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Camino Camp 29 Episodes Aug 2, 2025

A podcast about art and power for anyone with a little extra time after school.

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Pure Michigan Aug 2, 2025 01:41:28 Ben and Paul return after a yearlong hiatus to discover a world that is remarkably different...and utterly the same.

The Newsboys Aug 15, 2024 01:42:20 Ben and Paul have returned from a lackluster performance in the 2024 Paris Olympics breakdancing competition with something new for the campers. This week, we're trying out a new concept where we read snippets from the preferred written content medium of our time: The Email Newsletter. Highlights include a Petersonian meditation on Marcus Aurelius, slightly sexy poem snippets, and some bare knuckl

Beauty Will Save the Warhol May 2, 2024 01:33:10 Bowie. Warhol. Chalamet. Need we say more? Paul and Ben reunite to discuss Dune Pt. 2, the fall of an iconic trad arts publication, and how to create a sun dial from a deconstructed milk carton.

Are You Ready for Some Fast Car? Feb 11, 2024 01:35:58 It's Super Bowl Sunday, campers. And you know what that means—Ben and Paul participate in the futile but entertaining pastime of ranking and coronating the ineffable—pop songs, painters, and quarterbacks. So grab an Impossible chicken wing or three and crank the Tracy Chapman, because it's football night in America.

Kendall Roy Pump Up Music Jun 4, 2023 01:21:59 After a hiatus, Paul and Ben return to admit which member of the doomed Roy family they are, the horrors of AI art (have you ever wondered what's going on *outside* the frame of your favorite paintings?), and the glory of Nikola Jokic, Denver's favorite bear who learned ballet.

Drip Tips for Fashion Week Sep 19, 2022 01:17:22 That's right: It's Fashion Week, campers. Not sure what to wear besides your favorite Punisher tee and under armor shorts that go past your knees? Don't sweat it. Ben and Paul offer a few tips to stay drippy on your local coffee shop cat walk this week, unpack a sexy new prestige TV program about copywriters called "Mad Men", and establish the ground rules for cafe culture in our "new normal" W

Ben and Paul Talk to You About Bookshelves Aug 31, 2022 01:22:08 Shhh! This is a library, not a dance hall! But seriously, libraries are actually a pretty cool place to hang out, no cap. This week, Ben guides us through the arduous but healthy process of Shelf Maturation. We also talk about our old friend Cezanne, our new friend from the U.P. Joe Pera, and Nathan Fielder, our Canadian friend. Thanks to Trevor Welch for the tunes, as always. Check him out

Special Summer Ep: Camino Vibes Only Jul 7, 2022 01:18:45 Summer is here, campers! Paul returns from walking the Camino de Santiago in Spain with keen insights, a backpack full of good vibes, and one of st. James's finger bones. Ben asks incisive cultural questions like "Do they have trucks there?", and tells us how to spot an American Fascist, a la Umberto Eco. Hint: it's all in the color palette. We gave Trevor Welch the week off, so special thanks t

S2 E10: The Boys Who Cried at Meow Wolf Apr 9, 2022 01:43:06 Ben and Paul unpack an underwhelming experience at the world's largest Chuck E. Cheese, otherwise known as Meow Wolf, share their respective calisthenics routines, and consider a problematic usage of the word "balm," among other creepy descriptions of art. Remember, we already know what art is: it's pictures of horses. Thanks again to Trevor Welch for providing the tunes for our second season of

S2 E9: Basquiat AKA Samo ft. Rumi Jan 24, 2022 01:45:12 Happy New Year, campers. This week, Paul and Ben take a closer look (with John Berger's help)at the raw and revelatory paintings of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Then Paul summons the spirit of the great Sufi poet Rumi to take us once again into the mystic. Links to follow along as we look at SAMO's work: https://arthur.io/art/jean-michel-basquiat "Boy and Dog in a Johnny Pump" https://arthur.io/art/j

S2 E8: Dada Issues Jan 4, 2022 01:35:38 Magic Camp resumes after Paul's Omicron sabbatical to discuss the Dadaists, the radical jesters of the early 20th European art scene. Paul test Ben's knowledge of notable thinkers while Ben lavishes praise on Paul's recent essay, linked here: https://therumpus.net/2021/12/picasso-shares-his-screen/. Thanks to our friend Trevor Welch for lending some of his music. Follow @trevorwelch on twitter

The Magic Camp Manifesto Nov 28, 2021 01:19:59 The Magic Camp Manifesto We the head counselors of Magic Camp declare, That a painting is not a painting unless it is made of paint. That the entirety of New York-based abstract expression art is one gigantic op, conceived and carried out by the Congress for Cultural Freedom and Central Intelligence Agency, we name Taos, New Mexico the artistic center of America. That the word moist is fine, yo

S2 E6: The Goya Guide to Living Deliciously Oct 31, 2021 01:54:12 Horror movie buffs Ben and Paul discuss Robert Eggers' masterpiece of puritan paranoia The VVitch and take down the needlessly sadistic and extremely f***ed up films of Ari Aster. Ben shocks Paul with some gory paintings from Francisco Goya and others, the original arty-goth kids. All Hail King Phillip the Black, he rules the land with mirth! Thanks to Trevor Welch for the new tracks for this ep

S2 E5: Cave Art—Big Animals and little faceless dudes Sep 27, 2021 01:47:11 Hope you brought your flashlights, campers, because this week we journey to the place where art began: the cave. Ben reflects on the primal power of well-drawn line—be it of a horse's mane or a real big piggy. Paul confesses his past love for Trad-Indie Folk music. Speaking of music, thanks to our friend Trevor Welch for lending some of his. Follow @trevorwelch on twitter and find more of his

S2 E4: 30 Seconds to Mars Hill Aug 29, 2021 01:41:15 Ben and Paul return to Christian camp to check in on an old nemesis: Mark Driscoll. Not much art in this episode—just the way Mark would have wanted it. Thanks again to Trevor Welch for the bangers. Check him out at: @trevorwelch on Twitter trevor.welch or soundcloud.com/trevorwelch

S2 E3: Rousseau and Cezanne Go to Space Aug 4, 2021 01:40:05 S2 E3: Rousseau and Cezanne Go to Space by Camino Camp

S2 E2: The Desert Brothers Jul 15, 2021 01:45:33 Ben and Paul venture into the desert to encounter the art of the Transcendental Painting Group and the Taos Society of Artists, just two of the under-appreciated groups who made the mystical landscapes of New Mexico their primary subject matter in the mid 20th century. Paul considers the poetic but largely unintelligible Desert Fathers, whose lives and words remind us that in the desert, there is

S2 E1: Party at Picasso's Jun 30, 2021 01:45:35 Welcome back campers. Claim your bunk and get ready for a discussion about the Paris Avant-Garde. We're reading from the Manifesto of Cubism, sizing up Hemingway & seeing what the Evangelicals are up to. Music provided by our friend Trevor Welch. Follow @trevorwelch on twitter and find more of his music at the links below: http://trevor.money https://ladyboyrecords.bandcamp.com/album/onsen

Ep 10: Advent-Garde Dec 23, 2020 01:41:15 Happy Christmas campers. We're discussing degrees of kitsch in advent art, from Thomas Kinkade to Norman Rockwell. Finally we ask: what if the infinite became finite in the womb of Charlie Brown?

Ep 9: Song Of Myselfie Dec 7, 2020 01:14:03 Breaking news: the president has covid! It took a while to post, but in this episode your counselors chat about Sweaty Walt Whitman, Lodge 49 and Zen.

Ep 8: Surreal World / Road Rituals Challenge Oct 16, 2020 01:00:30 Dream with us as we consider the works of Andre Breton and his Surrealist coven. Check out the Manifesto of Surrealism and apply the SECRETS OF THE MAGICAL SURREALIST ART to your own society today!

Ep 7: Giotto and the Birds of St. Francis Oct 6, 2020 01:06:36 Bust out the hemp bracelets, we're back at Christian camp. Paul describes how Giotto spread the humanist vision St. Francis to the masses of disgusting, illiterate peasants and helped spawn the Renaissance.

Episode 6: Futurists Are Facsists Are Car Guys Aug 13, 2020 01:20:20 We're camping with the Italian Futurists. Were they fascists or were they just in their twenties? Marinetti gets drunk and crashes into some fluid. Ben rolls coal. Paul swirls a glass of finely aged vino. We read from Manifesto of Futurism and Futurist Painting: Technical Manifesto.

Episode 5: Caravaggio Was A P.I.M.P. Aug 4, 2020 01:08:01 Your counselors are talking Caravaggio, Italian master and absolute pimp.

Episode 4: Who Invited Van Gogh? May 28, 2020 01:05:54 Your camp counselors talk about Vincent Van Gogh and how you might not have enjoyed hanging out with him. Now everyone wants to be his friend. No texts for this one, but check out "At Eternity's Gate".

Episode 3: John Berger At The Demystification Station May 8, 2020 01:23:50 We're talking John Berger: lefty art critic, novelist, artist, brit and Black Panther patron. Our guide is his classic book and BBC series "Ways of Seeing".

Episode 2: William Blake Killed God Apr 27, 2020 01:17:41 We talk about the visionary poet, painter and printmaker William Blake. Death of God theologian Thomas JJ Altizer helps us parse the radical theology with his book "The New Apocalypse: The Radical Christian Vision of William Blake".

Episode 1: Jackson Pollock & The CIA Apr 21, 2020 00:55:00 Ben & Paul talk about American cowboy-painter Jackson Pollock and how the CIA boosted Abstract Expressionism in order to look cooler than Communists. We draw heavily on "The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters" by Frances Stonor Saunders.

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