Naomi Beckwith on Senga Nengudi

The Great Women Artists

Katy Hessel

Arts

4.8 • 877 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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I am so thrilled to say that my guest on the GWA Podcast is one of the most esteemed curators in the world, Naomi Beckwith. Currently the Deputy Director and Jennifer and David Stockman Chief Curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY, where she plays an instrumental role in shaping the museum’s vision, Beckwith’s career has seen her curate some of the groundbreaking shows in recent years. At the MCA Chicago, she curated Howardena Pindell: What Remains to Be Seen – the first survey of the 20th and 21st century pioneer, as well as The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music that looked at the legacy of 1960s African American avant-garde and its impact on art and culture today. Among many others, she also staged the first ever US solo exhibition by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye at the Studio Museum in Harlem. Beckwith was part of the team that realised Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America, conceived by Okwui Enwezor for the New Museum, as well as shows featuring Arthur Jafa and Laurie Simmons. She has dedicated her career to the impact of identity and multidisciplinary practices within contemporary art, and has just been granted the David Driskell Prize 2024. But the reason why we are speaking with Beckwith today is because she has just unveiled a new group exhibition at the Guggenheim – By Way of Working – that brings together artists across mediums, and generations – from Mona Hatoum, Joseph Beuys, Robert Rauschenberg, and Senga Nengudi: the artist we are very excitingly discussing today. Chicago-born Nengudi is hailed for her works across sculpture to performance, that explore the human form in all its many iterations through her early training in dance, and I can’t wait to find out more. -- LINKS: Naomi's exhibition: https://www.guggenheim.org/exhibition/by-way-of-material-and-motion-in-the-guggenheim-collection https://www.guggenheim.org/about-us/staff/naomi-beckwith https://www.sengasenga.com/ https://www.artnews.com/feature/senga-nengudi-who-is-she-why-is-she-important-1234591161/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DutixbTscWM https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/5078 -- THIS EPISODE IS GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY THE LEVETT COLLECTION: https://www.famm.com/en/ https://www.instagram.com/famm.mougins // https://www.merrellpublishers.com/9781858947037 Follow us: Katy Hessel: @thegreatwomenartists / @katy.hessel Sound editing by Nada Smiljanic Music by Ben Wetherfield

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0:00.0	Welcome back to series 11 of the Great Women Artists podcast. It's great to have you back and do we have an exciting series for you? But just before we get to this, I am so excited to say that this series is supported by the Levitt Collection, a vast and varied art collection of which a major portion is dedicated to works by women artists.
0:21.8	Christian Levitt's support for women in the arts is such that after publishing the major book
0:26.4	Abstract Expressionists, The Women in 2023, he will soon be opening the first private museum
0:32.7	in Europe, entirely dedicated to female artists on the 21st of June, 2004, in Mugin near Cannes in
0:41.1	the south of France. FAM, standing for female artists of the Mujan Museum, will unveil to
0:47.4	the public over 100 works created by more than 80 female artists from around the world.
0:53.0	The museum will exhibit a breathtaking array of incredible artworks from the Leveck Collection,
0:58.2	including paintings, sculptures and photographs by top women artists who have marked the major
1:03.3	artistic movements from the 19th century to the present day.
1:07.0	Opening on the 21st of June, tickets are now on sale at www.famm.com.
1:14.4	And in the meantime, stay tuned at at FAM underscore Mujam.
1:19.0	I hope you enjoy this episode.
1:25.4	Hello everyone and welcome to the Great Women Artist podcast with me, Katie Hessel.
1:31.7	Some of you might know me from The Great Women Artists, an Instagram account I set up in October 2015,
1:37.3	which celebrates female artists on a daily basis, ranging from young graduates to old masters.
1:43.4	Well, in a similar fashion to the Instagram,
1:46.1	this podcast is all about celebrating female artists from a variety of backgrounds and histories.
1:51.7	And I am so excited to be interviewing artists on their career or artists, writers, curators,
1:57.4	or general art lovers on the women artist who means most of them.
2:05.9	What I want this podcast to do is celebrate female artists in all different capacities so you, the listener, can gain a look into the greatest female artists working now or from
2:11.5	art history.
2:15.3	I was so thrilled to say that my guest on the Great Woman Artist's podcast is one of the most
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