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63. Nicole Perlroth Apr 20, 2021

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Nicole Perlroth covers cybersecurity and digital espionage for The New York Times. She has covered Russian hacks of nuclear plants, airports, and elections, North Korea's cyberattacks against movie studios, banks and hospitals, Iranian attacks on oil companies, banks and the Trump campaign and hundreds of Chinese cyberattacks, including a months-long hack of The Times. Her first book, “This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends,” about the global cyber arms race, was published in February 2021. The book, and several of her Times articles, have been optioned for television. A Bay Area native, Ms. Perlroth is a guest lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a graduate of Princeton University and Stanford University.
She and Zuckerman discuss moving to California, choosing to leave an enviable position, naming and shaming, Chinese and Russian hackers and hackers for hire, vulnerabilities, being a story teller, zero days, spy agencies, being a target, managing paranoia, election threats, being a mom and a female journalist, acting on what you most care about, the humans that are involved, and what “they” tell us!

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62. Allison M. Glenn Apr 06, 2021

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Allison M. Glenn is a curator and writer deeply invested in working closely with artists to develop ideas, artworks, and exhibitions that respond to and transform our understanding of the world. She is an Associate Curator, Contemporary Art at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and she curates exhibitions across the contemporary program at Crystal Bridges and the Momentary, a new contemporary art space and satellite of Crystal Bridges. Prior to working at Crystal Bridges, she was the Manager of Publications and Curatorial Associate for Prospect New Orleans’ international art triennial Prospect.4.
She and Zuckerman discussed regionalism, the center becoming the periphery, cultural exchange, being stewards of the institutions we work for, ambitious projects, identifying key stakeholders first, Amy Sherald’s portrait of Breonna Taylor, the limits to what exhibitions can do, not yet having actually seen things we think we have, not knowing what we think we know, roles and responsibilities, and her curation of Promise Witness Remembrance at the Speed Museum, permission, accessible freedoms, and how people can act in museums!

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61. Glenn Kaino Mar 23, 2021

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Glenn Kaino is an American conceptual artist based in Los Angeles. By integrating innovative methodologies with established art historical traditions, Kaino orchestrates spectacular aesthetic phenomena that engage with, and offer critical commentary on the collective contemporary consciousness. His oeuvre is omnidisciplinary. It predominantly includes sculpture, painting, filmmaking, performance, installation, and large scale public work. His practice is fundamentally idea based. As an art student in the 1990s at UC Irvine and UC San Diego, Kaino adopted a layered, philosophical approach to art making. Simultaneously, he also immersed him self in the study of computers and digital technology. His practice includes mesmerizing and substantial creations and collaborations within the internet, entertainment and communications industries.
He and Zuckerman discuss putting together things that would otherwise be irreconcilable, Jerry Adams and the spirit of the resistance, John Lewis and bloody Sundays, civil rights movements, constellation of intentions and concerns, the membrane between knowing and not knowing, that no one will believe more than you, fish tanks and post colonial politics, progressive hobbyists, where humanity lies, the natural state of war, being an art maker, creating a space for things to be considered, magic, and doing impossible things!

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60. Alia Ali Mar 16, 2021

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Alia Ali works between photography, video, and installation, addressing the politicization of the body, histories of colonization, imperialism, sexism, and racism through projects that take pattern and textile as their primary motif. Textile has been a constant in her practice, and she has recently begun making her own patterns and prints. Her work is also informed by discourses of criminality, Yemeni Futurism, and feminist theory, drawing upon stories including the nostalgic past of the Queen of Sheba.
She and Zuckerman discuss indigenous symbolism, what is threatening, how to use beauty, vanishing countries, shifts of allegiance, abduction of stories, the weight of a job, self imposed responsibilities, language and truth, being seen the way you want to be seen, inclusion and exclusion and the power of photography, having an actual tribe, ancestral knowledge, who owns the red star, the occupying of myths, and radically imagined possibilities for the future!

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59. Matty Mo Mar 09, 2021

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Matty Mo is a conceptual artist and technology entrepreneur best known for creating, "The Most Famous Artist." Through this platform, Matty Mo and his global community of multidisciplinary creators make installations, stunts, and exhibitions that drive culture and penetrate the mainstream media.

He and Zuckerman discuss the most famous artist community, $ART coin, performance versus conceptual versus stunt art, NFTs, monoliths, and what happens to people who apologize!

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58. Rebecca Anne Proctor Mar 02, 2021

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Rebecca Anne Proctor is a journalist, presenter, and consultant who writes on culture, cultural policy, contemporary affairs, international relations, the art market, art exhibitions, luxury, fashion, food, hotels and travel for Arab News, Artnet, The Forward, Frieze, Vogue Arabia, Wallpaper, ArtNews, The National, Galerie Magazine, T Emirates: The New York Times Style Magazine, Bloomberg Businessweek Middle East, the BBC, and many others. In April 2018 she moderated a panel at the Culture Summit in Abu Dhabi on Emerging Trends in the Arts and Media Worldwide. And in March 2018 she appeared as a judge on Fashion Star Season 3, Reem Acra’s hit reality TV series for emerging Arab fashion designers in Beirut. She has also advised numerous artists, galleries, architects and art collectors, in the MENA and African regions.
She and Zuckerman discuss having a “glamorous” life, not knowing what to call yourself, art as a means to know what is going to happen, cultural cross roads, the creativity of the edge, trying to find order, the work of Marwan Sahmarani, how trauma impacts artwork, art as documentation, trusting your gut, how to work things out, the beauty of being imperfect, the role of empathy, what we took for granted, and how art cannot lie!

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57. Sarah Sutton Feb 23, 2021

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Sarah Sutton is Principal of Sustainable Museums. For three decades she has worked in the museum field with a specific focus on climate awareness in the cultural sector. Sutton works with the leadership of individual institutions as they prepare and launch mission-specific climate initiatives, or plan more strategic engagement with initiatives around environmental sustainability and climate resilience.
She and Zuckerman discuss museums and the climate crisis, Helen Frankenthaler and her values, LEED certification and the early aught building boom, climate, Covid, economics and equity, “just” doing what we do, how to surface answers you don’t know, how art documents climate change, opening the science-based discussion on climatization of museum collections, the push that funding allows, the risk of action but also non-action, carbon offsets, and how a single person can make major things happen at an institution!
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56. Lynn Goldsmith Feb 16, 2021

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Lynn Goldsmith is more than the “Rock and Roll photographer” of Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Keith Richards, and so many others. She has made kind, collaborative, and keenly perceptive portraits of world leaders like John Lewis, John McCain, and Jane Goodall. She is an artist who works in photography, painting, performance, spoken word and released “Will Powers” on Island Records in 1983.
Goldsmith and Zuckerman discuss learning instead of judging, seeing more than what other people can see, the camera as a tool for answers, portrait photographers as psychologists, control, pattern interrupts, having a limited amount of time, breaking limitations, having a platform, taking pictures of beloved musical icons, the power of dress, confronting and utilizing our fears, making life lighter, and why hard work matters!

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55. David Glasser Feb 09, 2021

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David Glasser is the two decade Chairman & CEO of the Ben Uri Gallery and Museum in the U.K. and oversaw its recreation as the first full-scale virtual art museum and research center. Ben Uri Gallery and Museum was founded in 1915 in Whitechapel's Jewish ghetto in the East End of London, by émigré Russian artist Lazar Berson who previously exhibited with Chagall in Paris. In 2000, a new strategic direction was built around scholarship and expanding the remit from solely Jewish artists by incorporating the wider, diverse immigrant artist experience in Britain since 1900.
Glasser and Zuckerman discuss the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design and the founding goal, museum relevancy in the 21st century, defining distinctive strength, doing a collections audit, being a public benefit, women refugees to the UK post WWII, a safe house for artists, a 24% female artist collection, mainstreaming a museum strategy, how few people actually visit some physical museums, why a digital museum is so compelling, global as the new local, deaccessioning, and being brave enough!

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54. Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi Feb 02, 2021

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Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi is a South African-American painter and multi-media artist. Her work investigates power and its structures – political, social, architectural. Implicit in her examination of these structures is an interrogation of the invisible forces that create them, and an imagining of alternatives. She sees her subject choices as monuments to ideologies, referring to her architecture painting as “portraits” and her human portraits as “figures.”
Nkosi and Zuckerman discuss the practice of being a parent, making things, going “back” places, the narrative of the return home, the faces on money, the struggle for freedom, doing work that matters, who gets celebrated and why, remembering people aloud, gymnastics and exactness, different definitions of blackness, the tender space of art, the risk of creating art, behavior, movement, and allowing ourselves to be an evolving being!

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