We spoke with Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz in 2011. The show of their collection of outsider art, “Great and Might things: Outsider Art from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Collection” opens today at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The collection is a bequeath to the museum. In our podcast they talk about how they started collecting outsider art and why they are giving it to the museum. This podcast originally ran on May 7, 2011.
Read MoreLibby and Roberta interview artist Syd Carpenter about her art making, her origins as an artist and her gardening, which feeds into her art directly and indirectly.
Read MoreTim Portlock talks with Libby and Roberta about his high-tech works on paper, made from 3-D imaging software, but which reference 19th Century heroic landscape painting. He tells them he doesn’t see his works as photographs, but as paintings. The interview is 17 minutes long.
Read MoreIn this 2012 podcast Libby and Roberta speak with Erin Riley about her woven narratives based on bad behavior people (proudly?) post on the Internet. The podcast is 13 minutes and 24 seconds long.
Read MoreJennifer Levonian considers herself a feminist. Her animated videos — beautiful, handmade, surreal — portray quotidien material, often featuring women protagonists, who encounter weird experiences in the “normal” 21st Century urban environment. Libby and Roberta talked with Jennifer in 2011. Here is their podcast interview, 16 minutes long.
Read MoreLibby and Roberta talk with Jacque Liu and Mike Ellyson about their collective, Grizzly Grizzly, in the 319 N. 11th St. hub, alive with 5 arts collectives, and lots of experimental art and curating.
Read MoreLibby and Roberta speak with Andrew Jeffrey Wright, founding member of Space 1026! It’s a great talk, 16 and a half minutes long.
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