indiana suit sited Allen v. Cooper 20:50 Michael Bynum’s suit against Texas A&M over copyright infringement 23:35 Andrew Smith’s question 25:15 pattern by the state required - 16 cases cited by Allen of states violating copyrights 26:00 US copyright office verified 160 cases initiated against states for copyright violations 28:10 Emily Gould’s question 31:30 Summary of points from Q&A 32:45 financial impact of a museum created for shipwreck on the NC community 36:20 Andrew Smith’s FU questions 38:30 Gina McKlveen’s question 43:23 Enid Lutswana’s question 47:00 Update on Allen v. Cooper 47:51 January 2023 stay lifted; denied NC’s petition requesting court to reconsider granting motion for reconsideration; and granted request to file amended complaint 49:00 NC’s Blackbeard Law alleged to be bill of attainder 51:00 Texas A&M case 51:45 libraries to be charged fees by book publishers 52:25 Jim Olive lost sui 52:10 Indiana case 54:15 TX Supreme Court in Olive 55:30 Allen’s view of the precedent he’s creating 58:25 NC’s failure to reach out to settle suit 59:45 whether Allen’s view of justice has been jaded 01:01:30 chilling effect from NC’s position 01:03:50 definition of justice 01:06:00 legacy 01:08:00 legal team 01:11:00 status of shipwreck 01:11:30 Intersal’s suit Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 27 Jan 2023 | *BONUS* "Exposed" from Elicit Justice: Conversations Off Grid | 00:02:09 | |
"Exposed" musical composition by Toulme, Copyright 2023. Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 18 Apr 2023 | *Bonus* "Exposed" (LP) from Elicit Justice: Conversations Off Grid | 00:04:11 | |
"Exposed" musical composition by Toulme, Copyright 2023. Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 02 Apr 2023 | Dr. Randall Horton on the Collaborative Radical Reversal Project, Mass Incarceration, Reformation and Justice | 00:57:03 | |
Cover Image by Diane Allford 00:00 Dr. Randall Horton’s work in poetry 02:00 Dr. Horton’s work as poet/writer, professor of English at University of New Haven, system-impacted 03:10 Chicago State’s MFA program 03:20 Definition of Place by Horton 03:30 PhD in Poetry and Poetics from SUNY Albany 04:20 poetry avant-garde band Heros of Gang Leaders 05:00 Creative Capital proposal to put creative space in the carceral state 07:00 Suffolk County House of Corrections in Boston, Massachusetts 07:30 Radical Reversal 08:30 pilot program in Burmingham, AL - Jefferson County Youth Detention Center 8:55 Minnesota Prison Writers Workshop with Jennifer Bowen-Hicks 9:00 Boston’s Writers Without Margins with Cheryl Buchanan 10:15 Jefferson County Youth Detention Center Director Monique Greer 17:20 workshops in Jefferson County Youth Detention Center 18:50 Little K - what if you don’t know no beautiful 22:10 Ain’t No Love In the Streets 26:20 art as a guide 28:00 partnering with Greer to continue pilot program 31:30 Radical Reversal’s space to stay in place going forward 32:30 Minnesota Department of Correction’s unit to have four recording booths 34:00 Radical Reading Series 34:30 Artist Masego 36:50 follow up work with individuals in the facility 37:00 poem entitled Imagine 41:00 collaboration with facility staff 42:00 The Road Less Traveled 46:30 poem entitled To Live and Die in Burmingham, Alabama published in London 49:00 inspired by Nietzsche’s 1887 On the Genealogy of Morality 49:40 going after humanity and a moral compass 51:00 legacy created with his work and Radical Reversal Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 19 Mar 2023 | Glance at Culture - Artists' Talk about Upcoming NYC Group Show of Artists Who Work In or Study the Law | 00:46:50 | |
To learn more and view their work, please visit the sites for Stefania Salles Bruins, Nnebundo Obi and Geoffrey Stein. 2:00 Artist and attorney Stefania Salles Bruins describes genesis of theme for “Portraits As Still Lives” group show 3:45 Stephanie Drawdy on her work for the group show 5:00 Stein on his perspective on the head as a subject 6:00 Stein on his work in collage 9:30 Salles Bruins on symbolism in her work 11:40 Stein on letting work speak for itself 12:25 Stein on how his work during Iraq war was seen as painting of hostage 13:40 Salles Bruins’ experience with instructors at New York Academy of Art 14:30 Salomé with Head of John the Baptist inspiration for Salles Bruins 16:00 Salles Bruins’ self-portrait mimics Girl With Pearl Earring 18:00 projecting and gridding 19:30 Artist and Negel Research Associate Nnebundo Obi on her portrait of her mother 20:30 “Seeing Through My Third Eye” by Obi 22:30 Portrait of Obi’s father 26:00 Peter Drake’s use of slow dry medium to work in acrylic 27:25 “Take the Stinger Out Please” self-portrait copper etching by Obi 29:40 companion copper etching by Obi 30:00 Stein on his collage portrait of Liz Cheney 33:10 Stein’s website features stop action video of the Cheney portrait in process 33:40 portrait of VP Harris 34:00 portrait of Pres Biden 35:00 use of photographs 39:00 details in the Cheney portrait 39:30 Milton Glaser 40:00 Stein’s preference for work that flips between plasticity and graphic flatness 40:30 Obi’s experience with collage 41:50 Stein’s thought of collage as pieces of paint 42:30 sanding of collage 43:30 use of water on Xerox paper 44:00 portrait of Obama 45:00 photograph of newspaper headline of “Voters reject Cheney” from local paper used in Photoshop for use in Cheney portrait Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 04 Jun 2023 | Environmental Lawyer, King's Counsel and Artist Stephen Tromans Discussing his Golgotha Series on the Russian Invasion of Ukraine, His Practices of Law and Art, and Art's Role In Addressing Injustice | 00:37:08 | |
Cover image by Stephen Tromans: Climate Innocence, 1957, oil on board, 20x24 inches Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 16 Apr 2023 | Glance at Culture - Ukraine War Museum's Milena Chorna Discusses the "Ukraine. Crucifix" Project, Artifacts of War and Russian Imperialism | 01:00:47 | |
To learn more, please visit the website for Ukraine's War Museum. Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 06 Aug 2023 | Attorney, Author and Podcaster Jeremy Richter aka J.W. Judge Discusses His Legal and Writing Practices, Traditional versus Self Publishing, AI and More | 00:37:36 | |
To learn more, please visit the websites for Jeremy Richter, J.W. Judge, Scarlet Oak Press and The Write Approach podcast. Show Notes: 1:00 Commercial litigation practice with Gordon Rees 4:00 Sustainable marketing and branding with writing law blog 5:00 Speaking and presenting at conferences on legal topics 5:20 Writing legal non-fiction on case management, client development 6:20 2018 ABA published book Building A Better Law Practice, 2019 Self published 2nd and third books Stop Putting Out Fires and Level Up Your Law Practice: The Ultimate Guide to Being a Successful Lawyer 7:40 August 2020 first novel Vulcan Rising 8:20 Research for family story from father’s side of family 8:50 Grandfather’s father murdered his estranged wife and himself in 1940 10:45 Research for second novel Seeking Sanctuary in The Zauberi Chronicles set in Germany’s Black Forest 14:30 Lawyerpreneur podcast ran from March 2020 to August 2022 16:50 The Write Approach podcast 18:45 Co-host Barbara Hinske 20:45 AI changes 21:50 Chat GPT - rewrite of book blurb 22:40 Chat GPT-3 and Chat GPT-4 23:00 AI’s impact on jobs 24:00 AI for book cover ideas 24:25 Casual Business with Fairies 25:00 5th novel - Castaway meets a murder mystery 26:10 Publishing imprint Scarlet Oak Press 26:50 Do You Draw Pictures by Becki C. Lee (Author), Walter Jaczkowski (Illustrator) 27:35 Should We Shake On It by Becki C. Lee (Author), Walter Jaczkowski (Illustrator) 27:50 Mommy Needs a Minute by Claire E. Parsons & Naomi L. Hudson 29:00 Traditional publishing 31:00 The Write Approach podcast episode 33: From Spicy Romance to Chart-Topping Suspense with Alessandra Torre 31:25 Evolution of his business goals and intent for future work 32:50 Pursuit of multiple careers 34:25 Definition of justice Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 18 Jun 2023 | Glance at Culture - Cultural Heritage Preservation Lawyers' Committee Fellow Jan Felman on the Cancellation of The Max Stern Düsseldorf to Montreal Art Exhibition | 00:50:05 | |
To learn more, please visit the websites for the Max Stern Restitution Project, the HEAR Act, the Second Circuit's decision in Zuckerman v. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Zurückgeben Foundation and Almost Lost: the Heinemann Legacy (Before, During, and After the Holocaust). Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 21 Jan 2024 | Researcher Chiara Gallo on Influencer Advertising & Art - A 2ND Saturday Conversation | 00:51:10 | |
Show Notes: Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 01 Jul 2023 | NFT Update with Emily Gould - A 2ND Saturday Conversation | 01:06:00 | |
To learn more: 18 April 2023 UK Parliament's Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee regarding NFTs and the blockchain, Emily Gould's correspondence following the hearing on several issues touched on by the Committee; and NFT-related posts on the IAL Blog. Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 16 Jul 2023 | Glance at Culture - Artist Farook Mohammed on Using Art As A Weapon | 00:54:52 | |
Cover art After World War III, 2020, oil on board, 60 cm x 80 cm, by Farook Mohammed Show Notes: 00:45 Pan-African mission of his artwork that combines the diversity of Africa 2:30 artwork to promote brotherhood and unity for Africa and the world 8:00 artwork tells stories that include a focus on identity and gender 10:00 childhood 12:25 social constructs 15:30 power of art 16:00 legacy he want to leave 18:00 under-population of the world 18:40 sustainable development 19:00 examples of his work 22:30 women 23:10 Man’s Endeavor 25:00 life outside the earth 26:30 use of AI 30:30 regulations on use of technology 32:15 transparency about use of AI to create art 33:00 Chat GPT 34:40 open market 36:20 used Midjourney for ideas 38:20 use of AI for bad reasons 39:15 drone technology 40:20 Elon Musk 40:50 After World War III 44:30 claims against S African media houses 47:30 Afro Arabian Empire 47:55 group exhibition planned for Mantis Boutique 48:30 Continental Pan-Africa Art Exhibition 49:45 view of justice Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 15 Oct 2023 | Glance at Culture - Anna D. Smith shares about Los Angeles Prisoner Artist Donald "C-Note" Hooker | 00:34:30 | |
Cover art by Donald "C-Note" Hooker: top image "Cell Time" (2019); bottom image "During the Flood" (2017) Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 26 May 2024 | Deadria Farmer-Paellmann Provides an Update on Restitution Study Group's Work for Slavery Justice, including the Status of the Benin Bronze Suit Against the Smithsonian Institution | 00:36:37 | |
Cover Photo by Nils Paellmann 1:30 overview of suit and issues raised 4:30 Prof. Tobias Skowronek’s findings on the metals contained in the manillas 7:00 Dismissal of suit against Smithsonian based on mootness 7:55 court order that Plaintiffs conceded points and waived arguments 8:45 ruling in OK reparations case for the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre 10:30 Nigerian declaration by outgoing President Buhari 12:00 critical argument that transfer was ultra vires 13:00 Administrative Procedure Act - failure to hold public hearing on ‘ethical transfers’ creates First Amendment issue 15:00 opinion on Nigeria’s position 17:00 DNA research as to descendants from Esan People from Benin Kingdom 19:00 Benin Kingdom’s enslavement of their females 21:00 change in narratives offered by Frankfurt’s Museum of World Cultures and Berlin’s Humboldt Museum 23:30 Benin Kingdom Museum in Harlem, NY 25:15 underreporting on lawsuit 26:00 shock about value of Benin Bronzes - a classic Wakanda story at end of first Black Panther film 28:20 potential for justice in US lower federal courts and in SCOTUS 31:00 narrative attached to the Benin Bronzes 33:30 Illinois State Rep. Carol Ammons - Joint chairwoman of Illinois Legislative Black Caucus meeting with Chicago's Field Museum 34:30 NY Legislator involved in work of RSG Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 01 Oct 2023 | Transforming Vacant Buildings into Art: Social Change with Ernest Chrappah | 00:31:27 | |
To learn more and support Vacant to Visual artists, please visit the CityKey website. Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 03 Sep 2023 | AI Policy From the UK to the US with Institute of Art and Law's Emily Gould - A 2ND Saturday Conversation | 01:00:16 | |
SHOW NOTES: Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 19 Nov 2023 | Fair Use and AI - A 2ND Saturday Exploration | 00:45:09 | |
Show Notes: 0:00 Yelena Khajekian 1:30 Warhol v Goldsmith decision by SCOTUS 3:00 USCO NOI’s Question 8 4:00 Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc., 593 U.S. ___ (2021) 4:20 liability question 4:45 Emily Gould - fair use 6:30 Alan Robertshaw - Warhol court’s focus on use of the work 7:50 Khajekian - artists’ perspective on Warhol decision 9:00 Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc., 510 U.S. 569 (1994) 10:20 confusion of fair use analysis and court’s aesthetic analysis 12:00 USCO NOI’s Question about fair use 13:00 Robertshaw - UK’s fair dealing analysis 15:50 Gould - big players like Getty 17:45 text and data mining exception 20:10 Drawdy - private contracting as a solution 21:00 Robertshaw - Getty 22:15 Khajekian - conceptual art 25:55 Warhol’s 2 Cir decision 26:50 Gould & Khajekian - Richard Prince decision held not fair use 27:20 Khajekian - equity issue 28:40 Gould - UK courts’ emphasis on purpose, e.g., Stormtrooper helmet case 30:30 Drawdy - amount and substantiality of use 31:10 Gould - Australian case about Men at Work’s use of folk song Kookaburra in its pop song Down Under 32:20 Robershaw - dispute over Vanilla Ice’s Ice Ice Baby 33:00 Ed Sheeran 34:15 Getty case pending in UK 35:00 Khajekian - international versus US issues 37:30 Robershaw - test that contemplates level of effort or end result regarding AI output 40:30 Gould - risks involved with AI 40:50 EU’s application-based approach 41:10 AI for medical applications 41:55 detecting forgeries will still require humans, e.g., conflicting AI results regarding Raphael 42:50 implicit bias in AI 43:15 dogs detecting forgeries 43:40 chickens detecting shapes Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 03 Dec 2023 | Dr. Samson Munn on Recovering Art by Jacob Mącznik and other School of Paris Artists, Escaping the Burden of Silence Through Dialogue, Citizenship, Israeli PM Netanyahu, the Fraught Concept of Legacy & Defining Justice | 01:25:55 | |
Cover Image: Self-Portrait, oil on canvas by Jacob Mącznik. 0:00 Dr. Samson Munn discussing Van Ham art auctionhouse 1:45 Munn’s background 2:50 history of Holocaust-related dialogue with Dan Bar-On 4:00 Children of the Third Reich 4:20 Austrian dialogue group 4:35 Ghosts of the Third Reich 6:00 second group, The Encounter 7:45 Dan Bar-On’s book Fear and Hope 12:00 examples from dialogue groups 17:15 Munn’s initial motivation to start dialogue group - emotional responsibility 24:40 Munn’s dialogue work in Northern Ireland 27:25 dialogue work with descendants of displaced indigenous peoples 28:50 preparation for dialogue group facilitators 32:20 screening individuals for dialogue groups 33:45 Israeli, Polish and German citizenship 44:30 Jacob Mącznik’s work 1:00:00 Van Ham auctionhouse 1:06:00 Parisian archive research 1:11:00 Munn’s research of other artists from the Paris School 1:12:30 female artists from the Paris School 1:14:30 Mącznik catalogue raisonne 1:17:00 legacy that Munn is working to create 1:19:30 justice 1:22:30 Israeli PM Netanyahu Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 21 Apr 2024 | Author & Art Historian Dr Laura Morelli Discusses her Historical Fiction Novel The Last Masterpiece and WWII Looting of Florentine Collections | 00:46:00 | |
To learn more, please visit Laura Morelli's site. 0:00 Laura Morelli discussing the WWII era art looting 1:15 genesis of writing about the looting of Florentine art collections in The Last Masterpiece 2:45 German Jewish artist Rudolph Levy as guest of German Art History Institute 4:30 Stolperstein for Levy 5:00 perspectives in WWII Italy: museum officials, German expatriates and Allies 8:30 German Eva Brunner and American Josephine Evans - characters in The Last Masterpiece 9:30 decisions on where to begin and end The Last Masterpiece 13:30 decision to use fictional characters versus historical figures in book 14:40 German Art History Institute Director Prof. Friedrich Kriegbaum 16:00 Kriegbaum’s participation in Hitler’s 1938 tour of Florence 18:25 Brunner’s back story 20:10 German photographer Hilde Lotz-Bauer who worked for Prof. Kriegbaum photographing Allied damage to historical monuments in Florence 24:15 Evans based on Women’s Army Corp (WACs) 28:25 women who worked with and supported the Monuments Men 29:00 justice in terms of the individual actions and decisions that enabled the survival of art looted during WWII 31:30 books by Robert Edsel and Ilaria Dagnini Brey 32:15 survival bias 33:30 van Dyck painting 33:40 Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt’s work for Germany to return looted Dutch painting 35:00 impact of propaganda during WWII 38:10 Michelangelo’s Secret Room with 16th C drawings 42:20 2024 release of book related to hiding places in Tuscan countryside in 1943-44 Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 17 Dec 2023 | Copyright Advocate & Author David Newhoff on State Sovereign Immunity, IP, AI and Artists' Rights - A 2ND Saturday Conversation | 01:07:52 | |
Cover Photo of David Newhoff by Sean Mekas Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 04 Feb 2024 | Dr. Elizabeth White and Dr. Joanna Sliwa discuss their book, The Counterfeit Countess: the Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust | 00:57:14 | |
Show Notes: Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 05 May 2024 | Fast Familiar Co-Founder Rachel Briscoe on Creating Audience-Centric Theatre to Facilitate Dialogue and Address Social Issues and How Tech Can Serve Humanity in that Process | 00:40:16 | |
To learn more, please visit Fast Familiar's site. 0:00 Briscoe discussing justice 1:20 Briscoe’s background in theatre and co-founding Fast Familiar 3:15 2015 project ‘Invisible Treasure’ about systems of power 4:40 2018 began work with computational artist Joe McAlister 5:20 technological solutions for use in projects 9:40 collaborations 10:25 The Evidence Chamber - forensic science work with University of Dundee 13:00 use of comic strip with forensic information in The Evidence Chamber 15:40 Curse of the Burial Daggers 18:00 Smoking Gun - collaboration with Data Stories 23:00 outcomes in jury shows and influence of current events 25:25 machine learning with data gathered through projects 26:45 process 28:40 Future for Fast Familiar 30:30 justice defined 32:20 feedback 35:35 arts to address social issues 38:20 2024 projects Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 07 Jan 2024 | Anthropologist and Author Dr. Giovanni Ercolani on Artists in Ukraine Who Are Preserving the Spirit of Maidan | 01:06:54 | |
To learn more, please have a look at Dr. Ercolani's book, The Maidan Museum: Preserving the Spirit of Maidan. Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 22 Dec 2023 | *Bonus* “Signs” from Elicit Justice: Conversations Off Grid | 00:03:54 | |
Featuring excerpts from Episode 121, an interview with Dr. Samson Munn and musical composition by Toulme, Copyright 2023. Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 18 Feb 2024 | Attorney Sanjay Sethi Discusses Artistic Freedom Initiative's Work, Oppression of the Arts and Cultural Sectors Globally & the Need for Pluralistic Discourse | 00:55:07 | |
Cover image by Nosrat Tarighi of Sanjay Sethi at an AFI event entitled Revolutions and Movements Show Notes: 2:00 overview of Sethi’s background and work as Founding Partner of Sethi & Mazaheri, LLC and Co-Executive Director of Artistic Freedom Initiative (AFI) Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 06 Oct 2024 | Artist & Attorney Stefania Salles Bruins on "How to Work Your Lawyer-Trained Brain to Strengthen Your Cranial Nerve 2" - A 2ND Saturday Conversation | 00:37:28 | |
see also: Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 03 Mar 2024 | Appellate Attorney M.C. Sungaila on Space Cultural Heritage Preservation and Lessons to be drawn from Holocaust-Era Restitution Cases like Cassirer | 00:47:07 | |
Show Notes: Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 07 Apr 2024 | Novelist & Attorney Barbara Hinske Discusses her Rosemont Series, Guiding Emily Series & Hallmark Movie, Discrimination Against the Blind, Art's Ability to Address Social Issues and Much More | 01:00:11 | |
To learn more, please visit Barbara Hinske's website. Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 01 Dec 2024 | Researcher, Writer & Advisor Frances Liddell on the Intersection of Emerging Tech, the Arts & Culture | 00:53:45 | |
To learn more, please visit Frances Liddell's site. Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 31 Mar 2024 | *Bonus* "Manifestation of Freedom" from Elicit Justice: Conversations Off Grid | 00:03:18 | |
Featuring excerpts from Episode 108, an interview with Dr. Ashfaq Ishaq, and Episode 105, an interview with Milena Chorna, with musical composition by Toulme, Copyright 2024. Many thanks to M.C. Sungaila who sparked the idea for "Manifestation of Freedom". Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 01 Sep 2024 | D. Paul Schafer on the need to shift from the Economic Age to the Cultural Age and his new book, The Great Cultural Awakening: Key to an Equitable, Sustainable and Harmonious Age | 01:10:16 | |
To learn more, please visit the World Culture Project and read about D. Paul Schafer's most recent book, The Great Cultural Awakening 0:00 Schafer quotes Gurte: “live in the whole , the good and the beautiful” 2:15 background 7:50 Ontario Arts Council 8:15 Arts Administration and Cultural Policy graduate program at York University 8:45 freelancer-UNESCO, Canadian Dep’t of External Affairs 9:25 publications predicated on argument that it’s time to shift from Economic Age to Cultural Age 9:50 creation of the World Culture Project 16:40 Culture: Beacon of the Future (1998) 18:10 AI impact 18:45 Geoffrey Hinton’s concerns over AI 20:50 Revolution or Renaissance: Making the Transition from an Economic Age to a Cultural Age (2008) 24:25 The World as Culture: Cultivation of the Soul to the Cosmic Whole (2022) 30:05 The Great Cultural Awakening: Key to an Equitable, Sustainable and Harmonious Age (2024) 42:30 future leaders should have backgrounds in the arts and culture sector 46:50 Feedback received about The Great Cultural Awakening 48:00 excerpt from The Great Cultural Awakening’s chapter titled Tale of Two Ages that references Charles Dickens’ Tale of Two Cities 53:00 the power of art to address social injustice 1:00:00 definition of justice 1:02:20 Cultural Historian Johan Huizinga, author of The Waning of the Middle Ages 1:04:20 legacy 1:06:40 future projects Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 09 Jun 2024 | Author & Historian Angie Elita Newell Discusses her book, All I See Is Violence, involving the 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn and the 1970s American Indian Movement | 00:49:47 | |
To learn more, please visit Angie Elita Newell's site for All I See Is Violence. 4:00 impetus to address historic inaccuracies 4:50 women warriors 5:30 research process 7:20 perspectives decided on for All I See Is Violence 8:45 interconnectedness of all 10:15 timelines within All I See Is Violence 11:50 reading from All I See Is Violence 16:50 archival research 18:45 surreal stories from elders 20:40 feedback 21:40 Custer 22:40 power of art to address social issues 23:00 Picasso’s Guernica 25:00 reparations 25:50 the Very Little Truth and No Reconciliation Committee 27:00 reservations / prison camps 28:30 publishing process and manipulation of the truth by the big 5 publishers 32:30 Indigenous Poet Joy Harjo 33:30 American Indian movement in the 1970s 35:50 concept of justice related to awareness 38:40 next book tells story of Apache leader Geronimo and female warrior Lozen 43:50 research on Lozen 45:00 Mexican slave trade of indigenous people 45:45 questions from Anjali Rao 47:00 to build dual timelines, Newell asks questions about what’s the point and building on that overarching point Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 07 Jul 2024 | Artist in Exile: Tetiana Cheprasova Shares About Her Work as a Witness of her Time | 00:59:22 | |
To learn more about Tetiana Cheprasova, please visit her page at Agency of Artists in Exile. 0:00 Tetiana Cheprasova's view of the war in Ukraine & interpreter Valentina Kostornichenko 1:30 Cheprasova's background and work in painting, photography, sculptures and graphic design 4:50 Giovanni Ercolani’s book The Maidan Museum Preserving the Spirit of Maidan. Art, Identity and the Revolution of Dignity that features Cheprasova’s paintings inspired by Caravaggio 8:00 from Cheprasova's Depassement portfolio - paintings of hands, including wounded hands signifying stigmata 10:30 Mariupol woman who inspired Cheprasova 20:40 ‘Stop Emotions’ series of 9 paintings 25:00 Cityscapes of Mariupol 29:30 sculpture that’s part of new work to depict destruction in Ukraine 34:00 Parisian architecture 35:00 consequences of war 38:00 power of art to address social injustices and the impact of war 41:00 Cheprasova's view of justice 45:40 Cheprasova’s work as art therapist 49:20 Cheprasova’s hope for viewers of her work 53:00 Giovanni Ercolani’s questions to Cheprasova 56:00 if only one person is impacted by your work, it’s worth doing 56:50 Artists as witnesses of their time Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 04 Aug 2024 | Dr. Andres Guadamuz on IP in the AI Age: Exploring Copyright, Authorship, and Future Regulations | 01:00:42 | |
Show notes: 1:20 background and work in IP law and technology 2:20 blog article, “What can internet history teach us?” 3:25 IP issues emerging in the age of AI 5:10 inevitability of AI 6:40 global regulation of AI 8:25 Emily Gould - which body would handle global regulation of AI 11:00 Council of Europe’s adoption of first AI international treaty 11:50 Gould - UK proposal to expand text and data mining exception to cover commercial uses 14:55 transparency issues 18:40 Gould - response - need for legislation 20:20 authorship question 21:40 THJ Systems v. Sheridan (THJ Systems Ltd. v. Sheridan [2023] EWCA Civ 1354, [2024] E.C.D.R. 4, CA, 20 November 2023) is of great interest because it confirms the test for originality in copyright law in the UK after Brexit. 22:55 Li v. Liu, Case Number: (2023) Jing 0491 Min Chu No. 11279, Beijing Internet Court, 27 November 2023 25:00 NFTs 25:30 Thaler v. Perlmutter and USCO, USCA Case #23-5233 29:30 continued utility of copyright 32:40 AI copyright suits in the US 36:30 cultural impact of AI models’ accelerated training capabilities 38:20 view of whether there is a future for careers in art 42:50 tools like spawning.ai for artists’ protections 43:00 opt ins versus opt outs 43:50 technological protections like Glaze and Nightshade 45:15 difficulty of implementing opt ins 47:45 injustices in the AI age and definition of justice 50:33 mark that Andres hopes to make with his work 53:40 Stefania Salles-Bruins - IP protection for AI software and outputs Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 10 Nov 2024 | IP and Tech Attorney Ankit Sahni on the RAGHAV AI Painting Tool and "Suryast" Copyright Registration Efforts in India, Canada & the US | 01:08:16 | |
Show Notes: Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 05 Jan 2025 | Art/Cultural Heritage/IP Law Attorney & Musician Leila Amineddoleh - a 2ND Saturday Conversation | 01:08:35 | |
To learn more, please visit Amineddoleh & Associates LLC and view Leila Amineddoleh performing Chopin Polonaise, Op. 26, No. 1 and Liszt Liebestraum No. 3. 1:00 Amineddoleh’s background and work in music and law 4:00 Patty Gerstenblith 7:00 building Amineddoleh & Assoc. 8:45 Amineddoleh's work with Greece 10:00 perspective as musician aids in work as attorney to other artists 11:00 Amineddoleh's experience with plagiarism 14:20 Amineddoleh’s practice 15:45 Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act 19:50 artists’ perspectives in hiring an attorney 22:50 Jerry Alonzo: what brings artists to seek out Amineddoleh 26:00 return of golden coffin of Nedjemankh 31:45 use of AI 36:30 AI-assisted Beatles song 37:45 analogy of photography to AI outputs 38:20 Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto 39:45 suit over copyright of monkey selfie 41:45 Thaler v. USCO 44:30 Rupali Gujral: negotiating on a client’s behalf 48:30 Stefania Salles Bruins: history of art collecting 52:30 Bruins: Amineddoleh's balancing of legal and musical practices 54:00 Amineddoleh’s perspective on sharing her music and performing 56:30 Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 played by Bugs Bunny 57:20 Amineddoleh’s performance of Chopin Polonaise, Op. 26, No. 1 and Liszt Liebestraum No. 3 59:00 under-appreciated composer Brahms 1:01:20 injustices in art law 1:04:30 Amineddoleh’s definition of justice - access 1:06:00 John Cage’s 4’33” Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 02 Feb 2025 | AI, Copyright and Justice - A Conversation with Copyright Lawyer Anja Neubauer | 00:42:23 | |
To learn more, please visit Anja Neubauer's site. 1:30 background in the law and tech 4:45 overview of global framework “AI and Authorship Redefined: Towards a Global Copyright Framework for Commerce and Human Originality - Exploring Ownership, Infringement, Moral Rights, and Human Originality” 12:35 question of authorship 19:35 moral rights 26:30 viability of global copyright 28:20 issues of injustice raised by AI 34:30 German study about developers’ infringement 38:00 public’s choice to lock up data 39:00 The Congress Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 13 Apr 2025 | Jesuit Priest & Artist Father Jonathan Harmon on Art as a 'Work of Service', Defining Sacred Art and Seeking Justice Through Art | 00:57:29 | |
To learn more, please visit Father Harmon's site. Show notes: 1:15 Harmon’s background and work as priest since 2008 2:10 teaching fine arts and being a pastoral resource at Loyola University 3:00 his work in the arts 8:20 history of art in Jesuit community 12:00 Daniel Segers, Jesuit Priest and artist 12:30 Harmon’s process as a painter in light of being a ‘work of service’ 16:00 Harmon’s painting from pilgrimage through Spain 17:30 students’ responses 19:15 his attendance at New York Academy of Art 23:30 Jerry Alonzo: how to communicate through your art 26:45 Pope Benedict XVI’s Encyclical Letter Caritas in Veritate 28:20 definition of ‘sacred art’ 30:30 seeking social justice through art 32:00 his work in Brownsville, TX connected to his art 33:00 his series of Catholic objects 35:30 his balance of time 37:25 Alan Robertshaw’s comments about all art being sacred 42:10 Tolkien and Flannery O’Connor on religious imagination 44:00 incorporating Catholic objects into his work 46:50 Emily Gould - spiritual impact of artwork/architecture/nature 49:15 Jarnick Vitters - importance of the physical objects to Harmon’s faith 51:00 Alan Robertshaw - subjective importance of objects 53:30 Yelena Khajekian - art as a sacred endeavor 54:40 Nnebundo Obi - interest in hearing about priest’s pursuit of other vocations Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 02 Mar 2025 | AI & IP Panel Discussion: A Global Perspective | 01:30:23 | |
Show notes: 3:00 David Newhoff - question of authorship 7:15 Peter Wasilko 9:00 Andres Guadamuz - blog post on AI copyright authorship 10:30 China’s focus on “intellectual achievement” 12:20 Section 9(3) of its Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 13:00 Emily Gould - whether copyright is fit for purpose 13:30 UK joint evidence session on the future of AI and copyright law 17:15 Newhoff - use of an artist’s style 18:40 Wasilko - an artist’s training of a model with its own work 20:15 artist's post-stroke gen-AI recording from model training on his work 21:00 Salles Bruins' question on definition of intellect 25:40 - Ankit Sahni - China’s protection 28:30 Sahni - India’s position on creativity falls in the middle 29:00 Ankit Sahni - RAGHAV output “Suryast” 33:45 Ankit Sahni - protection of AI-assisted works by China’s courts 35:00 Wasilko - hypothetical of photographing sunsets on VR headsets 36:50 Ankit Sahni - USCO’s case by case basis 37:50 Newhoff - what is actually protectable against infringement 39:30 Sarony decision: looking at human choices used to create photos 41:00 Newhoff - ‘authorship by adoption’ is a “bridge too far” 42:15 Salles Bruins - question about training in Wasilko’s hypothetical 43:10 Wasilko - “bridge too far”-requiring license to “learn” from works 48:00 Stanford’s CodeX Group - talk on product JudgeAI 50:30 Andres - human creativity exists irrespective of copyright 52:00 Salles Bruins - copyright is a tool to enable artists to profit 53:30 Kritika Sahni - defining intellect dependent on AI context 54:50 Ankit Sahni - sui generis system of registration 58:45 Gould - applying a right like copyright to output "tough" to get right 1:02:00 Guadamuz - Ukraine’s sui generis right for AI works 1:03:45 Jason Jean - defining intellect 1:08:50 Newhoff - unconvinced that it’s a “sui generis question” 1:09:30 Wasilko - whether inputting human work makes model “assistive” 1:13:00 question of global copyright approach 1:17:15 what is the end game? Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 28 Jun 2020 | Warfare of Art & Law - Introductory Episode | 00:05:14 | |
This introductory episode discusses the true-life war stories to be shared in the coming episodes of this podcast. Each story is rooted in true events, ranging from Nazi-looted art to graffiti. Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 28 Jun 2020 | Nazi Looted Art: The Gurlitt Art Trove | 00:14:37 | |
This episode focuses on Nazi art dealer Hildebrand Gurlitt, recent findings about the history of the art he held, and ongoing efforts to return Nazi-looted art found in his collection, which was in the possession of his son, the late Cornelius Gurlitt. 1:30 Hildebrand Gurlitt exhibited modern artists, including German Expressionists 2:30 Gurlitt began work for Nazis; he gathered art for the Führermuseum and was authorized to liquidate degenerate art 4:25 Hildebrand’s son, Cornelius, inherited his father’s collection 5:20 German tax investigation led to locating approximately 1,500 works in Cornelius’ residences in Munich, Germany and Salzburg, Austria 6:20 Claim by Alfred Flechtheim’s heirs for Beckmann’s The Lion Tamer 8:00 Kunst Museum Bern inherited Gurlitt’s collection 8:30 Manet’s Ships at Sea in Stormy Weather was sold to Tokyo’s National Museum of Western Art 8:50 Gurlitt Art Find: Paths of Research 10:15 27,000 documents from Gurlitt’s estate provide unreliable information about sales 11:00 Thomas Couture’s Portrait of a Seated Woman 11:40 Paul Cezanne’s Mont Sainte-Victoire 12:20 To date, 14 looted works have been returned to heirs, including Henri Matisse’s Woman with a Fan and Max Liebermann’s Two Riders on a Beach 13:50 Questions arising from the Gurlitt Collection: how can right and wrong be so easily blurred? 15:00 Why, in the shadow of mass murder, is the stealing of art important? Because small steps of hate, like theft of a people’s culture, lead to larger steps. Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 28 Jul 2020 | Nazi Looted Art in the Netherlands: Author Janet Berg On Her Debut Novel, Rembrandt's Shadow, Nazi-Looted Art and Dutch Restitution Policy | 00:33:31 | |
To learn more, please visit Janet Berg's website. 3:30 Katz Gallery targeted by Nazis as of 1938/39. 4:00 Katz family’s survival based on a Rembrandt painting 6:30 Bergs hired Lynn Nicholas, author of Rape of Europa, to research art looted from Katz Gallery 8:45 Rembrandt’s Portrait of Raman was exchanged with Nazis for 25 Jewish lives, returned by Dutch Government and donated to the L.A. County Museum 10:30 Characters in Rembrandt’s Shadow based on family 12:45 Family became aware of location of looted paintings when visiting Dutch museum 15:00 manifestations of trauma 20:00 Family escaped to Jamaican internment camp 25:30 Katz Gallery’s inventory meant for Führermuseum in Linz and for Göring 27:00 Family is seeking return of 144 paintings from Dutch Government 28:00 Dutch Government possesses paintings looted from Katz Gallery 29:00 Nazis gave appearance of legitimacy to sales by Katz Gallery 31:15 Berg’s second book, Restitution Katz Gallery History: Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 26 Aug 2020 | Monuments Men and Women Foundation: Anna Bottinelli On World War II, Restitution, the Italian Carabinieri Cultural Heritage Protection Unit and the Weisbaden Manifesto | 00:34:48 | |
To learn more, please visit the Monuments Men and Women Foundation's website. Show Notes: 3:00 348 professionals including architects, librarians and curators comprised the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Organization known as the Monuments Men 4:00 Robert Edsel’s founded of the Monuments Men Foundation 4:40 Foundation’s initial mission to locate living Monuments Men, record their stories and honor their legacies; 2015 ceremony to award Congressional Gold Medal to Monuments Men 6:15 Foundation’s mission includes locating and returning objects looted during World War II; to date, over 38 objects have been located and returned 7:00 Foundation’s archives given to the National World War II Museum; Museum to open a Monuments Men Gallery 10:00 Foundation’s mission includes raising awareness about the importance of preserving cultural heritage in all countries; membership program launching soon 11:00 Foundation also conducts provenance research 14:00 Foundation’s website features top 15 looted works still missing from World War II 17:00 Foundation’s alliance with Italian Carabinieri Cultural Heritage Protection Unit 23:00 Foundation’s return of objects includes to German museums and individuals 24:30 Foundation’s quarterly newsletter 25:00 Foundation’s return of Italian books 26:00 Foundation’s return of paintings to South German gallery 28:45 Significance of the Wiesbaden Manifesto 33:00 Foundation’s education programs Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 01 Oct 2020 | "Real" Artists Pursuing the Law: Artists from North America to Africa on the Study of Law, the Practice of Law and the Work of the Artist | 02:00:25 | |
The following are links for Jerry Alonzo, Andrew Smith, Taylor Cobb, and Conner Reddan. Show Notes: Legal and Arts Careers 1:45 Lutswata Enid 8:50 Taylor Cobb 24:45 Conner Reddan 38:00 Andrew Smith 47:50 Jerry Alonzo Defining Justice and Identifying Social Justice Issues 1:19:00 Lutswata Enid 1:23:00 Conner Reddan 1:27:00 Taylor Cobb 1:36:00 Andrew Smith Perseverance and Mapping Injustice 1:54:45 Taylor Cobb 1:55:35 Jerry Alonzo Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 19 Oct 2020 | The Orpheus Clock: Art Researcher and Author Simon Goodman On Nazi-Looted Art, the Gutmann Collection, the HEAR Act, the Washington Principles, Provenance Research and Dutch Restitution Policy | 00:56:51 | |
For more information, please have a look at The Orpheus Clock by Simon Goodman. 3:00 Simon Goodman’s background that led to writing The Orpheus Clock 4:30 Location of first looted painting in Chicago in 1995 led to first restitution suit in U.S. 7:00 Nazi inventories and handwritten note by Gutmann gave evidence of looted works; works were sent for safekeeping in Switzerland, the Netherlands and the U.S. 10:30 Anne Webber’s documentary about the Gutmann story, Making a Killing 17:00 Post-war, claimants were required to file individual claimants; Goodman’s father, for example, filed over 1,000 individual claims with the Dutch government 20:00 Goodman’s senate judiciary testimony to extend the statute of limitations for restitution claims; issues that make locating works difficult include change of dimensions, titles, attributions, etc. 24:00 Avoiding litigation in favor of negotiations 30:00 6-7 successful restitutions from Dutch Committee with one pending and a claim to be filed against a museum in the Hague 32:00 Goodman’s complaints to Dutch Committee about its change of direction to deny claimants based on revisionist thinking that museums have feelings and care about what’s in storage; and adoption of the concept of good and bad heirs 35:00 Right of inheritance and right to private property are international principles that should be observed 39:00 Potential claims for return of Goodman’s family home Bosbeek; expectation that one in a concentration camp was still expected to pay their mortgage and property taxes; and government refusal to re-write laws to address these types of injustices 41:00 Shares of the bank that the family founded in Germany 42:00 Simon focuses on the art because searching for beautiful thinks makes the search tolerable compared with searching for the missing insurance policies 43:00 Impediments to heirs include lack of evidence 49:00 The Orpheus Clock was used as the title of the book because of its symbolism on many levels, including that it was the first direct restitution from a German official body 51:00 Restitution for Simon’s grandmother’s fur coats 52:00 Restitution of Orpheus Clock triggered need to revive family trust and to create compact with remaining cousins, which helped to restore familial relationships broken by the Holocaust Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 16 Nov 2020 | Nazi Plundered Art: Miriam Friedman Morris On the Legacy of Artist and Activist David Friedmann (1893-1980) | 01:44:28 | |
Cover art: 1922 painting by David Friedmann. To learn more, please visit David Friedmann's site, view his 1920s portraits, and more: Show Notes: 2:20 born in 1893 in Austria-Hungary 6:40 Lodz Ghetto then Auschwitz 11:20 Lodz Ghetto Chronicle header - Lodz Ghetto Bridge sketch 12:30 Austrian Writer Oskar Rosenfeld wrote about Friedmann 13:40 Jewish Museum in Prague 14:00 Auschwitz Museum donation of Polish prisoner portrait 18:40 Berlin’s Centrum Judaicum Synagogue exhibited Polish Prisoner sketch 20:30 1943 sketches of hat factory survived 23:00 Researcher Eva Wiater located album with 33 colorized drawings at Jewish Historical Institute 37:00 Artwork surfaced in France marked with number that indicates auction 38:50 Buffalo, New York gallery gifted Friedman works 44:00 claimed 800 missing works in restitution claims - 2,000 actually missing 48:00 rebuilt life in U.S. - created billboards 49:00 Czech exhibition in 1946 - met second wife, Hildegard Taussig 52:52 Holocaust paintings 1945-1946 - Palestine office purchased some - 1947 Palestine tour 53:15 During D.C. Jewish Holocaust Survivior’s Conference in 1983, Miriam learned seven are held by Yad Vashem and three are at Holocaust History Museum 55:00 Etching by Friedmann dedicated to his violin teacher located 1:04:00 Long Island chess player’s heirs donated some of Friedmann’s chess portraits to Cleveland Public Library 1:05:00 2009 Holocaust Era Assets Conference Panel in Prague 1:07:30 two Holocaust series 1:10:00 Sudeten Germans in Western Bohemia's use of Holocaust series for ration cards 1:19:00 1962 returned to Holocaust paintings 1:27:00 Drawings of Prague Jewish Community leaders donated to Yad Vashem 1:29:00 Album of portraits exchanged between friends Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 14 Dec 2020 | Chasing Portraits: Author and Filmmaker Elizabeth Rynecki on the Legacy of Warsaw-Based Artist Moshe Rynecki (1881/1885 – 1943) | 00:38:27 | |
Please visit the Moshe Rynecki website to view his work. Show Notes: 2:50 Moshe Rynecki is likened to an ethnographer and documented similar scenes that Roman Vishniac photographed 4:00 three surviving studies from Moshe’s time in the Warsaw Ghetto 5:00 Yehudit Shendar from Yad Vashem 8:00 Archives of Emanuel Ringelblum from the Warsaw Ghetto 9:15 Moshe’s decision to stay in Warsaw Ghetto to be with his people 13:30 Moshe hid 800 artworks;120 of the surviving artworks are with the Ryneckis 15:08 Warsaw’s Jewish Historical Institute has 52 works 15:14 Private collectors of Moshe’s work are in Canada, Israel, the U.S. and France 15:30 How the Jewish Historical Institute acquired the 52 works by Moshe in its collection 17:00 Restitution issues and historical justice 24:00 Artworks are also survivors with a story 25:00 Elizabeth Rynecki’s decision to author a book and create a film with this story 27:00 Elizabeth’s advice on seeking lost art: persistence and a sense of practicality 29:20 Books recommended by Elizabeth, including Landscape with Smoke Stacks: The Case of the Allegedly Plundered Degas that relates to a restitution case involving Simon Goodman 35:20 Poland’s approach to restitution Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 14 Jan 2021 | Max Stern Art Restitution Project: Dr. Willi Korte On Restitution of Nazi-Looted Art, Sales Under Duress, and the German Advisory Commission | 01:01:30 | |
Please visit the websites of the Max Stern Art Restitution Project and the Stern Cooperation Project to learn more. Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 01 Jan 2021 | Glance at Culture - The Art Dealer | 00:02:59 | |
Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 08 Jan 2021 | Glance at Culture - Transit | 00:02:59 | |
Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| 15 Jan 2021 | Glance at Culture - the Hare with Amber Eyes | 00:03:01 | |
Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||