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Art historian and curator Anne Radice. Radice previously served as Director of the Division of Public Programs at NEH. Prior to joining NEH in July 2018 she served as Executive Director of the American Folk Art Museum. From 2006 to 2010 Radice served as Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Her previous government positions include Acting Deputy Chairman for Programs and Special Advisor to the Chairman of NEH, Chief of Staff for the U.S. Department of Education, Acting Chairman and Senior Deputy Chairman for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), Chief Arts Advisor for the U.S. Information Agency, and Curator for the Architect of the U.S. Capitol. Radice is a recipient of the Presidential Citizen’s Medal, the Forbes Medal, and the NEA’s Chairman’s Medal. She holds an MBA from American University, a PhD in art and architectural history from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, an MA from Villa Schifanoia School of Fine Arts in Florence, Italy, and an AB from Wheaton College.
She and Zuckerman engage here in a deeply personal conversation about living a life of service, “the general public,” true leadership, listening, and leading with your heart.

Los-Angeles based artist Diedrick Brackens is best known for his woven tapestries that explore allegory and narrative through the artist’s autobiography, broader themes of African American and queer identity, as well as American history. Brackens employs techniques from West African weaving, quilting from the American South and European tapestry-making to create both abstract and figurative works. Bracken’s work the reasoning beast (2021)—currently installed in OCMA’s exhibition Color is the First Revelation of the World—exemplifies Bracken’s intimate use of color and material, where washed in hues of black, blue, and purple, a figure embraces a goat to soar through the night sky.
He and Zuckerman discuss his relationship to craft, weaving, and storytelling, how he starts, breaking rules, why cotton matters, Texas, his titles, abstraction and figuration, and what role hope and empathy play!

Bjorn Geldhof is Director of the PinchukArtCentre. Founded in September 2006 by businessman and philanthropist Victor Pinchuk, the PinchukArtCentre is an international hub for contemporary art committed to developing the Ukrainian art scene while generating critical public discourse as a whole. Since war broke out in Ukraine in 2022 they have held important exhibitions including When Faith Moves Mountains, a major group exhibition with over 45 artists opening 143 days after the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion, focused on Ukraine as a country open to the world and celebrating its deep roots and relation to Europe. The PinchukArtCentre invests in the next generation though the Future Generation Art Prize and the PinchukArtCentre Prize, awards for young contemporary artists aged 35 or younger. Their collateral Venice Biennale project this year, Daring to Dream in a World of Constant Fear, will be held at the Palazzo Contarini Polignac from April 20th until August 1st, 2024. The exhibition weaves a tapestry of stories and dreams gathered from artists affected by war globally.
He and Zuckerman discuss sharing risk, how art saves lives, art not as leisure but also essential part of living life, cultivating a next generation of artists, changing the way people think, the urgency of making art, offering the opportunity to speak, think and feel, knowing that today can be your last day, the urgency of having great thoughts, the role of hope, and the opportunity to dare to dream!

Ralph Steadman is a UK satirist, artist, cartoonist, illustrator, and writer whose work is synonymous with the counterculture of the 1970s. Renowned for his collaborations with iconic American writer Hunter S. Thompson, he formed an unlikely duo that created "Gonzo" journalism. This lifelong collaboration included the now-legendary Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, originally published in Rolling Stone magazine, which has since become a cult classic. The subject of numerous books and documentaries, at 84 he still turns his keen and critical eye to politicians and popular culture.

He and I discuss nude models, the British tradition of cartooning, his first meeting with Hunter S. Thompson, American Presidential politics, suicide,  pre-planning memorials, the Gonzo fist, fax machines, Travis Scott, dirty water drawings, animals, passing over and God, Sigmund Freud, Leonardo da Vinci, Johnny Depp, learning to draw, and cremation. A bonus of this podcast is not only hearing him recite texts he has written, but also describing some of his iconic friends in their accents!

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Melissa Cowley Wolf is the Founder of MCW Projects. With 20 years of experience in philanthropy and programming for cultural institutions across the United States, she is dedicated to re-imagining and democratizing cultural philanthropy to better engage diverse generations and audiences as well as to expanding the next generation of cultural philanthropists, advocates, and audiences. Melissa is also the Director of the Arts Funders Forum, an advocacy, media, convening, and research platform designed to increase private support for arts and culture. Melissa was recently named to the Artnet 2020 Innovators List as one of 51 global innovators transforming the art industry.

She and I discuss creating intimacy through technology, building communities, increasing private giving to the arts, telling stories about what matters, political art, trust, relevancy, urgency, and the essentiality of art and artists, generational shifts in understanding philanthropy, impact giving, optimism and positivity, nomadism, practice, synchronicity, and how freedom and justice are at the essence of a life well lived!

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MCW Projects

https://www.mcw-projects.com

Art Funders Forum

https://www.artsfundersforum.com

Artnet 2020 Innovators List

https://storage.googleapis.com/artnet-interim-static-assets-repository/intelligence-reports/2020/fall_2020_intelligence_report.pdf

OpEd on Arts Funding

https://news.artnet.com/opinion/arts-funding-op-ed-melissa-cowley-wolf-1929365

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Bharti Kher’s art gives form to quotidian life and its daily rituals in a way that reassesses and transforms their meaning to yield an air of magical realism. Living and working in Delhi, India and born and raised in the U.K., her use of found objects is informed by her own position as an artist located between geographic and social milieus. Her way of working is exploratory: surveying, looking, collecting, and transforming. Her chimeras, mythical monsters, and allegorical tales combine references that are at once topical and traditional, political and poetic.

She and I discuss geeky science stuff, markers of time, the beauty of imperfection, freeing things from themselves, the interest of difference, neither/nor, following intuition, how to see, the intrinsic intelligence of our bodies, Joseph Campbell, being a teacher to yourself, two things that are actually one thing, motherhood, and the most profound parts of ourselves!

References:

Joseph Campbell - https://www.jcf.org (referenced The Hero's Journey”, “The Hero With a Thousand Faces,” and his quote “The cave you fear to enter holds the treasures you seek”)

Kazimir Malevich - https://www.kazimir-malevich.org

Sol LeWitt - https://massmoca.org/sol-lewitt/

Constantin Brancusi - https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/constantin-brancusi

Giuseppe Arcimboldo - https://www.giuseppe-arcimboldo.org

William Blake - https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/william-blake-39 (referenced “Dante’s Divine Comedy”)

John Berger - https://lannan.org/bios/john-berger

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Alison Sokol Blosser is Co-President, CEO & Second Generation Winegrower of Sokol Blosser. Sokol Blosser was founded in 1971 when her parents Susan Sokol and Bill Blosser planted their first vines in the Dundee Hills AVA (American Viticultural Area) of the Willamette Valley. At the time, there was no wine industry in Oregon. Today, with over 700 wineries and more than 30,000 acres of planted vineyards, Oregon has grown exponentially and its wines are available throughout the world. Sokol Blosser has survived, grown and prospered as a family-owned and run operation, and has been a key part of developing and shaping Oregon’s now prominent wine industry.

She and Zuckerman discuss the pull of a family business, being a farmer, the reality of a glamorous profession, picking the grapes at the exact right time, hand versus land, the definition of an estate wine, the magic to being on site, connecting wine and memory, loving bubbles, taking care of and nurturing the third generation, some tips on how to order wine, adaptability, and the importance of saying what you like and don’t like!

References:

https://sokolblosser.com/

Evolution wines - https://shop.sokolblosser.com/Shop-Our-Wine/Evolution-Wine

Richard Betts - http://yobetts.com

Pinot in a box - https://www.reversewinesnob.com/sokol-blosser-evolution-oregon-pinot-noir

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Sam Falls is contemporary American artist whose boundary-defying work applies artistic processes to natural phenomena. The resulting paintings, prints, sculptures, and videos, often insert organic structures into art and man-made objects into nature. "We change the work by being present, and the work changes us by being present,” the artist has said. “We are breaking down and being built up, just like every moment." Falls works intimately with the fundamentals of nature and the transience of life that art best addresses.

He and I discussed the intimacy of nature, the best part of making art, the ambiguous space between the inside and outside worlds, what artists he looks to for solace (we love the same ones!), his rain works, place, extended time, and the hand of nature, the challenges of choosing, anxiety, the parental bond, listening to music on repeat, and what helps with the darkness.

References:

Julia Kristeva - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Julia-Kristeva

Collier Schorr - https://www.303gallery.com/artists/collier-schorr

Wolfgang Tillmans - https://tillmans.co.uk

Bruce Nauman - https://www.moma.org/artists/4243 (referenced his work that was digging a hole by his ranch “Setting a Good Corner”)

Gillian Welch “Back in Time” https://music.apple.com/us/album/wayside-back-in-time/79759147?i=79759085

Salem “Capulets” https://music.apple.com/us/album/capulets/1535710389?i=1535710390

Salem “Not Much of a Life” https://music.apple.com/us/album/not-much-of-a-life/1535710389?i=1535710400

Stevie Nicks Wild Heart backstage https://youtu.be/ikMahqHWQXY

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Christopher Bedford is the Director of the Baltimore Museum of Art, appointed in May 2016. Prior to joining the BMA, Bedford led the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University in Massachusetts for four years. In November 2019, it was announced that the Baltimore Museum of Art would only purchase works made by female-identifying artists in 2020 as part of an effort to work towards “re-correcting the canon.”

He and I discuss what putting art in the basement means, the decency and care of John Waters, reliance on attendance as revenue, living our principles in museums, philosophies of deaccessioning, the Sotheby’s auction on October 28, 2020, the urgency of caring for museum staff, having too much art while being undercapitalized, how museums can be relevant today, the importance of close listening, what a civic museum could look like, and  art that gives you an otherwise impossible idea!

References:

Lisa Yuskavage x Aspen Art Museum - https://www.aspenartmuseum.org/exhibitions/233-lisa-yuskavage-wilderness

Baltimore Museum of Art - https://artbma.org

Mickalene Thomas - https://www.mickalenethomas.com/about

John Waters - could not find appropriate link

Cindy Sherman - https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/1154

Starns - http://www.dmstarn.com

Wolfgang Tillmans - https://tillmans.co.uk (referenced portrait of John Waters)

Mark Bradford - https://www.hauserwirth.com/artists/2838-mark-bradford

Venice Biennale - https://www.labiennale.org/en

Rose Museum - https://www.brandeis.edu/rose/

Brice Marden - https://gagosian.com/artists/brice-marden/

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Noah Horowitz is Director Americas for Art Basel since 2015. He is based in New York and is in charge of Art Basel’s show in Miami Beach. Horowitz holds a PhD in art history from the  Courtauld Institute of Art, London. His doctoral thesis, Art of the Deal: Contemporary Art in a Global Financial Market, was published by the Princeton University Press in 2011. Previously he was managing director of The Armory Show in New York from 2011 until 2015. And prior to this, in 2009 he became Director of VIP Art Fair, a first-ever virtual international art fair.

We discuss the intimacies of zoom, living with a blanket of uncertainty, positive intelligence, the first online art fair, the rhythm and consistency of the art world calendar, details of the art market report, what is good and great in the contemporary art, being cultural explorers and speaking the global language of art, and with gratitude for it—the continuous ability to be moved by art.

References:

Cory Muscara - https://corymuscara.com

Positive Intelligence - https://www.positiveintelligence.com

Art Basel - https://www.artbasel.com

The Armory - https://www.thearmoryshow.com

Marc Spiegler - Art Basel global director

OVR 2020 - https://www.artbasel.com/ovr

Peter Doig - https://www.moma.org/artists/8087

Michael Werner - https://www.michaelwerner.com

Francois Ghebaly - http://ghebaly.com

Peter Saul x New Museum - https://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/peter-saul-crime-and-punishment

Meriem Bennani’s 2 Lizzards works on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/CCRSrRWDOW3/?igshid=1y1wnj1ywq601

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