About Art

Episode 198: Art makes us feel less alone— with Josh Zuckerman

20 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of About Art, Heidi Zuckerman speaks with actor Josh Zuckerman about creativity, vulnerability, and why art—at its best—helps us...

Episode 197: Art Gives Comfort - with Joel Lubin

13 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

A 20-year veteran of leading entertainment and sports agency Creative Artists Agency (CAA), Joel Lubin is a Managing Director and Co-Head of the Motio...

Episode 196: Art is Life - with Derek Fordjour

06 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Derek Fordjour was born in Memphis, Tennessee to Ghanaian parents. He is the recipient of the 2025 Gordon Parks Foundation Artist Fellowship, the 2023...

Episode 195: What It Means to Paint a Life — with Katherine Bradford

30 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How can abstraction carry emotion, identity, and lived experience?In this episode of About Art, Heidi Zuckerman speaks with painter Katherine Bradford...

Episode 194: How Cultural Ecosystems Shape the Future of Art — with Tokini Peterside-Schwebig

23 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of About Art, Heidi Zuckerman speaks with Tokini Peterside-Schwebig, founder of ART X and ART X Lagos, the leading international art f...

Episode 193: How Fashion Becomes Resistance — with Carla Fernández

16 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What does it mean to read fashion—not just as style, but as culture, politics, and lived experience?In this episode of About Art, Heidi Zuckerman sp...

192. Aindrea Emelife

09 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Aindrea Emelife is Curator, Modern and Contemporary at MOWAA (Museum of West African Art), a new museum which opened in Benin City, Nigeria in Novembe...

191. Kami Gahiga

02 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Kami Gahiga is a curator and art professional based between Kigali and London. Her work primarily focuses on art from the Global South and she has cu...

190. Spencer Lewis

25 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Spencer Lewis, born 1979 in Hartford, Connecticut, lives and works in Los Angeles. He studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and the University ...

189. Alia Al-Senussi

18 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Princess Alia Al-Senussi, PhD, is a leading member of the contemporary art world, with a special emphasis in her academic, personal and professional w...

188. Rodman Primack and Rudy Weissenberg

11 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Rodman Primack and Rudy Weissenberg are co-founders of US-AD100 design firm AGO Interiors and co-founders of Wallpaper 400 collectible design gallery ...

187. Marilyn Minter

04 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Marilyn Minter (b. 1948, USA) is an artist based in New York. Recent solo exhibitions include Marilyn Minter, Lehmann Maupin, Seoul, South Korea (2024...

186. Nadya Tolokonnikova

28 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Conceptual performance artist and activist Nadya Tolokonnikova is the creator of Pussy Riot, a global feminist art movement. She was sentenced in 2012...

185. Raina Lampkins-Fielder

21 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Raina Lampkins-Fielder is the Curator of Souls Grown Deep, a nonprofit that advocates for the artistic recognition and social and economic empowerment...

184. Liza Lou

14 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Los Angeles-based artist Liza Lou is widely known for introducing beads as a contemporary fine art medium. Lou’s persistent experimentation has chal...

183. Brooke A. Minto

07 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Brooke A. Minto assumed the role of Executive Director and CEO of the Columbus Museum of Art (CMA) in May 2023. With a career spanning over two decade...

182. Pedro Reyes

30 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Pedro Reyes studied architecture but considers himself a sculptor although his works integrate elements of theater, psychology, and activism. His prac...

181. Michi Jigarjian

23 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Michi Jigarjian is the CEO and founder of Work of Art Holdings (WOAH) and a Managing Partner at 7G Group, advancing art-led, socially responsible proj...

180. Kate Bryan

16 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Kate Bryan is a British art historian She is Chief Art Director for Soho House and Co. globally where she curates and builds a collection of over 10,0...

179. Nate Ready

09 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Nate Ready is a winemaker, farmer, former sommelier, and founder of Hiyu Wine Farm in Oregon. Nate’s work lives at the intersection of agriculture...

178. Deanna Templeton

02 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Orange County-based photographer Deanna Templeton is best known for her street pictures documenting everyday suburban life in Southern California and ...

177. Amy Adler

26 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Los Angeles-based artist Amy Adler works across the disciplines of drawing, performance, photography, and film. Her practice explores media and proces...

176. Nene Humphrey

19 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Nene Humphrey is an interdisciplinary artist whose work spans across mediums including performance, video, drawing, and sound. Known for her unique a...

175. Tony Freund

12 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Tony Freund is Editorial Director and Director of Fine Art at 1stDibs, which operates at the intersection of design, collecting, taste, and cultural s...

174. Sara Raza

05 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Sara Raza is the Artistic Director and Chief Curator of the Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA) in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Of Iranian and Central Asian or...

173. Su Yu-Xin

29 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Los Angeles-based artist Su Yu-Xin considers painting as a place where multiple disciplines and various perceptual capacities intersect. Su Yu-Xin col...

172. Casey Fremont

15 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Casey Fremont is the Executive Director of the Art Production Fund, a non-profit dedicated to commissioning and producing ambitious public art project...

171. Lisa Yuskavage

01 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Lisa Yuskavage creates works that affirm the singularity of the medium of painting while challenging conventional understandings of genres and viewer...

170. Jonathan Lethem

17 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Novelist Jonathan Lethem is the author of Girl In Landscape, Chronic City, and Brooklyn Crime Novel, as well as ten other novels. His stories ...

169. Glenn Lowry

03 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Glenn Lowry became the sixth director of The Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA) in 1995. He has overseen the physical transformation of the Museum’...

168. Jori Finkel

27 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Cultural journalist Jori Finkel is based in Los Angeles and won the 2023 Rabkin Prize for excellence in the field. She is a regular contributor to The...

167. Ricky Swallow

13 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Los Angeles based, Australian artist Ricky Swallow uses ordinary materials to create precisely rendered objects that he then casts in bronze. The uniq...

166. Madeleine Haddon

29 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Madeleine Haddon, Curator of V&A East, is a curator and writer whose work reexamines art historical narratives through contemporary lenses. Her in...

165. Cecilia Alemani

15 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Cecilia Alemani is an Italian curator based in New York City who is currently at work curating the 12th SITE SANTA FE International, titled Once Wit...

164. Jennifer McCabe

01 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jennifer McCabe is a distinguished curator, educator, and museum director with over 20 years of expertise in leading cultural institutions, fostering ...

163. Claire Tabouret

18 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Artist Claire Tabouret studied at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris. Motivated by a sensitivity to the passing of time and the floodgates of vulnerabil...

162. Stephan Jost

04 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Stephan Jost is an art museum director who is currently the Michael and Sonja Koerner Director, and CEO of the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in Toronto...

161. Carrie Scott

18 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Carrie Scott is an English American curator and arts commentator based in London. Over the past two decades, she has worked globally with galleries, a...

160. Komal Shah

04 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Art collector and philanthropist Komal Shah, originally from Ahmedabad, India, migrated to the US in 1991 to study computer science in California. Aft...

159. Christiana Ine-Kimba Boyle

21 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Christiana Ine-Kimba Boyle is a New York based art dealer and curator. Ine-Kimba Boyle was recently appointed partner and co-owner at CANADA gallery i...

158. Robert Montgomery

07 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week on my podcast, “About Art” I spoke with the British contemporary artist Robert Montgomery. Montgomery is well known for his work in publ...

157. Asking Why Art Matters Pt. 1

24 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A compilation episode of the answer to the question "why does art matter?" Thank you for being apart of our community, and we will see you in the new ...

156. Dr. Shauna Shapiro

10 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Shauna Shapiro, PhD, is a best-selling author, clinical psychologist and internationally recognized expert in mindfulness and self-compassion. Sh...

155. Alex Anderson

26 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Alex Anderson lives and works in Los Angeles, California.  Anderson uses the delicate medium of ceramics as his main vehicle to explore the sublime e...

154. Marine Tanguy

12 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Marine Tanguy is the CEO of MTArt agency. At the age of 21, Tanguy became Europe’s youngest gallery manager, working for Steve Lazarides, Banksy’s...

153. Mary Weatherford

29 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Mary Weatherford is one of the leading painters of her generation, exploring and expanding the legacies of American abstraction. Over the last three d...

152. Shamim Momin

15 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Shamim Momin is the Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, Washington. In this role since 2018, she has overseen the Cura...

151. Ed Templeton

01 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

California-based artist Ed Templeton is known for his interdisciplinary practice, most notably of photographs documenting people and street life of Hu...

150. Heidi Zuckerman “Ask Me Anything” Part II

17 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is the second “Ask Me Anything” episode with our founder and host Heidi Zuckerman, a globally recognized leader in contemporary art, a prolif...

149. Melissa Chiu

03 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Melissa Chiu is Director of the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary art. Since her a...

148. Anne Radice

20 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Art historian and curator Anne Radice. Radice previously served as Director of the Division of Public Programs at NEH. Prior to joining NEH in July 20...

147. Diedrick Brackens

06 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Los-Angeles based artist Diedrick Brackens is best known for his woven tapestries that explore allegory and narrative through the artist’s autobiogr...

146. Andrea Bowers

23 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Los Angeles-based artist Andrea Bowers has made art that activates for more than 30 years. Bowers works in a variety of mediums, from video to colored...

145. Tony Marsh

09 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Tony Marsh is an artist and educator who earned his BFA in Ceramic Art at California State University Long Beach in 1978. After graduating he spent th...

144. Stephen Reily

25 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Stephen Reily is the Founding Director of Remuseum, an independent research project housed at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, which seeks to p...

143. Mehak Vieira

11 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Mehak Vieira is the Director and Founder of Jahmek Contemporary Art, a dynamic platform promoting a critical and provocative dialogue about artistic a...

142. Antony Gormley

28 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

British sculptor Antony Gormley’s (Sir Antony Mark David Gormley OBE RA) work has been widely exhibited throughout the UK and internationally with r...

141. Tess Lukey

14 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Tess Lukey is co-curator of the inaugural Boston Triennial and Associate Curator of Native American Art at The Trustees of Reservations (The Trustees)...

140. Charles Gaines

14 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

American artist Charles Gaines’ body of work engages formulas and systems that interrogate relationships between the objective and the subjective re...

139. Nicholas Baume

16 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Nicholas Baume is the Artistic & Executive Director at Public Art Fund in New York City since 2009. A native of Australia, his career began in Sy...

138. Bjorn Geldhof

02 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Bjorn Geldhof is Director of the PinchukArtCentre. Founded in September 2006 by businessman and philanthropist Victor Pinchuk, the PinchukArtCentre is...

137. Amanda McCreight

19 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Digital content creator Amanda McCreight specializes in digital storytelling, utilizing photography and filmmaking as her medium to challenge conventi...

136. Charles Long

05 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Since the early 1990’s, Charles Long has explored the possibilities of sculpture through a rich vocabulary of materials, colors, images and shapes. ...

135. LJ Rader

20 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

New York-based writer LJ Rader is the person behind the social media account ArtButMakeItSports, which features images of sports compared to fine art....

134. Rodney McMillian

06 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

American artist Rodney McMillian’s paintings, sculptures, videos, and performances address the African-American experience while examining race, gen...

133. Stephanie Stebich

30 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Art historian and curator Stephanie Stebich is the Margaret and Terry Stent Director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. She was named director of...

132. Cliff Einstein

09 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Cliff Einstein is the founding partner of Dailey Advertising with a noted history of creating positions for some of the world’s major brands. Throug...

131. Mindy Shapero

26 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Mindy Shapero creates lively, meticulous sculptural and canvas works comprised of materials as various as studio scraps, spray paint, gold, copper, an...

130. Oliver Barker

12 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Sotheby's Principal Auctioneer Oliver Barker joined Sotheby’s in 1994 moving to the Contemporary Art department in 2001, rising to Chairman, Sot...

129. Charlotte Burns

28 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Journalist Charlotte Burns is the founder of Studio Burns, which creates and commissions original editorials and provides strategic advice. She is al...

128. Fred Tomaselli

14 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Fred Tomaselli has shown his work in museums, biennials and galleries around the world, including MoMA, MoCA, the MET and SFMoMa. Biennials include th...

127. Tim Griffin

31 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Tim Griffin is the Executive Director of the Industry. He joined the organization in June 2023 and continues the organization’s commitment to reimag...

126. Ebony L. Haynes

17 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Writer and curator Ebony L. Haynes, originally from Canada, is a Director at David Zwirner gallery in New York and runs 52 Walker. Haynes was a recent...

125. Tony Lewis

03 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Chicago-based artist Tony Lewis’s practice focuses on the relationship between semiotics and language to confront social and political topics such a...

124. Lauren Haynes

19 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

American curator Lauren Haynes is Director of Curatorial Affairs and Programs at the Queens Museum. Prior to joining the Queens Museum, Haynes worked ...

123. Shigeru Ban

05 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Shigeru Ban is a Pritzker Prize winning architect and humanitarian. Ban has developed a unique style known for its blend of traditional Japanese archi...

122. Sumayya Vally

22 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Sumayya Vally is the founder and principal of Counterspace, a Johannesburg-based architecture and research studio. Counterspace is committed to devel...

121. Thom Mayne

08 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Pritzker Prize-winning American architect and educator Thom Mayne is the founder of Morphosis, an innovative architecture, urbanism, and design collec...

120. Sarah Cain

25 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Artist Sarah Cain creates playful, abstract paintings and installations that feature a bold use of color, improvisation, and a variety of perspectiv...

119. Narsiso Martinez

11 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Artist Narsiso Martinez details the vital, but often unseen, labor carried out by farmworkers in the United States in his mixed media installations,...

118. Allison Berg

27 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Allison Berg, Founder and Executive Director of the A&L Berg Foundation, is a lawyer turned arts and culture writer, philanthropist, museum trus...

117. Simphiwe Ndzube

13 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Simphiwe Ndzube stitches together a subjective account of the Black experience in past and present-day South Africa from a mythological perspective cr...

116. Catherine Opie

30 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Catherine Opie is an American photographer known for her portraits and landscapes that explore the complexities of contemporary life. Opie documents h...

115. Robert King “Bob” Wittman

16 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Robert King “Bob” Wittman is a highly decorated former Federal Bureau of Investigation special agent who was assigned to the Philadelphia Field...

Episode 114: José Kuri and Mónica Manzutto

02 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Mónica Manzutto and José Kuri founded the gallery that united their surnames in Mexico City in 1999, and soon became an international reference for ...

113. Neville Wakefield

18 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Neville Wakefield is a curator and writer interested in exploring the ways in which art behaves outside of institutional contexts. He offers that art ...

112. Hilary Pecis

04 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Hilary Pecis makes paintings and drawings in which tableaus rich with interlocking fields of saturated color, geometric patterning, and bold linework ...

111. Mark Manders

21 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is a rare, live conversation between Zuckerman and artist Mark Manders recorded as part of an exhibition opening walk through in Los Ange...

110. Derrick Adams

07 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Derrick Adams is a multi-disciplinary artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Adams probes how the experiences and narratives of Black communities ...

109. Kelly Crow

21 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Kelly Crow is a staff reporter for the Wall Street Journal, covering the ever-changing contemporary art market since 2006. Her work includes reports o...

108. Jeffrey Deitch

07 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Jeffrey Deitch has been a prominent player in contemporary art for over fifty years. Born in 1952 and raised in Hartford, Connecticut, Deitch went on ...

107. Angel Otero

24 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Angel Otero is an artist known for employing highly innovative techniques that challenge the parameters of his materials, revealing the intrinsic qual...

106. Heidi Zuckerman Ask Me Anything

10 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

With Episode 106 we have changed a few things up! First, our name, we have dropped the word conversations from the podcast title.  The podcast is...

105. Dara Birnbaum

27 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dara Birnbaum is a groundbreaking figure in the emergence of media art. Among the earliest practitioners working in video, among the first women to ad...

104. Hoor Al Qasimi

13 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on my podcast “Conversations About Art” I spoke with Hoor Al Qasimi, President and Director of Sharjah Art Foundation, a curator who est...

103. Dan Wood and Amale Andraos, WORKac

29 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dan Wood and Amale Andraos, co-founders of WORKac and principals of the firm. Wood has extensive experience leading large scale and complex US and int...

102. Ella Fontanals-Cisneros

15 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ella Fontanals-Cisneros is a philanthropist, entrepreneur and collector of contemporary art. She began collecting art in the 1970s and her collection,...

101. Salah M. Hassan

01 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Salah M. Hassan is founding Director of The Africa Institute. Hassan concurrently holds positions at Cornell University as the Distinguished Profe...

100. Cristina Iglesias

18 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Cristina Iglesias is a Spanish born artist who studied Chemical Sciences at the University of the Basque Country and Ceramics and Sculpture at the Che...

99. Kate MccGwire

13 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on my podcast “Conversations About Art” I spoke with Kate MccGwire, a British sculptor who spent her childhood growing up on the Norfolk...