Artists Studios Resources : Interviews & Podcasts

A presentation by Nancy Princenthal, the author of Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art, about the artist’s formative experiences, the development of her work, and the range of lively non-mainstream art communities in which she lived. Following the presentation, Nancy Princenthal and Arezoo Moseni converse about the challenges facing a biographer of such an elusive artist and other topics related to the book.

Author David McCarthy is joined by artists Joyce Kozloff and Martha Rosler for a discussion about artists’ activism and antiwar art in the age of the American Century.

AFA is pleased to be hosting virtual events with artists, curators, and various members of the museum community.

The artist's writings and interviews.

What is the place of the museum in the modern city? What role does architecture play? How can these buildings be effectively interpreted? This panel discussion considers the role of the museum in the postwar city, and how its position has evolved in the years since, as museum projects have grown in scale, number, and prominence.

Art21 is a celebrated global leader in presenting thought-provoking and sophisticated content about contemporary art, and the go-to place to learn first-hand from the artists of our time.

Artists Carol Bove, Anna Craycroft and Sara VanDerBeek are joined in conversation by curator Dan Byers, about their selection process of the works in The Artist’s Museum.

This program served as a stop on Sharon Louden's 94-stop conversation tour for her book, The Artist as Culture Producer: Living and Sustaining a Creative Life. Panelists included Sharon Louden; and Hrag Vartanian editor-in-chief and co-founder of Hyperallergic. The panel discussed how artists sustain their lifestyle while generously supporting other artists.

A growing archive of short documentaries on contemporary artists profiling them in their own words including multi-media content featuring biographies, exhibition photos, audio clips and behind-the-scenes images. The profiles provide educational information and an historical record of some of the contemporary artists working today.

Featuring renowned art critic Donald Kuspit, artist Vincent Desiderio, artists Natalie Frank and Alexi Worth, and moderated by Peter Drake, they explore the genesis and progression of figurative art through the ages.

The pursuits of art and science have always been linked. Today, in our hyper-specialized world, we see the need for a productive dialogue between contemporary practices of art and science. We seek to explore the ways in which they inform one another and to point the way to new modes of collaboration. We invite the public to engage with us in this conversation.

One of America's foremost narrative painter Eric Fischl joins Arezoo Moseni to discuss his candid and revealing autobiography Bad Boy: My Life On and Off the Canvas.

Author Matthew Israel, and influential museum curators and directors Nicholas Baume, Adrienne Edwards, and Jens Hoffman discuss contemporary art's relation to art history and examine the place of contemporary art in museums as well as the future projects and programming at each panelist’s institution. The discussion is moderated by Arezoo Moseni.

Legendary artist Alex Katz discusses his book, Brand-New & Terrific with curator Diana Tuite; artist, and writer Phong Bui, and artist Elizabeth Peyton.

Artist Brice Marden discusses his creative process and sources of inspiration with author David Anfam, and art historian Eileen Costello.

Lisa Yuskavageconverses with Christopher Bedford, the Dorothy Wagner Wallis Director of the Baltimore Museum of Art and the curator of the artist's exhibition The Brood at the Rose Art Museum.

Artists' talks about their works and legacies sponsored by Joan Mitchell Foundation.

In this video Maura Reilly and Arezoo Moseni talk about Reilly’s groundbreaking book CURATORIAL ACTIVISM that offers new curatorial strategies, based on pioneering examples of innovative recent efforts to offset racial and gender disparities in the art world.

What we talk about when we talk about art. Each episode pairs two exceptional makers and thinkers discussing how art shapes, elevates, and shifts our point of view—and the surprising twists and turns of the creative process.

Artists April Gornik and Archie Rand converse about her work and the book, April Gornik: Drawings, published in conjunction with her recent major solo exhibition.

On the occasion of the publication Richard Serra: Early Work, the artist is joined by American art critic and historian Hal Foster to discuss the artist's seminal body of work spanning 1966 to 1971.

Johanna Fateman, Howard Singerman, Piper Marshall and Nic Guagnini, and John Miller discuss one of Mike Kelley’s most complex works Educational Complex.

In celebration of the publication of Judith E. Stein’s Eye of the Sixties, Richard Bellamy and the Transformation of Modern Art, the first-ever biography of one of the twentieth century’s most influential and enigmatic art dealers, and of Miles Bellamy’s Serious Bidness, a selection of his dad’s hitherto unpublished letters, artists Mark di Suvero, Alfred Leslie, Richard Nonas and Rosalyn Drexler join the authors in a conversation about the legacy of Dick Bellamy.

Artist Shimon Attie discusses his evocative monograph and concurrent exhibition, Facts on the Ground, with Norman Kleeblatt, Chief Curator, The Jewish Museum, New York, and Maya Benton, Curator at the International Center of Photography.

Join Christopher Bedford, Mary Schmidt Campbell, Thomas Lax, and Fred Wilson, in a conversation moderated by Sheena Wagstaff about the journey through one of the most exceptional collections of art in America, and through the momentous legacy of African and African Diasporan art from the last hundred years.

Halftone is a podcast series from The Fabric Workshop and Museum. Embodying the experimental nature of the Workshop, Halftone draws inspiration from our collaborations with artists.

Podcasts, films, exhibitions tours, talks and more on contemporary art produced and presented by Hauser & Wirth gallery.

The artist joins in conversation with Ann Temkin, Chief Curator of Painting at Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, to discuss his art and career and the themes and motifs to which he has returned throughout the decades.

A riveting conversation between renowned painter David Salle and acclaimed poet, critic and novelist Ben Lerner discussing David Salle’s new book on contemporary art, and the aims and tools of criticism in contemporary art and culture.

ICI supports the work of curators to help create stronger art communities through experimentation, collaboration, and international engagement.

The official YouTube channel of the International Center of Photography (ICP) providing open access to the videos of its past programs .

Robert Storr, author, art historian, curator, painter and critic; and special guest experts converse about Louise Bourgeois’s oeuvre and life. The discussion is moderated by Christopher Lyon, editor and Bookforum columnist.

Artists Ann Hamilton and Jane Hammond converse with Siglio publisher Lisa Pearson about the myriad and fascinating ways in which their works and practices engage language and the literary.

Curator and author Carlo McCormick moderates a panel discussion featuring Basquiat's close friends and collaborators Fred "Fab 5 Freddy" Brathwaite, Al Diaz, Michael Holman, Mary Ann Monforton, and Larry Warsh.

The pioneering feminist artist Carolee Schneemann discusses her brilliant work and remarkable career with Kathy Battista, Jenny Jaskey and David Levi Strauss.

Poet and art writer Marcella Durand moderates a discussion, with artists Eric Aho, Mark Innerst, Claire Sherman and Darren Waterston, about the significance of landscape and environmental issues in contemporary art and the multifarious ways that their works and practices address word and image. Durand's reading of her poetry accompanies the conversation.

On the occasion of the publication of Liz Deschenes monograph, the artist discusses her work with Eva Respini, the curator at The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston. The writer and contributor Lynne Tillman does a reading of her fiction piece included in the monograph.

rt historian and biographer Laurie Wilson discusses the remarkable life and art of one of the great sculptors of the 20th century in a presentation that considers the key elements of Nevelson’s work, the links between her childhood experiences and adult life as an artist, the major influences on her evolving style, the challenges she faced to be taken seriously...

Weekly videos on art, literature, architecture, design, and music produced by Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, ‎Denmark.

Artist Laurie Simmons is joined by writer Glenn O’Brien to discuss various subjects including dolls and artifice, sexuality and identity, imagination and physicality, fetishism and the evolution of gender identities, archtypes and taboos, as well as the specific processes of taking photographs and making movies.

Author, Miguel de Baca, joins Anne Truitt’s daughter, Alexandra Truitt, in a conversation about the artist’s early ambitions as a writer and visual artist, her gravitation toward the theme of memory that ultimately transformed her practice, and the resonances that her extraordinary body of work has for us today. Anne Truitt was a pioneering Minimalist sculptor.

Photographer James Welling is joined by curator Quentin Bajac, and art historian Robert Slifkin, to examine highlights from four decades of Welling’s work and discuss his first survey exhibition.

From exhibition previews to curator talks and performances, watch the videos and experience human creativity from every corner of the globe at The Met.

Established in 1979, MOCA is the only artist-founded museum in Los Angeles offering electric programs.

Tune in to Tate's podcasts about the lives of artists and the stories behind their work.

Author and curator Mary-Kay Lombino discusses her fascinating book, The Polaroid Years: Instant Photography and Experimentation, with renowned artists and photographers David Levinthal and William Wegman whose unique bodies of work demonstrate the incredible influence of Polaroid.

Coauthors Darius D. Himes and Mary Virginia Swanson share their insights on the evolving world of photobook publishing.

Artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles and editor Kari Conte are joined by Amanda Crabtree and Krist Gruijthuijsen for a reading and discussion.

PProlific photographer Stephen Shore and The New Yorker writer, Jane Kramer converse about the release of Shore’s new book, Survivors in Ukraine. The discussion is moderated by journalist Raymond Sokolov.

The artist Tim Rollins with members of his collaborative educational program Kids of Survival.

Curator Katherine Bussard joins two leading lights of contemporary art, Martha Rosler and Philip-Lorca diCorcia to discuss how cities, especially New York, have shaped their practice's engagement with street photography.

The online edition of MoMA’s ArtSpeaks program, features a member of the Museum's staff sharing personal impressions of an artwork in the galleries. Explore the collection work by work as new videos are released each month.

The acclaimed artist Nick Cave discusses Until at MASS MoCA, his enormous, elaborate journey through the workings of the artistic mind, with the Museum's curator Denise Markonish, Faust principal and creative director Bob Faust, and performer Helga Davis.

Over the years Tony Oursler has worked with a tight group of performers for his uncanny installations. For this event many of his performers come together for the first time to deliver excepts of these texts live. They perform selections from Tony Oursler's book Vox Vernacular, recreating his video installations and sculptures in a dynamic live reading.

The videos of past events at Whitney.