Dialogues: The David Zwirner Podcast

Nov 14 2024 91 ep. 38 mins 483
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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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Re-release | Luc Tuymans and Timothy Snyder

Nov 14 2024 45 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.

From CHANEL Connects: William Kentridge and Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev

Jul 30 2024 13 mins  
A special preview of the newest episode from the podcast CHANEL Connects. Similar to Dialogues, CHANEL Connects brings together creatives from art, film, and design to talk about where the culture is now and where it might be tomorrow. Their fourth season is out and it’s all about the Venice Biennale. It features some of the many artists, curators and art dealers who descended

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 (

Episode 67 | Grace Wales Bonner and Horace Ballard

Apr 23 2024 34 mins  
Acclaimed fashion designer and curator Grace Wales Bonner is joined by the scholar and curator Horace D. Ballard. In a wide ranging conversation on art and fashion, they unpack the nuances of style, medium, and intentionality in art. In addition to her brand Wales Bonner, Grace Wales Bonner’s curatorial exhibitions include A Time For New Dreams, Serpentine Galleries London (2019)

Episode 66 | R. Crumb’s Radio Music Hour

Mar 26 2024 44 mins  
In this very special episode, artist and legendary record collector R. Crumb visits his friends and fellow rare music enthusiasts John Heneghan and Eden Brower to listen to 78 records from Heneghan’s sprawling collection. John Heneghan is a musician, podcast host, record collector. He and his wife, Eden R. Brower, play in Eden & John’s East River String Band with R. Crumb and

Episode 65 | John McCracken and Minimalism Now with Cauleen Smith and Michael Govan

Mar 20 2024 41 mins  
Artist Cauleen Smith and Michael Govan, Director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, join Helen for a live conversation in the garden at David Zwirner Los Angeles. Held on the occasion of the exhibition John McCracken, they explore the influence of Minimalism, a quintessential and often negated 20th century art movement. John McCracken will be on view at David Zwirner Los Ange

Episode 64 | On Hilma af Klint with Julia Voss and Briony Fer

Mar 05 2024 45 mins  
An episode on the art and life of Hilma af Klint featuring art historian Briony Fer and af Klint’s biographer, Julia Voss. Briony Fer is an art historian and professor at University College, London, and curator of the 2023 exhibition Hilma af Klint & Piet Mondrian: Forms of Life. Julia Voss is a curator, art critic, and professor and author of Hilma af Klint: A Biography. She is

Episode 63 | Claire Messud and James Wood

Feb 27 2024 38 mins  
For the third interview in her series with creative couples, Helen spoke to the first couple of American fiction: literary critic James Wood and award-winning novelist Claire Messud.