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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:

Amy Larocca explains Wellness Aug 03, 2026

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Journalist Amy Larocca, for 20 years the fashion editor or New York Magazine, looks at the wellness industry in her hilarious, best-selling book 'How To Be Well, Navigating Our Self Care Epidemic, One Dubious Cure at a Time.

Produced and edited by Matty Rosenberg, co-produced by Jennifer Hammoud, and Joan Juliet Buck @ radiofreerhinecliff.org
Graphics by Joseph Maresca
Send comments to comments@radiofreerhinecliff.org or call (845) 307-7446‬

Michael Lindsay-Hogg explains Rock and Roll Jul 21, 2026

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Michael Lindsay Hogg directed the London Friday TV music show Ready, Steadu, Go! when he was 24, and went on to shape the history of pop music through videos. His Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus is shown at Upstate Films July 23rd, and before that he explains what it was all about

Produced and edited by Matty Rosenberg, co-produced by Jennifer Hammoud, and Joan Juliet Buck @ radiofreerhinecliff.org
Graphics by Joseph Maresca
Send comments to comments@radiofreerhinecliff.org or call (845) 307-7446‬

Molly Crabapple explains the Jewish Bund, the subject of her book “Here Where We Live is our Country” May 26, 2026

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Molly Crabapple, the illustrator and journalist, has written a vital book about the creation of the first labor movement in the Pale of settlement by Jewish intellectual and activists in 1897. She makes the disputes of the early socialists read like a thriller. ‘Here where we live is our country’ is brilliant, cool, astonishing, rational, and also moving. The idealism of the anti -Zionist men and women who created and fought for the Bund was tested by the horrendous events of the 20th century, but this book is ultimately about persistence and survival. A thrilling interview for Joan of Art

Produced and edited by Matty Rosenberg, co-produced by Jennifer Hammoud, and Joan Juliet Buck @ radiofreerhinecliff.org
Graphics by Joseph Maresca
Send comments to comments@radiofreerhinecliff.org or call (845) 307-7446‬

Ian Buruma's explains Berlin 1939-1945 in his new book, 'Stay Alive" Apr 14, 2026

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Joan Juliet Buck in enlightening conversation with professor , writer, and public intellectual Ian Buruma, whose new book explains what it was to be every kind of German living in Berlin while Hitler sent his armies into Western Europe and then the Soviet Union.
HIs father did forced labor in a Berlin factory in Berlin during the war. The book is European history, personal history, and vital reading for today, right now.

Produced and edited by Matty Rosenberg, co-produced by Jennifer Hammoud, and Joan Juliet Buck @ radiofreerhinecliff.org
Graphics by Joseph Maresca
Send comments to comments@radiofreerhinecliff.org or call (845) 307-7446‬

Old Model Disasters are Obsolete, the Heart of the Matter is Death Mar 14, 2026

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Joan Juliet Buck dismisses 'One Battle After Another,' praises movies that face death: 'The Voice of Hind Rajab' , 'The Secret Agent', and two from 2024: 'The Life of Chuck', 'The Uninvited'. The old story lines don't work when the world s exploding. Only the heart of the matter counts.

Produced and edited by Matty Rosenberg, co-produced by Jennifer Hammoud, and Joan Juliet Buck @ radiofreerhinecliff.org

Graphics by Joseph Maresca

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Gary Lippman explains the one sentence story Aug 21, 2025

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A month before Gary Lippman's new novel, 'I Wish, Therefore I Am' comes out, he discusses his book of one-sentence stories, 'We Loved The World But Could Not Stay' with Joan Juliet Buck, who reads the one about the deer with one antler, the one about scared actor, and the one about the public scribe in Saigon. Gary Lippman reads the one about the suicidal cab driver.

Produced and edited by Matty Rosenberg, co-produced by Jennifer Hammoud, and Joan Juliet Buck @ radiofreerhinecliff.org
Graphics by Joseph Maresca
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Laura Day explains how to grow a backbone Jun 08, 2025

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Laura Day, a down-to-earth intuitive who spent her youth being lab-tested by academic researchers into ESP, tells Joan Juliet Buck how she turned her neurodiversity into an excellent career-- predicting the future for large companies and private clients, and training more intuitives . In a long, fizzy interview, she claims it’s her severe ADHD that keeps her away from the pitfalls of interpretation. with the poised delivery and charm of a 1930s movie star. She has written seven books, two bestsellers including ‘Pratical Intuition’. She’s on Joan Of Art to discuss her latest book, 'The Prism’, and to debunk a lot of superstitious woo-woo.

Produced and edited by Matty Rosenberg, co-produced by Jennifer Hammoud, and Joan Juliet Buck @ radiofreerhinecliff.org
Graphics by Joseph Maresca
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Ruth Zaporah, taught me to not think May 31, 2025

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This Joan of Art is taken from my Substack ‘Every Day Until I Die’, in which I wrote about Ruth Zaporah, who died on May 12. What this dancer who wanted to use words discovered , devised, and taught about direct expression, about the stage, about improvisation, influenced generations of performers and changed the way I wrote. Buddhist, shaman, breaker of conventions, she ushered us all to another place.

Produced and edited by Matty Rosenberg, co-produced by Jennifer Hammoud, and Joan Juliet Buck @ radiofreerhinecliff.org
Graphics by Joseph Maresca
Send comments to comments@radiofreerhinecliff.org or call (845) 307-7446‬

Life under the Boot: I'm Still Here and Seed of The Sacred Fig: Apr 12, 2025

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Walter Salles' 'I'm Still Here', about an engineer disappeared from his home by an oppressive regime in 1971, won the Oscar for best not-American film. Mohammad Rasoulof's 'The Seed of the Sacred Fig', is about a judge in Iran's Revolutionary Court during the 2022 protests that followed the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, arrested for not wearing her hijab correctly. Brazil: how to survive as a human being after your husband is kidnapped by the regime. Iran: can you survive as a a human being when you are an enforcer of the regime?

Produced and edited by Matty Rosenberg, co-produced by Jennifer Hammoud, and Joan Juliet Buck @ radiofreerhinecliff.org
Graphics by Joseph Maresca
Send comments to comments@radiofreerhinecliff.org or call (845) 307-7446‬

Renée Martin-Nagle explains Water Apr 07, 2025

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Joan Juliet Buck interviews Renée Martin-Nagle, who after being the US counsel for french aerospace companies, became an environmental lawyer, founded and runs A Ripple Effect , and is the freshwater expert at Accenture.

Produced and edited by Matty Rosenberg, co-produced by Jennifer Hammoud, and Joan Juliet Buck @ radiofreerhinecliff.org Graphics by Joseph Maresca Send comments to comments@radiofreerhinecliff.org or call (845) 307-7446‬

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