The MoMA Magazine Podcast
Episodes
“That’s Why Lil’ Kim and Flo-Jo Matter”: Talking About Nail Art
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Two women discuss the history and artistry behind manicured nails. In this episode of the Magazine Podcast, we speak with Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom,...
“My Friends Gave Me Their Love”: Friendship and Resistance During the AIDS Crisis
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join artist and photographer Lola Flash for a six-part podcast series exploring New York City during the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s and ‘90s. In t...
“I’m Making Biscuits for a Funeral”: Life and Death During the AIDS Crisis
26 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join artist and photographer Lola Flash for a six-part podcast series exploring New York City during the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s and ‘90s. In t...
“They Needed Help, and People Were Turning Their Backs”: Love and Loss During the AIDS Crisis
20 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join artist and photographer Lola Flash for a six-part podcast series exploring New York City during the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s and ‘90s. For ...
“A Space Where We Felt Welcome”: Community and Mutual Aid During the AIDS Crisis
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join artist and photographer Lola Flash for a six-part podcast series exploring New York City during the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s and ‘90s. Epis...
“I’m Laughing so I Don’t Cry”: Coming Together During the AIDS Crisis
06 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join artist and photographer Lola Flash for a six-part series exploring New York City during the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s and ‘90s. Episode two ...
“The History We Remember”: NYC During the AIDS Crisis
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join artist and photographer Lola Flash for a six-part series exploring the sites, sounds, and stories of New York City during the AIDS epidemic of th...
Designing for Climate Change
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A climate scientist and an architect discuss how design can be a force for positive environmental change. “I certainly remember, as a child growing ...
Frequency Gardens: This Room Feels Like a Hug
15 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to a teen-led conversation with DonChristian Jones, about building spaces for belonging and memory. When artist DonChristian Jones started at M...
The Art of Making It Up as You Go
28 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hear from two artists and an educator about how they use improvisation to engage with art. Improvisation informs all kinds of creative practice. But h...
Can Loneliness Open the Door to Love?
14 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The future of this complex emotion is still being written, but its history can offer interesting insights on our present day. “ Everybody fundamen...
How can art help with feelings of grief?
29 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hear from artists, writers, and therapists about what happens when art and grief collide. When was the last time you grieved? What is for a person or ...
How a "Most Typical Victorian Daughter" Found Freedom in the Radical Art of Her Time
10 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Society ridiculed the modern art she loved, so Lillie P. Bliss set out to create a museum to house it. It might be hard to imagine, but there was a ti...
The Curious Case of Meret Oppenheim’s Furry Teacup
17 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A hundred years later, a Surrealist artwork continues to inspire curiosity in all who encounter it. “It is an object that—once you’ve seen it, i...
Jazz in the Garden, Episode Three
24 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jazz in the Garden, Episode Three: “Return to the Garden” An overwhelmingly popular series of jazz concerts in MoMA’s Sculpture Garden in 1985 p...
How Art Is Helping Teens Find Their True Selves
19 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hear from current and former teens about their experiences of growing up queer. When was the last time you thought about your teenage self? ...
Jazz in the Garden, Episode Two
11 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jazz in the Garden, Episode Two: “One Magic Summer” After a golden age of big names and big crowds throughout the 1960s, by the mid 1970s live jaz...
Jazz in the Garden, Episode One
27 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jazz in the Garden, Episode One: “In the Beginning” Our story begins on June 16, 1960, when George Wein and the Storyville Sextet played the first...
Can Corn Do More Than Feed Us?
23 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hear how this popular crop is helping craft a more sustainable future in Mexico. What do corn, craft, and Mexico have in common? The answer to this qu...
Must Love Art II
13 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Is art the secret to everlasting love? It’s no secret that some of the most powerful art has been inspired by love, that singular, indescribable fee...
A Color-Infused Meditation with Dora Kamau
29 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join meditation artist Dora Kamau for an eight-minute guided audio meditation that explores the spectrum of emotions and energies associated with each...
Ten Minutes with Rachel Herz: On Smell
17 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A neuroscientist discusses how smell influences everything from emotions and relationships to identity and wellbeing. Our sense of smell is something ...
Ten Minutes with Jessica Spaulding: On Chocolate
19 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The founder of Harlem Chocolate Factory reflects on her lifelong journey with chocolate—and why you should never buy it at a low price. Inspired by ...
Ten Minutes with Detroit Hives: On Bees
27 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Beekeepers reflect on how fear transformed into love after they realized the huge impact of these tiny creatures. In 2016, Tim Jackson and Nicole Lind...
Ten Minutes with Emory Douglas: On Arts Activism
18 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hear from the revolutionary artist about his iconic designs for the Black Panther newspaper. Emory Douglas has a battle cry: “Culture is a weapon....
Ten Minutes with Emeka Ogboh: On Active Listening
14 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A maker of multisensory artworks reflects on the importance of listening to our surroundings. In 2014, Nigerian-born artist Emeka Ogboh moved from L...
Ten Minutes with Monét X Change: On Drag
21 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars reflects on how drag changes us for the better. For this month’s Ten Minutes podcast, we spoke to the ...
Ten Minutes with Therí Pickens: On Access
28 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For many, a trip to MoMA means confronting questions of access: Does this space welcome people like me? Will I be given what I need in order to feel s...
Ten Minutes with Amira Virgil: On Video Games
07 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What do video games reveal about our reality? In this Ten Minutes podcast, hear from gamer and content creator Amira Virgil, developer of the Melanin ...
Ten Minutes with Kalpona Akter: On Fast Fashion
03 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In Bangladesh, a garment worker barely makes enough money to cover the cost of rent. Discover the truth about the unfair labor practices behind many o...
Ten Minutes with Adam F. Bradley: On Invisible Man
01 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What is the relationship between literature and modern art? Join Adam F. Bradley, English professor and co-editor of Ralph Ellison's unfinished seco...
Ten Minutes with Lindsey Farrar: On Hair
23 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hear how a publisher decided to “create the world that we want to see” by founding the first natural-hair magazine. In this Ten Minutes podcast ep...
Ten Minutes with K. Melchor Hall: On Black Motherhood
10 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to the acclaimed writer talk about Elizabeth Catlett’s sculpture Mother and Child, and its connections to rest, intimacy, and reproductive ju...
Ten Minutes with Tricia Wang: On Web3
03 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A tech ethnographer explains some key terms and ideas behind the future of the Internet. In Unsupervised, Refik Anadol’s new installation at MoMA, ...
Ten Minutes with Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman: On Building Citizenship
27 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Discover how architecture can unite communities divided by an international border. Political theorist Fonna Forman and architect and visual artist Te...
Ten Minutes with Mabel O. Wilson: On Found Materials
05 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Can junk be transformed into art? Discover the life and work of John Outterbridge, an artist who combined discarded objects and found materials into c...
Art & Intimacy: Olivia Laing on David Wojnarowicz
28 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The artist and writer David Wojnarowicz, who died in 1992 at age of 37 from complications of AIDS, is best remembered for his political activism and ...
Broken Nature | Who Is a River?
17 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean for bodies of water, animals, and all of nature to be granted legal rights? In this episode of the Broken Nature series, host Paola ...
Broken Nature | Will We Need to Become Less Human to Survive the Climate Crisis?
10 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Humans depend on certain conditions to survive on Earth: oxygen, water, food, and the atmosphere’s protection from the sun’s most dangerous rays. ...
Broken Nature | Should Secondhand Be Our First Choice?
03 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of The MoMA Magazine Podcast's Broken Nature series explores the global secondhand clothing landscape: who participates in it, who benefi...
Broken Nature | Is Corn Feeding a Lie?
26 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Showing up in food, cosmetics, fuel, medicine, and even the air we breathe, corn has become one of the most ubiquitous presences in our lives. In this...
Introducing The Broken Nature Podcast
19 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What are some of the most urgent challenges facing our planet? And how can design help us meet them? Join Paola Antonelli, senior curator of architect...
The Voices of "Marking Time"
16 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
MoMA PS1’s new exhibition Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration features artists who were incarcerated or impacted by the US prison sys...
Black Trans Futures ft: West Dakota, Raquel Willis, Muhammed Fayaz, and Ceyenne Doroshow
25 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On June 14, in the midst of the Black Lives Matter protests and the COVID 19 pandemic, more than 15,000 people gathered in front of the Brooklyn Muse...
Harry Belafonte on Charles White
10 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Harry Belafonte once wrote that artist Charles White's work “is a testimony to the vitality of American culture.” In this conversation with WQXR h...
Rosanne Cash, the River, and the Thread
26 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash recently created a playlist to accompany Taking a Thread for a Walk, an exhibition of textiles and fiber art from MoMA...
Tess Taylor on Finding Poetry in Dorothea Lange
19 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Across her long career, pioneering photographer Dorothea Lange grappled with the relationship between words and pictures, the subject of MoMA’s r...
Must Love Art
30 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Love can be complicated, messy, and inspiring—and has shaped the history of art more than we knew. In this episode of the Magazine podcast, we’re ...
Beverly Glenn-Copeland’s Return
30 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
After 50 years of making music, singer, songwriter, and composer Beverly Glenn-Copeland's genre-bending compositions are finally being celebrated. Whe...
From Storage to Gallery: Florine Stettheimer’s "Four Panel Screen"
30 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Many mysteries surround Florine Stettheimer’s Four Panel Screen: its title, the date it was made, and even how it should be displayed. In the late...
Declaration of Independents: John Cassavetes
30 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In 1980, MoMA’s senior film curator Laurence Kardish organized a comprehensive retrospective of actor/director John Cassavetes’s career. The ret...
Books that Matter: Saidiya Hartman’s Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
30 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
For our first installment of Books that Matter, we read Saidiya Hartman’s Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments (2019). Hartman is a professor in t...
Art in the Age of Putin with Masha Gessen
15 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Being an artist or a writer in Russia has never been particularly easy, or free of risk—especially during the 19 years since Putin became the nation...