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#71: Auction Talk with Nick, Allan and Charlotte

The Art World: What If...?! - November 22, 2019 07:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratings
Today’s podcast covers the top takeaways from the recent auction week in New York—and what this means for the market. Nicholas Maclean (of the London and New York dealership Eykyn Maclean) and Allan Schwartzman (co-founder of AAP) join host Charlotte Burns (editor of In Other Words) for our bian...

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#70: Investigating America with Artist Catherine Opie

The Art World: What If...?! - November 14, 2019 09:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratings
Tune in for this wide-ranging discussion with artist Catherine Opie, a tenured professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, whose internationally-exhibited art investigates the boom and bust of American life and the subtleties of human identity. The artist—who famously carved the wo...

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The Art World: In Other Words, Investigating America with Artist Catherine Opie

The Art World: What If...?! - November 14, 2019 09:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratings
Tune in for this wide-ranging discussion with artist Catherine Opie, a tenured professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, whose internationally-exhibited art investigates the boom and bust of American life and the subtleties of human identity. The artist—who famously carved the wo...

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#69: Talking Power with Ford Foundation President Darren Walker and Artist Teresita Fernández

The Art World: What If...?! - November 01, 2019 13:56 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratings
#69: Talking Power with Ford Foundation President Darren Walker and Artist Teresita Fernández Ford Foundation president Darren Walker and MacArthur “genius” artist Teresita Fernández already had a long history of collaboration before coming together for this discussion with host Charlotte Burn...

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The Art World: In Other Words, Talking Power with Ford Foundation President Darren Walker and Artist Teresita Fernández

The Art World: What If...?! - November 01, 2019 13:56 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratings
#69: Talking Power with Ford Foundation President Darren Walker and Artist Teresita Fernández Ford Foundation president Darren Walker and MacArthur “genius” artist Teresita Fernández already had a long history of collaboration before coming together for this discussion with host Charlotte Burn...

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#68: Our First Impressions of the New MoMA

The Art World: What If...?! - October 23, 2019 08:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratings
The Museum of Modern Art reopens this month after a $450m expansion that has added more than 47,000 sq. ft and many new galleries that tell a different story of modern and contemporary art.  In this podcast, AAP co-founder Allan Schwartzman and In Other Words host Charlotte Burns review the ra...

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The Art World: In Other Words, Our First Impressions of the New MoMA

The Art World: What If...?! - October 23, 2019 08:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratings
The Museum of Modern Art reopens this month after a $450m expansion that has added more than 47,000 sq. ft and many new galleries that tell a different story of modern and contemporary art.  In this podcast, AAP co-founder Allan Schwartzman and In Other Words host Charlotte Burns review the ra...

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The Art World: In Other Words, Designing Motherhood

The Art World: What If...?! - October 10, 2019 06:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratings
This episode answers all of the questions you never knew you had about the objects associated with motherhood, from the unexpected stories behind some of the most ubiquitous designs (did you know that the incubator was inspired by a doctor's trip to the zoo?) to the histories revealed by these o...

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#67: Designing Motherhood

The Art World: What If...?! - October 10, 2019 06:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratings
This episode answers all of the questions you never knew you had about the objects associated with motherhood, from the unexpected stories behind some of the most ubiquitous designs (did you know that the incubator was inspired by a doctor's trip to the zoo?) to the histories revealed by these o...

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#66: Why Gender Progress Is a Myth

The Art World: What If...?! - October 03, 2019 04:30 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratings
Only 11% of the art acquired by America’s top museums over the past decade was work made by women. And acquisitions have actually declined since 2009, according to a major new study “Women's Place in the Art World: Why Recent Advancements for Female Artists Are Largely an Illusion ” produced by ...

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The Art World: In Other Words, Why Gender Progress Is a Myth

The Art World: What If...?! - October 03, 2019 04:30 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratings
Only 11% of the art acquired by America’s top museums over the past decade was work made by women. And acquisitions have actually declined since 2009, according to a major new study “Women's Place in the Art World: Why Recent Advancements for Female Artists Are Largely an Illusion ” produced by ...

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#66: Why Gender Progress Is a Myth

The Art World: What If...?! - October 03, 2019 04:30 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratings
Only 11% of the art acquired by America’s top museums over the past decade was work made by women. And acquisitions have actually declined since 2009, according to a major new study “Women's Place in the Art World: Why Recent Advancements for Female Artists Are Largely an Illusion ” produced by ...

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#65: Metropolitan Museum Director Max Hollein

The Art World: What If...?! - September 26, 2019 08:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratings
A year after taking the reins of one of the world’s largest and most important art institutions, Max Hollein joins host Charlotte Burns to discuss the future of the Metropolitan Museum. Hollein discusses the distinct role he believes the Met can play in terms of contemporary art, and gives an ...

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The Art World: In Other Words, Metropolitan Museum Director Max Hollein

The Art World: What If...?! - September 26, 2019 08:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratings
A year after taking the reins of one of the world’s largest and most important art institutions, Max Hollein joins host Charlotte Burns to discuss the future of the Metropolitan Museum. Hollein discusses the distinct role he believes the Met can play in terms of contemporary art, and gives an ...

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The Art World: In Other Words, Massimiliano Gioni Wants to Do Away with Quality

The Art World: What If...?! - September 12, 2019 14:30 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratings
“I realized that more interesting things happen when I could do away with notions of quality and taste,” says Massimiliano Gioni, artistic director of the New Museum in New York and director of the Trussardi Foundation in Milan. Gioni—who The New York Times called a "biennale veteran" by the t...

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#64: Massimiliano Gioni Wants to Do Away with Quality

The Art World: What If...?! - September 12, 2019 14:30 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratings
“I realized that more interesting things happen when I could do away with notions of quality and taste,” says Massimiliano Gioni, artistic director of the New Museum in New York and director of the Trussardi Foundation in Milan. Gioni—who The New York Times called a "biennale veteran" by the t...

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#63: Live Panel: Says Who? Cultural Value and Validation in the 21st Century

The Art World: What If...?! - August 15, 2019 08:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratings
Who gets to define culture, and who gets to create it? Who decides what's in and what's out, what's valuable and what's worthless? In a live panel discussion moderated by Charlotte Burns and organized in collaboration with Sotheby's and the Aspen Ideas Festival, our guests Roberta Smith (The New...

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The Art World: In Other Words, Live Panel: Says Who? Cultural Value and Validation in the 21st Century

The Art World: What If...?! - August 15, 2019 08:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratings
Who gets to define culture, and who gets to create it? Who decides what's in and what's out, what's valuable and what's worthless? In a live panel discussion moderated by Charlotte Burns and organized in collaboration with Sotheby's and the Aspen Ideas Festival, our guests Roberta Smith (The New...

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The Art World: In Other Words, Live From Venice - Our Take On The Biennale

The Art World: What If...?! - July 18, 2019 08:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratings
Welcome to our Venice Biennale special, which we recorded live in Italy last month. Returning to his roots as an art critic for our first ever review show, Allan Schwartzman joins host Charlotte Burns to take you on a tour through the art on view in the floating city, both in the Biennale and be...

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#62: Live From Venice - Our Take On The Biennale

The Art World: What If...?! - July 18, 2019 08:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratings
Welcome to our Venice Biennale special, which we recorded live in Italy last month. Returning to his roots as an art critic for our first ever review show, Allan Schwartzman joins host Charlotte Burns to take you on a tour through the art on view in the floating city, both in the Biennale and be...

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The Art World: In Other Words, Sir David Adjaye Takes On Nation Myths

The Art World: What If...?! - June 20, 2019 14:07 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratings
Sir David Adjaye is the architect behind some of the most interesting buildings of our times, from national museums to social housing. He has described the fraught political process of designing the prize-winning National Museum of African American History and Culture, which opened in Washington...

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#61: Sir David Adjaye Takes On Nation Myths

The Art World: What If...?! - June 20, 2019 14:07 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratings
Sir David Adjaye is the architect behind some of the most interesting buildings of our times, from national museums to social housing. He has described the fraught political process of designing the prize-winning National Museum of African American History and Culture, which opened in Washington...

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The Art World: In Other Words, David Zwirner Needs No Introduction

The Art World: What If...?! - June 06, 2019 08:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratings
“I really felt ten years ago that there was a huge opportunity for me at different levels in the art world,” says David Zwirner, whose eponymous gallery opened in New York more than 25 years ago, has since expanded to London and Hong Kong and is increasingly focusing on its online strategy. “Of ...

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#60: David Zwirner Needs No Introduction

The Art World: What If...?! - June 06, 2019 08:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratings
“I really felt ten years ago that there was a huge opportunity for me at different levels in the art world,” says David Zwirner, whose eponymous gallery opened in New York more than 25 years ago, has since expanded to London and Hong Kong and is increasingly focusing on its online strategy. “Of ...

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#59: Andy Warhol: Sex, Death, Beauty and Disaster

The Art World: What If...?! - May 30, 2019 08:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratings
Andy Warhol is one of the best-known—but perhaps least understood—artists of the 20th century. “Warhol shifted the paradigm. He shifted the conversation. That's why we're still grappling with him. Love him or hate him,” says Donna De Salvo, the senior curator and deputy director for Internationa...

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The Art World: In Other Words, Andy Warhol: Sex, Death, Beauty and Disaster

The Art World: What If...?! - May 30, 2019 08:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratings
Andy Warhol is one of the best-known—but perhaps least understood—artists of the 20th century. “Warhol shifted the paradigm. He shifted the conversation. That's why we're still grappling with him. Love him or hate him,” says Donna De Salvo, the senior curator and deputy director for Internationa...

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The Art World: In Other Words, Reshaping Culture

The Art World: What If...?! - May 16, 2019 10:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratings
Today’s podcast is a lively one, taking in authorship and authority, productivity and capital in conversation with Alistair Hudson (director of The Whitworth and Manchester Galleries), Bernadine Bröcker Wieder (CEO and co-founder of the Vastari Group, a platform connecting museums, private colle...

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#58: Reshaping Culture

The Art World: What If...?! - May 16, 2019 10:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratings
Today’s podcast is a lively one, taking in authorship and authority, productivity and capital in conversation with Alistair Hudson (director of The Whitworth and Manchester Galleries), Bernadine Bröcker Wieder (CEO and co-founder of the Vastari Group, a platform connecting museums, private colle...

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The Art World: In Other Words, Then and Now: Paula Cooper Gallery

The Art World: What If...?! - April 25, 2019 18:48 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratings
Paula Cooper Gallery has survived and thrived in a mercurial art world for more than five decades. On today’s show, the legendary dealer talks about the history and future of her gallery together with Steven Henry, who has been the gallery director for more than two decades, Allan Schwartzman, c...

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#57: Then and Now: Paula Cooper Gallery

The Art World: What If...?! - April 25, 2019 18:48 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratings
Paula Cooper Gallery has survived and thrived in a mercurial art world for more than five decades. On today’s show, the legendary dealer talks about the history and future of her gallery together with Steven Henry, who has been the gallery director for more than two decades, Allan Schwartzman, c...

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