All Episodes

Season 8: From the Netherlands to Boston and Beyond_ A Conversation with jazz vocalist and Singer-Songwriter

S8:"All About Aesthetics":A Conversation with Filmmaker Sasha Waters on Mary Oliver Documentary Film

Season 8 Kickoff : "An Informal Talk on the Words Aesthetic and Aesthete "

Season 8: Mitch Hampton Jazz Trio Sizzling Summer Concert !

Season 7: July" Book Lunch" : "Why Jazz Happened" and "3 Shades Of Cool", Part 1

Season 7:  On Robert Egger’s “The Witch”, “Nosferatu”, genre of Folk-Horror and More with return guest, artist Alexandra Carter

Season 7: All About Aesthetics: Return Guest Madame B in Paris and looking at Art and Culture Through A Gen X lens

Season 7: "Book Lunch": Hermione Lee's "Tom Stoppard: A Life " with Return Guest Joanne Davis Woods"

Season 7: Mitch Hampton Trio Spring Concert

Season 7: A Conversation With Return Guest Will Dodson on Comebacks In Movies, TV and the Arts

Season 7:"Representations Of Real Subjects in Film,Art,Ryan Murphy,Naomi Watts, Sarah Paulson & more

Season 7: "Travels With The Dark Ep 4 Serial Killers and their Eras with Madame Deb" Part 2

Season 7: "Travels With The Dark Ep 4 Serial Killers and their Eras with Madame Deb" Part 1

Season 7: "On Music, Protons, and Poetry : A conversation with Mark Winters"

Season 7: "Something Borrowed": Nancy Sinatra's 1985 book on her father, Book publishing and American Song

Season 7: "All About Aesthetics": Isaiah Berlin and Romanticism,The Final Episode (9)

Bonus Content! Season 7 : "Mitch Hampton Trio spring Concert and Happy Birthday Zach! Happy Easter all!

Season 7: "Book Lunch" Metaphysical Animals

Season 7: A Shakespeare Episode with guest Dr. Kurt Daw

Season 7: Trio Concert, "Out of the Deep Thaw"

Season 7: "Art and Creating A Podcast, Part 2"

Season 7: Valentine' Day Books Lunch: Patti Smith's Bread Of Angels and More with Joanne Davis Woods

Season 7: "Isaiah Berlin And Romanticism ep 7"

Season 7: Solo Episode for January 2026: "Art And A Podcast"

Season 7: "Art, Music and Retail ; A Conversation with a Record Store owner Morgan Markowitz"

Season 7: "Book Lunch":Fiction of Thomas Pynchon and Shadow Ticket w return guest Joanne Davis Woods

Season 7: "All About Aesthetics: Isaiah Berlin, Romanticism, its Effects on Art, Culture Ep 6 "

Season 7: November Episode, "Piano and Talk", featuring your host, Mitch Hampton

Season 7: "Book Lunch " Friday, November 7 at Noon: Anders Reckwitz "The Society Of Singularities"

Season 7: Charlie's Long Shadow- Investigating All Things Charles Manson

Season 7: " The Lynne Jebens Show" : Life of a New York Acting Agent

Season 7: "Art in Healing From Crises: A Conversation with Shelley McKechnie"

Season 7: "Book Lunch" Joan Didion Series Finale, Episode 4 Featuring John Gregory Dunne and his book, "Vegas"

Season 7: Aesthetics Miniseries: Isaiah Berlin, Romanticism and its effects on art, culture, and society Ep 4

Season 7: "Book Lunch"Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne Ep. 3 with special guest Joanne Davis Woods

Season 7: Ep 2. New Series, Travels With The Dark , discussing of all things "Goodbar" Deb Madame B

Season 7: "The Tina and Andy Show"

Season 7: "All About Aesthetics", Ep 3- Isaiah Berlin on Romanticism, its effects on Art and Culture

Season 7: Episode 1, New Series, "Travels with the Dark", Featuring Alexandra Carter, "The Substance", "The Last Showgirl"

Season 7: "Book Lunch": Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne, Episode 2

Season 7: "The Dom Flemons Show"

Season 7: Performance ,live composing at piano, Season 7 kickoff!

Season 7: All About Aesthetics: Isaiah Berlin on Romanticism and its Effects Art and Culture Ep. 2

Season 6: Book Lunch Series: Joan Didion, John Gregory Dunne and the Art of Personal Prose, Ep 1

Season 6: Miguel Eichelberger on Poetry, Grief and Everything

Season 6: "All About Aesthetics": Isaiah Berlin Lectures, Romanticism and its Effects on Art and Culture

Season 6: "The Jey Odin Show"

Season 6: "Book Lunch": John Updike's Rabbit Novels, The Last Episode (6)

Season 6: "All About Aesthetics" Episode 20: Graydon Carter and the Analog Age of Magazines

Season 6: "Mitch Hampton Trio Easter Concert"

Season 6: “The Joanne Davis Woods Show Part 1: From Ashley to Hollywood”

Season 6: "Book Lunch": Episode 5, John Updike's "Rabbit" Novels Series

Season 6: Episode 19, Part 2 of our ongoing "All About Aesthetics" Series

Season 6: "Book Lunch" Episode 4, John Updike and his "Rabbit" Series

Season 6: "All About Aesthetics" Episode 18, "The Universal Adjacent"

Season 6: "Book Lunch" John Updike, Rabbit Series, Episode 3

Season 6: Mitch Hampton Solo Episode "Maybe I am Amazed" Piano Process

Season 6: "The Erika Verba Show"

Season 6: Valentine's Concert, Cole Porter and More!

Season 6: "The Amy Pike Show", Helene Recovery Series

Season 6: All About Aesthetics, special episode 17: Freddie Hubbard And his Keep Your Soul Together

Season 6: New Years 2025 Stream with your host Mitch Hampton!

Season 6: Episode 2 John Updike "Book Lunch" Rabbit Novels Series

Season 6: American Art and the West A Discussion With Cawdrey Gallery from Montana

Season 6: Holiday Piano Concert featuring your host, Mitch Hampton

Season 6: "All About Aesthetics" Episode 16

Season 6: Book Lunch Series: The John Updike "Rabbit" Novels, Episode 1

Season 6: On Stage, Screen and Seminary- A Conversation with Brit Whittle

Season 6: Bonus Content, "Book Lunch" featuring Annie Dillard's "An American Childhood"

Season 6: "All About Aesthetics" Episode 14

Season 6: Mitch's Birthday Pop Up Stream, Interlochen 2, Birthday and Art Reflections

Season 6: "All About Aesthetics" Episode 15 "Travel in the US"

Season 6: Pop Up steam 1- Interlochen

Season 6: The Wendy Steiner Show: Women, Beauty and Choice

Season 6: "A Conversation with Christoph Schlüren On Being A Conductor"

Season 6: "A Conversation with Aaron J Leonard: History and Activism in the 1970s and More”

Season 6: "All About Aesthetics" No. 13

Season 6: Hannah Arendt's "The Life Of The Mind": The Last Episode

Season 6: "Book Lunch" Hannah Arendt's The Life of the Mind, Episode 6

Season 6: All About Aesthetics Episode 12

Season 6: "The Christine Moore Episode"

Season 6: Friday Piano Performance, Season 6 Kick Off and Talk: July 12, 2024

Season 5: “Michael Merschat On a Life of An Architect”

Season 5: "All About Aesthetics" episode 10, Blake Edwards and his film, "10"

Season 5: Bonus Content, "Almost Summer" Mitch Hampton Jazz Trio Concert"

Season 5: "The Martin Davidson Show" Part 2, Episode 3 of 3 related to "Almost Summer"

Season 5: "The Martin Davidson Show" Part 1, Episode 3 of 3 related to "Almost Summer"

Season 5: "The Lee Purcell Show" Episode 2 of 3 related to "Almost Summer"

Season 5: "Almost Summer And More A Conversation with Marty Davidson and Lee Purcell" Episode 1 of 3

Season 5: BOOK LUNCH: Hannah Arendt's "THE LIFE OF THE MIND, episode 4

Season 5: "All About Aesthetics": Episode Magic Number Nine, "Volume and Mass"

Season 5: "The Pete Christlieb Show"

Season 5: "All About Aesthetics Part 7"

Season 5: Book Lunch: Hannah Arendt's Life Of The Mind, Episode 4

Season 5: “The Will Dodson Episode: Wes Craven, Horror Film & Popular Genre”

Season 5: "All about Aesthetics Part 6"

Season 5: "Book Lunch" Hannah Arendt "A Life of the Mind" Part 2

Season 5: "All About Aesthetics Part 5" The art of album covers and more!

Season 5: Bonus Content, Mitch Hampton Trio Jazz Concert!

Season 5: "The Marc Antony Episode", Part 2

Season 5: "The Marc Antony Episode" Part 1

Season 5: Special Jane LeCroy Valentine's Pop Up Episode!

Season 5: "Funky Friday at Five: "All about Aesthetics, Part 3"

Season 5: Pop Up Music and Discussion

Season 5: "Book Lunch" Part 3 of Irving Singer's "The Nature of Love"

Season 5: The Long Seventies Episode with Alex and Matt

Season 5: New Year's Episode discuss the unique style of Nic Roeg's filmmaking with a focus on his 1973 "Don't Look Now".

Season 5: Special Holiday Concert Featuring the Mitch Hampton Trio!

Season 5: “On Art, Prose and the Sea: A Conversation with James Sturz”

Season 5: "Funky Friday@5 All About Aesthetics, Ep 2"

Season 5: "Book Lunch" Irving Singer's "The Nature of Love"

Season 5: “The Laine Nooney Episode”

Season 5, November "Book Lunch" : Episode 1 of a Series on Irving Singer's The Nature Of Love

Season 5: November "Funky Friday at Five, All about Aesthetics Part 1"

Season 5: Funky Friday 70s Film & Television, Part 7: “A Potpourri"!

Season 5 :Bonus Album Release Music Talk with Sanifu Al Hall about is new album, "PROJECT 43" !

Season 5: September "Book Lunch" Eelco Runia's "Moved By The Past"

Season 5, August “Funky Friday at Five with painter Alexandra Carter and the 2018 film, “Suspiria”

Season 5: The Michael Newton Show

Season 5 August "Book Lunch": Marcel Gauchet's The Disenchantment of the World, A Political History of Religion

Season 5: August, Funky Friday @ 5, 70s Cinema Part 6 "Uniqueness Of Vision"

Season 5 The James Stephenson Episode: The Life of a Composer Today

Season 5: Jill Nadine of Nadina's Cremes

Season 5 Bonus Content: Mitch Hampton Trio's Summer Concert

Season 5 "Book Lunch": Thomas Moore and his new book, "The Eloquence of Silence"

Season 5, July 2023 "Funky Friday at Five": "1970s Cinema Part 5: Documenting the Underrepresented"

The Two Hundred A Day Plus Expenses Rockfish Show with Eppy And Nathan

Season 5 Kickoff with your host Mitch Hampton featuring Mitch at the piano!

Season 5 Kickoff and Thank You All!!

Season 4: June "Funky Friday at Five" : 1970s Cinema, part 4, "Free Associations & Public Spectacles"

Season 4: June "Book Lunch" Featuring Jean Baudrillard's⁠ masterpiece , "America"

Season 4, The Michel Foucault Episode - with Michael Behrent

Season 4: May "Book Lunch" “Technopoly” by Neil Postman

The Sam Wasson Show

Season 4: May "Funky Friday at Five" Part 4 of our 70s Cinema Series, "Getting in Touch with your Feelings"

Season 4: April "Book Lunch" Alexandra Lange's "Meet Me By The Fountain"

Season 4, Bonus Content: Spring LiveStream Concert Featuring Original Music by host, Mitch Hampton!

The Rob Chalfen Interview: Boston's Counterculture Performing Arts History

Season 4, April 2023, "Funky Friday at Five" Part 2 of our 1970s Movies Series: The Art of Editing"

Season 4, March 2023 "Book Lunch" featuring Douglas Coupland's masterpiece, "Generation X"

On Performance on and across the Borders: A Conversation with Rosalie Purvis

Season 4, March Funky Friday at Five: "70s Cinema, Arts & Culture Part 1, A New Concept of Beauty"

Season 4, "Book Lunch" featuring Judy Blume's classic novel, "Forever"

Season 4, February 2023 Funky Friday at Five, "The Films of Yasujirō Ozu "

Traveling Between Stage and Page: A Conversation with illustrator comic artist, and comedian, Teresa Roberts Logan

Season 4, Pianist Mitch Hampton's 2023 Valentine's Piano Concert!

Season 4, Special livestream episode with special guest, filmmaker Andrew Bujalski featuring the release of his new film , "There, There!"

Season 4, January 2023 "Book Lunch" featuring Andrea Wulf's “Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and The Invention Of The Self ”

Season 4, January 2023 "Funky Friday at Five" featuring host Mitch Hampton's art talk on style"

Season 4, "The Aesthetics of Hollywood and Beyond: A Conversation with Todd Berliner"

Season 4, January 2023"Funky Friday at Five" Part 3 of Inside Mitch's Music"

Season 4, Bonus Content: “The Madame B and Mitch Hampton Morning Holiday Show!” Part 2 of 2

Season 4, Bonus Content: “The Madame B and Mitch Hampton Morning Holiday Show!” Part 1 of 2

Season 4, Bonus Content, " Holiday Concert featuring your host, Mitch Hampton and his Jazz Trio!"

Season 4, “On the Intersection of Art and Healing: A Conversation With artist Emily Bracale”

Season 4, "Funky Friday at Five" 2nd Part in Special Music Series Featuring host Mitch Hampton on his process as a composer!

Season 4, Bonus Content, November "Book Lunch" featuring Don Delillo's masterpiece, "White Noise"

The Fool's Journey: A Conversation with Tanya from Tanya LoveBuddha

Season 4, "October 22nd, Funky Friday at Five, featuring host Mitch Hampton on his Journey as a Pianist"

Season 4, Bonus Content: Mitch Hampton's Special Jazz Trio Birthday Concert!

Season 4, Bonus Content, "Popup Livestream Featuring Pianist Michelle Alexander"

Of Cast Iron, Textiles and Love Letters: A Conversation with Artist Anna Shapiro

Season 4, October 2002 "Book Lunch" Featuring Azar Nafisi's new book, "Read Dangerously!"

September 16th, "Funky Friday at Five" featuring host Mitch Hampton "On Ancestry and Influence"

"Book Lunch" featuring Louis Menand's "The Free World"

Frank La Mendola on Sharing One's Passion: A Conversation with designer and Chef/Baker Frank La Mendola

Mitch Hampton Jazz Trio Concert August 21st 2022, Bonus offering for you to enjoy and share with us!

"Funky Friday 5" featuring neurodivergent activist, Eddie Abreau!

On Art and Beauty: A Conversation with Wendy Steiner

"Book Lunch" Featuring Kei Hiruta's Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin: Freedom, Politics and Humanity”

Funky Friday at 5, July 8th featuring special guest actress Quinn Lemley!

Happy Season 4 of Journey of an Aesthete Podcast and thank you all!

On Warhol and Fine Art: A Conversation with Blake Gopnik

Our May 31st "Book Lunch" featuring author Laurie Verchomin and her masterpiece, The Big Love: Life and Death with Bill Evans"

Funky Friday at Five with special guest, artist Alexandra Carter, a deep dive discussion of the film, "The Lost Daughter" by Maggie Gyllenhaal

Enjoy a May Bonus Pop Up Livestream Art Talk!

The Political Situation in 2022: A Conversation with journalist, activist and counselor Andy Heintz

"Book Lunch" #2 "A Suite for Barbara Loden'

"Our recent Funky Friday at 5: Discussing a Love for Life Long Learning"

Special Listener Bonus! Mitch Hampton Trio, Spring Concert, An evening of live jazz!

On Being "Culturally Determined": A Conversation with Culturally Determined Host Aryeh Cohen-Wade

From the Cranberry Farm to the Art Studio, our talk with Alexandra Carter

Welcome to our new series, "Book Lunch", featuring Mitch's talk on Blake Gopnik's,"Warhol"

Funky Friday at Five Livestream, Tyler Bejoian and the Names new album release !

Beth Levin: The Life And Career Of A Pianist

Being Present with Sunny Redmond: A conversation with model and healer Sunny Redmond on her life and careers

“On Art As Philosophy and Philosophy As Art: A Conversation with Robert Pippin”

The Anastasia Rose Show: A conversation with singer-songwriter and music therapist Anastasia Rose on her journey with music

The Hop Shirtmaking Episode

The Lou Beach Show

"Please rewind and love one another": A conversation with film archivist and scholar, Skip Elsheimer"

"The art of percussion and life: A Conversation with Frank Colon"

"The Art of Healing and Therapy: A Conversation with Nancy Loeb"

"The Art of the Canvas": A Conversation with Avery Lucas"

"Supporting the Underdog and Underrepresented: A Conversation with archivist Stevo"

"A vastly better world than our current world is within our grasp": A Conversation with philosopher Elizabeth Anderson

"The Madame B Talks"

“Getting One's Work Into the World: A Conversation with Jaimee Wriston about the journey of her latest novel from conception to publishing”

The Ellen Burstyn Show: An in depth conversation with Ellen Burstyn about the art of acting, her career and spirituality

"When what you love finds you: Robin Mahaffey Conversation"

"Teaching as an art and a calling: A Conversation With Michael Bennett"

Singing as a calling: A Conversation with opera singer and Cantor, Colman Reaboi

The 70s Show: A Conversation with Historian Bruce Schulman

The Sanifu Al Hall Jr. Reunion Episode

"Drawing From Life: A conversation with artist Elizabeth Williams"

"History and Photography: A Conversation with Henry Horenstein"

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“ Music, Healing, and Service: A Conversation with Dr. Philander Ratliff ”

" Theo Horesh : The Politics Show "

"It's all about helping people": A Conversation with Joey Romer about his careers in law enforcement, dog training and much more "

"Criticism as an art: A Conversation With Jonathan Rosenbaum"

A Show on Art, Autism and More with Stephanie Persephone

“INTIMATE STRANGERS episode with Amanda Reyes “

“ From the Earth To The Heavens: A Conversation with Kerry Lilly”

The January 2021 Mitch Solo Episode (All Dressed Up With No Place To Go) Mitch Hampton

"The Varieties of Musical Experience: A Conversation with Candace English”

A Conversation With Danielle Norris: A visual artist's journey from the South to the North and beyond

"Ultimate Values: A Conversation with Jim McCoy"

“From the Desert to the City: A Conversation with Flugelhornist and composer Dmitri Matheny”

"Being Open To One's Entire Environment: A conversation with singer/songwriter Tyler Bejoian"

"From live Theatre to Streaming Television: A Conversation with Melanie Mayron"

Amanda Maciel Antunes, From Brazil to Los Angeles: A Conversation on Art and Life

A Consummate Actor: A conversation with Austin Pendleton on his life in the theatre, movies, television and much more

Democracy and Empathy: A Conversation with Azar Nafisi on the Importance of Literature

“A Kaleidoscope of Creativity, A Symphony of Souls ”

" I love being a maker of things!": A Visit With Mangum Pottery

“Season Two: The Solo Episode with Mitch on the Mic or Where we are Now”

Embracing every facet of music: A musical conversation with singer/songwriter and music educator Erin Kinard

The MANU (Make American Nuanced Again) show, with Meghan Daum

"All About the Golden Age of the Made For T.V. Movie with Amanda Reyes

“From 1470 to 2020, with a few stops in between: a musical conversation with bassist Bill Fouty "

"George Kateb: The Importance Of Attention"

Patreon Subscribers: A personal note from your host, Mr. Mitch Hampton about the extra perks of becoming a monthly subscriber to our show

“Kindness and Diversity: A conversation and collaboration with poet and teacher Jane LeCroy”

“ Movie Talk with Mike White”

“Jon Stepp: The Value Of the Handcrafted”

Andrew Bujalski: Making Films As If People Mattered

Martha Coolidge's “Valley Girl”: A Valentine’s Day special film exploration of all things love, sex, romance and the nature of, true love.

At home in San Francisco and the World: A Conversation with Daniel Kremer

New Year 2020 with Doug Kurtis

Special: Holiday Episode

Music with Mitch, Second Edition

The Art of Prose with Jaimee Wriston Colbert

The Art of Sound and Image: a conversation with Maile Costa Colbert

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Living with and from the soul: A Conversation with Thomas Moore

Smriti Shankar and Travelling Boots: connections with the whole world

Sanifu Al Hall Jr: The Consummate Musician

Spirit of Independence: A conversation with Jon Jost

Episode 1 : Journey of an Aesthete: Because, after all, one must begin...

Teaser for Journey of an Aesthete launching July 1st!!!!!!