Artist Dan Alvarado talks about his new solo show, PANDORA’S SWIPE, a satirical take on the temptation, overstimulation, and hypersexualization of our online dating app dystopia, on display September 5 - 22 at Botanica Grove in Bushwick, Brooklyn
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Timelessness & urgent relevance in the works of AUSTEN BRANTLEY
Austen Brantley, a Detroit-based artist whose sculptures & public projects venerate Black cultural figures, talks about the ways he seeks to make his work both timeless & urgently relevant, & the aftermath of the recent vandalization of his statue memorializing the Tuskegee Airmen
Sensuality, emotional resilience, & longing for connection: Suzanne Barbezat on her book FRIDA KAHLO's LOVE LETTERS
Author Suzanne Barbezat discusses her latest book, Frida Kahlo’s Love Letters, which includes a selection of letters to Frida’s great loves, along with translation and commentary
Heide Hatry discusses ONLY AT DUSK: A TRIBUTE TO FLACO THE OWL
Artist Heide Hatry talks in-depth about her solo show Only at Dusk: A Flaco Memorial Exhibition, honoring Flaco—the Eurasian Eagle Owl whose bold escape and survival in New York captured the city’s imagination, on display through August 7 at Ivy Brown Gallery
Interlocutor Interviews PODCAST ~ Estefania Vélez Rodriguez
Brooklyn-based artist Estefanía Vélez Rodríguez talks in-depth about the seven paintings she has on display as part of the group show Past Tense/Future Perfect at NYC's Marc Straus Gallery, up through August 8
ORCHID FEVER by HAYLEY YOUNGS at 5-50 GALLERY
Artist Hayley Youngs discusses her new series of works influenced by Surrealism, Psychedelia, and Visionary art in her solo exhibition Orchid Fever, on display at 5-50 Gallery from June 14 through July 20
Interlocutor Interviews PODCAST ~ Amanda Ekery on her new album Árabe, an exploration of Syrian & Mexican shared history & culture
Musician Amanda Ekery discusses Árabe, her new album exploring Syrian & Mexican shared history & culture
The aristocratic gangstas of ÉPOQUE ROYALE
Artist Andreas Englund discusses his new series, Époque Royale - on display at Oslo’s Alex Sushi from March 13 - June 1, & the unique ways that both his Aging Superhero series & Époque Royale dig into the heart of humanity
The intimate magnitudes of NICK CAVE's AMALGAMS AND GRAPHTS
American sculptor, dancer, and performance artist Nick Cave talks with Logan Royce Beitmen about his ambitious new exhibition Amalgams and Graphts, up through March 29 at New York’s Jack Shainman Gallery
Interlocutor Interviews PODCAST ~ artist Heather Benjamin discusses NEW STRANGENESS BLOOM
Artist Heather Benjamin in conversation with Tyler Nesler about the works in her first solo show at NYC's Olympia Gallery, New Strangeness Bloom
Interlocutor Interviews PODCAST ~ JMikal Davis aka Hellbent discusses his unique approach to creating abstract art in public spaces
Tyler Nesler talks with JMikal Davis, aka Hellbent, a muralist, painter, & street artist who lives & works in Brooklyn & who specializes in a unique combination of American quilt-making & folk art traditions with a street art aesthetic
Interlocutor Interviews PODCAST ~ Christiana Ine-Kimba Boyle of CANADA Gallery
A candid and expansive talk between Logan Royce Beitmen and Christiana Ine-Kimba Boyle of NYC’s CANADA Gallery, where she plays a key role in shaping the gallery’s program & strategic direction
Interlocutor Interviews PODCAST ~ Game Transfer Phenomena & The Tetris Effect: A Conversation With Joshua Caleb Weibley & Jordan Dykstra
A conversation with Joshua Caleb Weibley & composer Jordan Dykstra about their installation Projection 010: Game Transfer Phenomena, now up at NYC's Chart Gallery through February 15
FOLK ART MEETS THE STREET - A Conversation With JMikal Davis, aka Hellbent
An interview with JMikal Davis, aka Hellbent, a muralist, painter, & street artist who lives & works in Brooklyn & who specializes in a unique combination of American quilt-making & folk art traditions with a street art aesthetic
US vs Us at HU! Gallery
HU! Gallery in Brussels is currently showing US vs Us, a group exhibition featuring eight artists with works focusing on the divided, polarized, & fractured status of the post-election “disunited States of America”
HIGHLIGHTS of 2024
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VLM'S VESTAL VIRGIN VENGEANCE
Experimental filmmaker & multimedia artist VLM discusses “Vestal Virgin Vengeance,” a capsule collection of new video work & photographic prints inspired by the Vestal Virgins of ancient Rome, & the contentious state of women's healthcare in Texas
Censored? Shadowbanned? Elizabeth Larison of the NATIONAL COALITION AGAINST CENSORSHIP Discusses How to Fight Back
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
DANIELLE SEEWALKER on her cancelled residency over her pro-Palestine activism & the resulting ACLU lawsuit
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
Didi Jackson's MY INFINITY
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