Visual arts of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

Tyler started writing about art 25 years ago this year, initially through a must-read blog that regularly took on institutions.

His early years in journalism eventually led Tyler to create the podcast in 2011, and the show is now approaching 800 interviews with artists, curators, and art historians.

Modern Art Notes was perhaps the first major podcast devoted to visual art in the US and stands as a rich and essential archive of contemporary art practice.

Tyler's longstanding interest in how art operates, shaping ideas about land, history, and nationhood, has led to book-length projects on Carlton Watkins and Ralph Waldo Emerson.

And she brought it home and she had lots of notes in it, which I remember like sitting in the room as she was making notes in it.

And so I don't think six-year-old me understood it, but 25-year-old me sure did.

And that was artists are great.

What artists do is great and important, but art does not meaningfully exist without critical thinking and research-minded engagement.

And it's free.

And then for those in North County, there's also an exhibit of local indigenous art happening at California Center for the Arts in Escondido.

What can you tell us about blood memory?

Yeah, this opens on Saturday.

It's a pretty diverse collection of art by regional indigenous artists.

There's fashion, there's sculpture, photography, and video art.

Some of the artists are names that you might recognize.