Our goal with every episode is to break down fancy art talk, provide links to everything discussed, and share some additional reading we found that was inspired by our conversation.

Alice Neel, American artist (1900-1984) known for her portraits depicting friends, family, lovers, and influential figures in New York with expressionistic use of line and color.

Alicia Keys, Grammy award winning American singer and songwriter (b. 1981), extensive art collector with husband Swizz Beatz.

Alma Thomas, American painter (1891-1978) known for her colorful, brushy, abstract works based on nature, teacher and role model for African American and women artists.

Betye Saar, American assemblage artist (b. 1926), storyteller and printmaker and a key part of the Black Arts Movement in the 1970s.

Charles Harrison, American industrial designer, speaker and art historian (1931-2018) known for his pioneering role as a Black designer in a major corporation.

Clement Greenberg, Highly influential art critic and essayist (1909-1994) closely associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement of the mid-20th century.

David Moos, American curator (b. 1965), founder of the David Moos Art Advisory and the Museum Exchange, an end-to-end digital platform for donating art to museums.

Elaine de Kooning, Abstract and figurative Expressionist painter (1918-1989) who worked and wrote extensively during the post-war period in New York.

Faith Ringgold, American painter, writer and mixed media sculptor (b. 1930) best known for her narrative quilts.

Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Cuban-born American visual artist (1957-1996) best known for his sculpture and installation art which spoke to his sexuality, his experience with AIDS, loss, regeneration, and other aspects of identity.

Franklin Simmons, Prominent 19th century American sculpture (1839-1913).

German Expressionists, Members of a 20th century, pre-WWI art movement that reached its peak in Berlin in the 1920s and inspired painting, cinema, architecture and sculpture in Germany and beyond.

Henry Geldzahler, Belgian born American curator of contemporary art in the late 20th century (1934-1994), as well as a historian, critic, and champion of pop art before it became widely accepted in the art world.

Jack Whitman, American cinematographer (1908-1998) best known for creating Hawaii Five-O, the first Spider Man, Pleasure Cove, and MacGyver.

James Little, American artist (b. 1952) who creates his own colors with pure pigment and heated beeswax and layers each hue multiple times in parallel bands and dots on the canvas.

Jennifer Bartlett, American artist (b. 1941) whose system-based aesthetic brings together tenets of conceptual art and painterly aspects of neo-expressionism.

Leo Castelli, Italian- American art dealer (1907-1999) whose Ninth Street Show of 1951 was one of the first to bring Abstract Expressionist art to market, and who soon became the pioneering contemporary gallerist of New York city for decades.

Mary Frank, English visual artist (b. 1933) known for her somber, semi-abstract work in painting, illustration, and printmaking is characterized

Mickalene Thomas, Contemporary American visual artist (b. 1971) whose work explores femininity and inconsistency in the Western canon through collage, rhinestones, acrylic and enamel.

Nick Cave, American sculptor, dancer and performance artist (b. 1959) best known for his Soundsuit series, which are wearable assemblage fabric sculptures made of mostly found objects.

Pérez Museum, Contemporary art museum in downtown Miami, FL dedicated to collecting and exhibiting international art from the 20th and 21st centuries.

Post-Modern, Body of art movements that sought to contradict some aspects of modernism such as painterliness and excess. Some examples of postmodern movements include conceptual art, installation art, performance and digital art, and neo-expressionism in painting.

Richard Hunt, American sculptor (b. 1935) who has singularly made the largest contribution to public art in the United States, with 150 works all over the country.

Rothko, Mark Rothko, Latvian-born American painter (1903-1970), considered the father of color field painting and a founding member of the Abstract Expressionist movement.

Sheila Hicks, American artist (1934) and maker of whimsical, experimental weavings and sculpture textile which often speak to personal narratives.

Swizz Beatz, American record producer, rapper, and executive (b. 1978), extensive art collector with wife Alicia Keys.

Theaster Gates, American installation artist and professor of art at the University of Chicago (b. 1973) whose work engages the public and is categorized in the Social Practice movement of conceptual art and urbanism.

Warhol Diaries, 1989 book of dictated memoirs of the American artist Andy Warhol, edited and published posthumously by his frequent collaborator and friend Pat Hackett.