Chris Garcia
Three Minute Modernist
Chris Garcia, former curator and art blogger, talks briefly about artworks! From museums like the Anderson Collection to San Francisco's MoMA, Chris explores art from around the world, and from time to time, interviews artists and curators about their work!
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Chris Garcia
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Jun 19, 2025
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Episodes
S2E10 - Palmen by Sigmar Polke 15.05.2020 2:59
Episode Notes One of the best Sigmar Polke works you'll ever see! Find out more at https://three-minute-modernist.pinecast.co
S2E9 - Collage 540 by Anne Ryan 08.05.2020 2:59
Episode Notes Anne Ryan's collages were some of the most interesting of the Abstract Expressionists. Find out more at https://three-minute-modernist.pinecast.co
S2E8 - Stage #2 with Bed by Nathan Olivera 06.05.2020 2:56
Episode Notes It's not a black painting, right? I mean there's color. A little. Another wonderful and thoughtful piece in The Anderson Collection Find out more at https://three-minute-modernist.pinecast.co
S2E7 - Icarus by Robert Arneson 01.05.2020 2:52
Episode Notes Another episode about a wonderful piece at The Anderson Collection Find out more at https://three-minute-modernist.pinecast.co
S2E6 - The Wilderness Downtown 24.04.2020 2:56
Episode Notes an incredible demonstration piece that is also a phenomenal music video, and an even more impressive example of video art and demonstrating how it all comes together when shown in a museum You can experience The Wilderness Downtown at http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/ Find out more at https://three-minute-modernist.pinecast.co
S2E5 - Approach by Helen Frankenthaler 22.04.2020 2:59
Episode Notes One of the best of the second wave of AbExers, Helen Frankenthaler's Approach is one of the most impressive pieces in the Anderson Collection at Stanford. Find out more at https://three-minute-modernist.pinecast.co
S2E4 - Fries by Bradford Salamon 20.04.2020 2:59
Episode Notes There is little more LA than In 'n Out, and Bradford Salamon is one of the most LA of all artists working today! Find out more at https://three-minute-modernist.pinecast.co
S2E3 - Mouse Cup by Elizabeth Murray 14.04.2020 2:59
Episode Notes Another in our series of works from The Anderson Collection, Mouse Cup is a whimsical and wonderful work that explores the shaped canvas, as well as abstraction towards a representatioN! Find out more at https://three-minute-modernist.pinecast.co
S2E2 - Before, Again IV by Joan Mitchell 13.04.2020 2:59
Episode Notes Joan Mitchell was one of the longest-lasting Abstract Expressionists, working into the late 80s and earliest days of the 1990s. Her work has some magic to it, and this from 1985 is probably the finest work on public display at the moment in The Anderson Collection at Stanford. Find out more at https://three-minute-modernist.pinecast.co
S2E1 - Figure by Window by Paul Wormer 10.04.2020 2:59
Episode Notes Our first re-record, and the first of my looks at The Anderson Collection at Stanford! Paul Wormer was everything Diebenkorn was, only a bit smarter. WHAT?!?!?! I hear you cry. Listen... Find out more at https://three-minute-modernist.pinecast.co
S1E33 - Blush Moon Endulgence 10.04.2020 2:59
Episode Notes Natalia Fabia is the most Los Angeles of LA artists working today, and Blush Moon Endulgance is one of the finest works of this phenomenal artist! Find out more at https://three-minute-modernist.pinecast.co
S1E32 - Interview - Amy X Neuberg 06.04.2020 4:50
Episode Notes One of the finest of the Musical minds and talents in the Bay Area! Find out more at https://three-minute-modernist.pinecast.co
S1E31 - Fireworks for President Clinton by James Rosenquist 05.04.2020 2:56
Episode Notes James Rosenquist ain't nothin' to sneeze at, and this work, gorgeous and strong, is the most impressive I ever found while digging through stuff. Find out more at https://three-minute-modernist.pinecast.co
S1E30 - Variation 7 05.04.2020 3:00
Episode Notes Elements of Barnett Newman, Sean Scully, and much much more!!! Find out more at https://three-minute-modernist.pinecast.co
S1E29 - Into the Light by Hugo Landry 05.04.2020 3:00
Episode Notes This piece, which dwells within the world of the AbEx theorum, is one of my fave discoveries of digging for Three Minute Modernist. Find out more at https://three-minute-modernist.pinecast.co
S1E28 - Interview - Tony Martin on discovering the San Francisco Tape Music Center 05.04.2020 6:15
Episode Notes Few places had the impact on the History of Music like the San Francisco Tape Music Center, and TONY MARTIN WAS THERE!!!!!!! Find out more at https://three-minute-modernist.pinecast.co
S1E27 - Interview - Tony Martin on Paintings as a Stage 05.04.2020 6:12
Episode Notes Tony Martin's been around for decades, and here he's talking about his paintings as stages. Find out more at https://three-minute-modernist.pinecast.co
S1E26 - Lilian Schwartz UFOs 04.04.2020 3:00
Episode Notes UFOs by Lilian Schwartz is a masterful wok of early computer graphics art. Lilian is still about and kickin' at 92! Find out more at https://three-minute-modernist.pinecast.co
S1E25 - Good Morning Mr. Orwell 04.04.2020 3:00
Episode Notes The avant garde, now with 100% more Oingo Boingo, Peter Gabriel, and Thompson Twin. Name June Paik's absolute classic video art work that aired on New Years day, 1984 Find out more at https://three-minute-modernist.pinecast.co
S1E24 - The Least Wanted Music 04.04.2020 3:00
Episode Notes WHat happens when you give a survey to music lovers and then make a song based on the results? Well, Komar and Melamid, along with David Soldier, did just that! It's a fascinating work of Audio Art! Find out more at https://three-minute-modernist.pinecast.co
S1E23 - Eoin Callery on Drunk as Bad Dubbing 04.04.2020 5:09
Episode Notes I interviewed Eoin Callery at CCRMA at Stanford where we talked about his wonderful works, including this exceptional collaboration that really works as several separate works of art! Find out more at https://three-minute-modernist.pinecast.co
S1E22 - Jesus Christ Superstar by Robin Kahn 04.04.2020 3:00
Episode Notes Robin Kahn can't sing. In this wonderful work of audio art, she rises up singing a piece that she was obsessed with. This raises questions, from what makes great music to the role of talent to exactly what has modernism done to us! Find out more at https://three-minute-modernist.pinecast.co
S1E21 - Birdcalls by Louise Lawler 04.04.2020 3:00
Episode Notes Louise Lawler gives us a series of names, male names, that are taken out of their traditional context and put into a new form, a form as meaningless as the names become so over-whelmingly present from the mouths of critics and Art fans that they drown out the names of fine women artists. You can hear the piece at http://www.ubu.com/sound/lawler.html Find out more at https://three-min...
S1E20 - Shoot by Chris Burden 04.04.2020 3:00
Episode Notes Arguably the most dangerous of all Performance artists of the 20th century, Chris Burden did a lot of stupid stuff, including getting shot through the arm. Only a portion of the video of the event survives, though much of the audio still does, and it as a whole still works. Find out more at https://three-minute-modernist.pinecast.co
S1E19 - Seersucker 04.04.2020 3:24
Episode Notes It's a beautiful piece, and it's one that I have been going back to over, and over, and over... Find out more at https://three-minute-modernist.pinecast.co
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