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The Art World: What If...?! with Naomi Beckwith

The Art World: What If...?! - January 12, 2023 06:40 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratings
“Not just what if—but what are we missing?” In the first episode of this new podcast, host Charlotte Burns is joined by Naomi Beckwith, the Deputy Director and Jennifer and David Stockman Chief Curator of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Someone actively working to recalibrate the field in the ...

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Introducing The Art World: What If...?!

The Art World: What If...?! - December 21, 2022 16:35 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratings
Welcome to The Art World: What If...?! the latest podcast from the makers of In Other Words and Hope & Dread. The first episode will be available on 12 January 2023 and new shows will come out every Thursday.  

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The Art World: Hope & Dread Extra, Phyllis Mitz

The Art World: What If...?! - July 12, 2022 13:55 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratings
Hope & Dread Extra: Phyllis Mitz brings you a vision for the future in this interview with astrologer Phyllis Mitz. Hope & Dread Extra is a series of short, sharp bonus episodes featuring your season favorites from Hope & Dread. Our guests were brimming with additional ideas and extra insights...

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The Art World: Hope & Dread Extra, Maya Benton

The Art World: What If...?! - July 12, 2022 08:31 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratings
Hope & Dread Extra: Maya Benton features photography curator Maya Benton, who talks about staring down Neo-Nazi protestors.  Hope & Dread Extra is a series of short, sharp bonus episodes featuring your season favorites from Hope & Dread. Our guests were brimming with additional ideas and extra...

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The Art World: Hope & Dread Extra, Sandra Jackson-Dumont

The Art World: What If...?! - July 07, 2022 08:30 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratings
Hope & Dread Extra: Sandra Jackson-Dumont brings you more from the inaugural director and CEO of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, which is scheduled to open in Los Angeles next year. Hope & Dread Extra is a series of short, sharp bonus episodes featuring your season favorites from Hope & Dre...

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The Art World: Hope & Dread Extra, Issy Wood

The Art World: What If...?! - July 05, 2022 08:09 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratings
Hope & Dread Extra: Issy Wood brings you a conversation with the talented young artist Issy Wood.  Hope & Dread Extra is a series of short, sharp bonus episodes featuring your season favorites from Hope & Dread. Our guests were brimming with additional ideas and extra insights that we just did...

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The Art World: Hope & Dread Extra, Kathy Halbreich

The Art World: What If...?! - June 28, 2022 14:56 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratings
Hope & Dread Extra: Kathy Halbreich features a conversation with Kathy Halbreich, the executive director of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, about why she has put artists at the center of her vision of creating change. Hope & Dread Extra is a series of short, sharp bonus episodes featuring ...

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The Art World: Hope & Dread Extra, Black Trustee Alliance

The Art World: What If...?! - June 28, 2022 08:05 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratings
Hope & Dread Extra: Black Trustee Alliance focuses on a new organization—the Black Trustee Alliance—that hopes to bring change to the museum field. Tune in to hear from the collector and philanthropist Victoria Rogers, who is co-chair of BTA and Brooke Minto, its executive director. Hope & Dre...

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The Art World: Hope & Dread Extra, Lulani Arquette

The Art World: What If...?! - June 23, 2022 08:31 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratings
Hope & Dread Extra: Lulani Arquette brings you the highlights of our interview with the president and CEO of the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation, which is in the middle of an expansion into a new building in Portland, Oregon.  Hope & Dread Extra is a series of short, sharp bonus episodes f...

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The Art World: Hope & Dread Extra, Dr. Kelli Morgan

The Art World: What If...?! - June 21, 2022 10:57 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratings
Hope & Dread Extra: Dr. Kelli Morgan brings you more from Kelli Morgan, who recently left the museum field for academia after experiencing profound racism. She is now the professor of the practice and director of curatorial studies, history of art and architecture at Tufts University in Massachu...

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The Art World: Hope & Dread Extra, Tiffany Sia

The Art World: What If...?! - June 16, 2022 09:01 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratings
Hope & Dread Extra: Tiffany Sia features the artist, filmmaker, and writer Tiffany Sia who recently left Hong Kong for fear of her safety.. Hope & Dread Extra is a series of short, sharp bonus episodes featuring your season favorites from Hope & Dread. Our guests were brimming with additional ...

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The Art World: Hope & Dread Extra, Lord Ed Vaizey

The Art World: What If...?! - June 14, 2022 08:31 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratings
Hope & Dread Extra: Lord Ed Vaizey brings you more from the former UK culture minister, Lord Vaizey of Didcot, who ran the Department for Culture, Media and Sport from 2010 to 2016 under a Conservative government.  Hope & Dread Extra is a series of short, sharp bonus episodes featuring your se...

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The Art World: Hope & Dread Extra, Max Hollein

The Art World: What If...?! - June 09, 2022 08:57 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratings
Hope & Dread Extra: Max Hollein brings you some highlights from our interview with the Marina Kellen French Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, who talks about his vision for the museum.  Hope & Dread Extra is a series of short, sharp bonus episodes featuring your season fa...

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The Art World: Hope & Dread Extra, Michael Armitage

The Art World: What If...?! - June 07, 2022 08:51 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratings
Hope & Dread Extra: Michael Armitage focuses on a conversation with artist Michael Armitage, who recently founded the Nairobi Contemporary Arts Institute (NCAI). Hope & Dread Extra is a series of short, sharp bonus episodes featuring your season favorites from Hope & Dread. Our guests were bri...

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The Art World: Hope & Dread Extra, Hamza Walker

The Art World: What If...?! - June 02, 2022 08:52 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratings
Hope & Dread Extra: Hamza Walker brings you more from a season favorite—Hamza Walker, the director of LAXART in Los Angeles—who talks about an exhibition of decommissioned Confederate monuments he is co-organizing with artist Kara Walker. Hope & Dread Extra is a series of short, sharp bonus ep...

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The Art World: Hope & Dread Extra, Amy Webb

The Art World: What If...?! - May 31, 2022 08:30 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratings
Hope & Dread Extra: Amy Webb brings you more from the futurist Amy Webb, founder and CEO of the Future Today Institute and author of The Genesis Machine: Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology.  Hope & Dread Extra is a series of short, sharp bonus episodes featuring your sea...

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The Art World: Hope & Dread, Long Nights at the Round Table

The Art World: What If...?! - May 18, 2022 08:49 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratings
For the final episode, hosts Charlotte Burns and Allan Schwartzman are joined by the series’ editorial advisors, Deana Haggag, Mia Locks and Jay Sanders. They’ll highlight key discoveries and plot some of the changes that have occurred during production of the programs. Where does power reside n...

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The Art World: Hope & Dread, Are You Sitting Uncomfortably?

The Art World: What If...?! - May 04, 2022 08:50 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratings
As shifts in power scramble the chessboard, how are our guests reacting to the pace of change? Our interviewees—from critics to museum directors, philanthropists to an astrologer—share their tips for dealing with discomfort. The stakes are high: tune in to hear some of the solutions.  New epis...

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The Art World: Hope & Dread, What We Talk About When We Talk About The Art Market

The Art World: What If...?! - April 20, 2022 08:26 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratings
In the second of two episodes dedicated to the art market, Charlotte Burns turns to her series co-host; the richly experienced art advisor, critic and curator Allan Schwartzman, as he offers his understanding of where the market sits now—and how it may look in the future. Drawing out trends, str...

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The Art World: Hope & Dread, The Business of Art

The Art World: What If...?! - April 06, 2022 08:27 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratings
In the first of two episodes dedicated to the business of art, Charlotte Burns and Allan Schwartzman trace the changing contours of an industry defined by dealmaking. Power within the art trade is held by a few key players and yet, the art market shapes the lives and livelihoods of almost everyo...

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The Art World: Hope & Dread, Artists: Players or Pawns?

The Art World: What If...?! - March 23, 2022 08:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratings
In a series dedicated to tectonic shifts in power in art, why did we wait so long to devote a show to the artists themselves? Well, we wanted to paint a picture of the landscape in which those creators now live and work - and as you’ve heard, it is complex. In this episode we hear from artists w...

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The Art World: Hope & Dread, Westward Ho!

The Art World: What If...?! - March 09, 2022 09:28 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratings
The series heads north by northwest to Portland, Oregon to uncover a surprisingly hideous history: could it be that this hipster mecca was founded as a whites-only utopia? Answer: hell, yeah. When a curator has to rub shoulders with Neo-Nazis during the installation of her exhibition, there may ...

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The Art World: Hope & Dread, Executive Session

The Art World: What If...?! - February 23, 2022 09:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratings
Today you'll hear from that echelon who are really running America's museums: the board. This is where the real power in museums resides. We'll find out if these trustees have fully grasped the issues that museums need to tackle today. Do they have ambitious enough solutions? Who makes sure the ...

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The Art World: Hope & Dread, Take Me To Your Leader

The Art World: What If...?! - February 09, 2022 08:59 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratings
Having examined the pressure mounting on institutions from the street, the public galleries and then from within - this penultimate museum-focused episode asks who’d want to run one? Hosts Charlotte Burns and Allan Schwartzman ask the director of the Met how comfortable that throne really is. Wh...

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The Art World: Hope & Dread, Infernal Affairs

The Art World: What If...?! - February 02, 2022 08:57 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratings
We’re going behind the scenes at the museum to better understand the recent groundswell of voices criticizing museum power structures as they exist, coming in the form of unionization efforts, artist-led activism and open letters by disgruntled staff. Are museums practicing what they preach? Aft...

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The Art World: Hope & Dread, Burning Down The House?

The Art World: What If...?! - January 26, 2022 09:56 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratings
Museums have become cultural battlegrounds—monuments to meaning that are struggling to contain democracy. Museums have mushroomed: from audience numbers to board members, from the value of art to the real estate that houses it, and from international interest to the size of local protests.  Ho...

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The Art World: Hope & Dread, Controlling Culture

The Art World: What If...?! - December 21, 2021 19:43 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratings
Political arguments and cultural debates have become indivisible in recent years and this episode explores ideas around controlling culture from above. Hosts Charlotte Burns and Allan Schwartzman will hear from a British politician who says he’d return the controversial “Elgin Marbles” to Greece...

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American History, Axed

The Art World: What If...?! - December 15, 2021 05:06 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratings
America’s public spaces have been throbbing with the sounds of loud arguments about history and identity, encapsulated by the debate over Confederate monuments. In this episode, hosts Charlotte Burns and Allan Schwartzman introduce you to artists and curators suggesting new ways of dealing with...

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The Art World: Hope & Dread, Introduction

The Art World: What If...?! - December 15, 2021 05:05 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratings
Introducing this new documentary series exploring power in art, hosts Charlotte Burns and Allan Schwartzman discuss the biggest challenges in the cultural world today. At a moment of epochal shifts and changing certainties, these are issues that extend well beyond the art world—from governments...

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Introduction

The Art World: What If...?! - December 15, 2021 05:05 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratings
Introducing this new documentary series exploring power in art, hosts Charlotte Burns and Allan Schwartzman discuss the biggest challenges in the cultural world today. At a moment of epochal shifts and changing certainties, these are issues that extend well beyond the art world—from governments...

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