Dialogues: The David Zwirner Podcast

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Episode 54 | Jonathan Anderson Mar 01, 2023

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Creative Director of LOEWE and founder of JW Anderson, Jonathan Anderson, speaks with Helen about his innovative approach to fashion, from collections that are equal parts cultural commentary and artistic play, to pushing gender boundaries and materiality, to redefining the word “luxury.” Jonathan and Helen sit down to break open the divisions between craft and art, creation and appropriation, and high and low culture.

Episode 53 | Cecilia Alemani Feb 22, 2023

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A post-mortem on the 59th Venice Biennale, The Milk of Dreams, with curator Cecilia Alemani. Cecilia and Helen Molesworth discuss the unique challenges of mounting an exhibition at scale in the COVID era and what it was like being the first Italian woman to curate a Biennale.

Episode 52 | Sarah Schulman Feb 15, 2023

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The novelist, playwright, activist, and AIDS historian Sarah Schulman discusses her most recent book, Let the Record Show, A Political History of ACT UP New York [1987-1993], a landmark document of the activist response to the AIDS crisis. Schulman describes the triumphs, challenges, and simultaneous histories of ACT UP, and what they teach us about movements in general.

Episode 51 | Jon Gray (Ghetto Gastro) Feb 08, 2023

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Jon Gray, co-founder of the Bronx-based collective Ghetto Gastro, talks to Helen Molesworth about the collective’s work at the intersection of the culinary world, hip-hop, fashion, art, activism, and community building.

Episode 50 | Why You Do What You Do with Brendan Dugan, Johanna Fateman and Ebony L. Haynes Feb 01, 2023

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Host Helen Molesworth calls art writer Johanna Fateman (Le Tigre), gallerist Brendan Dugan (Karma Gallery) and the curator,and writer Ebony L. Haynes (Senior Director of 52 Walker) to discuss how they carved their unique paths in the art world and what continues to inspire them.

Episode 49 | Luca Guadagnino and Michaël Borremans Jan 25, 2023

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A conversation between the Academy award-nominated writer, producer, and director Luca Guadagnino and the Belgian painter Michaël Borremans on the relationship between painting and film. They muse on the specificity of light to their mediums, the role of the uncanny, and paintings and films as a mirror of who we imagine ourselves to be.

Guadagnino’s most recent film Bones and All debuted to critical acclaim last Fall. Michaël Borremans held his seventh solo exhibition at David Zwirner, The Acrobat, in Spring of 2022.

Best of 2022 | With Helen Molesworth Dec 14, 2022

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As we close out the year, Helen calls up her dear friend Steve Locke to carry on the tried and true tradition of end-of-year lists. It turns out there was a lot to love in 2022.

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-Lynne Tillman, Mothercare

-Craig Drennen at Freight and Volume

-Marlene Dumas at the Palazzo Grassi in Venice

-Bob Thompson at Colby College and the Hammer Museum

-Milk of Dreams (Venice Biennale)

-Mira Schor's instagram account

-Ruth Erickson’s A Place for Me at the ICA Boston

-Cauleen Smith at Moran Moran gallery in LA

What Does Art Have to Do with Climate Change? | With Helen Molesworth Dec 07, 2022

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In this episode, Helen Molesworth calls an old friend, the painter Alexis Rockman, to try and understand the art world’s reaction to recent acts of museum vandalism perpetrated by Just Stop Oil, putting them in context with theories on environmental activism and the harsh reality of the climate crisis.

Alexis Rockman is a painter whose realist landscapes imagine the future effects of the anthropocene on the natural world, and was one of the first artists to investigate global warming in his work.

Stay tuned for Helen’s next episode, which takes stock of the very best art exhibitions of 2022.

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-Just Stop Oil on Instagram

-Climate Emergency Fund

-Alexis Rockman, Manifest Destiny in the Smithsonian Museum

-Reluctant Radical by Ken Ward

On Art and Poetics Nov 30, 2022

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Lucas Zwirner returns as host for a conversation with the MacArthur award-winning poet and translator Peter Cole and the renowned critic and scholar of avant-garde poetry, Marjorie Perloff. On the occasion of Peter’s new book of poetry, Draw Me After, which is inspired by the work of Terry Winters and Agnes Martin, they come together for a state of the union of art and poetry.

Draw Me After: Poemsis available now.

Let’s Talk About Appropriation | With Helen Molesworth Nov 16, 2022

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Following recent controversies in the art and fashion worlds, host Helen Molesworth and the artist Steve Locke, a returning guest, sit down to talk about a subject that has been thorny for as long as there have been arguments about art. So, appropriation: When is it strategy and when is it theft? Who gets to claim authorship of what? And what is actually original nowadays?

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