Fresh Art International

Series produced by Cathy Byrd

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Curator Cathy Byrd hosts the Fresh Art International podcast featuring conversations with contemporary artists, curators, architects, and filmmakers from the center and fringe of art scenes around the world.

Fresh Art International with curator Cathy Byrd features more than 200 episodes recorded with artists, curators, architects, and filmmakers from around the world. Professionally scripted and edited, episodes range in length from 8 to 20 minutes. Subscribe to this signature audio podcast on FreshArtInternational.com, iTunes, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Android, I Heart Radio, and SoundCloud.


209 Pieces

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Caption: Athi Patra Ruga, Credit: What If The World Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
South African artist Athi Patra Ruga talks about his performance series titled The Future White Women of Azania.

  • Added: Mar 24, 2016
  • Length: 10:36
Caption: Creative Mornings Miami
Cathy Byrd talks about change as a creative opportunity when she makes an appearance at Creative Mornings/Miami.

  • Added: Apr 07, 2016
  • Length: 09:38
Caption: Yvette Mutumba and Julia Grosse, Credit: Bejamin Renter
Yvette Mutumba and Julia Grosse talk about how Contemporary And, the international online art platform they launched three years ago, led to the in...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2016
  • Length: 09:55
Caption: Sanford Biggers, Credit: Alexander Stein
American artist Sanford Biggers talks about what inspires him to radically alter old quilts and African sculptures.

  • Added: May 05, 2016
  • Length: 10:13
Caption: Franky Cruz, Credit: Juan E. Cabrera
Artist Franky Cruz talks about how Miami, and the art space known as Spinello Projects, became the laboratory for his creation of Sistema, an uncom...

  • Added: May 19, 2016
  • Length: 08:31
Caption: Ola Kolehmainen, Credit: Liro Mikkola
Finnish artist Ola Kolehmainen talks about his large-scale photographs of imperial Turkish architecture from the 16th century designed by the legen...

  • Added: Jun 02, 2016
  • Length: 05:54
Caption: Glexis Novoa, El Vacio, Credit: Glexis Novoa
Cuban artist Glexis Novoa Explores Cuba's Past and Present Inside the Ruins of an Abandoned Building During the 12th Havana Biennial

  • Added: Jun 23, 2016
  • Length: 06:01
Caption: Amy Sherald, Credit: moniquemeloche gallery
Fresh Art International presents a live podcast event with American artist AmySherald at moniquemeloche gallery in Chicago.

  • Added: Jul 15, 2016
  • Length: 15:55
Caption: Maria Alyokhina, Credit: Belarus Free Theater
Maria Alyokhina talks about political art, Pussy Riot, Hannah Arendt, and working with Belarus Free Theatre.

  • Added: Jul 28, 2016
  • Length: 06:53
Caption: Amanda Sanfilippo, Credit: Fringe Projects Miami
Amanda Sanfilippo talks about public art and Miami’s Fringe Projects

  • Added: Aug 12, 2016
  • Length: 09:22
Caption: Anawana Haloba, Credit: Courtesy of the artist
Anawana Haloba, an artist born in Zambia and based in Norway, talks about vanishing cultures and her project for the 32nd Sao Paulo Biennial.

  • Added: Sep 01, 2016
  • Length: 03:51
Caption: Donna Kukama
South African artist Donna Kukama is creating an unusual book project for the 32nd Sao Paulo Biennial.

  • Added: Sep 08, 2016
  • Length: 03:59
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At the Rauschenberg Residency on the island of Captiva just off the west coast of Florida, we meet artists, writers, and scientists working on proj...

  • Added: Oct 13, 2016
  • Length: 09:26
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Artist Sarah Oppenheimer and curator René Morales talk about Sarah’s project titled S-281913 at Perez Art Museum Miami.

  • Added: Oct 27, 2016
  • Length: 11:10
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Artist Martha Wilson talks about her political performance art and why she took on the guise of Republican candidate Donald Trump during the 2016 U...

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  • Added: Nov 03, 2016
  • Length: 11:08
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American artist William Pope.L talks about endurance in performance art and shares the story of Baile, or Ball, the project he created for the 32nd...

  • Added: Nov 10, 2016
  • Length: 10:32
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Artist Alexis Gideon talks about myth and memory in his newest animated video opera: The Comet and The Glacier.

  • Added: Nov 24, 2016
  • Length: 09:11
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Curator Jochen Volz talks about the 32nd São Paulo Biennial exhibition titled "Live Uncertainty".

  • Added: Dec 08, 2016
  • Length: 10:47
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Lost Spaces and Stories of Vizcaya—Curator Gina Wouters, and artists Mira Lehr and Yara Travieso talk about What This Place Does Not Remember, one ...

  • Added: Dec 22, 2016
  • Length: 13:08
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Artist Zoë Buckman is in fight mode. Her own boxing gloves figure in recent mixed media installations, spoken word, and sound art projects that def...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2017
  • Length: 14:29