Podcast Episodes
Back to Search‘Hope’ Poster Artist Shepard Fairy on Art and Activism Today
Few living artists have created an artwork as instantly recognizable as Shepherd Fairey’s Hope poster, which has become the stuff of legend as the fa…
3 years, 5 months ago
How the Universe Taught Wolfgang Tillmans to Make Art
When visitors go to see Wolfgang Tillmans’s new retrospective at the museum of modern art, one of the first things they'll likely notice is that few …
3 years, 5 months ago
Rick Lowe on How Art Can Solve Real-World Problems
The year was 1990, and artist Rick Lowe had invited a group of high school students into a studio. Standing surrounded by his billboard size painting…
3 years, 5 months ago
How K-Pop and Connoisseurship Made Seoul a New Art Capital
Last week, the art industry descended on Seoul, South Korea, for the inaugural edition of Frieze art fair’s Asian outpost. It was a major affair, pac…
3 years, 5 months ago
Re-Air: Why Art Biennial Superstars Exist in a Parallel Universe
This year was a big one for biennials with the Whitney Biennial in New York, the Venice Biennale in Italy and Documenta in Kassel, Germany as well as…
3 years, 5 months ago
Re-Air: The Black Art Visionary Who Secretly Built the Morgan Library
We thought we’d revisit an episode we recorded earlier this year about one of the more fascinating and under-known figures in American art history. H…
3 years, 6 months ago
Re-Air: How the Art World in Ukraine’s Besieged Capital Are Fighting Back
Five months into the conflict, the brutal, horrific war in Ukraine grinds on, with no end in sight. And while Ukrainian men and women are fighting, a…
3 years, 6 months ago
Re-Air: Marina Abramović on How Her Artistic Method Can Change Your Life
Over the years, we’ve been very fortunate to have some bona fide legendary artists on this show, from Ai Weiwei to Judy Chicago to Anish Kapoor to Ed…
3 years, 6 months ago
How Virgil Abloh Changed the Contemporary Art World
The world rarely sees a creative dynamo on the level of Virgil Abloh—or one harder to quantify. A trained architect, who was born to Ghanian immigran…
3 years, 6 months ago
What Is the Metaverse? And Why Should the Art World Care?
Have you ever wanted to live a different kind of life, in a different kind of place? What if this other place gave you the power to do or be almost a…
3 years, 7 months ago