The Conversation Art Podcast
Michael Shaw
Los Angeles-based conversations with artists, dealers, curators, and collectors about contemporary art.
Why we picked this
A Arts exploring key topics in depth.
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.
Recent episodes
Episode 389: The Conversation presents: The Intrepid Artist, an Advice podcast- Episode 1, with co-host Arleene Correa Valencia
Aug 8, 202636 min
Episode 388: Lauren O'Neill-Butler on Artist Activism, Artforum magazine and the seminal Project Row Houses in Houston
Jun 20, 202652 min
Episode 387: Peter Hujar and Paul Thek's "Wonderful World That Almost Was," with writer and Frieze editor Andrew Durbin
May 23, 202650 min
Episode 386- James Delbourgo on the 'Noble Madness' of collectors- from Charles Foster Kane to Norman Bates and others, and what Freud had to say about all of them
Apr 25, 20261h 4m
Episode 385- Useful Art explodes what your sense of Art with a capital "A" is and can be, with John Byrne, author of "Useful Art- How Activist Artists Can Change the World"
Mar 28, 20261h 9m
Episode 384: Boston artist and lifelong art school teacher on photography and teaching in art schools for 46 years
Feb 21, 202651 min
Episode 383- Sarah Khan: Documenting the Immigrant Experience
Jan 17, 202651 min
Episode 382: Robbie Conal,from the studio to the streets--applying what you do best to what you care about most
Dec 13, 202554 min
Episode 381- Arleene Correa Valencia: From rural Mexico to the Napa Valley and back, fulfilling a family dream
Nov 15, 202553 min
Episode 380- London-based photographer and writer Michael Collins on the perils of photography, and art criticism, and why to give your viewers the benefit of the doubt
Oct 11, 202556 min
Episode 379- artist Linnéa Gabriella Spransy – growing up in a commune, Yale grad school, working as a living artist in Kansas City, and co-founding the gallery Bridge Projects
Sep 13, 202544 min
Episode 378: Artist Camilla Taylor- "My House Burned Down"
Aug 9, 202552 min
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