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The Bad Vibes Club

by Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau

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Ten Texts on Painting Episode 10: Painting Pedagogy

September 11, 2026

It’s the final episode of the series! Matt and Andrea discuss painting pedagogy from the UK, to the US, to… Bob Ross? We read Daniel Sturgis’ essay ‘Condensed Knowledge’ from 2017, and sections of Mira Schor’s book 'Wet: Painting…
Ten Texts on Paining Episode 9: Peruvian Indigenous Contemporary Painting

July 20, 2026

In this episode, Matt and Andrea read Pedro Favaron y Chonon Bensho’s paper ‘Metsa Kené’ from 2020 (translated to English by AI) and Giuliana Borea’s ‘Personal cartographies of a Huitoto mythology’ from 2010. As a support text, we also…
Ten Texts on Painting 8: The End of Painting

April 23, 2026

In this episode, recorded live at City and Guilds Art School in London, Matt and Andrea read Douglas Crimp's essay, 'The End of Painting' from 1981 alongside a number of texts and a video by Helen Molesworth on the painter Noah Davis from…
Ten Texts on Painting 7: The Problem of Genius

March 24, 2026

Matt and Andrea present a live podcast from TACO! in Thamesmead, London. We look at the work of Anselm Kiefer and Gerhardt Richter, two artists who have achieved both critical and commercial success and are considered by many to be…
Ten Texts on Painting 6: Theory of the Dot

February 2, 2026 · 50 min

Matt and Andrea present a live podcast from NCAD in Dublin, at the invitation of Fire Station Artists' Studios. We spoke about the dot: a mark that connects a diverse group of painters such as Georges Seurat, Philip Guston, Yayoi Kusama…

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Ten Texts on Painting 5: Lee Lozano

November 28, 2025 · 1 hr 11 min

Welcome to the fourth episode of Ten Texts on Painting. This time, Matt and Andrea discuss the work of Lee Lozano. We read a chapter of Jo Applin’s book on Lozano Lee Lozano: Not Working, Lozano’s published notebooks from 1967-70, when she…
Ten Texts on Painting 4: Lubaina Himid

October 16, 2025 · 1 hr 16 min

Welcome to the fourth episode of Ten Texts on Painting. This time, Matt and Andrea discuss the work of Lubaina Himid. We read a 2019 conversation between Himid and the curators of Hollybush Gardens, an essay by feminist art historian…
Ten Texts on Painting 3: Philip Guston

September 15, 2025 · 1 hr 3 min

Welcome to the third episode of Ten Texts on Painting. This time, Andrea and Matt watch A Life Lived, a documentary about Philip Guston as he installed a retrospective exhibition in San Franscisco in 1980, and read a lecture Guston…
Ten Texts on Painting 2: Amy Sillman

August 13, 2025 · 1 hr 7 min

Welcome to episode 2 of Ten Texts on Painting! In this episode Matt and Andrea read two texts by the painter and writer Amy Sillman: ‘On Color’ from 2016 and ‘Ab-Ex and Disco Balls’ from 2011. We talk about paint, colour and different…
Ten Texts on Painting 1: Expanded Painting

July 31, 2025

Welcome to episode 1 of Ten Texts on Painting! This is the first of a series of reading group podcasts on painting. In this episode Matt and Andrea read three texts that think through an idea of expanded painting. We look at the painter…
Coming Soon Ten Texts on Painting

July 24, 2025 · 6 min

Coming soon: Ten Texts on Painting. A new podcast series from The Bad Vibes Club featuring Andrea Francke and Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau. That’s right! Ten Texts is back, and this time Andrea and Matt will be talking about painting…
Ten Texts on Sculpture 10: Maintenance

June 19, 2024

The tenth of a series of reading group podcasts on sculpture. In this episode Matt and Andrea read three texts about maintenance and art. We look at ‘What It's Like to Live With Art That Doesn't Love You Back’, a 2017 magazine article by…

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A podcast about art, politics and feelings from The Bad Vibes Club, including the ‘Ten Texts on…’ series. Hosted by Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau, Andrea Francke and Beth Bramich, with reading groups, interviews, audio essays, lectures and more.