Recording Artists
Artists in their own words from the Getty Research Institute archives
- Update frequency
- every 24 days
- Average duration
- 25 minutes
- Episodes
- 25
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Alice Neel: Viva la Mujer
This episode focuses on Alice Neel (1900–1984). Joining host Helen Molesworth are artists Simone Leigh and Moyra Davey. Neel is known for striking, expressionistic portraits of family, friends, lover…
Eva Hesse: Oh, More Absurdity
This episode focuses on Eva Hesse (1936–1970). Joining host Helen Molesworth are artist Mary Weatherford and art historian Darby English. Hesse is one of the most influential artists of her generatio…
Betye Saar: Working My Mojo
This episode focuses on Betye Saar (b. 1926). Joining host Helen Molesworth are artist Linda Goode Bryant and art historian Marci Kwon. Saar is the only California artist in this series, and her work…
Lee Krasner: Deal with It
This episode focuses on Lee Krasner (1908–1984). Joining host Helen Molesworth are artists Lari Pittman and Amy Sillman. In interviews from 1972, 1975, and 1978, the first-generation abstract express…
Season 1—Recording Artists: Radical Women
In this season of Recording Artists, host Helen Molesworth delves into the lives and careers of six women artists spanning several generations. Hear them describe, in their own words, their work, rel…