Exhibitionistas – Notes on Art
By Art Curator and Writer Joana P. R. Neves
Exhibitionistas is your art wonderment podcast.
By art writer and visual arts curator Joana P. R. Neves. Your host takes you on journeys through London exhibitions, forgotten theories, rediscovered texts, and generous guests—be it art experts with an edge or curious non-art experts with spiky questions. Expect varied segments, including the short recurring feature Art Etiquette. Send your questions, and if you have an etiquette suggestion for Joana to explore, she'd love to hear it.
Check out Joana's writing here.
But Is It Good Art?... With Proust
🔎 How do we spot a masterpiece? Can we really know if the art we’re looking at is any good? Which is to say, how do we recognize talent? And is pleasure a real indicator of artistic greatness? ⚒️ Are there any identifying tools that may fit the unique shape of a new work of art? Spotting great art may be trickier but more exciting than we think. We look into Proust, specifically into one of the most intriguing narrative lines of In Search of Lost Time (Vol I): the presumed greatness of the famous actress, "La Berma”, inspired by the...
Dark Side of Creativity with Bioy Casares' "The Invention of Morel"
Is there a dark side to creativity ? Might it even be necessary? Are artists visionaries ? Or is the future contained in the present, and if so, what will you do about it ? As a an art writer and curator , Joana P. R. Neves , the host, steps back from her job, and steps into the questions it stimulates, about art and life, creativity and philosophy. And what better tools to explore the point were art intersects with life than books? In this episode, Joana presents and reads excerpts of this week's chosen book, The Invention of Morel ...
Creative Flow with Virginia Woolf
Your host, writer and curator Joana P. R. Neves, challenges you to explore the mystery of a missing paragraph in Virginia Woolf's 'The Mark on the Wall', and its significance for creative pursuits. You're about to dwell on the flow of consciousness as creative flow – the art of mastering and letting go simultaneously. How do we create? How to we get to that special place where we're in control while accepting the randomness of the reactive materials we work with? And what does that say about life? Links, as promised: Explorations of ...
Art Writing versus Speaking About Art - Art Topic
ART TOPIC is is an exploration of a topic through visual arts or vice-versa. Hosted by Joana P. R. Neves, this episode is an experiment in opposing writing to oral communication. It also engages with queer lives at the height of modernism, the notion of genius and its patriarchal tendencies, as well as the intriguing, unique couple of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. Discover Joana's text "G is for Genius, Grammar and Girl", published on her Substack Art Thinkosaurus . She reads it here as a performance of sorts, with mistakes, re...
