Marcel Duchamp: The Artist, the Rumors, the Questions without Answers | S10, EP8 DIALOGUES PODCAST
The Museum of Modern Art in New York has opened a once‑in‑a‑generation Marcel Duchamp retrospective, featuring over 150 works spanning his career. The Dialogues podcast episode brings together artist Rachel Harrison and Bard College art historian Alex Kitnick to discuss Duchamp’s legacy, his influence on conceptual art, and the exhibition’s curatorial narrative. Harrison connects Duchaun’s readymades to her own practice, while Kitnick examines how Duchamp reshaped ideas of authorship and the art market. The conversation also touches on how the show re‑energizes public and scholarly interest in early 20th‑century avant‑garde.
Raymond Saunders: Notes From LA
Raymond Saunders’ solo show “Notes from LA” opens with a playful nod to a first‑grade painting, setting a tone that merges personal memory with his broader artistic practice. The exhibition draws on his long‑standing fascination with pedagogy, humor, and the visual...
Walter Benjamin’s Final Days and His Cherished Paul Klee Drawing | S10, EP7 DIALOGUES PODCAST
The Dialogues podcast episode examines Walter Benjamin’s relationship with Paul Klee’s 1920 drawing Angelus Novus and traces how both the artwork and Benjamin’s seminal “Thesis on the Philosophy of History” survived the Nazi onslaught. Benjamin purchased the drawing in Munich a...
The Fruit Basket with Luc Tuymans and Helen Molesworth
The video features a conversation between artist Luc Tuymans and curator Helen Molesworth about their project "The Fruit Basket," which employs three‑dimensional figurines rendered in a muted gray gesso. By deliberately dulling the surface, the creators strip the objects of...
The Difficulty of Critiquing Black Artists with Rachel Hunter Himes | S10, EP6 DIALOGUES PODCAST
The Dialogues podcast episode features Rachel Hunter‑Himes discussing her recent Triple Canopy essay “Black Block,” which interrogates the persistent tendency to read Black art primarily through a political lens and to substitute artist identity for substantive critique. She argues that...
How Joan Mitchell Defines a Feeling
The video chronicles a little‑known chapter of Joan Mitchell’s career—her summers and falls in the early 1960s spent living aboard a sailboat that roamed the Mediterranean from the Côte d’Azur to Corsica, Italy and Greece. While navigating coastal ports, she...