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The Art World: What If...?! with Deana Haggag, Mia Locks and Jay Sanders
The Art World: What If...?! - June 13, 2024 05:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 116 ratingsJoin us for the almost final episode of this season where we welcome back our incredible team of editorial advisors who guide, suggest — and even challenge — what we’ve discussed this series. Joining us are Deana Haggag (program officer at the Mellon Foundation), Mia Locks (curator and co-founde...
The Art World: What If...?! Transforming Museums with Mia Locks, Fatoş Üstek and Laura Raicovich
The Art World: What If...?! - May 23, 2024 05:30 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratingsWhat if you were embroiled in a public workplace controversy? And what happens on the other side of the headlines—would you walk away from your field, or would you reengage with it to try and improve upon it? This very special episode is a break from the norm. In it, we discuss museums and chang...
The Art World: What If...?! with LaToya Ruby Frazier
The Art World: What If...?! - May 09, 2024 05:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 116 ratingsThis time, we’re joined by the artist LaToya Ruby Frazier, just before the opening of her major new exhibition 'Monuments of Solidarity' at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. “This exhibition spiritually uplifts people,” she says. “It inspires people to be the change they need, but it also in...
The Art World: What If...?! with Bryan Stevenson
The Art World: What If...?! - May 02, 2024 18:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 116 ratingsIn this episode, we visit the Legacy Sites in Montgomery, Alabama, including the newly opened Freedom Monument Sculpture Park, a 17-acre site on the banks of the Alabama River. We interview their founder, the lawyer and civil rights hero, Bryan Stevenson, who says that a founding narrative of ra...
The Art World: What If...?! with Karen Patterson
The Art World: What If...?! - April 18, 2024 06:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratingsThis time we welcome Karen Patterson, the Executive Director of the Ruth Foundation for the Arts. The organisation immediately became a major player when it launched in 2022, announcing plans to give away up to $20 million a year to arts organisations, thanks to a $440 million bequest from Ruth ...
The Art World: What If...?! with Allan Schwartzman
The Art World: What If...?! - April 11, 2024 16:55 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratings“The market is poised for a big fall, so it's more ‘when’, than ‘what if’,” says Allan Schwartzman, founder of the podcast. He’s back on the show to talk all about the state of the art market and the broader implications of its changing dynamics for the artists and for the cultural landscape at ...
The Art World: What If...?! with Kemi Ilesanmi
The Art World: What If...?! - April 04, 2024 05:30 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratingsWe welcome back Kemi Ilesanmi, the former executive director of the Laundromat Project and one of the standout stars of our first season. In season one, Kemi was just about to head off on the trip of a lifetime around 13 countries, including ten in Africa. She promised to come back and tell us h...
The Art World: What If...?! with Koyo Kouoh ~ Part 2
The Art World: What If...?! - March 28, 2024 09:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratingsFor the second part of our interview with Koyo Kouoh, the chief curator and executive director of Zeitz MOCAA, we hear about how she has worked to overhaul the infrastructure of the institution internally as well as better connect the museum externally within Cape Town. Koyo talks about how “col...
The Art World: What If...?! with Koyo Kouoh ~ Part 1
The Art World: What If...?! - March 21, 2024 05:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratingsJoining us from Cape Town in South Africa is Koyo Kouoh, the chief curator and executive director of Zeitz MOCAA for the first in a two-part special. Originally destined for a career in finance, Koyo talks about her journey into the art world, and from Basel in Switzerland to Dakar in Senegal, w...
The Art World: What If...?! With Barbara Gladstone
The Art World: What If...?! - March 14, 2024 22:06 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 116 ratingsLegendary art dealer Barbara Gladstone joins us for a very rare interview from the studio in New York. What would she do differently if she started a gallery today? “I probably wouldn't do it,” she says. Barbara has been at the top of the business since the 1980s and now represents more than ...
The Art World: What If...?! with Phillip Ihenacho
The Art World: What If...?! - March 07, 2024 06:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratings“West African culture is starting to become the future” says Phillip Ihenacho, the director of the newly established Museum of West African Art. What if you built a new museum in West Africa, where a glorious ancient history contrasts with a brutal colonial one? What if we really considered the ...
The Art World: What If...?! with Jarl Mohn
The Art World: What If...?! - February 29, 2024 06:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratingsIn this episode, we welcome Jarl Mohn, the LA art collector and philanthropist who founded the E! Entertainment network in his professional life, among other impressive media and business ventures. Jarl became a DJ at a young age, partly in an attempt to escape the realities of life in a state f...
The Art World: What If...?! with Hoor Al Qasimi
The Art World: What If...?! - February 22, 2024 06:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratingsWhat if we write our own histories? What if we create the change we seek? In this episode, we talk to the President and Director of Sharjah Art Foundation, Hoor Al Qasimi, under whose watch, Sharjah has become one of the most influential centers for cultural creation and research in the Global ...
The Art World: What If...?! with Salome Asega
The Art World: What If...?! - February 15, 2024 06:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratingsDescribed as the “next generation of leadership”, in this episode we welcome Salome Asega, the director of NEW INC in New York and an accomplished artist, whose work is at the cutting edge of creativity and technology. Salome’s ability to look towards—and build—the future shines through in this ...
The Art World: What If...?! with Alvaro Barrington
The Art World: What If...?! - February 08, 2024 06:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratingsIn this episode host Charlotte Burns is joined by artist Alvaro Barrington, who brings as much generosity of spirit to this conversation as he does to his art practice. Fundamentally curious, Alvaro wants to connect with as many people as possible and to make art that is as relevant to people to...
The Art World: What If...?! with Jessica Morgan
The Art World: What If...?! - February 01, 2024 06:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratingsWe’re back! In this episode, host Charlotte Burns talks to Jessica Morgan, the director of the Dia Art Foundation. She has revitalized the institution, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary, since arriving in 2015, bringing new energy and distinct vision to the museum and creating change beh...
The Art World: What If...?! with Alice Smith
The Art World: What If...?! - January 25, 2024 06:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratingsWelcome back to The Art World: What If…?! the podcast all about imagining new futures. To kick off the second season in style, host Charlotte Burns is joined by the phenomenally talented, Grammy-nominated, singer and songwriter, Alice Smith who is, she says, currently at work on her masterpiece....
Introducing Series 2 ~ The Art World: What If... ?!
The Art World: What If...?! - January 18, 2024 14:18 - 56 seconds ★★★★★ - 116 ratingsWelcome back to The Art World: What If... ?! the podcast all about imagining new and better futures. There are some fantastic guests lined up for this second season, leading creative thinkers from all around the world, ready to talk to our hosts Allan Schwartzman and Charlotte Burns. Tune in! Ne...
The Art World: What If...?! Glenstone special, with Emily Rales
The Art World: What If...?! - April 06, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 116 ratingsWhat if we supported artists in taking moonshots? This week we’re taking a tour around Glenstone museum in Potomac, Maryland - one of the largest and most ambitious private institutions in America, fusing art, architecture and nature. This wide-ranging conversation between Glenstone’s co-founde...
The Art World: What If...?! with Pope.L
The Art World: What If...?! - March 30, 2023 05:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratingsWhat if we made more mess? What if we could sit with discomfort? This time Charlotte Burns talks to one of her heroes, the artist Pope.L. Probably best known for his public performance art including his legendary crawls, Pope.L has risked his own safety for his work — and he isn’t finished ye...
The Art World: What If...?! with Kathy Halbreich
The Art World: What If...?! - March 23, 2023 05:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratingsWhat if we trusted artists more? This episode Charlotte Burns is joined by Kathy Halbreich, the outgoing director of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, who’s led some of the most dynamic institutions in the art world. They discuss freedom, finances and what the future holds for museums and thos...
The Art World: What If...?! LA Special with Cauleen Smith and Kibum Kim
The Art World: What If...?! - March 09, 2023 06:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratingsWe’re still in the city of angels for our second special episode asking ‘What if LA is the future?’ Join host, Charlotte Burns, as she drives from the East Side to Korea Town and out to Santa Monica. We visit the studio of artist and filmmaker, Cauleen Smith, whose life and work centers around b...
The Art World: What If...?! LA Special with Connie Butler and Sue Bell Yank
The Art World: What If...?! - March 02, 2023 06:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratingsWhat if Los Angeles is the future? This episode Charlotte Burns visits the city for the first of two extra special episodes. We’re at the Hammer museum with its Chief curator, Connie Butler, before heading over to meet Sue Bell Yank who’s Executive director at Clockshop. Both are experimenting w...
The Art World: What If...?! with American Artist
The Art World: What If...?! - February 23, 2023 06:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratingsWhat if it were possible to dream up entirely new things? Join host Charlotte Burns as she interviews one of the most interesting artists working today. American Artist — who changed their name in 2013 — produces deeply thoughtful work that is as enmeshed in digitization and technology as it is ...
The Art World: What If...?! with Rashida Bumbray
The Art World: What If...?! - February 16, 2023 06:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratingsThis episode, Charlotte Burns is joined by Rashida Bumbray whose career straddles different realms within culture. A choreographer and curator, Rashida aims to create new spaces of imagination, empowerment, and connection. While the data and the daily realities of the art world can reflect a sca...
The Art World: What If...?! with Paul Chan
The Art World: What If...?! - February 09, 2023 06:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratingsIn this episode, we get into some of the biggest What Ifs —about virtue and value, about life and loss. Host Charlotte Burns is joined by one of the most thoughtfully provocative (or cunning, as he’d say), artists of our time, Paul Chan. He made his name in the early 2000s with film and media w...
The Art World: What If...?! with Joeonna Bellorado-Samuels
The Art World: What If...?! - February 02, 2023 06:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratingsWhat if the art market had more faith in its own future? What if we could improve the health of the swamp? This episode, we consider the state of the market and who better to join Charlotte Burns than co-host, the art advisor Allan Schwartzman, along with Joeonna Bellorado-Samuels, director at J...
The Art World: What If...?! with Sandra Jackson-Dumont
The Art World: What If...?! - January 26, 2023 06:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratingsWhat if we reimagine the role of the museum? What if we bring more intention to what culture can be and do—and by whom and for whom? What if we tell ourselves different stories? In this episode, host Charlotte Burns talks to Sandra Jackson-Dumont, the CEO and director of the Lucas Museum of Narr...
The Art World: What If...?! with Cecilia Alemani
The Art World: What If...?! - January 19, 2023 06:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratingsWhat if the world was without ethics? What if financial value was no longer the way we talk about success? Cecilia Alemani, artistic director of the 59th Venice Biennale and director and chief curator of High Line Art in New York City joins host Charlotte Burns to discuss the role of the curator...
The Art World: What If...?! with Glenn Lowry
The Art World: What If...?! - January 12, 2023 09:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 116 ratingsWhat if we separated who funds the museum from who runs the museum on a board level? This episode, host Charlotte Burns welcomes Glenn Lowry who’s been the director of the Museum of Modern Art in New York since 1995. He's led the institution through two vast expansions, and, of course, periods o...
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