The Conversation Art Podcast

Epis. 385- Useful Art explodes what your sense of Art with a capital "A" is and can be, with John Byrne, author of "Useful Art- How Activist Artists Can Change the World"

28 Mar 2026

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John Byrne, author of "Useful Art- How Activist Artists Can Change the World," and professor of Useful Art at Liverpool John Moores University's Schoo...

Epis. 384: Boston artist and lifelong art school teacher on photography and teaching in art schools for 46 years

21 Feb 2026

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Boston-based photographer Jim Dow talks about: The Boston art community (which is often connected to the art school and universities) and why he's l...

Episode 383- Sarah Khan: Documenting the Immigrant Experience

17 Jan 2026

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Hadley, Massachusetts and NYC artist Sarah K. Khan talks about: How it's a "little miracle" to have a studio (a former chick coop on a farm in the 5-c...

Episode 382: Robbie Conal,from the studio to the streets--applying what you do best to what you care about most

13 Dec 2025

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Artist and legendary street artist Robbie Conal talks about: His family history, including his two activist-and-politically inclined parents, his ba...

Episode 381- Arleene Correa Valencia: From rural Mexico to the Napa Valley and back, fulfilling a family dream

15 Nov 2025

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Napa, CA-based artist Arleene Correa Valencia talks about: Why she lives in Napa, CA, and the two distinct versions of the town, for the wealthy an...

Episode 380- London-based photographer and writer Michael Collins on the perils of photography, and art criticism, and why to give your viewers the benefit of the doubt

11 Oct 2025

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London-based photographer and writer Michael Collins talks about: The flat where he's lived for 35 years, which is getting 'Wallace & Gromit' crowded;...

Episode 379- artist Linnéa Gabriella Spransy – growing up in a commune, Yale grad school, working as a living artist in Kansas City, and co-founding the gallery Bridge Projects

13 Sep 2025

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Pasadena-based artist Linnéa Gabriella Spransy talks about: Growing up between Wisconsin and a commune in Oregon, the latter which she describes as a...

Episode 378: Artist Camilla Taylor- "My House Burned Down"

09 Aug 2025

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Camilla Taylor, Los Angeles artist, and curator of "My House Burned Down" (at Track16 Gallery), talks about: Her childhood with complicated religious ...

Episode 377- "An artist walks into a bar…" Guy Richards Smit on his New Yorker cartoons, his paintings, and humor in art

04 Jul 2025

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Brooklyn-based artist and sometimes New Yorker magazine cartoonist Guy Richards Smit returns to the podcast eight years after his first visit to talk...

Episode 376: Merging art & life and leaving the city for the country: artist couple and collaborators Gribaudi-Plytas.

07 Jun 2025

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In Episode 376, Alex and Theo Gribaudi-Plytas talk about: Their location in rural France, at the southern end of the Champagne region, where there are...

Episode 375: Marcie Begleiter on artist residencies, working with nature, leaving big cities, and much more

10 May 2025

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Marcie Begleiter, an artist based on the Central Coast of California, talks about: artist residencies, including the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology...

Episode 374: "The Murder Next Door," Oakland-based graphic artist Hugh D'Andrade's first graphic novel

12 Apr 2025

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Oakland-based graphic artist Hugh D'Andrade, author of the graphic novel "The Murder Next Door," talks about: His first graphic novel, The Murder Nex...

Episode 373: RealTime Arts' Molly & Rusty on interactive happenings in Pittsburgh, where it's all about "Feeling the bean"

15 Mar 2025

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In Episode 373, Molly Rice & Rusty Thelin, co-founders of RealTime Arts in Pittsburgh, talk about: The especially niche field of their work, which is...

Episode 372: Painting, photography, and hard but necessary decisions: Claire Witteveen, an artist in Amsterdam

15 Feb 2025

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In Episode 372, the 1st half of the conversation with Amsterdam-based painter and photographer Claire Witteveen, she talks about: Her putting off p...

The White Pube, featuring Gabrielle de la Puente, on 'Poor Artists' and more

26 Jan 2025

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Gabrielle de la Puente, half of the art critic duo The White Pube, talks about: A few things people outside of the UK need to know about Liverpool,...

Taking a Break from Meta- please join me in Boycotting all Meta platforms this week

21 Jan 2025

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After learning about the Lights Out Meta campaign, a boycott on all Meta platforms from January 19th thru January 26th, 2025, it sounded like a good i...

Epis. 370: Bullish on Miami 2024- SCOPE Art Show founder Alexis Hubshman

04 Jan 2025

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Founder of the SCOPE Art Show, Alexis Hubshman talks about everything from its size (approx. 300,000 sq ft of exhibition space), to the number of gal...

Epis.#369: Cancel Culture Part 2 (Louis C.K.) and getting Stickered and Nan Goldin's Gagosian show

14 Dec 2024

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In the latest OLD NEWS roundup with Emily Colucci of Filthy Dreams, we start by revisiting our prior, charged exchanged about Louis CK, in which Emily...

Episode 368: Tulsa Kinney on her 18 years running Artillery magazine and her complicated relationship with the art world

23 Nov 2024

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In Episode 368, Tulsa Kinney, artist and now former founding editor of Artillery magazine, talks about: Why she sold the magazine after running it ...

Epis. 367: Lisa Schiff's bankruptcy, trashing Paul McCarthy's WS/White Snow, painting underground, and pairing smells with artworks-- OLD NEWS continues with co-host Emily Colucci.

02 Nov 2024

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In our continued dissection of the OLD NEWS, Emily Colucci and I discuss: Indicted former art advisor Lisa Schiff and her upcoming bankruptcy auctio...

366: Cancel Culture, an art/fireworks performance gone wrong, the art market, and strategic gallery going- Emily Colucci of Filthy Dreams co-hosts the OLD NEWS

05 Oct 2024

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In the latest round of OLD NEWS with former guest Emily Colucci (creator of the art & culture website Filthy Dreams), we cover: cancel culture throu...

Epis. 365: Brooklyn artist Liz Ainslie: a coveted artist loft, scream-core singing, and artists who stay with the community even after success

14 Sep 2024

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The Conversation is doing an Open Call for future guests of the show (thru Oct. 10th)- if you're interested in being a guest, please submit here: "Th...

Episode 364: Turner Prize-winner Jesse Darling may or may not keep making art; new OLD NEWS with co-host Dr. Maiza Hixson

24 Aug 2024

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In this New OLD NEWS episode, Dr. Maiza Hixson and I talk about the profile of recent Turner Prize winner Jesse Darling in the New York Times-- We...

Epis. 363- Friendship and Fraud in the Art World, with author and former art dealer Orlando Whitfield

03 Aug 2024

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Writer, former art dealer, and author of All that Glitters- A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art, Orlando Whitfield talks about: His interes...

Art protests, artist ruptures and Miranda July: the latest OLD NEWS w/special guest Maiza Hixson

06 Jul 2024

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In Episode 362, artist, curator and recent PhD (from U.C. Santa Barbara) Maiza Hixson co-hosts this episode's OLD NEWS, featuring updates on: protest...

Epis. 361- Adam Henry on what makes a successful show, and navigating the fluctuations of the art market

09 Jun 2024

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To listen to the complete episode with Adam Henry as well as all past Bonus episodes, please become a Patreon supporter of the podcast here: https:...

Epis. 360- How to Navigate Downward Mobility as an Art Worker- Valerie Werder, Part 2

11 May 2024

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In the 2nd conversation with author, recovering art worker and academic Valerie Werder, she talks about: the travails of clothes shopping for her job...

Journalist Bianca Bosker: a 'normie Philistine' dives into the art world working for artists, dealers and as a museum security guard in attempt to unravel its mysteries

06 Apr 2024

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Bianca Bosker, journalist and author of Get the Picture, talks about: The genesis of her deep dive into the art world - working with gallerists and...

Valerie Werder turns her intense years working for a blue-chip gallery into an inspired novel, Thieves

24 Feb 2024

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This episode features the 1st half of the full episode. To get the full version, please visit: Patreon.com/theconversationpod    The Conversation ...

Epis. 357- Seattle artist Debra Broz on her studio routines, love of work as well as successfully navigating "the feel bad machine" that is Instagram

27 Jan 2024

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 Seattle-based artist and restorer Debra Broz talks about: Living in Seattle, where she moved to from Los Angeles a year and a half prior to our ...

Zombie Formalism, Debt aesthetics, and AI & Art: New Yorker writer/critic Chris Wiley

02 Dec 2023

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Chris Wiley- Artist, New Yorker photography critic, and contributing editor at Frieze - talks about: His fleeing upstate to the Catskills during t...

Epis: 354- the Art Thief, the remarkable story of art history's most prolific stealer, with author Michael Finkel

14 Oct 2023

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Michael Finkel discusses the remarkable story of Stéphane Breitwieser, the subject of his recent book, The Art Thief, including: The genesis of the b...

Epis. 351- veteran co-host Deb Klowden Mann joins to discuss Money on the Wall, an epic profile of dealer Larry Gagosian

02 Sep 2023

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This special episode features return-guest-but-more-co-host Deb Klowden Mann to discuss the recent New Yorker profile of mega-dealer Larry Gagosian....

Epis: 349- Narsiso Martinez on his epic story from Oaxaca to California, from picking produce in the fields to becoming a full-time artist

05 Aug 2023

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Long Beach-based artist and former produce field worker Narsiso Martinez talks about: Growing up in a small town in Oaxaca, Mexico (Santa Cruz Papal...

Epis: 347- Alexis Rockman on 'owning' natural history

01 Jul 2023

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Connecticut- and New York City-based artist Alexis Rockman talks about: His semi-exodus from Manhattan, where he's lived his whole life, to a fairly r...

Epis: 345- House-hunting with a Billionaire

04 Jun 2023

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Hungarian billionaire Gabriela and artist and architect Andi Schmied talk about: Andi's residencies, across Asia and Europe, as well as the Triangl...

Art Adivisor Lisa Schiff- a Re-Release of Episode 99 from 2015

26 May 2023

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Art Advisor Lisa Schiff has been in the news over the last two weeks, because of lawsuits being filed against her by clients who weren't given the art...

Bonus Epis: 344- the Bay Area art scenes, healing out of ancestral trauma, and seeing Philip Guston through the lens of a Jew: artist Alex Nowik

20 May 2023

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In Bonus Episode 344, San Francisco and northern Virginia-based artist Alex Nowik talks about: The art communities he's been part of in the Bay Are...

Epis: 343- Flora, Public Art and loving New York even if NY doesn't love you back: Brooklyn-based artist Nancy Blum

06 May 2023

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Brooklyn-based artist Nancy Blum talks about: Her relationship with Judaism, both growing up and as an adult, where her exploration of healing and s...

In-Between Episode including fresh OLD NEWS

22 Apr 2023

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In this in-between (342 and 343) episode, I talk about the new Bonus Episode with Stefanie Kogler-Heimburger (for subscribers only), and recent OLD NE...

Epis. 341: Class Issues- artists and class with Berlin artist Norbert Witzgall

08 Apr 2023

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Berlin-based artist and co-curator of the exhibition 'Class Issues: Art Production in and out of Precarity,' Norbert Witzgall talks about: The term/...

The Conversation MIDWAY- Bonus episode announcement, plus a rant on the art services industry

26 Mar 2023

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In this Conversation MIDWAY - between epis. 340 and 341 - I talk about the bonus episode for Patreons, featuring Blum-Weinberg-Keinholz-Rottweiler, a...

Epis. 340: Veteran art handler Bryan Cooke on 50+ years in the art handling business, including several brushes with death

09 Mar 2023

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Episode 340- Veteran art handler and preparator Bryan Cooke talks about: Cooke's Crating, the business he started back in 1975, and how it's essenti...

Preview/Teaser for Epis. 339A- Art Can Kill: The Art World's Crooks, Clowns & Connossieurs

26 Feb 2023

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In this Teaser for Episode 339A, which is only available to Patreon supporters of the show, we talk about becoming a supporter of the show, read from ...

Epis. 338: Former pro surfer and current arts writer Jamie Brisick on why success is its own form of failure, and Raymond Pettibon, Paul Chan and Francis Alys, among others

11 Feb 2023

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Arts writer and former professional surfer Jamie Brisick talks about: w hat it was like being on the pro surfing tour back in his late teens and earl...

Epis. 337: Art & Politics- how can they co-exist? The Conversation's 14th Virtual Cafe

28 Jan 2023

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n the 14th installment of the podcast's Virtual Café, we take as our prompt a Dec. review by NYTimes art critic Holland Cotter about politics in ar...

Epis. 336: on The Death of the Artist, a frank conversation with writer and cultural critic William Deresiewicz

07 Jan 2023

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Writer and cultural critic William Deresiewicz, author of The Death of the Artist, talks about: His motivations in writing the book, largely motivated...

Epis. 335: Mashed potatoes hurled at Monet, Artists being replaced by AI Robots, a Bad Studio Visit cartoon, and new email etiquette for the Uffizi Gallery, with a very special guest-host

25 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

For this latest roundup of OLD NEWS stories, we're joined by a very special guest, to talk about: The MASS MoCA union; the new monument to the Central...

Epis. 334: The challenges in green-lighting public art that's actually good- curator and arts administrator Zoë Taleporos

10 Dec 2022

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Oakland-based curator and arts administrator Zoë Taleporos talks about: Her straddling independent curating and government-supported public art curat...

Epis.#333- Tjebbe Beekman, Amsterdam-based artist on how a major life turning point became a turning point for his art

25 Nov 2022

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Amsterdam-based artist Tjebbe Beekman talks about: His show in New York at GRIMM gallery (which just opened when we spoke); his 9-year stint living in...

Epis. 332: U. of Michigan art historian/scholar Joan Kee on Korean contemporary art, emojis, and going through law school & corporate law on her way to becoming an art historian

12 Nov 2022

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Joan Kee, University of Michigan art historian and current Ford Foundation Scholar in Residence at the Museum of Modern Art, talks about: Her residen...

ICA San Diego director Andrew Utt: on the curatorial process, and how to increase the art reputation of a city not known for its art world

30 Oct 2022

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ICA San Diego director Andrew Utt talks about: Moving back to San Diego, where he grew up, after years away in the Bay Area and South America, and why...

Epis.330: Cole Sternberg, from painting with the elements to his Free Republic of California project to moving to a farm during the pandemic

15 Oct 2022

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Cole Sternberg, artist and creator of the Free Republic of California, talks about: His painting process, which involves exposing his paintings to the...

Epis.329: Ben Davis on the Ordinary World Record Egg, what to do when Apple co-opts your artwork, and where high art meets immersive art

01 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In part 2 with ArtNet News critic Ben Davis, we talk about: environmentalism and our approach to the climate, as well his emphasis on finding a good m...

Epis.328: Ben Davis, National Art Critic for Artnet News and author most recently of Art in the After-Culture

17 Sep 2022

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Ben Davis, Artnet News's National Art Critic and author most recently of Art in the After-Culture, talks about: Cultural Appropriation in its many fo...

Epis.327: Val Zavala on the Extinction Circle, Death Cafes and the New 10 Commandments for Future Generations

03 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Val Zavala, former anchor/reporter for the long-running KCET (L.A. PBS station) series SoCal Connected and Life & Times talks about: The 'Extinction C...

Epis.326- NYC art appraiser David Shapiro: from valuing a work of art to shifting from his own art career

20 Aug 2022

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New York-based art appraiser David Shapiro talks about: What he does as an appraiser, whether in-person inspections or putting together reports using ...

Immersive art installations: who visits them, why, and where they're headed...with Kate Sharkey, painter and a 'host' at ARTECHOUSE

06 Aug 2022

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New Jersey-based painter and immersive art museum 'host' Kate Sharkey talks about: Transitioning from being a preparator (at MoMA) to getting a job as...

Epis.#324- Maria Brito, her path from emerging singer to corporate lawyer to art advisor; and how she scored a Banksy for a client

23 Jul 2022

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Maria Brito, art advisor, entrepreneur and author of How Creativity Rules the World talks about: Giving up on her teenage ambitions to become a singer...

Epis. 323, Dave Kinsey: post-graffiti, post-illustration, post-skate art, and the BLK/MRKT gallery scene in the early-to-mid-2000s

09 Jul 2022

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Vista, CA-based artist Dave Kinsey talks about: The gallery BLK/MRKT, that grew out of a design studio he co-ran, and launched as a gallery early in t...

Episode 322- Profound effects on the art market, 'Rich-Kid' art, and a painting of a polar bear

27 Jun 2022

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In this OLD NEWS-oriented episode of the show, I talk about: Immersive art exhibits, which are booming, much to my chagrin; a follow-up on the art wor...

Epis. 321: Working as an artist's assistant, learning to pay attention, and dedication to the process- James Griffith, part 2

11 Jun 2022

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In the 2nd part of our conversation, James and I talk about: working as an assistant for various artists, including making large-scale paintings for o...

Epis. 320: James Griffith, L.A.-based painter, on painting with tar, and re-building his home, studio, and outdoor amphitheater- part 1 of 2

28 May 2022

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Altadena (in L.A. County)-based artist James Griffith talks about: Discovering the town of Altadena, where they first bought a house, and then a studi...

Epis. 319: Sarah Thibault, S.F.-based artist, on residency hopping, conversing with ghosts, and being the last artist in San Francisco (or so it seems)

14 May 2022

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San Francisco-based artist Sarah Thibault talks about: How she's the last artist in S.F., or at least so it seems; a ghost encounter she experienced i...

Epis. 318: Andrew Russeth- art writer formerly in New York, now living in Seoul, South Korea

30 Apr 2022

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Freelance art writer (often for the New York Times) and past guest royalty Andrew Russeth talks about: Why he moved to Seoul, South Korea, where he's ...

Epis. 317: museums' Invisible Labor, and how exhibition rooms are suspensions of common sense- Fernando Dominguez Rubio, part 3

16 Apr 2022

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with Fernando Domínguez Rubio, author of Still Life: Ecologies of the Modern Imagination at the Art Museum, he talks about: Storage- how much it tak...

Epis. 316: Why MoMA goes to great lengths to recreate what's dying or only existing in the past- Fernando Dominguez Rubio, part 2

02 Apr 2022

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In part 2 with Fernando Domínguez Rubio, a professor of communications at UCSD and author of Still Life: Ecologies of the Modern Imagination at the ...

Epis. 315: What goes on behind the scenes of a museum (specifically MoMA), and why it matters, with Fernando Dominguez Rubio, author of Still Life: Ecologies of the Modern Imagination at the Art Museum, part 1

19 Mar 2022

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In the first of several parts with Fernando Domínguez Rubio, a professor of communications at UCSD and author of Still Life: Ecologies of the Modern...

Epis. 314: Oligarch Shortage, SuperBlue Indictment, and the Cinema of Transgression: the Guest-Less Episode courtesy OLD NEWS

07 Mar 2022

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In this guest-less episode, we ( that is to say 'I') talk about: a new OPEN CALL for future guests of this podcast; the opening reception and the show...

Epis.313: Sam Francis- king of desire,

19 Feb 2022

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In Part 2 with writer Gabrielle Selz, author of Light on Fire: The Art and Life of Sam Francis, we talk about Sam Francis as he: Settles into his comp...

Epis.312: Writer Gabrielle Selz on Sam Francis, an abstract painter who broke all the rules

05 Feb 2022

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about: the important first phase of Sam's long art career, in Paris, where he started working on a big painting from his bed in a tiny hotel room he s...

Epis. 311: Sydney Croskery, part 2 of 2-

22 Jan 2022

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In part 2 of 2 with Los Angeles-based painter Sydney Croskery, she talks about: connecting with a gallerist -- who has come to represent her – on In...

Epis.310: Sydney Croskery, Los Angeles artist

08 Jan 2022

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In part 1 of 2 with Los Angeles-based painter Sydney Croskery, she talks about: transitioning from representation to abstraction during pandemic lockd...

Epis.309: Running a gallery, creating community,

25 Dec 2021

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In part 2 of 2 with multi-hyphenate and Artist Decoded host Yoshino, he talks about: Working through an art-like writing phase, in which he does a mix...

Epis.308: Yoshino of Artist Decoded (the podcast), part 1 of 2

13 Dec 2021

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In the 1st of two episodes, visual artist, writer, entrepreneur and host of the Artist Decoded podcast, Yoshino talks about: how he shortened his name...

Epis.307: a Spanish painter (Antonio Murado) goes to New York City-

26 Nov 2021

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Antonio Murado, a New York City-based painter originally from Spain, talks about: His background in Spain, including several years in the Madrid art s...

Episode 306: Collector disconnect, enjoying without owning, and

13 Nov 2021

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In the final episode with Hannah Wohl (Bound by Creativity), we talk about: her experiences with mega-collector couple Sherry and Joel Mallin, who hav...

The challenge of describing contemporary art (even for a writer):

30 Oct 2021

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In my penultimate conversation with sociologist Hannah Wohl (author of Bound by Creativity) she talks about: the cynicism of sociologists, particularl...

Epis.304: Virtual Cafe w/special guest Rose Bricetti

16 Oct 2021

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In The Conversation's latest Virtual Café (which took place on 9/24/21, on Zoom), special guest Rose Bricetti and participants talked about: how meme...

Epis.303: Status Signals, and risking a Lower Status

02 Oct 2021

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In part 4 of my conversations with sociologist Hannah Wohl (author of Bound by Creativity), we discuss: Competing claims to expertise between artists ...

Epis 302: Hannah Wohl, part 3-

18 Sep 2021

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In digging into Hannah's book, 'Bound by Creativity,' we talk about: the continued existence of the artist as bohemian (even as 'enfant terrible'), as...

Epis. 301- Bound by Creativity, pt 2 with Hannah Wohl

04 Sep 2021

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In part 2 with sociologist Hannah Wohl, we continue our conversation by talking about whether the terms 'Creative Vision,' or 'Signature Style,' are e...

Episode 300- Hannah Wohl on her book Bound by Creativity: part 1

21 Aug 2021

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In the first part of a multi-part series, Hannah Wohl, sociologist and author of Bound by Creativity talks about: her general studies of the creative...

Epis. 299- NYC artist and writer Melissa Stern:

07 Aug 2021

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New York artist and writer Melissa Stern talks about: Living in a large Chelsea co-op apartment where also has her studio, in a building she calls 'a ...

Best-Of episode with Ben Davis (ArtNet News and

24 Jul 2021

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In addition to being a replay of episode 138, from May of 2021, art writer Ben Davis also provides an update on what he thinks about art and activism ...

Epis. 298: from cedar salvaging to becoming a landlord

10 Jul 2021

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Brooklyn-based artist Doug Beube talks about: his internship with photographer Minor White; photographing the circus, and later freelance gigs to make...

Sharon Butler, painter and the

26 Jun 2021

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Sharon Butler, NYC Artist and creator and publisher of Two Coats of Paint, talks about: Leaving a tenured teaching position in Connecticut so she coul...

Epis.#296: Jennifer Moon, Los Angeles artist, would-be revolutionary, & professor

12 Jun 2021

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Los Angeles artist Jennifer Moon talks about: getting sober after a long string of drug use benders; navigating ambitions for revolution with a tradit...

Epis.#295: LA-based photographer Rakeem Cunningham

29 May 2021

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Los Angeles-based artist Rakeem Cunningham talks about: growing up in essentially a small town (Pacoima) within Los Angeles, where he still lives and ...

Epis.#294: the art of art forgery

15 May 2021

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Law school professor, former general counsel for Pepsico, and novelist (most recently of The Forger's Forgery) Clay Small talks about: visiting Amster...

Epis.#293: When the aim is the immaterial- artist Mitchell Chan

01 May 2021

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Toronto-based conceptual artist Mitchell Chan talks about his epic "Digital Zones of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility," a blockchain-based work which ...

Epis.#292: the chirp-less crickets of Kauai:

17 Apr 2021

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Artist, choreographer and former ballet dancer Madeline Hollander talks about her brief but dramatic professional ballet career and her subsequent tra...

Epis.#291: How did he make that??! plus...

03 Apr 2021

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Berlin-based artist Lee Wagstaff talks about his paintings and his recent career boost through his use of the Artist Support Pledge (#artistsupportple...

Katarina Wong, part 2 of 2

20 Mar 2021

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In the 2nd of two parts, artist Katarina Wong talks about: her collective +1 +1, which fosters artist community serendipitously based on a non-competi...

Epis.#289: Can an artist get completely immersed in the making? Katarina Wong, part 1 of 2

06 Mar 2021

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Host Michael Shaw speaks with Katerina Wong, a New York City-based artist, curator, and writer (among other things), about working her way up to VP of...

Epis.#288: Being a Museum Director during the Trump era

20 Feb 2021

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Curator, writer and museum director Laura Raicovich talks about the challenges she faced as director of the Queens Museum, particularly around activel...

Epis.#287: Can art workers organize?

06 Feb 2021

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Artist, writer and art world worker Robin Kasier-Schatzlein talks with Michael Shaw and several listeners in the podcast's latest Virtual Cafe. Robin ...

Curator and NYU Professor Miriam Basilio Discusses Breaking the Museum Diversity Barrier

23 Jan 2021

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Michael Shaw talks to Miriam Basilio about her job at MOMA  curating Latin American Art, helping to integrate the curatorial landscape as a woman fro...

Matthew Burrows, MBE- English painter

10 Jan 2021

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English artist Matthew Burrows - founder of Artist Support Pledge, number 37 in ART REVIEW'S Power 100 list 2020, and 2020 Members of the Order of the...

Epis.#284: 'Best-of' episode with Carolina Miranda

28 Dec 2020

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For the end-of-year holidays we're re-running our fantastic conversation with Carolina A. Miranda of the L.A. Times, which originally ran as episode 1...