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The Rabkin Interviews

The Rabkin Foundation

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Frequency: 1 episode/42d. Total Eps: 10

Get to know the winners of the Rabkin Prize.

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2024 Rabkin Prize winner TK Smith

Thursday, September 12, 2024 • Duration 01:02:05

TK Smith is an arts writer, cultural historian, and the newly appointed curator of the Arts of Africa and the African Diaspora at the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University. He is one of eight writers to win the 2024 Rabkin Prize. For the first time in the prize’s history, the Rabkin Foundation commissioned portraits of the winners in the spaces where they write and conducted interviews with them about their lives and ideas. Here is Mary Louise Schumacher, a longtime journalist and the foundation’s new executive director, in conversation with TK. It has been gently edited for length and clarity.

Mentioned in this episode:Beverly Buchanan, Art Papers, Fall/Winter 2020 Duane Linklater: mymothersside, Frye Art Museum exhibit, 2021 Malcolm Peacock, Studio Museum in Harlem residency, 2024-25 Imani Perry Monument Lab “A Boxcar on East 4th Street” by TK Smith (Monument Lab, August 2023)“A Stage for Aiyyana” by TK Smith (Monument Lab, May 2023)“The Dirty South” exhibit at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts “A Cosmos of Southern Black Expression” by TK Smith (Art in America, July 2021)Benny Andrews Michi Meko Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia Butler (Seven Stories Press, 2005)Christopher Robert Jones Blue by Derek Jarman KJ Abudu The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom (Hatchett Book Group, 2018) Art on My Mind: Visual Politics by bell hooks (The New Press, 1995)Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldúa (Aunt Lute Books, 1987)

This episode of the Rabkin Interviews was produced by the Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation, an artist-endowed foundation based in Portland, Maine. The Rabkin Prize is awarded through a nomination process, and an independent jury selects the winners. The production team for the Rabkin Interviews includes Cindy Eggert Johnson, producer, and Johnathon Olsen, editor. Music by Ariel Shalom, Flint, Sémø and Just for Kicks. These interviews are accompanied by newly commissioned portraits of these writers made by Kevin J. Miyazaki in the spaces where they work.

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Cassie Packard, 2024 Rabkin Prize winner

Wednesday, October 30, 2024 • Duration 39:24

Cassie Packard is a freelance writer and reviews editor at frieze magazine who is particularly interested in worldbuilding practices and networks, with queerness as a frame and focus.

For the first time in the prize’s history, the Rabkin Foundation commissioned portraits of the winners in the spaces where they write and conducted interviews with them about their lives and ideas. Here is Mary Louise Schumacher, a longtime journalist and the foundation’s new executive director, in conversation with Cassie. It has been gently edited for length and clarity.

Mentioned in this episode:James Joyce John Ashbery Frank O’Hara Jacques Dupin Adrienne Rich Emily Dickinson“Sable Elyse Smith’s Opera Inhabits the Storm,” by Cassie Packard (frieze, July 2024)Toni Morrison Renee Gladman Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe (Macmillan, 2023)“Knotted Lives” by Cassie Packard (The Brooklyn Rail, February 2024)Drama 1882 by Wael Shawky at the 2024 Venice Biennale

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Thomas Lawson, 2024 Rabkin Prize winner

Wednesday, October 23, 2024 • Duration 31:15

Thomas Lawson is an artist, educator and writer. For the first time in the prize’s history, the Rabkin Foundation commissioned portraits of the winners in the spaces where they write and conducted interviews with them about their lives and ideas. Here is Mary Louise Schumacher, a longtime journalist and the foundation’s new executive director, in conversation with Thomas. It has been gently edited for length and clarity.

Mentioned in this episode:The Writing of Fiction by Edith Wharton (Scribner, January 1925)Sayre Gomez Jack Goldstein The Anxiety of Influence by Harold Bloom (Oxford University Press)“The Allegorical Impulse: Toward Theory of Postmodernism by Craig Owens” (October, Spring 1980)East of Borneo Susan Morgan REALLIFE magazine Mark Lewis Rosalind Krauss Robert Pincus-Witten “Outside The Box: Unpacking Craig Owens’s Slide Library” by James Meyer (Artforum, March 2003), by George Lewis

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Siddhartha Mitter, 2024 Rabkin Prize winner

Thursday, October 17, 2024 • Duration 44:15

Siddhartha Mitter is a freelance writer and critic. He is one of eight writers to win the 2024 Rabkin Prize. For the first time in the prize’s history, the Rabkin Foundation commissioned portraits of the winners in the spaces where they write and conducted interviews with them about their lives and ideas. Here is Mary Louise Schumacher, a longtime journalist and the foundation’s new executive director, in conversation with Siddhartha. It has been gently edited for length and clarity.

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Emily Watlington, 2024 Rabkin Prize winner

Wednesday, October 9, 2024 • Duration 28:56

Emily Watlington is a critic, curator, and senior editor at Art in America. She is one of eight writers to win the 2024 Rabkin Prize. For the first time in the prize’s history, the Rabkin Foundation commissioned portraits of the winners in the spaces where they write and conducted interviews with them about their lives and ideas. Our new Executive Director, Mary Louise Schumacher, a longtime journalist, conducted this conversation with Emily. It has been gently edited for length and clarity.

Mentioned in this episode:

“The Pitfalls of the Something-for-Everyone Approach to the Venice Biennale” by Emily Watlington (Art In America, July 2024“Andrea Crespo” by Emily Watlington (Art Papers, Winter 2018/2019)Art in America Rebecca Solnit “Maurizio Cattelan’s Notorious Banana Sculpture Donated to Guggenheim Museum” by Valentina Di Liscia (Hyperallergic, September 2020)Notion app Anna Jermolaewa at the Austrian Pavilion of the 2024 Venice Biennale Nathan Fielder’s The Curse trailer Leave Society by Tao Lin (Penguin Random House, 2021)

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Greg Allen, 2024 Rabkin Prize winner

Wednesday, October 2, 2024 • Duration 55:42

Greg Allen is an artist and writer who began greg.org: the making of art blog in 2001. For the first time in the prize’s history, the Rabkin Foundation commissioned portraits of the winners in the spaces where they write and conducted interviews with them about their lives and ideas. Here is Mary Louise Schumacher, a longtime journalist and the foundation’s new executive director, in conversation with Greg. It has been gently edited for length and clarity.

Mentioned in this episode:greg.org: the making of“Lightning Field Notes” by Greg Allen (Greg.org, July 2015)“Old News” by Jeff Weiss Anne Truitt Once Again . . . (Statues Never Die) by Isaac Julien, exhibit at the Barnes Foundation, 2022 Ten Thousand Waves by Isaac Julian “Just Dropped: Édouard Manet Facsimile Object (M4), ‘Fleurs’” by Greg Allen (Greg.org, May 2024)“Show Me the Manets” by Greg Allen (Greg.org, September 2022)“Hirshhorn Commissions Nicolas Party To Create New Large-Scale Immersive Mural” (Smithsonian, May 2017)“The Daily Practice of Refusing” by Greg Allen (Greg.org, January 2017)Glenstone“

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Holland Cotter, 2024 Rabkin Prize winner

Wednesday, September 25, 2024 • Duration 40:02

Holland Cotter is the chief art critic and a senior writer at The New York Times, where he won a Pulitzer for criticism. For the first time in the prize’s history, the Rabkin Foundation commissioned portraits of the winners in the spaces where they write and conducted interviews with them about their lives and ideas. Here is Mary Louise Schumacher, a longtime journalist and the foundation’s new executive director, in conversation with Holland. It has been gently edited for length and clarity.

Mentioned in this episode:The Metropolitan Museum of Art Joe Feddersen’s Charmed“Joan Jonas: A Trailblazer Shines at MoMA” by Holland Cotter (The New York Times, March 2024)Civilian Warfare Gallery “The Topic Is Race; the Art Is Fearless,” by Holland Cotter (The New York Times, March 2008)Henry David Thoreau Borobudur Temple “Native Modern Art: From a Cardboard Box to the Met” by Holland Cotter (The New York Times, July 2024)Siena: The Rise of Painting, exhibit at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2024 Love, Joe: The Selected Letters of Joe Brainard (Columbia University Press, 2024)

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Robin Givhan, 2024 Rabkin Prize winner

Wednesday, September 18, 2024 • Duration 58:14

Robin Givhan is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and senior critic-at-large for The Washington Post. She is one of eight writers to win the 2024 Rabkin Prize. For the first time in the prize’s history, the Rabkin Foundation commissioned portraits of the winners in the spaces where they write and conducted interviews with them about their lives and ideas. Here is Mary Louise Schumacher, a longtime journalist and the foundation’s new executive director, in conversation with Robin. It has been gently edited for length and clarity.

Mentioned in this episode:I Just Keep Talking by Nell Irvin Painter (Knopf Doubleday, April 2024)“America’s tents are pitched on shameful truths,” by Robin Givhan (The Washington Post, April 2024)“The ethnicity question: New York and Europe take different line” by Robin Givhan (The New York Times, October 2002)Freedom Monument Sculpture Park The National Memorial for Peace and Justice Bryan Stevenson Stumbling stones Flyboy In The Buttermilk: Essays On Contemporary America by Greg Tate (Touchstone Books, 2015)The Art of Grace: On Moving Well Through Life by Sarah Kaufman (W.W. Norton & Co., 2015)“The Only One: As a black man and the creative director of Vogue, André Leon Talley is at the intersection of many worlds,” by Hilton Als (The New Yorker, October 1994)

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Corrected: Jessica Lynne, 2025 Rabkin winner

Wednesday, September 10, 2025 • Duration 53:39

Jessica Lynne is a writer, art critic, podcaster, editor, and co-founder of ARTS.BLACK, a journal of art criticism that centers Black perspectives while engaging the contemporary art world. She is a winner of a 2025 Rabkin Prize. You can read her full bio at our website.

We invited Jessica to have a conversation about her work. The interview is accompanied by a newly commissioned portrait of Jessica in her studio during a residency at ALMA | LEWIS, an art platform for critical thinking, constructive dialogue, and creative expression dedicated to Black cultures in Pittsburgh.

Please note: Jessica is no longer at Momus, a change that occurred after our podcast was produced.

The interview has been gently edited for length and clarity.

Mentioned in this episode:

* ALMA | LEWIS: Artist Residency

* Educator, artist, and architect Amaza Lee Meredith

* Art on My Mind by bell hooks (The New Press, 1995)

* Writer and curator Taylor Aldridge

* Poet June Jordan

* Writer Toni Cade Bambara

* ”Toward a Black Feminist Criticism” by Barbara Smith (Center for Critical Education Inc., 1978)

* Writer

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