I DON'T HATE THIS
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Impending Cats
23 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Back at it again with a new podcat! Nina & Erik return for a short (long) discussion about a mysterious artwork depicting a magical dream land where...
Delirium Tropicalia
27 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
As winter tightens its grasp on our souls, let us take you to a tropical land filled with squawking birds, orange juice and gravel. Forget about snow,...
Great EXPO-tations
06 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Walk around EXPO CHGO with us! Artists notoriously love to hate art fairs and we are no exception. We spend a casual Saturday trying to find meaning i...
Ineffective Bragging
23 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Summer’s drawing to a close. And so we wistfully dream of Augusts past on this, the avant-est garde of podcasts. Thomas Hirschhorn and philosophical...
Worse Than Hotdogs
29 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
André has taken the unusual step of asking to appear before the Senate Subcommittee on Degenerate Funding for the Arts. Art on trial! After visitin...
My Generation Stuff
08 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Press junket! Curator Michael Darling gives an overview of Takashi Murakami's exhibition "The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg," followed by a conversation wi...
Respecfully Cynical
03 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Hot off the pod! We visited the preview of Takashi Murakami’s exhibition “The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg” at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicag...
Manifesta Destiny
17 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We kick out the jams with some live music in Berlin's Maurer (Wall) Park, a wonderful communist-era grove known for its love of Oasis hits. Erik is la...
The Long Twenty Sixteen
30 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We ran into each other on the bus in a meet-cute. And like a romcom we were supposed to meet at the art opening but went to different galleries. Our s...
Critiquing A Fish
15 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The gang accidentally went for drinks after brunch last Saturday. On the walls of the bar we were confronted with works of art including a painting of...
Which Way Do I Want To Live
22 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Many people are troubled by the world and scared about the future. But there is good news, if you are willing to hear it. Are you a rebel who will be ...
For Immediate Release
16 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Technically, anything deliberately sent to a reporter or media source is considered a press release: it is information released by the act of being se...
Preserving Taco Bell
23 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
We are joined by bean magnate and architecture impresario Keefer Dunn. Architecture, white cubes, ziggurats and telephonophobia are discussed. We also...
Drunk Art History: The Lost Episode
31 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Maybe it wasn't such a good idea to mix Tequila and Dr. Pepper. Maybe it was an even worse idea to start recording a podcast afterwards. But either wa...
Masterpiece
08 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The City Chicago is in a pension crisis! And in order to pay for it Mayor Rahm Emanuel is raiding the treasures of the city’s cultural heritage! Joi...
And Then at Some Point They Bring out A Box Turtle
17 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Fully exploiting the global resources of the Callot Media Empire, Erik and Nina are joined via Skye by sculptor Olivia Martin Moore, reporting in Berl...
Basically The Comic Looking Like
07 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Nina went on a boat and to her complete and utter horror found it full of art available for purchase. We discuss vacation cruises, populism, elitism, ...
The Great Good Podcast
17 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
I Don't Hate This is recorded in front of a live studio audience. In STEREO (where available). We welcome Brandon Alvendia, our first guest ever, t...
Journey to the Center of I Don't Hate This
07 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
It turns out you were consuming contemporary art all along! Erik and Nina take the show deep inside the white cube for part one of Brandon Alvendia's ...
yBa dBa dOo
03 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
It was just an ordinary day in Chicago. Erik Wenzel and Nina Litoff were talking about Young British Art. André Callot dialed up the internet and sai...
Sorting Through Possessions Which Hang About Our Necks Like Millstones Sparks Panic and
06 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
...Fills Us With Anxiety Nina has become a pupil in the way of the KonMari and is converting Erik to the stealthy art of sock folding. Like ninja assa...
Twice Yearly
21 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Erik wraps up his travelogue and discusses the Venice Biennale where you can get a brick for free if you make a mandatory voluntary donation of at lea...
I'll See You In Helvetica
31 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Erik tells us of his pilgrimage to see a talismanic artwork that forms the center of his Elements & Principles of Art & Design pedagogy and his yearly...
Ray Charles Ray
04 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
What do a dead tree, a (possibly imaginary) silver dog, a mime, a dad bod and a hover hand have in common? They can all be seen in the work of America...
Summer School Part 3: Final Jeopardy
27 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
This round it’s time for Erik to enter the hot seat when Nina puts his advanced art vocabulary knowledge to the test with her Modern and Contemporar...
Summer School Part 2: Surprise Midterm
14 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Howard L. Willett Most Valuable Adjunct Professor Erik Wenzel has a midterm test for all of you freshman Intro to Art students out there. And this tes...
Summer School Part 1: AP Art History
04 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
It's the Fourth of July and you know what that means? Summer school is in session! Drop your hot dogs, grab your books, and hit the classroom with Nin...
Nina's Trip to Germany
20 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Nina went to Germany and is back to tell us all about it. She and Erik address important contemporary art concerns, like falling asleep in yoga class,...
Documentia
20 Mar 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Nina and Erik won't...stop...thinking about tomorrow, or about Documentia, the show Erik curated at Sidecar Gallery on the subject of archival obsessi...
On Kawara—Silence
13 Mar 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Nina and Erik carefully document each moment as it passes during a conversation about the career of conceptual artist On Kawara.
On Kawara
19 Jan 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Jan. 16, 2015. Recorded Podcast. In honor of the passing of On Kawara and the New Year 2015, Erik and Nina perform one hour's worth of subtitles fro...
That's A Wrap
24 Dec 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Let's travel back to the year 2012, and hear Nina and Erik meet for the very first time in a time warp/gift wrap episode of I Don't Hate This!
Art Disasters
12 Dec 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Nina and Erik crawled up a vaseline-drenched cement ramp to bring you this episode on smashed vases, torn canvases and all kinds of other unfortunate ...
Episode 4.5 - Christopher Williams Special Report
27 Nov 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Senior Christopher Williams Correspondent André Callot went to see the Christopher Williams show at David Zwirner in New York, so you don't have to.
I Don't GET This
18 Nov 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Parents. They care for you, love you, protect you, and they just don't understand your art. Join Erik and Nina for some emotionally searing personal s...
I Don't Hate Ghosts - Sound And Vision And Performance - David Bowie
10 Nov 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On an extra-special crossover episode with Noisy Ghost, Erik and Nina get lost in a moonage daydream, oh yeah, with Eleanor Russell, André Callot and...
Higher Beings Command: Make A Podcast
03 Nov 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On episode two, Erik and Nina are ordered around by this summer's MoMA retrospective for Sigmar Polke, whom we all love. Plus, listener mail!
I Don't Hate This - Ep 1
24 Oct 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Episode one of I Don't Hate This, a new contemporary art podcast hosted by Nina Litoff and Erik Wenzel. On the first episode, Nina and Erik don't hate...