Art :: Artists on Art
Artists as creators have a unique relationship to their art. They are usually driven and inspired by something or someone. Their expressions are individualistic. They convey their messages in different ways but they are all bound by the need to create, to explore their inner thoughts and to provoke discussion. Find out what motivates them to create.
Tori Amos Interview 4.15.2007
Tori Amos, in promoting her new album, "American Doll Posse," talks frankly about female and male relationships and rebellion in her teenage years. She proclaims jokingly, "I have a 12-inch cock." In her video, "Big Wheel", the letters, M I L F stands for "Mother I Like to Fuck." She is a daring and controversial artist who tackles difficult issues in her work.
She advocates for an understanding of our own psyche. She asks, "Where is the sacredness I need to have for my own body?" She comments about celebrities demeaning themselves and the pain they are in. How does it get there? How you get out? She asks important questions for us all to ponder.
Judy Chicago's Dinner Party opens at the Brooklyn Museum
"The Dinner Party"" by Judy Chicago is on permanent display at the Brooklyn Museum. This interview with Judy Chicago talks about the role of the dinner party and how it was seen when it first opened in 1979. Judy Chicago says the history is still relevant and continue to be until the male and female history are taught equally. She wants the dinner party to be seen as one work in a body of work. Go check this feminist piece out at the Brooklyn Museum.
Bjork Volta Podcast
Bjork with her face painted blue, yellow, red and black and dressed in a wild, colorful outfit for a photo shoot talks about the making of her new album Volta. She discusses the cabin fever she experienced doing her albums and wanted to expand musical and geographically. She wants to work in an impulsive, spontaneous way, like an improvisation.
