Camino Camp

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...

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...

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...

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,"...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

S2 E3: Rousseau and Cezanne Go to Space by Camino Camp

S2 E3: Rousseau and Cezanne Go to Space by Camino Camp

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...

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...

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?