Presenting: A Piece of Work

A Piece of Work

MoMA, WNYC Studios

Education, Visual Arts, Self-improvement, Arts, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2017

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Yes, she’s the hilarious co-creator of Comedy Central’s “Broad City.” But before discovering her gift for comedy, Abbi Jacobson went to art school. Now she’s getting a refresher on everything from Jackson Pollock to Marcel Duchamp, from Pop art to performance. Abbi goes behind the scenes at The Museum of Modern Art with some of her smartest and funniest friends, including Questlove, Tavi Gevinson, Hannibal Buress, and RuPaul. Come hang! ----- About the podcast: From WNYC Studios and MoMA, A Piece of Work is everything you want to know about modern and contemporary art but were afraid to ask. Hosted by "Broad City"’s Abbi Jacobson, this 10-episode series explores everything from Pop art to performance in lively conversations with curators, artists, and Abbi’s friends, including Hannibal Buress, Tavi Gevinson, RuPaul, and Questlove. Produced by WNYC Studios. www.wnycstudios.org

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0:00.0	In a world of paint, canvas and plaster of Paris, one woman dares to ask the question. What the hell is that?
0:17.0	WNYC Studios and Moma present a piece of work. A place where rules are meant to be broken people meant to crack
0:27.0	buildings meant to crumb
0:30.2	okay you know what I'm sorry I'm I don't think that this is working for me. Why don't you just hit the theme music and and I'll take it from there.
0:41.8	All right, here we are.
0:49.8	Guys Guys, welcome to my podcast. It's called A Piece of Work. I'm your host Abby Jacobson. I'm a comedian, a writer, I've got a TV show you might have heard of, Broad City.
0:55.0	But before all that, I went to art school and I'm actually also an illustrator.
0:59.0	And while I love contemporary art, I love it, I have a ton of questions. So for this podcast I'm going to
1:07.8	moment and I'll get to look behind the scenes. I'm going to wander the
1:11.1	galleries and I'll be talking to artists, curators and friends.
1:14.1	People like Questlove, Hannibal Burris, Samantha Irby,
1:18.2	Tavi Gevinson, Ru Paul.
1:21.1	Hello, Abbs?
1:24.0	Yeah.
1:25.0	Hey, kiddo. Hey, how are you?
1:26.0	Oh my God.
1:28.0	This looks nuts.
1:30.0	This is amazing.
1:32.0	Isn't it amazing?
1:33.0	When I see something abstract like this,
1:35.0	I'm always just like, how do they know when to stop?
1:38.0	I feel the same way about performance art and video art.
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