The Conversation Art Podcast

By Michael Shaw

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Episodes: 100

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A podcast featuring both one-on-one and three-way roundtable conversations with contemporary artists, dealers, curators, and collectors--based in Los Angeles, but reaching nationally and internationally.

Episode Date
Journalist Bianca Bosker: a ‘normie Philistine’ dives into the art world working for artists, dealers and as a museum security guard in attempt to unravel its mysteries
Apr 06, 2024
Valerie Werder turns her intense years working for a blue-chip gallery into an inspired novel, Thieves
Feb 24, 2024
Epis. 357- Seattle artist Debra Broz on her studio routines, love of work as well as successfully navigating "the feel bad machine" that is Instagram
Jan 27, 2024
Zombie Formalism, Debt aesthetics, and AI & Art: New Yorker writer/critic Chris Wiley
Dec 02, 2023
Epis: 354- the Art Thief, the remarkable story of art history's most prolific stealer, with author Michael Finkel
Oct 14, 2023
Epis. 351- veteran co-host Deb Klowden Mann joins to discuss Money on the Wall, an epic profile of dealer Larry Gagosian
Sep 02, 2023
Epis: 349- Narsiso Martinez on his epic story from Oaxaca to California, from picking produce in the fields to becoming a full-time artist
Aug 05, 2023
Epis: 347- Alexis Rockman on 'owning' natural history
Jul 01, 2023
Epis: 345- House-hunting with a Billionaire
Jun 04, 2023
Art Adivisor Lisa Schiff- a Re-Release of Episode 99 from 2015
May 26, 2023
Bonus Epis: 344- the Bay Area art scenes, healing out of ancestral trauma, and seeing Philip Guston through the lens of a Jew: artist Alex Nowik
May 20, 2023
Epis: 343- Flora, Public Art and loving New York even if NY doesn’t love you back: Brooklyn-based artist Nancy Blum
May 06, 2023
In-Between Episode including fresh OLD NEWS
Apr 22, 2023
Epis. 341: Class Issues- artists and class with Berlin artist Norbert Witzgall
Apr 08, 2023
The Conversation MIDWAY- Bonus episode announcement, plus a rant on the art services industry
Mar 26, 2023
Epis. 340: Veteran art handler Bryan Cooke on 50+ years in the art handling business, including several brushes with death
Mar 09, 2023
Preview/Teaser for Epis. 339A- Art Can Kill: The Art World's Crooks, Clowns & Connossieurs
Feb 26, 2023
Epis. 338: Former pro surfer and current arts writer Jamie Brisick on why success is its own form of failure, and Raymond Pettibon, Paul Chan and Francis Alys, among others
Feb 11, 2023
Epis. 337: Art & Politics- how can they co-exist? The Conversation's 14th Virtual Cafe
Jan 28, 2023
Epis. 336: on The Death of the Artist, a frank conversation with writer and cultural critic William Deresiewicz
Jan 07, 2023
Epis. 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
Dec 25, 2022
Epis. 334: The challenges in green-lighting public art that’s actually good- curator and arts administrator Zoë Taleporos
Dec 10, 2022
Epis.#333- Tjebbe Beekman, Amsterdam-based artist on how a major life turning point became a turning point for his art
Nov 25, 2022
Epis. 332: U. of Michigan art historian/scholar Joan Kee on Korean contemporary art, emojis, and going through law school & corporate law on her way to becoming an art historian
Nov 12, 2022
ICA San Diego director Andrew Utt: on the curatorial process, and how to increase the art reputation of a city not known for its art world
Oct 30, 2022
Epis.330: Cole Sternberg, from painting with the elements to his Free Republic of California project to moving to a farm during the pandemic
Oct 15, 2022
Epis.329: Ben Davis on the Ordinary World Record Egg, what to do when Apple co-opts your artwork, and where high art meets immersive art
Oct 01, 2022
Epis.328: Ben Davis, National Art Critic for Artnet News and author most recently of Art in the After-Culture
Sep 17, 2022
Epis.327: Val Zavala on the Extinction Circle, Death Cafes and the New 10 Commandments for Future Generations
Sep 03, 2022
Epis.326- NYC art appraiser David Shapiro: from valuing a work of art to shifting from his own art career
Aug 20, 2022
Immersive art installations: who visits them, why, and where they're headed...with Kate Sharkey, painter and a 'host' at ARTECHOUSE
Aug 06, 2022
Epis.#324- Maria Brito, her path from emerging singer to corporate lawyer to art advisor; and how she scored a Banksy for a client
Jul 23, 2022
Epis. 323, Dave Kinsey: post-graffiti, post-illustration, post-skate art, and the BLK/MRKT gallery scene in the early-to-mid-2000s
Jul 09, 2022
Episode 322- Profound effects on the art market, ‘Rich-Kid’ art, and a painting of a polar bear
Jun 27, 2022
Epis. 321: Working as an artist's assistant, learning to pay attention, and dedication to the process- James Griffith, part 2
Jun 11, 2022
Epis. 320: James Griffith, L.A.-based painter, on painting with tar, and re-building his home, studio, and outdoor amphitheater- part 1 of 2
May 28, 2022
Epis. 319: Sarah Thibault, S.F.-based artist, on residency hopping, conversing with ghosts, and being the last artist in San Francisco (or so it seems)
May 14, 2022
Epis. 318: Andrew Russeth- art writer formerly in New York, now living in Seoul, South Korea
Apr 30, 2022
Epis. 317: museums’ Invisible Labor, and how exhibition rooms are suspensions of common sense- Fernando Dominguez Rubio, part 3
Apr 16, 2022
Epis. 316: Why MoMA goes to great lengths to recreate what's dying or only existing in the past- Fernando Dominguez Rubio, part 2
Apr 02, 2022
Epis. 315: What goes on behind the scenes of a museum (specifically MoMA), and why it matters, with Fernando Dominguez Rubio, author of Still Life: Ecologies of the Modern Imagination at the Art Museum, part 1
Mar 19, 2022
Epis. 314: Oligarch Shortage, SuperBlue Indictment, and the Cinema of Transgression: the Guest-Less Episode courtesy OLD NEWS
Mar 07, 2022
Epis.313: Sam Francis- king of desire,
Feb 19, 2022
Epis.312: Writer Gabrielle Selz on Sam Francis, an abstract painter who broke all the rules
Feb 05, 2022
Epis. 311: Sydney Croskery, part 2 of 2-
Jan 22, 2022
Epis.310: Sydney Croskery, Los Angeles artist
Jan 08, 2022
Epis.309: Running a gallery, creating community,
Dec 25, 2021
Epis.308: Yoshino of Artist Decoded (the podcast), part 1 of 2
Dec 13, 2021
Epis.307: a Spanish painter (Antonio Murado) goes to New York City-
Nov 26, 2021
Episode 306: Collector disconnect, enjoying without owning, and
Nov 13, 2021
The challenge of describing contemporary art (even for a writer):
Oct 30, 2021
Epis.304: Virtual Cafe w/special guest Rose Bricetti
Oct 16, 2021
Epis.303: Status Signals, and risking a Lower Status
Oct 02, 2021
Epis 302: Hannah Wohl, part 3-
Sep 18, 2021
Epis. 301- Bound by Creativity, pt 2 with Hannah Wohl
Sep 04, 2021
Episode 300- Hannah Wohl on her book Bound by Creativity: part 1
Aug 21, 2021
Epis. 299- NYC artist and writer Melissa Stern:
Aug 07, 2021
Best-Of episode with Ben Davis (ArtNet News and
Jul 24, 2021
Epis. 298: from cedar salvaging to becoming a landlord
Jul 10, 2021
Sharon Butler, painter and the
Jun 26, 2021
Epis.#296: Jennifer Moon, Los Angeles artist, would-be revolutionary, & professor
Jun 12, 2021
Epis.#295: LA-based photographer Rakeem Cunningham
May 29, 2021
Epis.#294: the art of art forgery
May 15, 2021
Epis.#293: When the aim is the immaterial- artist Mitchell Chan
May 01, 2021
Epis.#292: the chirp-less crickets of Kauai:
Apr 17, 2021
Epis.#291: How did he make that??! plus...
Apr 03, 2021
Katarina Wong, part 2 of 2
Mar 20, 2021
Epis.#289: Can an artist get completely immersed in the making? Katarina Wong, part 1 of 2
Mar 06, 2021
Epis.#288: Being a Museum Director during the Trump era
Feb 20, 2021
Epis.#287: Can art workers organize?
Feb 06, 2021
Curator and NYU Professor Miriam Basilio Discusses Breaking the Museum Diversity Barrier
Jan 23, 2021
Matthew Burrows, MBE- English painter
Jan 10, 2021
Epis.#284: 'Best-of' episode with Carolina Miranda
Dec 28, 2020
Epis.#283: Los Angeles-Based Artist Colleen Hargaden:
Dec 12, 2020
Epis.#282: Nato Thompson's Indig-Nation
Nov 29, 2020
Epis.#281: Steve Lambert (part II of II), on how Capitalism works -
Nov 14, 2020
Epis.#280: Steve Lambert, artist and co-founder of the Center for Artistic Activism
Oct 31, 2020
Epis.#279: NYC-based Artist Michelle Vaughan
Oct 18, 2020
Epis.#278: Los Angeles-based sculptor Alicia Piller
Oct 03, 2020
Epis.#277: New York-based art critic Seph Rodney
Sep 19, 2020
Epis.#276: Greg Allen on "Naked Stratification"
Sep 05, 2020
Epis.#275: Greg Allen of greg.org
Aug 22, 2020
Epis.#274: 'A Delightful Nightmare:' LARP-ing the 'Great Success Machine'
Aug 08, 2020
Epis.#273: Los Angeles-Based Painter Forrest Kirk
Jul 27, 2020
New York-Based Ayana Evans Reveals Her Honest Experience
Jul 11, 2020
Kate Mothes, nomadic curator behind the platform Young Space
Jun 27, 2020
Epis.#270: NY-based “Truly Rebellious Artist” Joanne Greenbaum-
Jun 13, 2020
Epis.#269: William Powhida (part 2 of 2)
May 30, 2020
Epis.#268: William Powhida (part 1 of 2)
May 16, 2020
Epis.#267: SoCal artist & professor Elizabeth Folk
May 02, 2020
San Francisco-based artist Danielle Baskin
Apr 18, 2020
Epis. 265: on Jordan Wolfson's 'Hot and Toxic' art,
Apr 04, 2020
Epis.# 264: the COVID-19 Special
Mar 28, 2020
Episode 263: Brooklyn-based artist and adjunct professor Alex Strada
Mar 14, 2020
Epis.#262: Amy Kisch, Bay-Area curator, art advisor and organizer
Feb 29, 2020
Epis. 261: interim Co-Host Deb Klowden Mann
Feb 15, 2020
Epis.#260: painter and professor Sara Frantz
Feb 01, 2020
Epis.#259: Carl Baratta, L.A. artist and co-director of TSA L.A.
Jan 18, 2020
Epis.# 258: The 'Meta' Episode/Search for a Co-Host
Jan 07, 2020
Epis.#257: Nick Brown-- L.A. painter and director of the Davyde Whaley Foundation
Dec 21, 2019