Episode Index (to access any past episode listed below that's not available on your podcast feed, simply do a web search with the guest's name and "the conversation art podcast" to find it)
364. On Turner Prize-winner Jesse Darling, OLD NEWS w/co-host Maiza Hixson
363. Friendship & fraud in the art world w/Orlando Whitfield, author of 'All that Glitters'
362. OLD NEWS w/guest Maiza Hixson- art protests, artist ruptures and Miranda July
Bonus 361A (for Patreon supporters): Adam Henry on the pros and cons of Yale grad school, psychedelics and more
361. NY-based artist Adam Henry
Bonus 360A (for Patreon supporters): Valerie Werder's life in shoplifting
360. Valerie Werder (part 2)- how to navigate class and downward mobility
359. Journalist Bianca Bosker- a "normie philistine" dives into the art world in "Get the Picture"
358. Valerie Werder (part 1), recovering art worker and author of novel Thieves
357. Seattle-based artist Debra Broz
356. Chris Wiley- Zombie Formalism, Debt Aesthetics & AI
355. BONUS epis.: artist & musician Doug Burns
354. 'The Art Thief,' the remarkable story of art's most prolific stealer, with author Michael Finkel
353. BONUS Epis: Land acknowledgements, why museum workers are quitting, and more, with Co-Host Deb Klowden Mann
352. BONUS Epis: 352- Bay Area artist Cathy Lu on ceramics, bi-coastal living and her Kohler Arts residency
351. 'Money on the Wall'- veteran co-host Deb Klowden Mann joins to discuss New Yorker profile of legendary dealer Larry Gagosian
350. BONUS (for Patreon subscribers): Alexis Rockman on climate change and--food consumption, air travel, and kids...
349. Narsiso Martinez: his long journey from Oaxaca thru the produce fields to full-time artist
347. Alexis Rockman on 'owning' natural history in art
345. House Hunting with a Billionaire: Hungarian artist Andi Schmied and billionaire Gabriela
344. Art advisor Lisa Schiff- re-release of Episode 99 from 2015
343. NYC artist Nancy Blum
342. Bonus Epis- Stefanie Kogler-Heimburger,Kunstmuseum Reutlingen
341. Class Issues'- on artists and class with Berlin artist Norbert Witzgall
The Conversation Midway- between 340 & 341- on the art services industry
340. Bryan Cooke, veteran art services professional & author of Art Can Kill
339A. Teaser/Preview for Art Can Kill- the Art World's Clowns, Crooks & Connoisseurs
338. Arts writer and former professional surfer Jamie Brisick
337. 14th installment of the podcast’s Virtual Café, on politics in art
336. Writer and cultural critic William Deresiewicz, author of The Death of the Artist
335. Mashed potatoes hurled at Monet, Artists being replaced by AI Robots, a Bad Studio Visit cartoon, and new email etiquette for the Uffizi Gallery, with a very special guest-host
334. Oakland-based curator and arts administrator Zoë Taleporos
333. Amsterdam-based artist Tjebbe Beekman
332. U. of Michigan Art Historian Joan Kee on Korean contemporary art, emojis and more
331. ICA San Diego director Andrew Utt
330. Cole Sternberg, painter and creator of the conceptual art 'Free Republic of California'
329. Ben Davis on the Ordinary World Record Egg, immersive at and more
328. Ben Davis, Artnet News National Art Critic, on his book Art in the After-Culture
327. Val Zavala, retired arts & culture TV host, on extinction circles
326. New York art appraiser David Shapiro
325. Immersive art exhibits, with painter and Artechouse 'host' Kate Sharkey
324. Maria Brito, NYC-based art advisor and entrepeneur
323. Dave Kinsey, Vista (San Diego County)-based artist: post-graffiti, post-skate art
322. 'Guest-less' episode 2: Profound effects on the art market, ‘Rich-Kid’ art, and a painting of a polar bear
321. James Griffith, part 2 of 2 (working as an artist assistant, and Zen focus)
320. James Griffith, Altadena (L.A. County)-based painter working in tar
319. Sarah Thibault, San Francisco-based artist and artist residency hopper
318. Andrew Russeth, art writer living in Seoul, Korea (former editor of ArtNews)
317. The Invisible Labor of museums, and how exhibition rooms are 'suspensions of common sense.' Fernando Dominguez Rubio, part 3
316. Why MoMA goes to great lengths to recreate what’s dying or what was thought to exist only in the past- Fernando Dominguez Rubio, part 2
315. Fernando Dominguez Rubio, author of Still Life: Ecologies of the Modern Imagination at the Art Museum, part 1
314. Oligarch Shortage & the Cinema of Transgression: the Guest-Less Episode
313. on Sam Francis, part 2 with Gabrielle Selz
312. Gabrielle Selz, author of Light on Fire: the Art and Life of Sam Francis, part 1
311. Sydney Croskery, part 2: finding a gallerist on IG, and an intense day job
310. Sydney Croskery, Los Angeles-based abstract painter, part 1
309. Yoshino, part 2
308. Yoshino of Artist Decoded podcast, part 1
307. Antonio Murado, a Spanish painter living in New York
306. Hannah Wohl, part 6: collector disconnect, and why artists need constraints
305. Hannah Wohl, part 5: how we talk about art, and how artists emerge
304. Art & memes with Virtual Cafe special guest Rose Briccetti
303. Hannah Wohl part 4: how Status Signals function in the art world
302. Hannah Wohl, part 3 of 6, on artists, collectors, and artist-collector dynamics
301. Hannah Wohl, author of "Bound by Creativity," on collectors
300. "Bound by Creativity" with sociologist Hannah Wohl (part 1 of 6)
299. Melissa Stern, NYC artist and writer
298. Doug Beube, Brooklyn-based photographer and books sculptor
297. Sharon Butler, painter and creator/publisher of Two Coats of Paint
296. Jennifer Moon- from micro to macro, from drug benders to Made in L.A., and from Revolution to a professorship
295. L.A. photographer Rakeem Cunningham from Flickr to Tumblr to IG and beyond...
294. the Art of Art Forgery with writer and law professor Clay Small
293. Mitchell Chan on Yves Klein, cryptocurrencies and the Void (and yes: NFTs)
292. the chirp-less crickets of Kauai: artist/choreographer Madeline Hollander on her Whitney Museum show ‘Flatwing’
291. How did he make that??! Making a(n almost) comfortable living via #ArtistSupport Pledge: Lee Wagstaff, Virtual Cafe #10
290. renovating an apartment in Havana. Artist Katarina Wong, part 2 of 2
289. Can an artist get completely immersed in the making? Katarina Wong, part 1 of 2
288. Being a Museum Director during the Trump era- Laura Raicovich, former director of the Queens Museum
287. Can art workers organize? Artist, writer and art world worker Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein on forming a union and more in the Virtual Cafe
286. Curator and NYU Professor Miriam Basilio on breaking a museum race barrier
285. Matthew Burrows, painter and creator (and user) of Artist Support Pledge
284. ‘Best-of’ episode with Carolina Miranda, culture writer for the Los Angeles Times
283. Colleen Hargaden, L.A. artist, on sustainability in advance of the apocalypse, the perils of an artist-run space, and 100+ - person crits
282. Nato Thompson on "the Indig-Nation" in our Virtual Cafe
281. Steve Lambert (part 2 of 2)
280. Steve Lambert (part 1 of 2), artist and co-found of Center for Artistic Activism
279. NYC artist Michelle Vaughan on inbreeding among the Habsburgs and a 'Movement of Women'
278. L.A. sculptor Alicia Piller on navigating a career and her workaholism
277. NY critic Seph Rodney on his journey as an outsider on the inside
276. Greg Allen on 'Naked Stratification...part 2 of 2
275. Greg Allen of Greg.org- blogger, collector, filmmaker, artist...part 1 of 2
274. "A Delightful Nightmare," LARP-ing with Till Wittwer and Netta Sadovsky
273. Forrest Kirk, L.A.-based painter on ascending the art world
272. Ayana Evans, NYC, an honest take on being a black woman performance artist
271. Kate Mothes, independent curator and founder of Young Space
270. Joanne Greenbaum, NYC artist on surviving and thriving as an artist
269. William Powhida, part 2 of 2- On the Future of Art
268. William Powhida, part 1 of 2- on Complicity and Activism
267. SoCal artist and professor Elizabeth Folk on performance art tropes
266. Danielle Baskin, SF-based artist and co-creator of Quarantine Chat
265. On Jordan Wolfson's 'Hot and Toxic' art with guest co-host Deb Klowden Mann
264. COVID-19 Special with co-host Deb Klowden Mann
263. Alex Strada, NYC-based artist and adjunct professor
262. Amy Kisch, Bay Area curator of Art+Action and formerly Sotheby's
261. Interim co-host Deb Klowden Mann-- a one-on-one chat
260. Sara Frantz, painter and professor at Cal State San Luis Obispo
259. Carl Baratta, L.A. painter and co-director of T.S.A. L.A.
258. the 'Meta' episode; people behind The Conversation talk about search for a co-host
257. Nick Brown, L.A. painter & director of Davyd Whaley Foundation
256. Sarah Friend, Berlin-based digital artist and software engineer
255. Laura Krifka, San Luis Obispo-based painter & professor
254. Ingrid LaFleur, Detroit-based curator, artist, Afrofuturist
253. Lauren van Haaften-Schick, artists rights & contracts expert
252. Oakland-based artist Ann Schnake
251. Berlin-based Greek artist Valentina Karga
250. Turning Studio Art into socially engaged art
249. Ruth Catlow, Furtherfield gallery, Internet art and the Blockchain
248. Cassie Thornton, Give Me Cred! and the Feminist Economics Department
247. Max Haiven, Art After Money, Money After Art(Part 4, the final chapter)
246. Paolo Cirio, New York and Europe-based artist
245. Samuel Harvey. Aspen, Colorado artist and gallerist
244. Renny Pritikin. "Prescription for a Healthy Art Scene"
243. Max Haiven. Art After Money, Money After Art(Part 3)
242. Max Haiven. Art After Money, Money After Art(Part 2)
241. Natasha Degen, chair of Art Market Studies at FIT
240. Max Haiven. Art After Money, Money After Art(Part 1)
239. Rainey Knudson(Part 2)
238. Rainey Knudson, publisher/ed. of Glasstire (Part 1)
237. Anna Schachte
236. Jeff Weiss of OLD NEWS, aka Weisslink – 2nd appearance
235. Nick Ravich of Art21.Art in the 21st Century
234. Simon Leung, of UC Irvine
233. Kristin Haring(Donum Estate Winery, part 3 of 3)
232. Art Advice.Ianna Frisby and Gioia Fonda
231. Jennifer Blei Stockman and Debi Wisch. 'The Price of Everything'
230. Daniel Oglander
229. Richard Hudson(Donum Estate Winery, part 2 of 3)
228. Jordan Seiler
227. Douglas White(Donum Estate Winery, part 1 of 3)
226. Brigitte Mulholland
225. Marcus Civin
224. Joshua Citarella (Part 2)
223. Joshua Citarella (Part 1)
222. Hein Koh
221. Robin Cembalest
220. Lucas Spivey
219. Margaret Carrigan
218. Lee Wagstaff
217. Courtney Childress
216. Hilde Lynn Helphenstein
215. Anna Stothart
214. Jenny Danielsson
213. Katrina Neumann
212. Denise Markonish
211. Scott Ogden
210. Dan Fox, ofFrieze. "Pretentiousness, Why It Matters"
209. Claire Carter
208. Stef Halmos
207. Chris Kallmyer
206. Jeff Greenspan
205. Gracie Mansion
204. Nina Katchadourian
203. Sara Maria Salamoneand Tyler Lafreniere. MRS. Gallery
202. Ellen Harvey
201. David Maisel
200. Maya Gurantz
199. Matt Starr
198. Jimi Dams
197. Kate McQuillen
196. Matthew Gardocki(w/co-host Deb Klowden Mann)
195. Jean Shin
194. Grayson Earle
193. Will Cotton
192. Rebecca Morgan
191. Tim Schneider(w/co-host Deb Klowden Mann)
189. Ann Lindberg
188. Guy Richards Smit
187. Steven Eastwood
186. Lisa C Soto
185. Lindsey White
184. Julia Cole
183. Alisha Kerlin
182. Kysa Johnson (Part 2)
181. Kysa Johnson(Part 1)
180. Hollie Ecker
179. Lisi Raskin
178. Maysha Mohammedi
177. Matt Gonzalez
176. Jonn Herschend
175. Justin Favela
174. De Nichols
173. Jennifer Dalton
172. Casey Jex Smith
171. Claire Colette
170. Adriane Herman
169. Hilary Pecis
168. Lauren Kaplan
167. John Walter
166. Mat Gleasonpart 2
165. Mat Gleasonpart 1 (w/co-host Deb Klowden Mann)
164. Stacey Fabrikant
163. David Prince
162. Ryan Wallace
161. Deborah Fisher
160. Emily Colucci
159. Ann Lewis
158. Jessica Lynne
157. Fee Plumley
156. Sherman Sam
155. Andrew Goldstein, editor-in-chief of Artspace
154. Lauren Seiden
153. Nato Thompson, part 2
152. Nato Thompson, part 1
151. Lauren Marinaro
150. Jessica Backus
149. William J. Simmons
148. Alicia Eler
147. Caitlyn Masley
146. Christen Clifford
145. David Hilliard
144. Jim Gaylord
143. Priscilla Frank
142. Kadar Brock
141. Michelle Grabner
140. Emma Hanley
139. Amanda Yates Garcia
138. Ben Davis
137. Anthony Greaney
136. Shara Hughes
135. Max Maslansky
134. Jacques Louis Vidal
133. Stephen Westfall
132. Thomas Micchelli
131. Sarah Cain
130. Jennifer Sullivan
129. Helen Toomer
128. Mark Thomas Gibson
127. Adam Shecter
126. Kim Abeles
125. Colleen Asper
124. Alison Kuo
123. Austin Thomas
122. Eileen Cowin
121. Andrew Russeth
120. Ted Mineo
119. Steve Shane
118. Jeff Weiss
117. Irena Jurek
116. David Robbins
115. Zak Smith
114. Roger White
113. Live event with Katie Bode, Stephanie Pryor & Matt Stromberg
112. Julio Cesar Morales
111. Tulsa Kinney
110. Carolina Miranda
109. Marco Rios
108. Carrie Paterson
107. Christian Viveros Faune (return guest)
106. 'The Crit' featuring 5 alums of Michael Asher's Post-Studio seminar
105. Liat Yossifor
104. Sarah Thornton
103. David Pagel (with co-host Deb Klowden Mann)
102. Kelsey Lee Offield
101. Joshua Dildine
100. Lester Monzon
99. Lisa Schiff
98. William Powhida
97. Kristen Morgin
96. Charlie James
95. Paddy Johsnon
94. Christian Viveros-Faune
95. Hrag Vartanian
94. John Melick
93. Adam Sheffer
92. Jerry Saltz
91. Kate Wolf
90. Walter Robinson
89. Tom Muller
88. Charlie White
87. Sharon Louden
86. Cole Case (w/co-host Deb Klowden Mann)
85. Smilee Barnacle
84. Max Presneil
83. Karl Haendel (live episode on KCHUNG radio)
82. Samantha Fields
81. Dani Tull
80. Christian Tedeschi
79. Amir Fallah
78. Oliver McIrwin
77. the Conversation 3-Way, Episode 5 (Alexandra Grant, Susan Silton)
76. the Conversation 3-Way, Episode 4 (Philip Martin, Aaron Morse)
75. Lizzie Post
74. The Conversation 3-way, epis. 3 (Julian Hoeber, Jen Collins)
73. Jillian Steinhauer
72. Dan Cameron
71. Nicole Klagsbrun
70. Tyler Green
69. The Conversation 3-way, epis. 2, part 2 (Robin O'Neal, Ed Schad)
68. The Conversation 3-way, epis. 2, part 1 (Iva Georguieva, Robin O'Neal, Ed Schad)
67. The Conversation 3-Way, epis. 1 with Aaron Morse, Karl Haendel
66. Anna Sew Hoy
65. Carter Mull
64. Richard Jackson
63. Night Gallery (Davida Nemeroff, Mieke Marple)
62. Dean Valentine
61. Michael Ned Holte
60. Kristina Wong
59. Amanda Ross-Ho
58. Erik Frydenborg
57. Micol Hebron
56. Matt Johnson
55. Chris Lipomi
54. Drew Heitzler
53. Erin Cosgrove
52. Jessica Silverman
51. Jonas Wood
50. Ry Rocklen
49. Lily Siegel
48. Robyn O'Neil
47. Corrina Peipon
46. Brian Sharp
45. Charlie Kitchings
44. Brian Butler
43. Iva Georguieva
42. Anthony Pearson
41. Dave Muller
40. Julian Hoeber
39. Debra Scacco
38. Eric Yahnker
37. Rebecca Morris
36. Karl Haendel
35. Deborah Grant
34. Vishal Judegeo
33. Jacob Kassay
32. Steve Roden, part 2
31. Steve Roden, part 1
30. Sandeep Muhkerjee
29. Brian Bress
28. Lily McElroy
27. Kristin Calabrese
26. Skip Arnold
25. Heather Brown
24. Kevin Appel
23. Zefrey Throwell
22. Analia Saban
21. Charles Irvin
20. Aaron Morse
19. Eric Wesley
18. Alice Konitz
17. Zach Harris
16. Matthias Merkel Hess
15. Margie Schnibbe
14. Fay Ray
13. Juan Capistran
12. Fritz Chesnut
11. Amy Sarkisian
10. John Bauer
9. Eli Langer
8. Zoe Crosher
7. Christopher Michlig
6. Adam D. Miller
5. Aaron Sandness
4. Molly Larkey
3. Eben Goff
2. Rowan Wood
1. Bari Zipperstein (w/co-host Geoff Tuck)
Episode Index