Dialogues: The David Zwirner Podcast

David Zwirner, Lucas Zwirner

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Booking Overview

Dialogues brings together prominent makers and thinkers across the arts to unpack how art is made and what it means to create in the present day. For PR pros, it’s a high-credibility platform positioned at the intersection of contemporary art, literature, and cultural criticism.

Metrics

Episodes: 122

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 4.7/5.0

Estimated listeners: 10k-100k

Gender skew: Neutral

Location: USA

YouTube: 20.0k subscribers

Instagram: 912.0k followers

Contact Information

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Host

David Zwirner - David Zwirner is the founder of the contemporary art gallery David Zwirner, known for representing leading artists and staging major exhibitions internationally.

Lucas Zwirner - Lucas Zwirner is part of the leadership team at David Zwirner and hosts on-location/bonus episodes, interviewing figures connected to the gallery’s exhibitions and institutional partners.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high
Typical Credentials:  
Distinguished writers, art historians/critics, curators, and leaders of major arts institutions; typically with strong academic standing (e.g., tenured university roles) or recognized authorship of influential books (especially criticism, catalogues, biographies, or monographs).
Required Achievements:  
Authorship of major books (novels, criticism, art history, biography), Tenured/leading academic positions (for literary voices), Leadership roles at prominent arts foundations or cultural institutions, Established scholarly reputation in major exhibition topics

Recent Guest Discussions

Namwali Serpell - Toni Morrison, Criticism, Narrative Empathy

Nicholas Fox Weber - Writing Process Behind Anni Albers: A Life; Albers Foundation And Lived Anecdotes

Benjamin H. D. Buchloh - Gerhard Richter; Scholarship On Painting And Subject/history

Recent Topics

Contemporary Art, Art Criticism, Art History, Literature, Visual Culture

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Dialogues: The David Zwirner Podcast
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From the New York Review: An Episode of Private Life with Namwali Serpell

May 20, 2026

Dialogues is pleased to present an episode podcast from our colleagues at The New York Review. Private Life is hosted by Jarrett Earnest and this episode features an interview with writer Namwali Serpell on Toni Morrison, criticism, and narrative empathy.  Namwali Serpell is a professor of English at Harvard University. In addition to On Morrison, she is the author of the novels The Old Drift (2019) and The Furrows (2022) and the essay collection Stranger Faces (2020).  Private Life is a p...

Bonus Episode | Anni Albers: A Life | Live with Nicholas Fox Weber

May 12, 2026

In this bonus live episode, Lucas Zwirner returns to the mic for an interview with Nicholas Fox Weber, the director of the Josef & Anni Albers Foundation, to celebrate Weber’s new biography, titled Anni Albers: A Life. Over the course of the exchange, Weber opens up about the writing process behind this major new biography and shares some rare anecdotes from a lifetime spent working closely with the Alberses. Anni Albers: A Life is out now from Yale University Press. Learn more about the boo...

Benjamin H. D. Buchloh on Gerhard Richter (Re-run)

May 06, 2026

This special episode with Helen Molesworth and Benjamin H. D. Buchloh was taped in front of a live audience at David Zwirner New York for a 2023 exhibition of Gerhard Richter’s final paintings. A new exhibition of Richter’s celebrated photorealist landscape paintings from the 1960s to the 2000s, Gerhard Richter: Landschaften, is now on view at our 20th Street gallery in New York. The illuminating conversation draws on Buchloh’s decades of scholarly work on Richter, including a discussion of...

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