Dialogues: The David Zwirner Podcast

Lucas Zwirner

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Booking Overview

An interview podcast focused on contemporary art and wider cultural production, featuring in-depth conversations with established artists, writers, curators, scholars, and cultural leaders. Credible pitches include authors of significant books, senior museum or foundation figures, acclaimed artists, and recognized thinkers with substantive perspectives on art, literature, film, fashion, or music; booking is likely high difficulty because the show favors distinguished, specialized guests.

Metrics

Episodes: 123

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 4.7/5.0

Estimated listeners: 10k-100k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

YouTube: 25.2k subscribers

Instagram: 922.0k followers

Contact Information

podcasts@davidzwirner.com

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Host

Lucas Zwirner - Writer, editor, and head of content at David Zwirner, where he oversees publishing and cultural programming.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high
Typical Credentials:  
Established artists, writers, curators, scholars, museum executives, foundation directors, and other recognized cultural figures with authoritative expertise and a substantive body of work.
Required Achievements:  
Major books or biographies, Senior museum or foundation leadership, Notable exhibitions or curatorial projects, Established academic or critical careers

Recent Guest Discussions

Adrienne Edwards - The 2026 Venice Biennale, Curatorial Practice, Navigating Major International Exhibitions, And The Legacy Of Curator Koyo Kouoh.

Namwali Serpell - Toni Morrison, Literary Criticism, Narrative Empathy, Fiction, And Serpell’s Writing.

Nicholas Fox Weber - Anni Albers, The Writing Of Her Biography, And Personal Experiences With Anni And Josef Albers.

Recent Topics

Contemporary Art, Literature, Film, Fashion, Music

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Dialogues: The David Zwirner Podcast
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A Curator’s Guide to the Venice Biennale | Ebony L. Haynes with Adrienne Edwards

July 14, 2026

Curator Adrienne Edwards joins guest host Ebony L. Haynes to share their tips, tricks, and must-see shows from the 2026 Venice Biennale, the sixty-first iteration of the world’s largest and longest-running art biennale.  This year’s Venice Biennale opened to great acclaim in May, under especially poignant circumstances: its acclaimed curator, the Cape Town–based Koyo Kouoh, had passed away in 2025, just a few months into the planning. The two discuss the impact of her passing as they ca...

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...

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