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Joan of Art

Joan of Art is Joan Juliet Buck’s new Radio Free Rhinecliff podcast devoted to human expression in the age of tentpoles and bots, at the dawn of AI. It’s about culture in all its forms. Joan of Art is a weapon in the fight against the machines Joan of Art is the flag waving over the battlefield where institutional interests try to crush the people who make what’s called either ‘Product” , or ‘Content’. Product? Content? No: Art. Movies. Books. Plays. Exhibitions. Poems. Murals. Museums. Streamers. Essays. Concepts. Joan Of Art is reviews –but also interviews with people who write, think, paint, direct, dance, perform, who use the arts to enhance, elevate, and question our lives. It’s not a show about solutions, it’s a show about questions. As a critic, Joan Juliet Buck crisply and coherently shares her enthusiasms.
Today there’s more at stake than when she wrote for the classic primary pollinators of culture, the arts pages, features sections, and magazines. Today, the newsstands are closed, many of the magazines have become the living dead. What’s left, on paper : Harper’s , The Atlantic, New York Magazine, The New Yorker. The LRB. Guardian weekly. Online: Flying headlines. Trending information. Aggregated opinions. Rotten slimy tomatoes. Joan Of Art is a guide through what’s out there. It will feed your soul, and provide the jolt of insights with the thrill of the new.

Copyright: © 2023 & 2024

Latest Episodes:

Nick Quested explains Political Division in America Oct 10, 2024

Do grievances constitute an ideology? No one can get a handle on today, except maybe Nick Quested, producer, director, and maker of documentaries, who embedded with the Proud Boys in the summer of 2020 and followed the plot to the storming of the capitol. We saw him testify before the January 6 committee . With his film '64 Days' just out, he gives a wide ranging interview to Joan Juliet Buck.

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Griffin Dunne explains how to honor your father Sep 13, 2024

The actor Griffin Dunne, born rich and fame-adjacent in Hollywood, tells a family story wilder than any miniseries. His mother was an heiress, his aunt was Joan Didion , his uncle John’s Gregory Dunne. After his sister Dominique was murdered, his fatherr Dominick Dunne— a failed and alcoholic producer— wrote about the trial and was launched as a world famous chronicler of true crimes. In a wildly candid interview, Dunne honors the bravery of his closeted father and explains his own brush with organized crime.

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Michael J Gelb explains how to walk well. Aug 09, 2024

Michael J Gelb teaches normal humans how to walk, CEOs how to access genius levels of creativity, and also juggles. He began studying the Alexander Technique in London 43 years ago , became a teacher, expanded the mind-body connection to encompass the higher reaches of creativity. His new book 'Walking Well ', written with Bruce Fertman, another Alexander Technique alumnus and teacher, come out September 3, and he's teaching a vital workshop at the Omega Institute this August 16-17-18.

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Carolyn Pfeiffer explains the Dolce Vita, Swinging London, and net points Jun 10, 2024

Carolyn Pfeiffer's unerring flair took her from North Carolina to Rome at 21 with a one way boat ticket, and straight into La Dolce Vita. As the assistant to Claudia Cardinale, she watched two masterpieces being made-- Fellini's 8 1/2 and Visconti 's The Leopard, and two movie stars later, went to England to become the best PR in--and for--Swinging London. She returned to America to produce such films as Koyaanisqatsi, Kiss of The Spider Woman, and the films of Alan Rudolph. Her incomparable adventures with the greats of mid-century cinema are well told in her memoir Chasing the Panther, (Harper Horizon, 2023) and she talks with Joan Juliet Buck here before they have a talk onstage at Upstate films Rhinebeck on June 16.

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Howard Korder explains how much of a trickster, and how charming, Benjamin Franklin was Jun 04, 2024

Joan Juliet Buck interviews Howard Korder, co-writer and co-producer of “Franklin”, the 8-part marvel from the team that brought you "The Sopranos". “Franklin”, streaming on Apple TV+ , is as lavish and candlelit as “Barry Lyndon” but more fun, and explodes the myth of fundamental American purity.
Watch Benjamin Franklin manipulate to steer bewigged and rouged French aristos into funding the American Revolution to piss off their arch enemies, the British.

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Expats and The Curse May 10, 2024

Joan Juliet Buck explains two terrific, upsetting, unconventional, genre-defying new series , one from the brilliant Lulu Wang and set in Hong Kong, the other a satire written by and starring the provocative Benny Safdie and the cringe-master Nathan Fielder, who directed and also plays Emma Stone's husband

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George Green explains how he founded The Moth, and what makes a good story Apr 11, 2024

The inside story of how, back in 1997, George Dawes Green founded The Moth, the storytelling entity that gave you-- and you and you-- permission to get up on stage and tell your story. The author of bestselling, award-winning thrillers (The Juror, Ravens, The Kingdoms of Savannah), George Green is candid, charming, and full of stories.

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John Patrick Shanley explains how he writes plays Apr 07, 2024

This winter John Patrick Shanley had three plays running simultaneously in New York; the newest, Brooklyn Laundry, is a wrenching and ecstatic 80 minute ride through attraction, grief, love, giddiness, reality check, responsibility, to adulthood. He talks to Joan Juliet Buck about life, death, the meaning of both, and invokes the possibilities of a blonde wig.

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Capote's Swans: cliff notes and field guide Mar 21, 2024

Words that hurt: It's 1975 and Truman Capote , one of the most famous writers in the world, publishes an extract of his unfinished novel in Esquire. It's the dirty secrets his beloved rich lady friends have been telling him for years. Shit ensues.

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All of Us Strangers: Love, Death, Andrew Scott Naked. Mar 21, 2024

If truth, emotion and love counted with the academy, this film would be nominated for best actor, (Andrew Scott) best supporting actor (Paul Mescal) , best adapted screenplay, best director, (Andrew Haigh) and best film. Andrew Haigh brings the dead back to life, and explores the truth of intimacy , desire, comfort, and love. He tells the impossible story with such ease and confidence that you believe it all. Andrew Scott plays Adam, a lonely screenwriter living in a high rise so new it seems empty. A young neighbor comes on to him; he takes a train to visit his parents , who've been dead for 30 years...

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Joan Tewkesbury, who wrote Altman’s masterpiece ‘Nashville’, explains how to make ideas flow Feb 05, 2024

Afraid of losing your story? The great screenwriter Joan Tewkesbury, who wrote Altman's game-changing masterpiece 'Nashville', is also a director who has been teaching at Robert Redford's Sundance Institute Labs since 1992. Sundance is where she evolved the way for filmmakers to get at the truth of the story they are trying to tell. She explains to Joan Juliet Buck how to dive deep into the seemingly random to go beyond personal concerns.

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Maestro : the coolest adults in the room Feb 01, 2024

Here’s why Maestro, Bradley, Cooper’s second movie set in the world of ShowBusiness, is both deeply affecting and insufficient

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Killers of the Flower Moon Dec 19, 2023

Why is Martin Scorsese's masterful epic so deliberately lacking in color , so uninflected? It's a choice to reflect the spirit of the main character, a greedy doughboy returned to America, living on his rich uncle's ranch, who becomes a pawn in the uncle's play for control of the oil money that belongs to the Osage. Robert De Niro, Lily Gladstone, William Belleau, Leonardo Di Caprio meet at the intersection of Osage nation and Roaring Twenties.

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Actually, The Crown Rules Dec 08, 2023

Peter Morgan's series The CROWN , now in its 6th and final season, gives us a Lady Di we can relate to in escapist surroundings that turn to hell. Elizabeth Debicki (who was compelling in the 2016 series The Night Manager, stunning in the film Widows in 2018) makes Diana come alive . It's great acting, a wonderful cast, a lapidary script that makes sense of the madness, and you cry.

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Claire Chase and Winsome Brown explain the music of family secrets Oct 31, 2023

How do you give voice to your late mother, how do you turn your grandmother’s secret words into music? Music is the universal language , our first art. In a vivid conversation that mirrors the creative process, Claire Chase and Winsome Brown bring the listener into the work they are performing November 3 and 4– next Friday and next Saturday - at Chatham’s PS21. It’s called FROM BEING WHERE YOU WERE and is composed of Claire’s ‘INTENSITY 20.15:GRACE CHASE “ and Winsome’s THIS IS MARY BROWN. Into the mix: the discovery that everything is circular, and notes from the music of the great experimental composer Pauline Oliveros. (For more info, and to buy tickets : https://ps21chatham.org/ (https://ps21chatham.org/)

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Edwina von Gal explains Perfect Earth Oct 27, 2023

The great garden designer Edwina von Gal shares some of her exceptional insights about what happens in the earth, and on the earth. She's a force of nature who grew up in the Hudson Valley. She applies what the plants themselves have told her over her forty years of creating inspired and beautiful gardens for artists, titans of industry, kings and queens of fashion. It was while working to restore the Panamanian rain forest, that she knew she had to set up the Perfect Earth project. Her exceptional knowledge of nature and empathy with the earth make her a prized guest on Joan of Art. Nature is bigger than art. http://perfectearthproject.org @perfectearthproject

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Dead Ringers and the force of Bitch writing Oct 25, 2023

Dead Ringers, a six part Amazon show isn't just a retread of the 1988 David Cronenberg film. It's a triumph of sharp female wit from the 37 year old British writer Alice Birch, award winning performances from Rachel Weisz, and a critique of the medical system through female matters, disguised as a blood & gore thriller.

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Alice Carrière explains dissociative disorder, the fallout of the Satanic Panic , and surviving zealous shrinks Sep 15, 2023

The memoir Alice Carrière has written about her childhood is the most shocking and uplifting book of the decade . The brilliant only child of the famous American painter Jennifer Bartlett and an intellectual European movie star, Alice Carrière had to find her own self on the far side of her dissociative disorder, despite the brutal coercions of the mental health establishment, medication-induced psychotic breaks, and the damage wrought on her family by the satanic panic of the 1980s. With immense talent , infinite grace , and rare empathy, the book moves towards love. Alice Carrière, now married, sober, and happy , took care of her mother through dementia to her death, confronted her father about what exactly had happened between them. In a spontaneous, unguarded and tender conversation, Alice Carriere tells all.
Everything Nothing Someone, published by Spiegel & Grau, $28.00, Jennifer Bartlett’s career-making1976 Rhapsody , made up of 988 painted steel plate is up again at MOMA. Mathieu Carrière’s films include Young Torless, Tonio Kroger , and many by the writer Marguerite Duras.

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How To Write What You Don’t Know, explained by Allegra Huston Sep 09, 2023

Allegra Huston, one of the great book editors and the author of the acclaimed memoir “Love Child” , conducts incisive and effective memoir writing workshops. Joan Juliet Buck interviews her for Joan of Art as she launches the online version of the Imaginative Storm writing program that she devised with James Navé. Allegra explains why the Imaginative Storm is based on the principle outlined in their book, “Write What You Don’t Know”, writing as a practice, and how the notion of ‘good writing’ kills the creative impetus .

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Doctor Culture and Mister Pain Aug 30, 2023

In this episode of Joan Of Art on Radio Free Rhinecliff, Joan Juliet Buck reviews two offerings about the Opioid Crisis:
Painkiller, an uneven but necessary fiction-based-on-fact series dramatizes how the false marketing of Oxycontin by the Sackler family and their company,Purdue Pharma, hooked millions of Americans and killed hundreds of thousands. Painkiller lags in the middle but packs a punch at the end, and the story is not yet over. (Starring Udo Azuba, Taylor Kitsch, Matthew Broderick, West Duchonvy, Dina Shihabi , on Netflix, 6 episodes)

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is a thrilling documentary by Laura Poitras (‘Citizen Four’) about the courage of one artist, the photographer Nan Goldin. Having set the standard for visual honesty with raw photographs of private lives, attained worldwide fame , and survived a consuming addiction to Oxycontin, she gambled her standing in the art world to force museums to remove the Sackler name from their walls, through a series of protests that give the documentary the pace, tension and payoff of an action movie. It came out in 2022 and has not stopped winning prizes, all deserved. (With Nan Goldin, Patrick Radden Keefe, Mike Quinn, Megan Kapler, on MAX/HBO,1h53 )

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Ian Buruma explains the roots of Woke Aug 24, 2023

In this thought-provoking Joan of Art podcast, we explore the intricate web of ideas that shape our world today. Joan Juliet Buck engages in a riveting conversation with Ian Buruma, author of some 20 books ranging from politics and history to culture, currently professor of Human Rights and Journalism at Bard College. Ian's recent cover essay in Harper's Magazine, "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Wokeness ", is the foundation for their conversation. Ian dives into how Woke comes from Protestantism’s pursuit of virtue, and how it fits in the ever-evolving landscape of American culture. From the historical influence of Calvinism and predestination to the parallel between public confessions in religion and cancel culture today, Joan and Ian engage in a stimulating discourse that sheds light on the multifaceted nature of our modern world.

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Barbie Oppenheimer Aug 11, 2023

For the debut episode of Joan of Art, cultural critic Joan Juliet Buck reviews the summer’s two biggest movies . One male, one female, one grey, one pink, one solemn, one ebullient. Oppenheimer and Barbie turn out to both be about the meaning of life.

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Trailer Aug 11, 2023

Films, books, tv shows, foreign streamers, magazine essays— Joan Juliet Buck will share what impressed her every week.

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