Unreadability in South Asian Photography
In today's episode, I'm reading an essay by Eleanor Sanghara Güstard, published in Shade Art Review today. Eleanor inherited an old Nikon F5...
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Who Gets to Show Up in the Art World?
Shade Podcast closes out 2025 by returning to the Shade Art Review archives. This episode adapts "Oh God It's Frieze Week Again," an article...
Deana Lawson's Photography Divides Critics. And I'm Here For It
I'm reading "Deana Lawson's photography divides critics and I'm here for it" from the Shade Art Review archives, asking questions about crit...
Where is the Black Nan Goldin?
Shade Podcast is back. After months away, I'm returning to what we were at the beginning—intimate, unedited conversations, just me and you....
Hospital Rooms
Hospital Rooms has been bringing world-class contemporary art into NHS mental healthcare units since 2016. Today, we focus on their most amb...
Visualise the future
This series of conversations with art educators expand on the ideas presented by Vi sualise: The Runnymede Trust and Freelands Foundation 20...
The Art of Teaching
This series of conversations with art educators, practitioners and makers expands on the ideas presented by Vi sualise: The Runnymede Trust...
Art Outside the Classroom
This series of conversations with art educators, practitioners and makers expands on the ideas presented by Vi sualise: The Runnymede Trust...
Classroom Portraits
This series of conversations with art educators, practitioners and makers expands on the ideas presented by Vi sualise: The Runnymede Trust...
Broad Canvas
This new weekly, five part series of conversations with art educators, practitioners and makers expands on the ideas presented by Vi sualise...
London Sculpture Week symposium
Enjoy our special episode which captures and reflects on a discussion on new approaches to sculpture outdoors which took place at the inaugu...
Donald Rodney: Visceral Canker. A major survey exhibition at Spike Island
Donald Rodney (b. 1961, West Bromwich; d. 1998, London) worked across sculpture, installation, drawing, painting, and digital media, experim...
Maja Wismer Head of Contemporary Art Kunstmuseum Basel: in conversation with Anne Kimunguyi
Enjoy our special episode from the exhibition When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting at Kunstmuseum in Basel recorded by...
Matthew Krishanu: in conversation with Lou Mensah
Matthew Krishanu (b.1980, Bradford, UK) paints atmospheric, pared-back compositions including scenes from the artist’s life, particularly hi...
Venice Biennale Special: Aindrea Emelife interview
Welcome to the second of our episodes from the 60th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia. I am delighted to welcome back Ai...
Venice Biennale Special: Sir John Akomfrah interview
Welcome to the first of our episodes from the 60th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia. Today, I am delighted to hand the...
Legacy Russell: in conversation with Lou Mensah
Legacy Russell is Executive Director & Chief Curator of the experimental arts institution The Kitchen , one of New York's oldest non-profit...
Ibrahim Mahama: in conversation with Lou Mensah
Ibrahim Mahama is an installation artist who works with textiles, material production and found objects to create large-scale public interve...
Michael Ohajuru: in conversation with Lou Mensah
Michael Ohajuru is a London-based art historian who returns to the podcast to discuss the John Blanke project , a large gathering of artists...
Joy Gregory: in conversation with Lou Mensah
Joy Gregory (b. 1959. Bicester, UK). Born in the UK to Jamaican parents, Joy Gregory ’s work explores the impact of colonialism on global pe...