Pulling 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 present...
Jan 12, 2021•58 min•Ep. 51
In 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, Zuck...
Jan 05, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 50
This 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, Zuckerman...
Dec 29, 2020•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 49
Ralph 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 documentaries...
Dec 22, 2020•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 48
Melissa Cowley Wolf is the Founder of MCW Projects. With 20 years of experience in philanthropy and programming for cultural institutions across the United States, she is dedicated to re-imagining and democratizing cultural philanthropy to better engage diverse generations and audiences as well as to expanding the next generation of cultural philanthropists, advocates, and audiences. Melissa is also the Director of the Arts Funders Forum, an advocacy, media, convening, and research platform desi...
Dec 15, 2020•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 47
Bharti Kher’s art gives form to quotidian life and its daily rituals in a way that reassesses and transforms their meaning to yield an air of magical realism. Living and working in Delhi, India and born and raised in the U.K., her use of found objects is informed by her own position as an artist located between geographic and social milieus. Her way of working is exploratory: surveying, looking, collecting, and transforming. Her chimeras, mythical monsters, and allegorical tales combine referenc...
Dec 08, 2020•58 min•Ep. 46
Alison Sokol Blosser is Co-President, CEO & Second Generation Winegrower of Sokol Blosser. Sokol Blosser was founded in 1971 when her parents Susan Sokol and Bill Blosser planted their first vines in the Dundee Hills AVA (American Viticultural Area) of the Willamette Valley. At the time, there was no wine industry in Oregon. Today, with over 700 wineries and more than 30,000 acres of planted vineyards, Oregon has grown exponentially and its wines are available throughout the world. Sokol Blo...
Dec 01, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 45
Sam Falls is contemporary American artist whose boundary-defying work applies artistic processes to natural phenomena. The resulting paintings, prints, sculptures, and videos, often insert organic structures into art and man-made objects into nature. "We change the work by being present, and the work changes us by being present,” the artist has said. “We are breaking down and being built up, just like every moment." Falls works intimately with the fundamentals of nature and the transience of lif...
Nov 24, 2020•1 hr•Ep. 44
Christopher Bedford is the Director of the Baltimore Museum of Art, appointed in May 2016. Prior to joining the BMA, Bedford led the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University in Massachusetts for four years. In November 2019, it was announced that the Baltimore Museum of Art would only purchase works made by female-identifying artists in 2020 as part of an effort to work towards “re-correcting the canon.” He and I discuss what putting art in the basement means, the decency and care of John Waters, ...
Nov 17, 2020•57 min•Ep. 43
Noah Horowitz is Director Americas for Art Basel since 2015. He is based in New York and is in charge of Art Basel’s show in Miami Beach. Horowitz holds a PhD in art history from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. His doctoral thesis, Art of the Deal: Contemporary Art in a Global Financial Market, was published by the Princeton University Press in 2011. Previously he was managing director of The Armory Show in New York from 2011 until 2015. And prior to this, in 2009 he became Director of V...
Nov 10, 2020•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 42
Pete McBride is a Native Coloradan who has spent two decades studying the world with a camera. A self-taught photographer, filmmaker, writer, and public speaker, he has traveled on assignment to over 75 countries for the National Geographic Society, Smithsonian, Google, The Nature Conservancy, and others. After a decade documenting remote expeditions from Everest to Antarctica, McBride decided to focus his cameras closer to home on a subject closer to his heart—his backyard river, the Colorado. ...
Nov 03, 2020•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 41
Sean Green is the CEO and Founder of Arternal. Arternal helps art dealers better monetize their relationships. Born in Jamaica and raised in Toronto, Green has cultivated his entrepreneurialism since watching his mom run the family maid service. With a background in computer science, his previous start up connected homeowners to quality contractors. He and Zuckerman discuss the business of art from the collector’s perspective, the Wayfair ruling, caring about art surviving and thriving, entrepre...
Oct 27, 2020•58 min•Ep. 40
Patrick Steel is the CEO of POLITICO, which strives to be the dominant source for politics and policy in power centers across every continent where access to reliable information, non-partisan journalism and real-time tools creates, informs, and engages a global citizenry. Previously Steel spent 16 years as an investment banker and before that served in the Clinton White House. He and Zuckerman discuss seeing America through a political campaign, the importance of relationships in building caree...
Oct 20, 2020•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 39
The Guerrilla Girls is an anonymous group of feminist, female artists devoted to fighting sexism and racism within the art world. The group formed in New York City in 1985 with the mission of bringing gender and racial inequality into focus within the greater arts community. The group employs cultural jamming in the form of posters, books, billboards, and public appearances to expose discrimination and corruption. To remain anonymous, members don gorilla masks and use pseudonyms that refer to de...
Oct 13, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 38
Paul Becker is the Founder and CEO of Art Money. He is an art entrepreneur passionate about empowering people to engage with art through building a sustainable creative economy. Art Money is a global fin-tech helping buy and sell art through a win-win business model, partnering with over 1,000 galleries globally, in the US, Australia, and New Zealand. He and Zuckerman talked about his business model, the current state of the art world, where there are opportunities, collecting art as an addictio...
Oct 06, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 37
Michelle Maccarone is the founder of eponymous gallery Maccarone. Shortly after 9/11 Maccarone opened in an unorthodox space in a remote neighborhood with no other galleries around. From the beginning, the gallery was an outlier in every way. It was artist-driven and grew out of conversations. It was more of a concept, or a laboratory for experimentation, that didn’t quite fit the traditional model of an art gallery. Recently the gallery's focus is beyond IRL exhibitions as a creative brand that...
Sep 29, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 37
Jennifer Guidi is an artist known for her radiant, mandala-like paintings that incorporate sand, oil, and acrylic paint. Her work is an exploration of color, light, and texture, finding symmetry in opposition. The result of Guidi's compositions is both contemporary and timeless. She and Zuckerman talked about the attitude needed to make art, finding the perfect place, TikTok and home ec, meditation as a creative resource, how to empty everything out, the input and output of energy, mark making, ...
Sep 22, 2020•58 min•Ep. 36
Rickey Gates has been described as a “conceptual runner” combining the practice of endurance running with the artistic mediums of photography and writing. After nearly a decade competing on a national and international mountain, trail and ultra running circuit, he took his love for ultra-endurance, storytelling and photography to his project-based runs that have included a run across America, every single street in San Francisco and currently the 50 classic trails of North America. His debut boo...
Sep 15, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 34
Katherine Metz is one of the most visible spokespersons of the art of Feng Shui in the United States, introducing Feng Shui into mainstream western culture with her lucid and practical conveyance of its sometimes esoteric philosophies. Her focus is the art and science of creating a healthy home and workplace. Metz created Feng Shui Storyboard, an interactive membership where she shares one compelling Feng Shui mystery every month. She explains the tools and techniques used to solve these mysteri...
Sep 08, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 33
Kulapat Yantrasast is a thought-leader and practitioner in the fields of architecture, art, and design. Originially from Thailand and now based in Los Angeles, he is the founding partner and Creative Director of wHY, a multidisciplinary design practice organized into dedicated workshops: Buildings, Landscape, Museums, Objects, and Ideas. His museum projects include the Grand Rapids Art Museum , the expansion of the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, KT, gallery design and planning for Harvard Art M...
Sep 01, 2020•57 min•Ep. 32
Philip Tinari is a notable writer, critic, art curator, and expert in Chinese contemporary art. Based in Beijing since 2001, Tinari is currently director and CEO of the UCCA Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) in Beijing. In an emotional and raw conversation he and Zuckerman discussed the realities of living in China and the deteriorating relations between our countries, radical precarity, key rituals of the art world, objects crossing borders that people no longer can, what translation enables, ...
Aug 25, 2020•57 min•Ep. 31
Christian Luiten is a founder in 2015 of Avant Arte, an online platform for the next generation of collectors, which has 2M followers on Instagram. Their goal is to help make great art radically more accessible for their generation. International media reports refer to Avant Arte as "one of the most influential online art blogs” and Christian was named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list last year. He and Zuckerman discuss finding art through hip-hop, mashing together artists and others, building a b...
Aug 18, 2020•58 min•Ep. 30
Michael Chow is a Chinese-born British-American restaurateur, interior designer, former actor, art collector, father, and artist. He is the co-founder and owner of the Mr. Chow restaurant chain. His father was one of China's most famous actors of his time and the leading figure at the Peking Opera. His mother came from a wealthy family whose fortune had been made in tea. He was sent to a British boarding school when he was 12 and spent his adolescence in Europe; after arriving in London in 1952,...
Aug 11, 2020•57 min•Ep. 29
Patricia Miller is a visionary manufacturing leader, driving growth and innovation at M4. Under her leadership, M4 was named an Inc 5000 Fastest Growing Company two years in a row. In 2018, Patricia was named to Crain’s Chicago 40 under 40 honoree. Four years ago, Patricia left a successful career in the biotech space to return to her manufacturing roots. She decided to buy her grandpa’s failing business and run it like a start-up, using everything she had learned from her Fortune 500 career in ...
Aug 04, 2020•58 min•Ep. 28
Alisha B. Wormsley is an interdisciplinary artist and cultural producer based in Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Her work is about collective memory and the synchronicity of time, specifically through the stories of women of color. She states her work is "the future, and the past, and the present, simultaneously. Wormsley has an MFA in Film and Video from Bard College and was awarded the Postdoctoral Research fellowship in art at Carnegie Mellon University. She and Zuckerman discuss motherhood, artist moms...
Jul 28, 2020•58 min•Ep. 27
Paul Laster is a writer, editor, curator, artist and lecturer. He is a contributing editor at ArtAsiaPacific and Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art and writer for Time Out New York, Harper’s Bazaar Arabia, Galerie Magazine, Sculpture, Cultured, Architectural Digest, Surface, and others. He started The Daily Beast’s art section, and was art editor of Russell Simmons’ OneWorld Magazine. We discuss the punk movement, MoMA’s film program, the business of being an artist, the global art scene, how...
Jul 21, 2020•1 hr•Ep. 26
Daniel Arsham straddles the line between art, architecture, and performance. He makes architecture do things that it’s not supposed to. From casting contemporary objects in volcanic ash as if found on some future archaeological site to collaborating with Merce Cunningham, Robert Wilson, and Pharrell Williams to founding Snarkitecture, Arsham brings experimentation, historical inquiry, playfulness, and wit to everything he does. He and Zuckerman discuss the dislocation of time, geological forms o...
Jul 07, 2020•51 min•Ep. 24
Yves Béhar, Founder and Principal Designer of fuseproject, is a designer, educator, and entrepreneur who believes that integrated product, brand, and experience design are the cornerstones of any business. He is also the two-time recipient of the INDEX Award, making him the only designer to have received the prestigious award twice. Yves is an industry veteran at the forefront of entrepreneurial venture design, co-founding August, FORME Life, and Canopy. He and Zuckerman discuss opportunity, how...
Jun 30, 2020•54 min•Ep. 23
Ezinma first picked up the violin when she was three-years old. Born in Lincoln, Nebraska to a Guyanese father and a German-American mother, Ezinma's mixed cultural and ethnic background influenced her musical upbringing and helped mold her into the versatile artist she is today. She has performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and Madison Square Garden. She was inspired to create a new sound with her classical violin. Her music is a blend of virtuosic melodies and orchestral soundscapes with...
Jun 23, 2020•49 min•Ep. 22
Kara Goldin is the founder and CEO of hint inc., the San Francisco-based healthy lifestyle company, best known for hint water and most recently, hint sunscreen. Kara is an operating-entrepreneur and has grown hint to a brand worth hundreds of millions of dollars. In this episode she and Zuckerman talked about how our skin is our largest organ, products that solve problems, the productive aspects of anger, her art educator mom, and happiness as both a business and personal guiding practice....
Jun 16, 2020•58 min•Ep. 18
