Dialogues: The David Zwirner Podcast

Mar 04 2025 96 ep. 39 mins 492
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What we talk about when we talk about art. Exceptional makers and thinkers across art, literature, film, fashion, music, and more come together to talk about what it means to make things today.

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From DAS MINSK: The Sound of Noah Davis

Mar 04 2025 39 mins  
A conversation about the late artist Noah Davis, the sounds he left behind, and the ones he imagined. Join podcaster and curator Helen Molesworth, professor and writer Tina M. Campt, pianist and artist Jason Moran, and director and curator Paola Malavassi for a mix of sound, music, and ideas inspired by Davis’s paintings. The Sound of Noah Davis was commissioned by DAS MINSK Kun

The Art of Rivalry with Wesley Morris

Feb 25 2025 44 mins  
Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times critic Wesley Morris comes on the podcast to unpack the long history and current state of artistic rivalries, from Leonardo daVinci and Michelangelo to Drake and Kendrick Lamar.

The Unconstitutional War on Trans People

Feb 18 2025 37 mins  
Helen Molesworth hosts a special episode, starting with a conversation with leading ACLU lawyer Chase Strangio and followed by an interview with artist Laurie Simmons and activist Maryhope Howland. Chase Strangio is the Co-Director of the LGBTQ & HIV Project at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Laurie Simmons is an artist and filmmaker who lives and works in Connecticut a

The Best Art Exhibitions of The Century (So Far) | with Steve Locke

Dec 17 2024 40 mins  
As we turn the page on a quarter century, Helen Molesworth and the artist Steve Locke look back with a highly opinionated list of their favorite art shows of the last 25 years.

Has Contemporary Art Lost Its Edge? | With Dean Kissick

Dec 04 2024 46 mins  
Helen Molesworth speaks to Dean Kissick, author of The Painted Protest, a polemic piece on the state of contemporary art in this month’s Harper’s Magazine that has had a lot in the art world talking. Dean Kissick is a writer, contributing editor of Spike Art Magazine, and a director of Earth.

Special Episode | On Richard Serra with Hal Foster

Nov 21 2024 56 mins  
Art historian and critic Hal Foster joins Helen for a live conversation on Richard Serra (1938–2024) at David Zwirner New York. They discuss Foster’s decades-long engagement with Serra’s work and the artist’s enduring legacy. This conversation was taped in Every Which Way, a major Richard Serra installation from 2015, on view at David Zwirner’s 20th Street gallery in New

Re-release | Luc Tuymans and Timothy Snyder

Nov 14 2024 46 mins  
We revisit an episode from Season 5, a conversation between artist Luc Tuymans and the eminent Yale Historian Timothy Snyder. The two discuss history, truth, and lies, and art’s singular ability to live between them all. Timothy Snyder is the author of the books On Tyranny and The Road to Unfreedom, among others, and Luc Tuymans is an artist who has been interrogating the power o

The Problem of Taste: On the Late, Great Dave Hickey with Jarrett Earnest

Oct 15 2024 30 mins  
Writer, curator, and editor Jarrett Earnest joins Helen to discuss his most recent edited volume of writings by the iconoclastic, enduring art critic Dave Hickey, titled Feint of Heart: Art Writings, 1982-2002. Out now from David Zwirner Books, wherever books are sold.

Special Episode | Alice Neel in the Queer World with Hilton Als

Sep 24 2024 35 mins  
New Yorker critic Hilton Als joins Helen to discuss his exhibition, Alice Neel in the Queer World, on view at our Los Angeles Gallery through November 2nd, 2024. Alice Neel in the Queer World is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue, edited and with a text by Als, as well as newly commissioned scholarship by Alex Fialho, Evan Garza, and Wayne Koestenbaum.

Luca Guadagnino and Michaël Borremans (Re-run from Season 7)

Jun 04 2024 46 mins  
A conversation between the Academy award-nominated writer, producer, and director Luca Guadagnino and the Belgian painter Michaël Borremans on the relationship between painting and film. They muse on the specificity of light to their mediums, the role of the uncanny, and paintings and films as a mirror of who we imagine ourselves to be. Luca Guadagnino's latest film, Challengers (