Activist and model Merhan Keller is an outspoken Palestinian rights advocate. In this interview, she discusses her aid work with the Egyptian Red Crescent & how her viewpoints have negatively impacted her career, & she delves into what it means to live a committed life of direct action
Elizabeth Larison, Director of the National Coalition Against Censorship’s Arts & Culture Advocacy Program, talks in-depth with Logan Royce Beitmen about leading initiatives in advising & educating artists on how to address the presentation of controversial works
Artist Danielle SeeWalker talks about her cancelled residency in Vail, Colorado due to her pro-Palestine activism, and the lawsuit against Vail the ACLU has filed on her behalf
Eduardo Vilaro, Artistic Director and CEO, Ballet Hispánico, talks with Catherine Tharin about running the largest Latino cultural organization in the United States, which supports three main programs: the Company, School of Dance, and Community Arts Partnerships.
Molly McGhee talks with Isabelle Sakelaris about her debut novel Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind
Jeff VanderMeer explores the failure of language, climate change, the fallibility of human institutions, ecstatic visions, and much more in this extensive interview about his new book, Absolution, the fourth installment from his celebrated Southern Reach series
Alex E. Chávez discusses his debut album, Sonorous Present, an immersive poetic & musical passage with collaborations by Queztal Flores, Aloe Blacc, Martha Gonzalez, poet Roger Reeves, Ramón Gutierrez, & Lucía Gutiérrez Rebolloso
Author Ledia Xhoga talks with Nirica Srinivasan about her debut novel, Misinterpretation
Poet Didi Jackson talks with Isabelle Sakelaris about her new collection My Infinity, an exploration of joy and sorrow ordered around the work of the Swedish visual artist Hilma af Klint
Logan Royce Beitmen interviews Pol Morton about their solo show Get Well at NYC's Olympia Gallery and the ways their non-binary identity, along with their psychological and physical issues, are expressed with humor and beauty
Author Tony Tulathimutte talks with Nirica Srinivasan about the mosaic of interconnected short stories focused on the "underrated sorrows of rejection" in his new collection, Rejection
Sarah Ghazal Ali in conversation with Isabelle Sakelaris about her vivid debut poetry collection, Theophanies
Chloë Cassens represents the Severin Wunderman Collection, the largest collection of works by iconoclastic French artist Jean Cocteau. In this podcast interview with Logan Royce Beitmen, Cassens discusses Cocteau’s massive cultural influence & her efforts to increase awareness about his life and legacy.
Want to steal an original Jenny Holzer? Joshua Caleb Weibley gives you some tips on just how you might do that (if you're so inclined), along with his unflinching review of the confusing, problematic, and underwhelming exhibition Jenny Holzer: Light Line, up through September 29 at NYC's Guggenheim Museum
Author Julia Hannafin in conversation with Nirica Srinivasan about their debut novel Cascade
An interview with curator Marissa Del Toro about Deserve What You Dream, an art exhibition at NXTHVN in New Haven, CT, that explores the healing power of daydreaming amid racial disparities in sleep quality
Lens-based artist Steven Seidenberg in conversation with Isabel Hou about his series/book, The Architecture of Silence, which documents the abandoned lives in the Italian South and the failed post-war land reform movement (Riforma Fondiaria)
Author Michael Waters discusses his book The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports, a very detailed look at the long history of gender identity and testing in sports and many of the major athletes and officials involved in the controversies
Poet Cindy Juyoung Ok in conversation with Isabelle Sakelaris about her collection Ward Toward
Author Ben Shattuck talks in-depth with Nirica Srinivasan about his new book The History of Sound: Stories, which features a fantastically unique structure: each story has a companion story, which contains a revelation about the previous, paired story
