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Metrics
Episodes: 100
Frequency: Irregular
Rating: 4.5/5.0
Estimated listeners: 1k-10k
Gender skew: Male
Location: USA
Instagram: 3.4k followers
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Recent Guest Discussions
Lauren O'Neill-Butler - Artist Activism And Art Institutions; Artforum Magazine; Activism’s History/context; Project Row Houses; Solidarity And Left Politics; Activism/press Strategy; Collecting And Political Narratives
Andrew Durbin - Peter Hujar And Paul Thek Legacies; Art Writing/biography; Cultural Memory And Authenticity; Aids/fear And Insecurities; Living In New York Vs London
James Delbourgo - History Of Collecting; Freudian Interpretation; Psychology/power Dynamics Of Collectors; Housed Collections And Material Experience; Hoarding/democratization Of Collecting; Collector Demonization
Recent Topics
Episodes
Episode 388: Lauren O'Neill-Butler on Artist Activism, Artforum magazine and the seminal Project Row Houses in Houston
June 20, 2026
Hunter College professor and author of The War of Art, Lauren O'Neill-Butler talks about: Her 12 years at Artforum magazine, including its balance between advertising and hard-core art writing, and how her chapter on Fierce Pussy was written while at Artforum; the classes on Activism she's taught at Hunter College, which were not to get students to become activists but to make them aware of its history and context; how teaching activism and writing the book were both 'rage containers' but al...
Episode 387: Peter Hujar and Paul Thek's "Wonderful World That Almost Was," with writer and Frieze editor Andrew Durbin
May 23, 2026
Writer and Frieze editor-in-chief Andrew Durbin talks about: His book tour for "The Wonderful World That Almost Was," which has been hectic; how he became familiar with Peter Hujar's work initially, and why his and Paul Tek's legacies really took off after their deaths; Peter's persona and personality as someone who could be as charming and engaging as can be, but also someone who flew off the handle with a volatile anger at some in his life, and how he actually using photography to deal with...
Episode 386- James Delbourgo on the 'Noble Madness' of collectors- from Charles Foster Kane to Norman Bates and others, and what Freud had to say about all of them
April 25, 2026
James Delbourgo, professor of history at Rutgers University and author of A Noble Madness: the Dark Side of Collecting from Antiquity to Now, talks about: Why he's written about contemporary art so extensively, as a history academic who's very interested in the present, going to galleries and wondering who collectors are right now, raising a lot of questions about archetypes for what would become a big part of his book; how collectors can not only be defined as powerful, they can also be def...
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