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98. Sandra Jackson-Dumont

04 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Sandra Jackson-Dumont is the Director and CEO of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art. Tasked with leading the institution through its opening and beyond...

97. Moshe Safdie

20 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Moshe Safdie is an architect, urban planner, educator, theorist, and author. In 1964 he established his own firm to realize Habitat ’67, an adaptati...

96. KAWS

06 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

KAWS engages audiences beyond the museums and galleries in which he regularly exhibits. His prolific body of work straddles the worlds of art and desi...

95. Jérôme Sans

23 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jérôme Sans began his career in the early 1980s as one of the first independent curators in Europe. His mission has been to rethink contemporary art...

94. Marianne Boesky

09 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Marianne Boesky established her eponymous gallery in New York in 1996. Since its inception, the gallery has represented and supported the work of emer...

93. Hebru Brantley

26 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Hebru Brantley was born and raised in Chicago. A product of the 80's, Brantley's early inspiration to create visual art derived from the cinematic Bla...

92. Fred Eversley

12 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Fred Eversley’s lenses and mirrored forms reflect and refract the world, and our place within it. Eversley hit his stride with his primary mode of w...

91. Teresita Fernandez

28 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Teresita Fernández’s work is characterized by an interest in self-reflection and conceptual wayfinding. Her immersive, monumental works are inspire...

90. Sanford Biggers

14 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Sanford Biggers creates hybridized forms that transpose, combine and juxtapose classical and historical subjects to create alternative meanings and pr...

89. Leo Villareal

31 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Leo Villareal works with pixels and binary code to create complex, rhythmic compositions in light. His goal is to create a rich environment in wh...

88. Fred Tomaselli

17 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Fred Tomaselli’s work reveals a uniquely American vision. Growing up in Southern California, he was influenced by both the manufactured unreality of...

87. Robert Nava

03 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Robert Nava draws inspiration from sources ranging from prehistoric cave paintings to Egyptian art and cartoons to create hybrid monsters populating a...

86. Seth Price

19 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on my podcast “Conversations About Art” we are reissuing one of our earliest—recorded in October 2019–when I spoke with artist Seth ...

85. Mike Kaplan

05 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Mike Kaplan is President and CEO of Aspen Skiing Company for the last 17 years. He recently announced that after 30 years with the company, that the 2...

84. Tamar Zagursky

22 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Tamar Zagursky was born in Beer-Sheva, Israel in 1975 to an Israeli born Engineer father and an American born English teacher and translator mother. S...

83. Christopher Lew

08 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Christopher Y. Lew is Chief Artistic Director at Horizon Art Foundation and Outland Art. He has over fifteen years of experience working at American m...

80. Tyler Rollins

28 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

After more than a decade as an art dealer and gallery owner specializing in contemporary Southeast Asian art, in the last year Tyler Rollins founded a...

82. Paula Cooper

22 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Following studies in Paris, Paula Cooper (b. 1938, MA) entered the New York art world aged 21 working at the World House Galleries on the Upper East S...

81. Katie Geminder

08 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Katie Geminder, Co-founder & Chief of Strategy at Cent, has held senior-level strategy, product, and design roles at Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and ...

79. Words and Wisdom from 2021 (Part 2)

21 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

On episode 79 we close out our second year of programming the “Conversations About Art” podcast! If you listen in you know that Heidi Zuckerman lo...

78. Words and Wisdom from 2021 (Part 1)

07 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The last two episodes of 2021 celebrate two solid years of the Conversations About Art podcast with compilations of excerpts from 10 guests featured i...

77. Jerry Garcia

23 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Jerry Garcia is a principal at Olson Kundig since 2006. Throughout his tenure in Seattle, he has been an active instigator in the dialogue between arc...

76. Lily Stockman

02 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Lily Stockman’s paintings are arrangements of biomorphic shapes, planes, and borders that draw from her affinity for the natural world and interest ...

75. Lucy Bull

19 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Lucy Bull makes visceral paintings that appeal directly to the senses. Synesthetic fields of shape and color, the paintings are described in sonic, ta...

74. Joost Bosland

05 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Joost Bosland is one of the thirteen owners of Stevenson, a gallery with spaces in Cape Town and Johannesburg, and an office in Amsterdam. He has been...

73. Sophie Chahinian

21 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Sophie Chahinian is a filmmaker and the founder of the The Artist Profile Archive (TAPA). TAPA produces short artist documentary profiles on contempor...

72. Shlomi Rabi

07 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Shlomi Rabi is a twenty-year veteran of the auction world.  Most recently he held the position of Vice President, Head of the Photographs Departm...

71. Casey Reitz

24 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Casey Reitz is President of the Segerstrom Center of the Arts, a multi-disciplinary cultural institution in Costa Mesa, CA, appointed in 2019. Since 2...

70. Cathy Kimball

10 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Cathy Kimball served as Executive Director and Chief Curator of the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) for twenty years and planned her reti...

69. Aparajita Jain

27 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Aparajita Jain is the co-director of Nature Morte Art Limited since 2012, when she bought a controlling interest in the leading contemporary art galle...

68. Sonja Hoel Perkins

29 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Sonja Hoel Perkins invests in people and companies that matter.  She is the founder of The Perkins Fund, Project Glimmer and Broadway Angels.&nbs...

67. Kemi Ilesanmi

15 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Kemi Ilesanmi has been a DMV clerk, receptionist, business school dropout, Minnesota State Fair ribbon winner, museum curator, foundation officer, and...

66. Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn

01 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn is a gallerist, art advisor, and independent curator. A fierce activist, she is committed to feminist and progressive ideas a...

65. Magnus Resch

18 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Magnus Resch is an art-market economist, serial entrepreneur, and bestselling author, as well as a Professor for art management, lecturing at Yale Uni...

64. Beth Pickens

04 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Beth Pickens is a Los Angeles-based consultant for artists and arts organizations. Since 2010 she has provided career consultation, grant writing, fun...

63. Nicole Perlroth

20 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Nicole Perlroth covers cybersecurity and digital espionage for The New York Times. She has covered Russian hacks of nuclear plants, airports, and elec...

62. Allison M. Glenn

06 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Allison M. Glenn is a curator and writer deeply invested in working closely with artists to develop ideas, artworks, and exhibitions that respond to a...

61. Glenn Kaino

23 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Glenn Kaino is an American conceptual artist based in Los Angeles. By integrating innovative methodologies with established art historical traditions,...

60. Alia Ali

16 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Alia Ali works between photography, video, and installation, addressing the politicization of the body, histories of colonization, imperialism, sexism...

59. Matty Mo

09 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Matty Mo is a conceptual artist and technology entrepreneur best known for creating, "The Most Famous Artist." Through this platform, Matty ...

58. Rebecca Anne Proctor

02 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Rebecca Anne Proctor is a journalist, presenter, and consultant who writes on culture, cultural policy, contemporary affairs, international relations,...

57. Sarah Sutton

23 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Sarah Sutton is Principal of Sustainable Museums. For three decades she has worked in the museum field with a specific focus on climate awareness in t...

56. Lynn Goldsmith

16 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Lynn Goldsmith is more than the “Rock and Roll photographer” of Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Keith Richards, and so many others. She has made kin...

55. David Glasser

09 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

David Glasser is the two decade Chairman & CEO of the Ben Uri Gallery and Museum in the U.K. and oversaw its recreation as the first full-scale vi...

54. Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi

02 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi is a South African-American painter and multi-media artist. Her work investigates power and its structures – political, social, ...

53. Erica Keswin

26 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Erica Keswin is a workplace strategist who has worked for the past twenty years with some of the most iconic brands in the world as a consultant, spea...

52. Brad Cloepfil

19 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Brad Cloepfil founded Allied Works in 1994 in Portland, Oregon. Since 2000, the practice has grown steadily through the completion of major museum pro...

51. Adam Pendleton

12 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Pulling from a wide range of mediums including collage, painting, writing, printmaking, video, and publishing, Adam Pendleton utilizes language as his...

50. Words and Wisdom from 2020 (Part II)

05 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In Episode 50 of  “Conversations About Art,” Heidi Zuckerman introduces excerpts from 14 episodes featured in the second half of 2020. We hea...

49. Words and Wisdom from 2020 (Part I)

29 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This final episode of 2020 pulls together excerpts from 15 episodes featured in the first half of 2020. We listen to the words and wisdom of Rich Roll...

48. Ralph Steadman

22 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Ralph Steadman is a UK satirist, artist, cartoonist, illustrator, and writer whose work is synonymous with the counterculture of the 1970s. Renowned f...

47. Melissa Cowley Wolf

15 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Melissa Cowley Wolf is the Founder of MCW Projects. With 20 years of experience in philanthropy and programming for cultural institutions across the U...

46. Bharti Kher

08 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Bharti Kher’s art gives form to quotidian life and its daily rituals in a way that reassesses and transforms their meaning to yield an air of magica...

45. Alison Sokol Blosser

01 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Alison Sokol Blosser is Co-President, CEO & Second Generation Winegrower of Sokol Blosser. Sokol Blosser was founded in 1971 when her parents Susa...

44. Sam Falls

24 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Sam Falls is contemporary American artist whose boundary-defying work applies artistic processes to natural phenomena. The resulting paintings, prints...

43. Christopher Bedford

17 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Christopher Bedford is the Director of the Baltimore Museum of Art, appointed in May 2016. Prior to joining the BMA, Bedford led the Rose Art Museum a...

42. Noah Horowitz

10 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Noah Horowitz is Director Americas for Art Basel since 2015. He is based in New York and is in charge of Art Basel’s show in Miami Beach. Horowitz h...

41. Pete McBride

03 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Pete McBride is a Native Coloradan who has spent two decades studying the world with a camera. A self-taught photographer, filmmaker, writer, and publ...

40. Sean Green

27 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Sean Green is the CEO and Founder of Arternal. Arternal helps art dealers better monetize their relationships. Born in Jamaica and raised in Toronto, ...

39. Patrick Steel

20 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Patrick Steel is the CEO of POLITICO, which strives to be the dominant source for politics and policy in power centers across every continent where ac...

38. Guerrilla Girls

13 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Guerrilla Girls is an anonymous group of feminist, female artists devoted to fighting sexism and racism within the art world. The group formed in ...

37. Paul Becker

06 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Paul Becker is the Founder and CEO of Art Money. He is an art entrepreneur passionate about empowering people to engage with art through building a su...

36. Michelle Maccarone

29 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Michelle Maccarone is the founder of eponymous gallery Maccarone. Shortly after 9/11 Maccarone opened in an unorthodox space in a remote neighborhood ...

35. Jennifer Guidi

22 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jennifer Guidi is an artist known for her radiant, mandala-like paintings that incorporate sand, oil, and acrylic paint. Her work is an exploration of...

34. Rickey Gates

15 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Rickey Gates has been described as a “conceptual runner” combining the practice of endurance running with the artistic mediums of photography and ...

33. Katherine Metz

08 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Katherine Metz is one of the most visible spokespersons of the art of Feng Shui in the United States, introducing Feng Shui into mainstream western cu...

32. Kulapat Yantrasast

01 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Kulapat Yantrasast is a thought-leader and practitioner in the fields of architecture, art, and design. Originially from Thailand and now based i...

31. Philip Tinari

25 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Philip Tinari is a notable writer, critic, art curator, and expert in Chinese contemporary art. Based in Beijing since 2001, Tinari is currently direc...

30. Christian Luiten

18 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Christian Luiten is a founder in 2015 of Avant Arte, an online platform for the next generation of collectors, which has 2M followers on Instagram. Th...

29. Michael Chow

11 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Chow is a Chinese-born  British-American restaurateur, interior designer, former actor, art collector, father, a...

28. Patricia Miller

04 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Patricia Miller is a visionary manufacturing leader, driving growth and innovation at M4. Under her leadership, M4 was named an Inc 5000 Fastest Growi...

27. Alisha Wormsley

28 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Alisha B. Wormsley is an interdisciplinary artist and cultural producer based in Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Her work is about collective memory and the sync...

26. Paul Laster

21 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Paul Laster is a writer, editor, curator, artist and lecturer. He is a contributing editor at ArtAsiaPacific and Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art...

24. Daniel Arsham

07 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Daniel Arsham straddles the line between art, architecture, and performance. He makes architecture do things that it’s not supposed to. From casting...

23. Yves Béhar

30 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Yves Béhar, Founder and Principal Designer of fuseproject, is a designer, educator, and entrepreneur who believes that integrated product, brand, and...

22. Ezinma

23 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Ezinma first picked up the violin when she was three-years old. Born in Lincoln, Nebraska to a Guyanese father and a German-American mother, Ezinma's ...

21. Kara Goldin

16 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Kara Goldin is the founder and CEO of hint inc., the San Francisco-based healthy lifestyle company, best known for hint water and most recently, hint ...

20. Jean Jullien

09 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jean Jullien is a French graphic artist living and working in Paris. His practice ranges from painting and illustration to photography, video, costume...

19. Hank Willis Thomas

02 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Hank Willis Thomas is a conceptual artist working primarily with themes related to perspective, identity, commodity, media, and popular culture. His w...

18. Tom Sachs

26 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Tom Sachs’s sculptures, often recreations of modern icons using everyday materials, are conspicuously handmade; lovingly cobbled together from plywo...

17. JiaJia Fei

19 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

JiaJia Fei is a digital strategist and founder of the first digital agency for art. She and Zuckerman discussed being an evening person, access to fre...

16. Richard Betts

12 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Richard Betts passed the Court of Master Sommeliers’ Masters Exam on the first attempt, the ninth person ever to do so. He co-founded the wine label...

15. Amy Cappellazzo

05 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Amy Cappellazzo is Chairman of the Fine Art division of Sotheby’s. Prior to accepting the position, Cappellazzo founded Art Agency, Partners with Al...

14. Dennis Scholl

28 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Dennis Scholl is a filmmaker, winemaker, collector, entrepreneur, and artist advocate. In this episode he and Zuckerman talk about him being an obsess...

13. Gary Simmons

21 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Gary Simmons uses chalk as his main medium, utilizing the traces and ghost like effects of the chalk to portray compelling messages involving racial s...

12. Kathy DeMarco VanCleve

14 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Kathy DeMarco VanCleve is the author of books Never Caught, The Difference Between You and Me, and Drizzle, numerous screen plays, and on the faculty ...

11. Richard Phillips

07 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

With his paintings, Richard Phillips is a master of seduction – he plays upon the complex web of human obsessions with sexuality, politics, power, a...

10. Sarah Thornton

31 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Sarah Thornton is a sociologist who writes about art, design and people. Formerly the chief art market correspondent for The Economist, Thornton ...

9. Rufus Wainwright

24 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Musically Rufus Wainwright has collaborated with artists including Elton John, David Byrne, Boy George, Joni Mitchell, Pet Shop Boys and producer Mark...

8. Tim Blum

17 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Over a 25 year period Tim Blum and Jeff Poe have fostered the careers of artists such as Takashi Murakami, Mark Grotjahn, Henry Taylor, and so many ot...

7. Rich Roll

03 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Rich Roll is a dad, athlete, and author of Finding Ultra. He also hosts the long running, super interesting, and widely popular Rich Roll podcast. In ...

6. Seth Price

18 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Zuckerman describes Seth Price as “undeniably one of the coolest people I have ever met!“ She curated his solo museum exhibition, No Technique, wh...

5. Christina Quarles

04 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Christina Quarles engages with the world from a position that is multiply situated.  As a Queer, cis-woman born to a black father and a white mot...

4. John Hickenlooper

21 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

John Hickenlooper recently spent six months running for President of the United States of America.  He served two terms as Mayor of Denver, follo...

3. Helen Molesworth

07 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Helen Molesworth is a Los Angeles-based writer and curator. She recently released “Recording Artists,” a podcast series in conjunction with the Ge...

2. Mary Weatherford

23 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Heidi speaks with painter Mary Weatherford known for radical, elusive paintings where her canvases are affixed and sometimes juxtapos...

1. Lance Armstrong

10 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this inaugural episode, Heidi speaks with long-time friend Lance Armstrong about his support of, and friendships with, a wide variety of contempora...