In Talks With

By Danielle Radojcin

Society & Culture Arts

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Adventures in visual culture. With journalist Danielle Radojcin

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03.29.2024
Lee Alexander McQueen's Sarabande Foundation
Alexander McQueen's Sarabande Foundation was set up before the late fashion designer's death to support and nurture multidisciplinary artistic talent. Chief Executive Trino Verkade speaks to Simon Chilvers about its mission and future plans.
02.15.2024
Reframing Pauline Boty
Who was Pauline Boty? With her blonde, backcombed hairstyle and It Girl charm, this pioneer of Pop Art embodied the 1960s scene in London, hanging with Bob Dylan, posing for David Bailey, and acting with Michael Caine. As a new...
01.31.2024
Filling in the gaps: Lubaina Himid
Of her work, which addresses legacies of colonialism and slavery, British artist Lubaina Himid says she is "filling in the gaps of history." The Turner Prize winner, who turns 70 this year, discusses her new show.
01.21.2024
David Remfry reflects
British artist David Remfry reflects on his life as an artist, from 60s London, to 20 years spent living in the Chelsea Hotel to a triumph at the Royal Academy - and the famous people who have sat for...
12.03.2023
The collaborative fashion spirit behind Marni
Francesco Risso, the creative director at fashion house Marni, and the brand's stylist Carlos Nazario, discuss inspiration and life journeys with guest host Simon Chilvers.
11.08.2023
Amber Pinkerton
Artist Amber Pinkerton describes what it's like moving to London from Jamaica as a young woman, and her experiences of alienation and self-awakening.
10.11.2023
Liverpool Biennial director Sam Lackey
Liverpool Biennial director Sam Lackey talks about her vision for the UK's largest festival of contemporary art.
09.18.2023
Antwerp Fashion Academy director Brandon Wen
Antwerp has produced some of the world’s finest fashion creatives, from Martin Margiela to Dries van Noten to Raf Simons. The end of year show at the fashion academy spotlights the next generation of talent - as well as...
09.07.2023
Janette Beckman
"Street style is forever," says Janette Beckman, whose photojournalism has caught on camera everything from punks and rockers in London to the gangs of East Los Angeles.
08.29.2023
S.S. Daley
The British fashion brand S.S. Daley, designed by Steven Stokey-Daley, makes clothes for men and women that celebrate traditional tropes of English heritage while also playfully subverting embedded ideas around queerness and class. Anna Wintour has given him...
08.06.2023
Aindrea Emelife and Black Venus
The curator talks about Black Venus, her exhibition which brings together the work of Black women and non-binary artists to explore the othering, fetishisation and reclamation of narratives around Black femininity.
08.04.2023
Moki Cherry at the ICA
How a woman from 1940s small-town Sweden forged an enduring career on the American jazz scene, and went on to build a remarkable interdisciplinary artistic career around the needs of her young family.
08.03.2023
Richard Malone
The young artist and fashion designer describes his journey from rural working class upbringing in Ireland to a starring role in two of London's biggest summer shows- via designing for Björk and Róisín Murphy - and a belief in the...
07.17.2023
Betty and George Woodman at Charleston
"Art was a religion for both of them." Danielle travels to Charleston, home to Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group deep in the Sussex countryside, to explore an exhibition of the work of Betty and George Woodman.
07.04.2023
Anthony Caro at Pitzhanger Manor
Where does sculpture stop and architecture start? How Anthony Caro broke boundaries in post-war Britain - and how his work still resonates today.
06.17.2023
Shezad Dawood
An A.I. scent generator; a collaboration with a cutting-edge fashion designer; NFTs made to support ocean conservation and a vintage textile collection to rival the most established fashion atelier: welcome to the expansive world of Shezad Dawood, the British artist...
06.05.2023
Man Ray
Man Ray created some of the most arresting images of women in the 20th Century: Lee Miller’s floating lips, the glass tears of Kiki de Montparnasse, and portraits of Coco Chanel and Elsa Schiaparelli, to name a few. A major...
05.16.2023
Touria El Glaoui
Ahead of the opening in New York, the founder of the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair delves into her deep-rooted passion for Africa art and her unwavering commitment to giving it a global voice.
05.13.2023
Nazy Vassegh on collecting art
The leading London art advisor gives Danielle tips on the best way to build a collection, and explains how her self-created art fair is breaking the mould.
03.31.2023
Leonardo Drew
Spotted as a teenager for his spectacular drawing skills, African-American artist Leonardo Drew was nearly recruited into a world of draughtsmanship for the likes of Marvel and DC comics, but instead found his true calling via the study of fine...
02.23.2023
Somaya Critchlow and Lucian Freud
"What is it like to be a young artist growing up - what are your reference points and how do you take ownership and claim that history?” Taking inspiration from 1950s porn magazines, Lucian Freud and her grandfather, the young...
02.13.2023
Scott Covert
An habitué of the vibrant New York art, fashion and nightlife scene of the 1970s and 80s, where the crowd included Cookie Mueller, Basquiat and Holly Woodlawn, Covert's works featuring celebrity graves have become a life’s journey. With his...
01.26.2023
Jenkin van Zyl
Artist Jenkin van Zyl seeks to portray characters who find transcendence through the freedom of being able to be whomever they want, behind prosthetic, ghoulish masks. Doppelgangers and clones swarm through his work; theatrics and extreme body alteration abound; moments...
01.16.2023
Who was Cinzia Ruggeri?
Discover the fascinating life and work of Cinzia Ruggeri. Danielle talks to Luca Lo Pinto, artistic director at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome, and finds out about the late artist and designer's enduring significance.
01.09.2023
Hannah Starkey
In her work, the photographer Hannah Starkey allows her female subjects to be themselves, without having to subscribe to ideals of beauty imposed on them by "the consumer gaze." As The Hepworth Wakefield gallery presents the first major survey exhibition...
12.20.2022
Nigel Cooke
"My job is about preparing new problems, and trying to paint back out of them towards something true." The artist, who has a major new show in London, talks to Danielle Radojcin about relishing the challenge of the blank canvas...
11.18.2022
Vanessa Baird
In her first-ever podcast interview, Vanessa Baird, one of Norway's most pre-eminent artists, speaks to Danielle Radojcin about her life’s work. Taking inspiration from her daily routine at home with her family in Oslo, her drawings are at once...
11.17.2022
Suzanne Clements
The former fashion designer, who has recently pivoted to art, talks to Danielle about the heady days of designing for Clements Ribeiro; why French women love Cacharel; and the special energy of Naomi Campbell.
11.15.2022
Ghada Amer
“Always be upset. We can go backwards, we can lose rights. If you don’t fight for what you have, you will lose it.” The artist talks to Danielle about her upcoming retrospective at MUCEM in Marseille and how she uses...
10.21.2022
Soheila Sokhanvari
Magic realism, feminism and politics: the fascinating and genre-defying artist Soheila Sokhanvari talks to Danielle on the eve of her major exhibition at the Barbican in London about how she found the courage to pivot from being a biochemist to...
09.26.2022
Catherine Sarr
Selected as one of the creatives in the Theaster Gates x Prada design programme, Catherine Sarr is a jewellery designer for our times. Her sustainable jewellery line, Almasika, was snapped up by Vogue and has adorned the likes of Michelle...
07.15.2022
Jaume Plensa
Jaume Plensa is an internationally celebrated artist, whose colossal sculptures enhance the landscape in locations from Japan to Germany, from the United States to Reunion. Born in Barcelona in 1955, he has become known for creating work that aims to...
05.23.2022
Laurie Simmons
“I feel like it’s going to be a tidal wave of appreciation.” The New York artist talks about her friend, the photographer Jimmy DeSana, and a major retrospective of his work she is planning this autumn. She also discusses the...
10.19.2021
Kaat Debo at MoMu Antwerp
Kaat Debo is the director and chief curator at MoMu, the fashion museum in Antwerp, Belgium. Belgium is famous as a key fashion location, not just for producing contemporary star names such as Raf Simons and Glenn Martens, but also...
05.17.2021
Peter Hujar
The American photographer Peter Hujar came to recognition for his gritty, tough and glamorous black and white images of the downtown New York scene taken during the 1970s and 80s. Until his untimely death from AIDS in 1987, he was...
04.21.2021
Emma Talbot
The multidisciplinary British artist shares her journey, from juggling motherhood and work, to dealing with grief, to having her work broadcast at Piccadilly Circus and winning the Max Mara Art Prize for Women and major new shows at Whitechapel...
03.06.2021
Colleen Hill on 90s fashion
Was fashion more fun in the 90s? From grunge to vintage, from McQueen to Margiela - there's a lot to cover. Danielle Radojcin asks Colleen Hill, a curator at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, to give...
10.25.2020
Edmund de Waal
Danielle spends a day at the New Art Centre at Roche Court in Salisbury near Stonehenge, talking to the artists Edmund de Waal and Jacqui Poncelet, and the gallery's founder, Madeleine Bessborough.
09.23.2020
Tiphaine de Lussy
A beacon of glamour on London's fashion and social scene, the cool, effervescent Tiphaine talks to Danielle about her bespoke knitwear label, Paris Essex, how her love of second hand clothes helps raise money for charity, and how she ended...
09.07.2020
Marisa Yiu
“What is Chinese design, what is Hong Kong design, what is identity?” These are some of the questions asked by Marisa Yiu, architect and founder of Design Trust, the Hong Kong-based non-profit, grant-funding platform that supports creative endeavours both locally...
08.18.2020
Allegra Huston
The writer, who wrote so movingly in her memoir Love Child about her upbringing in a famous family, reconnects with Danielle from her home in Taos, New Mexico, to talk about her latest project, which she says, "Is the best...
07.26.2020
Michael Salu
"Being on a Black Lives Matter protest with white Germans was a strange experience.” The writer, former creative director of Granta and founder of House of Thought dials in from his home in Berlin to share his thoughts on life...
07.19.2020
Kendell Geers
The provocative South African artist shares his views on race, violence and the power of art to change perceptions.
06.28.2020
Caroline Issa
Caroline Issa is a familiar face at fashion shows, parties and on Instagram. She's also the co-owner and fashion director of Tank Magazine, which has been experiencing a bump in views to its Tank TV curated film channel, thanks to...
06.17.2020
Katie Paterson
Artist Katie Paterson deals with themes of time, space and nature. For her Future Library project, she has secured authors including Margaret Atwood, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Elif Shafak and Han Kang to each create a piece of writing...
06.10.2020
Azu Nwagbogu
Azu Nwagbogu, founder of the Lagos Photo Festival and the African Artists’ foundation, is passionate about providing access to art for all. From his home in Lagos, he talks to Danielle Radojcin about his rejection of elitism in art and...
05.27.2020
Stefano Tonchi
As the editor who launched T: The New York Times Style Magazine, as well as heading up W Magazine for ten years and working at L’Uomo Vogue and Esquire along the way, Stefano Tonchi is better placed than most to...
05.17.2020
Hospital Rooms
How can art help mental health patients? Hospital Rooms is a small British charity which aims to help patients in NHS hospitals, by working with artists such as Julian Opie and Richard Wentworth to create bespoke pieces for the wards....
05.11.2020
Maryam Eisler
Maryam shares her personal journey of becoming an artist. She discusses her interactive project which resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic, questioning if there is a need for art at this time and how galleries and institutions will survive. She also...

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In Talks With episodes:

Lee Alexander McQueen's Sarabande Foundation

Reframing Pauline Boty

Filling in the gaps: Lubaina Himid

David Remfry reflects

The collaborative fashion spirit behind Marni

Amber Pinkerton

Liverpool Biennial director Sam Lackey

Antwerp Fashion Academy director Brandon Wen

Janette Beckman

S.S. Daley

Aindrea Emelife and Black Venus

Moki Cherry at the ICA

Richard Malone

Betty and George Woodman at Charleston

Anthony Caro at Pitzhanger Manor

Shezad Dawood

Man Ray

Touria El Glaoui

Nazy Vassegh on collecting art

Leonardo Drew

Somaya Critchlow and Lucian Freud

Scott Covert

Jenkin van Zyl

Who was Cinzia Ruggeri?

Hannah Starkey

Nigel Cooke

Vanessa Baird

Suzanne Clements

Ghada Amer

Soheila Sokhanvari

Catherine Sarr

Jaume Plensa

Laurie Simmons

Kaat Debo at MoMu Antwerp

Peter Hujar

Emma Talbot

Colleen Hill on 90s fashion

Edmund de Waal

Tiphaine de Lussy

Marisa Yiu

Allegra Huston

Michael Salu

Kendell Geers

Caroline Issa

Katie Paterson

Azu Nwagbogu

Stefano Tonchi

Hospital Rooms

Maryam Eisler

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