Arts

The Conversation: an Artist Podcast

Michael Shaw

A podcast featuring both one-on-one and three-way roundtable conversations with contemporary artists, dealers, curators, and collectors--based in Los Angeles, but reaching nationally and int...

Episodes

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Episode 392: NYC artist Nancy Goldring- living in Westbeth for 50+ years, artist housing in the West Village that's a world unto itself

New York City-based artist Nancy Goldring talks about: The artist building in the West Village of Manhattan, Westbeth , where she's lived si...

42:00Oct 12, 2026

Episode 391- OLD NEWS plus Lucien Smith mini-tribute

This episode is a mix of excerpts from OLD NEWS (Jeff Weiss's nightly email blast of art-related content) and a Lucien Smith obituary, inclu...

14:59Sep 26, 2026

Episode 390: a broken plate catapults a career: Nyack, NY-based artist Rob Strati

Nyack, New York-based artist Rob Strati talks about: Living in Nyack, as far as its local arts community and proximity to NYC; his early art...

54:54Sep 6, 2026

Episode 389: The Conversation presents: The Intrepid Artist, an Advice podcast- Episode 1, with co-host Arleene Correa Valencia

"To Post, or Not to Post….That is the Question" In this pilot episode of The Intrepid Artist , the main question asked by a listener is whet...

36:18Aug 8, 2026

Episode 388: Lauren O'Neill-Butler on Artist Activism, Artforum magazine and the seminal Project Row Houses in Houston

Hunter College professor and author of The War of Art , Lauren O'Neill-Butler talks about: Her 12 years at Artforum magazine, including its...

52:38Jun 20, 2026

Episode 387: Peter Hujar and Paul Thek's "Wonderful World That Almost Was," with writer and Frieze editor Andrew Durbin

Writer and Frieze editor-in-chief Andrew Durbin talks about: His book tour for "The Wonderful World That Almost Was," which has been hectic;...

50:44May 23, 2026

Episode 386- James Delbourgo on the 'Noble Madness' of collectors- from Charles Foster Kane to Norman Bates and others, and what Freud had to say about all of them

James Delbourgo, professor of history at Rutgers University and author of A Noble Madness: the Dark Side of Collecting from Antiquity to Now...

01:04:46Apr 25, 2026

Episode 385- Useful Art explodes what your sense of Art with a capital "A" is and can be, with John Byrne, author of "Useful Art- How Activist Artists Can Change the World"

John Byrne , author of " Useful Art- How Activist Artists Can Change the World ," and professor of Useful Art at Liverpool John Moores Unive...

01:09:20Mar 28, 2026

Episode 384: Boston artist and lifelong art school teacher on photography and teaching in art schools for 46 years

Boston-based photographer Jim Dow talks about: The Boston art community (which is often connected to the art school and universities) and wh...

51:53Feb 21, 2026

Episode 383- Sarah Khan: Documenting the Immigrant Experience

Hadley, Massachusetts and NYC artist Sarah K. Khan talks about: How it's a "little miracle" to have a studio (a former chick coop on a farm...

51:00Jan 17, 2026

Episode 382: Robbie Conal,from the studio to the streets--applying what you do best to what you care about most

Artist and legendary street artist Robbie Conal talks about: His family history, including his two activist-and-politically inclined parents...

54:04Dec 13, 2025

Episode 381- Arleene Correa Valencia: From rural Mexico to the Napa Valley and back, fulfilling a family dream

Napa, CA-based artist Arleene Correa Valencia talks about: Why she lives in Napa, CA, and the two distinct versions of the town, for the wea...

53:41Nov 15, 2025

Episode 380- London-based photographer and writer Michael Collins on the perils of photography, and art criticism, and why to give your viewers the benefit of the doubt

London-based photographer and writer Michael Collins talks about: The flat where he's lived for 35 years, which is getting 'Wallace & Gromit...

56:50Oct 11, 2025

Episode 379- artist Linnéa Gabriella Spransy – growing up in a commune, Yale grad school, working as a living artist in Kansas City, and co-founding the gallery Bridge Projects

Pasadena-based artist Linnéa Gabriella Spransy talks about: Growing up between Wisconsin and a commune in Oregon, the latter which she descr...

44:53Sep 13, 2025

Episode 378: Artist Camilla Taylor- "My House Burned Down"

Camilla Taylor , Los Angeles artist, and curator of " My House Burned Down" (at Track16 Gallery ), talks about: Her childhood with complicat...

52:24Aug 9, 2025

Episode 377- "An artist walks into a bar…" Guy Richards Smit on his New Yorker cartoons, his paintings, and humor in art

Brooklyn-based artist and sometimes New Yorker magazine cartoonist Guy Richards Smit returns to the podcast eight years after his first visi...

51:38Jul 4, 2025

Episode 376: Merging art & life and leaving the city for the country: artist couple and collaborators Gribaudi-Plytas.

In Episode 376, Alex and Theo Gribaudi-Plytas talk about: Their location in rural France, at the southern end of the Champagne region, where...

47:13Jun 7, 2025

Episode 375: Marcie Begleiter on artist residencies, working with nature, leaving big cities, and much more

Marcie Begleiter, an artist based on the Central Coast of California, talks about: artist residencies, including the Sitka Center for Art an...

47:08May 10, 2025

Episode 374: "The Murder Next Door," Oakland-based graphic artist Hugh D'Andrade's first graphic novel

Oakland-based graphic artist Hugh D'Andrade, author of the graphic novel "The Murder Next Door," talks about: His first graphic novel, The M...

01:07:30Apr 12, 2025

Episode 373: RealTime Arts' Molly & Rusty on interactive happenings in Pittsburgh, where it's all about "Feeling the bean"

In Episode 373, Molly Rice & Rusty Thelin , co-founders of RealTime Arts in Pittsburgh, talk about: The especially niche field of their work...

49:55Mar 15, 2025