OMG this has to be the MOST boring podcast I have ever heard! And I listen to NPR 10 hrs a day! Speciflcally "How Picasso was sold to America" episode. -Pierre Bourdieu on taste you don't say, how thrilling!! Snore! It's like a throwback to the days when shows would interview amazing guest such as AFL-CIO chairman George Meany discussing collective bargaining agreements (and weither or not there is a labor crisis...depending on what you mean by crisis).

on episode dedicated to Anni Albers legacy - nice woven connection between legacy of an artist in correspondence to dynamics related to emerging innovations in the art world

The recent episode with Wesley Morris gave me chills! You two got to the core of things toward the end. Folks like Helen and Wesley provide an example for how important conversation SHOULD be shared in this day and age. Bless you guys ❤️

Love this show and always look forward to Helen’s diverse topics. Only wish they kept to a more regular schedule, the episodes come out very erratically

Thank you for having the conversation about the fact that contemporary art has lost its edge. As someone who doesn’t make art about my identity with all the current work getting lots of attention that is, it’s very disheartening and tragic how isolated one can feel. Additionally the rigor and quality of most of the work being shown is mediocre at best. The Whitney biennial was so bad. The art world has become so politicized and one can’t even voice this in an observing kind of way without being branded intolerant. It’s very sad and I think this was an excellent conversation revealing some very real truths.

Look forward to listening to each release. The ideas are deep, the talk is real, and the host is the bomb.

Deserves close-listening. So much to learn and enjoy. Bravo

Best podcast ever!! I like it because it helps me understand things going on in the world! P.S. Ryan I talked to some butterfly’s a few days ago and they gave me a message for you: “we are coming for you!“

I’m wordless

I’ve seen Helen Molesworth interview or talk about art , sometimes i just say to myself ‘enuff with the preamble letting us all know how smart u are, will u please just ask a direct question!’...it gets tiresome. I think Luca does good job of interviewing.

Great discussions! Really look forward to the next season of programs ! Each episode has been first rate, engaging enough to listen to more than once (and enjoy engagement by taking notes!)

Helen Molesworth you are Awesome!

The new host is embarrassing.

Way to gush over two really sus sketch satanists. Cannibalism, child p, and david z, gush gush gush. You all make great company.

You lost me here. Jerry is a pervert and a philistine. He was awarded a Pulitzer by a man accused of sexual assault.

I appreciate you

I’ve been looking for a podcast just like this. Good cadence and guests!

Superb and enlightening dialogue about the legendary Toni Morrison and the importance of constant inquiry to illuminate racism across culture and generations. Nice rhythm topic to topic as well. Bravo.

Just found out this podcast and been fascinating with the viewpoints and stories given by these prominent artists. It is truly a pleasure to have a chance to listen to these conversations as an artworld outsider. The host asks interesting questions and knowing when to stop unlike other podcast hosts being kind of self centered sometimes. Host also have a great voice! Highly recommend, hope they will launch new season and keep on rolling it.

Love how Lucas Zwirner is so open and compassionate and unpretentious. He really listens and has the best follow up questions. Great choice of guests too. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Wonderful convo. So many topics covered in one hour and an insightful look into (da da daaaa...) NFTs!

The conversations between artists is unique and engaging, whether quotidian exchanges or more cerebral matters. Lucas such a skilled and sensitive interviewer. Let’s clone you.

Very thoughtful and thorough discussion - thank you

Rich with fascinating viewpoints and details of the lives of these thinkers and artists. Many aspects of art and ways of finding valuable meanings in art come out in these conversations.

So heartfelt and free of artspeak

The entire series is so insightful, so well orchestrated with thought provoking dialogs in conversations.... Especially in this time of quarantine though would be equally received at any time. Thank you for what you guys do

I’ve listened to 3 so far and all the conversations are so interesting and not basic. Great moderating too!

I so enjoyed listening to Cynthia Zarin read from her upcoming book,Two Cities, in which she shares her longstanding relationships with Rome and Venice. My husband and I returned to Venice this past December to spend New Year's, just before Covid-19 stopped life there (and everywhere) in its tracks. We had not visited since the late ‘80’s, although we loved our time there very much and often wondered how it was that we hadn’t returned sooner. Being New Yorkers, we typically walk miles a day without noticing, and Ms. Zarin mentioned how she loves nothing better in Venice than to walk all day long. She brought back that wonderful feeling of walking in any direction there from breakfast till sunset, learning to welcome getting lost a number of times a day, when, for example, a map didn’t match a four-foot wide Venetian pathway we took, or led to a walled dead end the map showed going through. Ms. Zarin might agree that the discoveries found quite by accident walking this way made for some of the most memorable stories. She described her Venetian experiences so intimately that I was drawn back in memory to revisit moments I similarly cherished. Like breathing in, through the city's crisp, January air, fragrances of fresh bread baking in a pasticceria we walked passed, or spices emanating from open doors of a salumeria. Fewer tourists crowded the ambling, narrow, stone streets and wooden bridges when we were there, but street life bustled so vibrantly I couldn't imagine the overcrowding we heard about from shopkeepers, who complained to us about cruise ships coming and going in summer. As Ms. Zarin read to us about her journey using a water taxi, I recalled that quarter-mile jaunt at the port she spoke of, schlepping our bags down that odd, red runway to our own water taxi five months ago. That ride to a palazzo that friends had rented on the Grand Canal and to which, very last minute, they spontaneously invited us, was late at night, and entering onto that fabled waterway was like floating through the most incredible movie set ever built. Ms. Zarin called the Canal both beautiful and absurd. She’s exactly right. She also wrote that she would have been warmer in the taxi’s cabin, but felt the need to stay outside in bracing wind to see it all. Me too. Thank you, Ms. Zarin, for taking me back. I can’t wait to read Two Cities, and hope we’ll both, and all, return to Italy in person soon. A presto!

Wonderful-a real conversation about working as an artist. No gobbledygook! Loved it!

From someone who can’t get to nyc but quarterly this is amazing, but Jordan & Jeremy? priceless. So many threads to follow. Beyond grateful for this access- these dialogues. Bravo Lucas.

Vital & challenging—intellectual jousting at its most alive by great artist thinkers. This is so needed, so necessary NOW as sharp minds/smart voices are being bullied into silence. A gem.

Makes my inner Art History nerd sing!! Really interesting and fun to listen to!

Can’t wait for the exhibition!

Just discovered podcast through an Kusuma email from the gallery. Very informative and an easy educational quick lesson. Love Lucas voice too, very relaxing.

The November 6 was a great discussion on how social media can reach and inspire more people. Definitely going to listen to more episodes.

Insightful

If you’re an art lover or just beginning your interest in the art world, these podcasts provide invaluable insight directly from the minds of some of the most influential figures in the industry.

I truly enjoyed listening to Marcel Dzama and Will Butler describing their respective histories, influences and processes. Very relaxed and good-humored conversation, keeping the emphasis where it belongs, on the creative evolution of these two gifted and inspired artists.

This first installment has great promise of a much needed series where artists, critics and others passionate about our culture can engage in serious, thoughtful and — thanks to Lucas — highly literate discussions on a range of topics limited only by their imagination.

A little humor to begin the reviews? The audio introduction to the podcast itself seems to set up a dream scenario ahead. Being included in some of arts most desired conversations is what most of us value during any given studio visit or art fair... and the quality people who are promised to contribute will serve up some interesting viewpoints. Thanks DZ and team. Looking forward to it! Mary