What we talk about when we talk about art. Exceptional makers and thinkers across art, literature, film, fashion, music, and more come together to talk about what it means to make things today.
Helen speaks to the legendary Black lesbian feminist scholar Barbara Smith and Meg Onli, co-curator of the 2024 Whitney Biennial, about identity politics in the art world today, the role of criticism, and questions of cultural appropriation.
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Episode 55 | Nicholson Baker
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Rirkrit Tiravanija and Elizabeth Peyton (Re-run...
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Episode 54 | Jonathan Anderson
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Episode 53 | Cecilia Alemani
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Episode 52 | Sarah Schulman
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Episode 51 | Jon Gray (Ghetto Gastro)
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Episode 50 | Why You Do What You Do with Brenda...
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Episode 49 | Luca Guadagnino and Michaël Borremans
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Best of 2022 | With Helen Molesworth
As we close out the year, Helen calls up her dear friend Steve Locke to carry on the tried and true tradition of end-of-year lists. It turns out there was a lot to love in 2022.
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What Does Art Have to Do with Climate Change? |...
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On Art and Poetics
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Let’s Talk About Appropriation | With Helen Mol...
36 min
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Seeing the 90’s Everywhere Right Now | With Hel...
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Inside ‘The Red Studio’: Ann Temkin with 6 Arti...
In this special episode produced and hosted by the painter Lisa Yuskavage, six artists—Joe Bradley, Carroll Dunham, Rashid Johnson, David Reed, Sarah Sze, and Charline von Heyl—give Ann Temkin, Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, their insights on Matisse’s Red Studio (1911) and the elusive nature of creativity.
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Death of an Artist: The Ana Mendieta and Carl A...
A special preview of a new podcast miniseries, Death of an Artist, hosted by the curator and art historian Helen Molesworth, who will also be hosting new episodes of Dialogues, coming very, very soon.
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Episode 48 | Rirkrit Tiravanija and Elizabeth P...
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Episode 47 | Edwin Frank
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Episode 46 | Jed Perl and Joshua Cohen
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Episode 45 | Jerry Saltz and Ellie Rines
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Episode 44 | Amy Sillman
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Episode 43 | A Scientific Theory of the Art World
A fascinating conversation with Richard Prum, a leading thinker in evolutionary ornithology
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Episode 42 | Amalia Ulman and Maggie Lee
A conversation with two exciting artists taking their multimedia practices onto the movie screen.