All Episodes

Episode 389: The Conversation presents: The Intrepid Artist, an Advice podcast- Episode 1, with co-host Arleene Correa Valencia

Episode 388: Lauren O'Neill-Butler on Artist Activism, Artforum magazine and the seminal Project Row Houses in Houston

Episode 387: Peter Hujar and Paul Thek's "Wonderful World That Almost Was," with writer and Frieze editor Andrew Durbin

Episode 386- James Delbourgo on the 'Noble Madness' of collectors- from Charles Foster Kane to Norman Bates and others, and what Freud had to say about all of them

Episode 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"

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

Episode 383- Sarah Khan: Documenting the Immigrant Experience

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Epis: 345- House-hunting with a Billionaire

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

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

In-Between Episode including fresh OLD NEWS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

Epis.313: Sam Francis- king of desire,

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

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

Epis.310: Sydney Croskery, Los Angeles artist

Epis.309: Running a gallery, creating community,

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

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

Episode 306: Collector disconnect, enjoying without owning, and

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

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

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

Epis 302: Hannah Wohl, part 3-

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

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

Epis. 299- NYC artist and writer Melissa Stern:

Best-Of episode with Ben Davis (ArtNet News and

Epis. 298: from cedar salvaging to becoming a landlord

Sharon Butler, painter and the

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

Epis.#295: LA-based photographer Rakeem Cunningham

Epis.#294: the art of art forgery

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

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

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

Katarina Wong, part 2 of 2

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

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

Epis.#287: Can art workers organize?

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

Matthew Burrows, MBE- English painter