About Art
153 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 9 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsHeidi Zuckerman is a globally recognized leader in contemporary art and the first woman to build two art museums. About Art has Heidi in courageous authentic conversations with people she finds interesting to talk about their lives, values, and always about why art matters! Join Heidi, an inspiring story teller, on the journey to connect to art and make lives better!
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96. KAWS
September 06, 2022 12:00 - 45 minutes - 52.1 MBKAWS engages audiences beyond the museums and galleries in which he regularly exhibits. His prolific body of work straddles the worlds of art and design to include paintings, murals, graphic and product design, street art, and large-scale sculptures. Over the last two decades KAWS’ work shows formal agility, underlying wit, irreverence, and affection for our times. His refined graphic language revitalizes figuration with both big, bold gestures and playful intricacies. KAWS often appropriate...
95. Jérôme Sans
August 23, 2022 12:00 - 43 minutes - 49.9 MBJérôme Sans began his career in the early 1980s as one of the first independent curators in Europe. His mission has been to rethink contemporary art exhibition making through an engagement with emerging artists. He is the former director of the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, co-founder of the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, and creator, and former creative director and editor-in-chief of the French cultural magazine L’Officiel Art, former artistic director of Rives de Saône-River M...
94. Marianne Boesky
August 09, 2022 12:00 - 50 minutes - 46.2 MBMarianne Boesky established her eponymous gallery in New York in 1996. Since its inception, the gallery has represented and supported the work of emerging and established contemporary artists of all media and genres. In its first decade, the gallery was instrumental in launching the careers of major artists including Barnaby Furnas, Takashi Murakami, Yoshitomo Nara, Sarah Sze, and Lisa Yuskavage. The gallery currently represents many significant international artists, including Ghada Amer, J...
93. Hebru Brantley
July 26, 2022 12:00 - 45 minutes - 41.6 MBHebru Brantley was born and raised in Chicago. A product of the 80's, Brantley's early inspiration to create visual art derived from the cinematic Blaxploitation and science fiction depicted in the previous decade. His affinity for mythological comic book heroes, Japanimation, and graffiti has strongly influenced his work, and eventually, he began fusing elements of urban society with pop culture. From that, he developed his own unique approach to visual art, layering youthful expression wit...
92. Fred Eversley
July 12, 2022 00:30 - 34 minutes - 78.2 MBFred Eversley’s lenses and mirrored forms reflect and refract the world, and our place within it. Eversley hit his stride with his primary mode of working at the same time the Light and Space movement gained momentum in Southern California. Yet unlike his Light and Space and Finish Fetish peers who often collaborated with scientists and outsourced fabrication of their work, Eversley’s firsthand technical understanding as a scientist himself (Eversley came to Southern California in the 1960s ...
91. Teresita Fernandez
June 28, 2022 03:34 - 45 minutes - 62.6 MBTeresita Fernández’s work is characterized by an interest in self-reflection and conceptual wayfinding. Her immersive, monumental works are inspired by a rethinking of landscape and place, as well as by diverse historical and cultural references. Often drawing inspiration from the natural world, Fernández’s practice unravels the intimacies between matter, places, and human beings. Her work questions power, visibility, and erasure in ways that prompt reflective engagement for individual viewe...
90. Sanford Biggers
June 14, 2022 05:34 - 50 minutes - 68.7 MBSanford Biggers creates hybridized forms that transpose, combine and juxtapose classical and historical subjects to create alternative meanings and produce what he calls “future ethnographies.” His work is an interplay of narrative, perspective, and history that speaks to current social, political, and economic happenings while also examining the contexts that bore them. His diverse practice positions him as a collaborator with the past through explorations of often-overlooked cultural and...
89. Leo Villareal
May 31, 2022 03:49 - 41 minutes - 56.5 MBLeo Villareal works with pixels and binary code to create complex, rhythmic compositions in light. His goal is to create a rich environment in which emergent behavior can occur without a preconceived outcome. His work is focused on stripping systems down to their essence to better understand the underlying structures and rules that govern how they work. He is interested in lowest common denominators such as pixels or the zeros and ones in binary code. The resulting forms move, change, intera...
88. Fred Tomaselli
May 17, 2022 03:32 - 40 minutes - 55.4 MBFred Tomaselli’s work reveals a uniquely American vision. Growing up in Southern California, he was influenced by both the manufactured unreality of theme parks and the music and drug countercultures of Los Angeles during the 1970s and 80s. His distinctive melding of these traditions coalesces in an updated, personalized, folk-driven vision of the American West. Tomaselli amasses pills, herbs and other drugs, along with images of plants, flowers, birds, and anatomical illustrations carefully...
87. Robert Nava
May 03, 2022 04:10 - 32 minutes - 44.4 MBRobert Nava draws inspiration from sources ranging from prehistoric cave paintings to Egyptian art and cartoons to create hybrid monsters populating a mythical contemporary world. Rendered through a raw, energetic mixing of spray paint, acrylics, and grease pencil, his large-scale paintings of fantastical beasts exude a playful candidness that defies the pretensions of high art. An MFA graduate from Yale University, Nava builds on the gesturalism of Cy Twombly and Jean-Michel Basquiat. He a...
86. Seth Price
April 19, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 96 MBThis week on my podcast “Conversations About Art” we are reissuing one of our earliest—recorded in October 2019–when I spoke with artist Seth Price. Price in addition to making paintings has designed a fashion line, written a novel, and made music. He and I talk about the allure of being unavailable, the power of defocused thinking, creating a sound track for artists, #menswear, and skin.
85. Mike Kaplan
April 05, 2022 02:50 - 47 minutes - 65.3 MBMike Kaplan is President and CEO of Aspen Skiing Company for the last 17 years. He recently announced that after 30 years with the company, that the 2022-23 winter season would be his last at the helm of the organization. Together he and Zuckerman in a completely unprecedented, brave, and innovative way collaborated to place art by world renowned contemporary artists on all lift ticket products and to integrate art into the company in unexpected places and ways. He and Zuckerman discuss pow...
84. Tamar Zagursky
March 22, 2022 03:00 - 39 minutes - 54.2 MBTamar Zagursky was born in Beer-Sheva, Israel in 1975 to an Israeli born Engineer father and an American born English teacher and translator mother. She grew up in a small town in the Negev desert and Zagursky served as a tank driver in the Israel army. From 2002 to 2020 she was the Director of Sommer Contemporary Art in Tel-Aviv, one of top galleries in Israel, curating exhibitions and representing the gallery at art fairs all over Europe and the United States. In 2029 she began to manage t...
83. Christopher Lew
March 08, 2022 04:00 - 46 minutes - 63.9 MBChristopher Y. Lew is Chief Artistic Director at Horizon Art Foundation and Outland Art. He has over fifteen years of experience working at American museums and arts nonprofits. He is a former curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art where he oversaw the emerging artist program and was co-curator of the 2017 Whitney Biennial. At the Whitney, he organized Pope.L: Choir (2019), Kevin Beasley: A view of a landscape (2018), and mounted the first US solo exhibitions for several artists. Prio...
80. Tyler Rollins
February 28, 2022 12:10 - 1 hour - 91.4 MBAfter more than a decade as an art dealer and gallery owner specializing in contemporary Southeast Asian art, in the last year Tyler Rollins founded a nonprofit organization nurturing connections between contemporary art and religious faith. The Foundation for Spirituality and the Arts is based in Charleston, SC and forefronts a focus on transcendence and orienting oneself to a higher power knowing that these can be a source of insight, illumination, and inspiration. He and Zuckerman discus...
Paula Cooper
February 22, 2022 04:00 - 31 minutes - 43.6 MBFollowing studies in Paris, Paula Cooper (b. 1938, MA) entered the New York art world aged 21 working at the World House Galleries on the Upper East Side. In 1964 she opened the Paula Johnson Gallery, where she showed work by Walter de Maria and Bob Thompson, among others. From 1965 to 1967 Cooper served as the Director of the artist’s cooperative Park Place, whose members included Mark di Suvero, Robert Grosvenor and David Novros––artists she continues to work with today. Paula Cooper opene...
82. Paula Cooper
February 22, 2022 04:00 - 31 minutes - 43.6 MBFollowing studies in Paris, Paula Cooper (b. 1938, MA) entered the New York art world aged 21 working at the World House Galleries on the Upper East Side. In 1964 she opened the Paula Johnson Gallery, where she showed work by Walter de Maria and Bob Thompson, among others. From 1965 to 1967 Cooper served as the Director of the artist’s cooperative Park Place, whose members included Mark di Suvero, Robert Grosvenor and David Novros––artists she continues to work with today. Paula Cooper opene...
81. Katie Geminder
February 08, 2022 04:00 - 45 minutes - 63.1 MBKatie Geminder, Co-founder & Chief of Strategy at Cent, has held senior-level strategy, product, and design roles at Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Zynga and has advised some of the most successful startup founders in history, guiding business-critical decisions that shape company branding, messaging, user experience, product strategy, and design. She has consulted with C-suite executives at startups in a variety of verticals, including e-commerce, social media, entertainment, cyber, and block...
79. Words and Wisdom from 2021 (Part 2)
December 21, 2021 05:00 - 58 minutes - 79.9 MBOn episode 79 we close out our second year of programming the “Conversations About Art” podcast! If you listen in you know that Heidi Zuckerman loves art and artists. And that she really enjoys impactful conversations with interesting people about things that matter. This episode is a compilation of excerpts from 10 guests featured in 2021. Part II offers the words and wisdom of Sonja Perkins, Matty Mo, Glenn Kaino, Kemi Ilensami, and Adam Pendleton. We know you will enjoy what you hear! T...
78. Words and Wisdom from 2021 (Part 1)
December 07, 2021 05:00 - 56 minutes - 78.2 MBThe last two episodes of 2021 celebrate two solid years of the Conversations About Art podcast with compilations of excerpts from 10 guests featured in 2021. Part I offers the words and wisdom of Nicole Perlroth, Brad Cloepfil, Lily Stockman, Allison Glenn, and Beth Pickens. In another life defining year Zuckerman expresses her profound gratitude for the time, generous conversation, and community this podcast and these conversations have afforded and created! *** This episode is brought to...
77. Jerry Garcia
November 23, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 90.7 MBJerry Garcia is a principal at Olson Kundig since 2006. Throughout his tenure in Seattle, he has been an active instigator in the dialogue between architecture, art and the community at large. Working across a broad range of project types and scales, from 200 square-foot cabins on wheels to high-rises around the world, Jerry’s work has received numerous design awards and appeared in publications such as Architecture, Architectural Record, and Art+Auction. For Jerry, “Good architecture reward...
76. Lily Stockman
November 02, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 85.2 MBLily Stockman’s paintings are arrangements of biomorphic shapes, planes, and borders that draw from her affinity for the natural world and interest in the organizing principles of structure, from poetry meter to musical form. Building her linen surfaces up in layers of luminous oil, she references and borrows from influences ranging from the palette of Fra Angelico’s 15th-century frescoes, to the line work of 18th-century Rajput miniature paintings, and the compositions of 19th-century “gift...
75. Lucy Bull
October 19, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 83.5 MBLucy Bull makes visceral paintings that appeal directly to the senses. Synesthetic fields of shape and color, the paintings are described in sonic, tactile, or even emotional terms that evade rational logic and are unique to each viewer. Worlds take shape across their varied surfaces and just as quickly fall away again; similarly, just when the act of looking generates optical overload or disruptive dissonance, Bull’s accumulations of marks reveal discernible traces of planning and hard-foug...
74. Joost Bosland
October 05, 2021 04:00 - 59 minutes - 81.7 MBJoost Bosland is one of the thirteen owners of Stevenson, a gallery with spaces in Cape Town and Johannesburg, and an office in Amsterdam. He has been with the gallery since a three-month internship in 2005. Among the artists Bosland works closely with at the gallery are Moshekwa Langa, Zanele Muholi, Robin Rhode, and Viviane Sassen. Stevenson opened in 2003, and currently represents 31 artists and employs 34 people. In the absence of local institutions dedicated to contemporary art, from 20...
73. Sophie Chahinian
September 21, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 85.7 MBSophie Chahinian is a filmmaker and the founder of the The Artist Profile Archive (TAPA). TAPA produces short artist documentary profiles on contemporary artists to create an archive thereby making contemporary art more accessible to wider audiences. All the films are available for free on TAPA’s website and social media channels. Her recent documentary profiles include Alexandra Grant and Robert Longo. Growing up in Los Angeles, Chahinian became interested in independent film production th...
72. Shlomi Rabi
September 07, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 85.9 MBShlomi Rabi is a twenty-year veteran of the auction world. Most recently he held the position of Vice President, Head of the Photographs Department for the Americas at Christie’s, where he oversaw a record number of single-owner auctions. During his tenure in the auction industry, Shlomi closely worked on multiple institutional collaborations, which included the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Art Institute of Chicago; Aperture Foundation, and Elton John AIDS Foundation. As an immigrant fr...
71. Casey Reitz
August 24, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 83.2 MBCasey Reitz is President of the Segerstrom Center of the Arts, a multi-disciplinary cultural institution in Costa Mesa, CA, appointed in 2019. Since 2010, Reitz served as Executive Director of Second Stage Theater in New York City, winning a Tony Award as Best Musical Producer of Dear Evan Hansen in 2017, and where he successfully led the acquisition, renovation and re-opening of Broadway’s Helen Hayes Theater. With the launching of the Hayes, Second Stage became only the 4th non-profit with...
70. Cathy Kimball
August 10, 2021 04:00 - 57 minutes - 79.2 MBCathy Kimball served as Executive Director and Chief Curator of the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) for twenty years and planned her retirement as the ICA turned 40 in 2020. She is curating the Marcus Lyon project, "De.Coded: A Human Atlas of Silicon Valley" by the Packard Foundation, scheduled for 2022 at the ICA. Previously she held curatorial roles at the San Jose Museum of Art and the New Jersey Center for the Arts. She and I discuss defining a curatorial legacy, knowing wh...
69. Aparajita Jain
July 27, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 86.1 MBAparajita Jain is the co-director of Nature Morte Art Limited since 2012, when she bought a controlling interest in the leading contemporary art gallery. She is also the Founder of terrain.art, India’s first blockchain powered art platform and co-founder of India’s first international sculpture park with the Government of Rajasthan, in Jaipur. She was listed as one among eight influential women in the Indian art world by ARTSY, one of 30 influential women in the art world by ELLE magazine, a...
68. Sonja Hoel Perkins
June 29, 2021 04:00 - 58 minutes - 80.2 MBSonja Hoel Perkins invests in people and companies that matter. She is the founder of The Perkins Fund, Project Glimmer and Broadway Angels. Project Glimmer inspires every girl to envision and realize her empowered future. Broadway Angels is a network of top female venture capitalists and entrepreneurs. Sonja has been a venture capitalist for over 30 years and was named one of the “Top Most Powerful People in Global Finance”. Sonja serves on the boards of Mercy BioAnalytics, Project Gli...
67. Kemi Ilesanmi
June 15, 2021 04:00 - 56 minutes - 77.9 MBKemi Ilesanmi has been a DMV clerk, receptionist, business school dropout, Minnesota State Fair ribbon winner, museum curator, foundation officer, and now Executive Director of The Laundromat Project, a NYC arts nonprofit that advances artists and neighbors as change agents in their own communities. She cares about cultural and community care, #BlackLivesMatter, and all things Obama. She and Zuckerman discuss issues of well-being and taking a sabbatical, what makes you a happier person, act...
66. Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn
June 01, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 84.3 MBJeanne Greenberg Rohatyn is a gallerist, art advisor, and independent curator. A fierce activist, she is committed to feminist and progressive ideas and a belief in art’s power to bring about social change. Greenberg Rohatyn founded her first gallery space in 2002, later adding venues on the Bowery in 2007 and 2010. Known for breaking hierarchies between design and high art, in 2017, she founded Salon 94 Design. She has championed artists such as Huma Bhabha, Judy Chicago, Katy Grannan, Davi...
65. Magnus Resch
May 18, 2021 04:00 - 59 minutes - 135 MBMagnus Resch is an art-market economist, serial entrepreneur, and bestselling author, as well as a Professor for art management, lecturing at Yale University. He holds a Ph.D. in economics and studied at Harvard, the LSE and University of St. Gallen. His career has been portrayed in a Harvard Business School case study and in various articles with the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair, and the Financial Times. He and I discuss the difference between the art world and the art ...
64. Beth Pickens
May 04, 2021 04:00 - 56 minutes - 77.9 MBBeth Pickens is a Los Angeles-based consultant for artists and arts organizations. Since 2010 she has provided career consultation, grant writing, fundraising, and financial, project, and strategic planning services for artists and arts organizations throughout the U.S. She understands artists as people who are deeply, profoundly compelled to be creatively engaged. She is the author of Make Your Art No Matter What: Moving Beyond Creative Hurdles, published in 2021, and Your Art Will Save You...
63. Nicole Perlroth
April 20, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 88.4 MBNicole Perlroth covers cybersecurity and digital espionage for The New York Times. She has covered Russian hacks of nuclear plants, airports, and elections, North Korea's cyberattacks against movie studios, banks and hospitals, Iranian attacks on oil companies, banks and the Trump campaign and hundreds of Chinese cyberattacks, including a months-long hack of The Times. Her first book, “This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends,” about the global cyber arms race, was published in February 2021...
62. Allison M. Glenn
April 06, 2021 03:56 - 1 hour - 87.5 MBAllison M. Glenn is a curator and writer deeply invested in working closely with artists to develop ideas, artworks, and exhibitions that respond to and transform our understanding of the world. She is an Associate Curator, Contemporary Art at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and she curates exhibitions across the contemporary program at Crystal Bridges and the Momentary, a new contemporary art space and satellite of Crystal Bridges. Prior to working at Crystal Bridges, she was the Ma...
61. Glenn Kaino
March 23, 2021 04:00 - 54 minutes - 74.6 MBGlenn Kaino is an American conceptual artist based in Los Angeles. By integrating innovative methodologies with established art historical traditions, Kaino orchestrates spectacular aesthetic phenomena that engage with, and offer critical commentary on the collective contemporary consciousness. His oeuvre is omnidisciplinary. It predominantly includes sculpture, painting, filmmaking, performance, installation, and large scale public work. His practice is fundamentally idea based. As an art s...
60. Alia Ali
March 16, 2021 04:00 - 55 minutes - 76.1 MBAlia Ali works between photography, video, and installation, addressing the politicization of the body, histories of colonization, imperialism, sexism, and racism through projects that take pattern and textile as their primary motif. Textile has been a constant in her practice, and she has recently begun making her own patterns and prints. Her work is also informed by discourses of criminality, Yemeni Futurism, and feminist theory, drawing upon stories including the nostalgic past of the Que...
59. Matty Mo
March 09, 2021 05:00 - 54 minutes - 75.3 MBMatty Mo is a conceptual artist and technology entrepreneur best known for creating, "The Most Famous Artist." Through this platform, Matty Mo and his global community of multidisciplinary creators make installations, stunts, and exhibitions that drive culture and penetrate the mainstream media. He and Zuckerman discuss the most famous artist community, $ART coin, performance versus conceptual versus stunt art, NFTs, monoliths, and what happens to people who apologize! Links: themostfamou...
58. Rebecca Anne Proctor
March 02, 2021 05:00 - 59 minutes - 82.1 MBRebecca Anne Proctor is a journalist, presenter, and consultant who writes on culture, cultural policy, contemporary affairs, international relations, the art market, art exhibitions, luxury, fashion, food, hotels and travel for Arab News, Artnet, The Forward, Frieze, Vogue Arabia, Wallpaper, ArtNews, The National, Galerie Magazine, T Emirates: The New York Times Style Magazine, Bloomberg Businessweek Middle East, the BBC, and many others. In April 2018 she moderated a panel at the Culture S...
57. Sarah Sutton
February 23, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 83.2 MBSarah Sutton is Principal of Sustainable Museums. For three decades she has worked in the museum field with a specific focus on climate awareness in the cultural sector. Sutton works with the leadership of individual institutions as they prepare and launch mission-specific climate initiatives, or plan more strategic engagement with initiatives around environmental sustainability and climate resilience. She and Zuckerman discuss museums and the climate crisis, Helen Frankenthaler and her val...
56. Lynn Goldsmith
February 16, 2021 05:00 - 56 minutes - 77.6 MBLynn Goldsmith is more than the “Rock and Roll photographer” of Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Keith Richards, and so many others. She has made kind, collaborative, and keenly perceptive portraits of world leaders like John Lewis, John McCain, and Jane Goodall. She is an artist who works in photography, painting, performance, spoken word and released “Will Powers” on Island Records in 1983. Goldsmith and Zuckerman discuss learning instead of judging, seeing more than what other people can se...
55. David Glasser
February 09, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 84.1 MBDavid Glasser is the two decade Chairman & CEO of the Ben Uri Gallery and Museum in the U.K. and oversaw its recreation as the first full-scale virtual art museum and research center. Ben Uri Gallery and Museum was founded in 1915 in Whitechapel's Jewish ghetto in the East End of London, by émigré Russian artist Lazar Berson who previously exhibited with Chagall in Paris. In 2000, a new strategic direction was built around scholarship and expanding the remit from solely Jewish artists by inc...
54. Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi
February 02, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 84.8 MBThenjiwe Niki Nkosi is a South African-American painter and multi-media artist. Her work investigates power and its structures – political, social, architectural. Implicit in her examination of these structures is an interrogation of the invisible forces that create them, and an imagining of alternatives. She sees her subject choices as monuments to ideologies, referring to her architecture painting as “portraits” and her human portraits as “figures.” Nkosi and Zuckerman discuss the practic...
53. Erica Keswin
January 26, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 85.1 MBErica Keswin is a workplace strategist who has worked for the past twenty years with some of the most iconic brands in the world as a consultant, speaker, author, and professional dot-connector. Her first book, Bring Your Human to Work: Ten Sure-Fire Ways to Design a Workplace That’s Good for People, Great for Business, and Just Might Change the World, published in 2018 was a best-seller. Her next book, Rituals Roadmap: The Human Way to Transform Everyday Routines Into Workplace Magic is out...
52. Brad Cloepfil
January 19, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 83.4 MBBrad Cloepfil founded Allied Works in 1994 in Portland, Oregon. Since 2000, the practice has grown steadily through the completion of major museum projects, innovative educational facilities, residences and workplaces of diverse scale, purpose and character. Allied Works was established to engage artists, builders, and thinkers in a collective pursuit of new expression. Their ethic is boundless curiosity and uncommon commitment to creating beautiful, moving, and meaningful work. Cloepfil an...
51. Adam Pendleton
January 12, 2021 05:00 - 58 minutes - 79.7 MBPulling from a wide range of mediums including collage, painting, writing, printmaking, video, and publishing, Adam Pendleton utilizes language as his primary tool, recontextualizing appropriated imagery to shed light on underrepresented historical narratives. He is particularly interested in social resistance and avant-garde artistic movements and has synthesized a variety of practices under the rubric of "Black Dada,” a term borrowed from the poet Amiri Baraka. This year Pendleton will pre...
50. Words and Wisdom from 2020 (Part II)
January 05, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 83.3 MBIn Episode 50 of “Conversations About Art,” Heidi Zuckerman introduces excerpts from 14 episodes featured in the second half of 2020. We hear the words and wisdom of Sam Falls, Jen Guidi, Bharti Kher, Christopher Bedford, Guerilla Girls, Noah Horowitz, Michelle Maccarone, Christian Lutien, Daniel Arsham, Sean Green, Ricky Gates, Patrick Steel and Pete McBride! As stated previously, in what was indisputably the wildest, most unexpected, isolating, surprising, and also strangely hopeful year...
49. Words and Wisdom from 2020 (Part I)
December 29, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour - 91.4 MBThis final episode of 2020 pulls together excerpts from 15 episodes featured in the first half of 2020. We listen to the words and wisdom of Rich Roll, Mary Weatherford, Seth Price, Christina Quarles, Hank Willis Thomas, Tom Sachs, Richard Phillips, Helen Molesworth, Lance Armstrong, Amy Cappellazzo, JiaJia Fei, John Hickenlooper, Dennis Scholl, Richard Betts, and Kara Goldin. In what was indisputably the wildest, most unexpected, isolating, surprising, and also strangely hopeful year, Zuck...
48. Ralph Steadman
December 22, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour - 92 MBRalph Steadman is a UK satirist, artist, cartoonist, illustrator, and writer whose work is synonymous with the counterculture of the 1970s. Renowned for his collaborations with iconic American writer Hunter S. Thompson, he formed an unlikely duo that created "Gonzo" journalism. This lifelong collaboration included the now-legendary Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, originally published in Rolling Stone magazine, which has since become a cult classic. The subject of numerous books and documenta...