This episode we are hugely excited to be joined by the definition defying artist Dayanita Singh.

Based in New Delhi, India, Dayanita started taking photographs in the early 1980s, soon expanding into photojournalism. Her practice has grown to span photography, bookmaking, installations, and perhaps most famously since 2012, museum directing.

Her work has been presented at the Hayward Gallery in London, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, as well the Venice Biennale. Her work is also in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate in London, as well as the subject of several books.

She is the winner of multiple awards and perhaps most well-known for her Museum Bhavan, which won the 2017 PhotoBook of the Year in the Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards and, in 2018, was awarded the Infinity Award of the International Center of Photography. 

You can follow Dayanita on Instagram @dayanitasingh or visit her website. 

In addition, we also discuss the Indian Tabla Drummer Zakir Hussain. You can learn more about him on the National Endowment for the Arts website.

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This episode, we are very lucky to speak with the visionary collector, philanthropist, and our personal art world hero, Pamela Joyner.

Based in San Francisco, California, Pamela is a true champion for artists of African descent. Together with her husband Fred Giuffrida, she has built one of the world’s leading collections of  artworks by Black and African diaspora artists, including deep holdings of works by artists including Alma Thomas, Mark Bradford, Jack Whitten, and Sam Gilliam - among many others.

Their collection has been the subject of several museum exhibitions, including shows at Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art and the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. The collection is also documented in the beautiful book, Four Generations: The Joyner Giuffrida Collection of Abstract Art.

Pamela is also a distinguished and highly active philanthropist, sitting on the boards of multiple non-profit institutions, including the San Francisco MoMA, the J. Paul Getty Trust, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Tate Americas foundation. She is also a founding member of the Black Trustee Alliance for Art Museums an organization of and for Black trustees currently serving on the boards of art museums within the United States. 

Some artists discussed:

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In this episode we speak with the inspiring and brilliant artist, Jeffrey Gibson.

Jeffrey Gibson’s practice combines the cultural and artistic traditions of his Cherokee and Choctaw heritage with the visual languages of Modernism and themes from contemporary popular culture. 

Born in Colorado Springs, CO in 1972, Gibson grew up in urban centers in the United States, Germany, Korea, and England; which helped to influence his cross-cultural aesthetic. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Master of Arts in painting at the Royal College of Art in London. 

Gibson’s work is included in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; Denver Art Museum; Museum of Fine Arts in Boston; and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas - among many others. 

Gibson’s previous exhibitions include, Jeffrey Gibson, ‘LIKE A HAMMER,’ organized by the Denver Art Museum, and ‘This Is The Day,’ organized by The Wellin Museum. Other notable solo exhibitions include: ‘The Anthropophagic Effect’ (2019) The New Museum, New York; ‘Look How Far We’ve Come!’ (2017), Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee; ‘Jeffrey Gibson: Speak to Me,’ (2017), Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, Oklahoma City; and ‘A Kind of Confession’ (2016), Savannah College of Art and Design Museum, Savannah. He was included in the 2019 Whitney Biennial and was featured in the outdoor exhibition “Monuments Now,” at Socrates Sculpture Park, in Long Island City.

Gibson is a recipient of numerous awards, notably a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship; Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant; and Creative Capital Foundation Grant. He is currently an artist-in-residence and professor at Bard College and is based in Hudson, New York.

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This episode, we’re honored to be joined by curator, writer, and museum director Laura Raicovich.

Laura is currently the interim director of New York’s Leslie Lohman Museum of Art, one of the world’s only museums dedicated to the presentation queer art. Prior to assuming this role, Laura was the President and Executive Director of the Queens Museum in New York, where she was instrumental in transforming the museum to better serve its community, as well as expanding its roster of world-class exhibitions. During her tenure, she oversaw exhibitions of Mel Chin, William Gropper, and a show called Hey! Ho! Let's Go: Ramones and the Birth of Punk, an exploration of the band's punk ethics of resistance and roots in Queens.

Before the Queens Museum, Laura spent several years at Creative Time, the Dia: Art Foundation, the Guggenheim Museum, and many other incredible institutions.

Laura has also authored and edited several books, including "At the Lightning Field" (Coffee House Press, 2017) and "A Diary of Mysterious Difficulties" (Publication Studio, 2014). This year, she will also be launching a book on museums and the myth of neutrality titled "Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest," published by Verso Books.

Some artists (and others) discussed in this episode:

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This episode we are extremely excited to be talking to the boundary defying collector, philanthropist, and general art world powerhouse, Nadia Samdani. 

Based in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Nadia is the founder and director of the Samdani Art Foundation, which she launched in 2011 and has now become one of the leading non-profits focused on supporting the arts in and across South East Asia. 

In her role as Director of the Samdani Art Foundation, Nadia led the launch of the Dkaha Art Summit in 2012, a multifaceted, interdisciplinary biennial that brings together curators, artists, and other arts professionals from around the globe. 

Nadia is also very active philanthropically. She and her husband Rajeeb were founding members of the Tate’s South Asian Acquisition Committee.  And In 2017, with her husband Rajeeb, she was the first South Asian arts patron to receive the Montblanc de la Culture Arts Patronage Award. 

In 2014 the Samdanis were nominated in the Young Collector of the Year category for the Forbes India Art Award, in recognition of their impressive collection of artists such as Anish Kapoor, Bharti Kher, Jitish Kallat, Ravinder Reddy, Chitra Ganesh, and Subodh Gupta. 

Nadia and Rajeeb plan to soon expand their art empire with another major achievement: the opening of the Srihatta–Samdani Art Centre and Sculpture Park, which is currently slated to be inaugurated in 2021 in Sylhet, a city in eastern Bangladesh. 

Some artists discussed in this episode:

Links: Samdani Art Foundation, Dhaka Art Summit, Srihatta

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This episode, we welcome the legendary artist Ursula von Rydinsvard. Known for her highly personal and often monumental sculptures in cedar and bronze, Ursula  has been working in Brooklyn, New York for the past 30 years. 

She has had numerous exhibitions around the world, including solo shows at the beautiful Yorkshire Sculpture Park in England, the 2015 Venice Biennale, and the amazing Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia. 

Her work is also in the permanent collections of museums including the Metropolitan Museum and MoMA in New York, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, San Francisco MoMA, and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, just to name a few. And, to add to her massive list of accomplishments, Ursula was also inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2008. 

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This episode we are so excited to be joined by an amazing gallerist and dear friend, Kavi Gupta. Kavi is the founder of the Kavi Gupta Gallery, which opened in Chicago’s West Loop neighborhood in 2002.

Some artists discussed this episode:

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This episode we are delighted to be joined by one of the most hard-working, inspiring people we know - the Iranian-American Brooklyn-based artist and activist - Amy Khoshbin. Amy’s practice pushes the formal and conceptual boundaries of art-making to foster progressive social change through performance, social practice, video, rap music, installation, tattooing, teaching and writing. 

She has shown at venues such as The Whitney Museum, The Guggenheim Museum, Times Square Arts, and Socrates Sculpture Park - just to name a few. In addition, Amy has received residencies at The Watermill Center, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and Anderson Ranch. 

Amy has collaborated with Laurie Anderson, Tina Barney, and Anne Carson - among others. she received a Master's Degree from New York University and Bachelor’s degrees in Film and Media Studies from University of Texas at Austin. You can follow her on Instagram @tinyscissors. 

Some artists discussed in this episode: 

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This episode, we speak to Tina Kukielski, the Executive Director and Chief Curator of Art21, one of the leading global producers of films and content about contemporary artists. Each month, more than 300,000 people from around the world tune in to Art21 to watch their Peabody Award Winning films with artists including Zanele Muholi, Theaster Gates, Luchita Hurtado, Jordan Casteel, and Pedro Reyes. 

In addition to leading Art21, Tina is also an active and widely respected curator. She was a co-curator of the acclaimed 2013 Carnegie International, bringing together 35 established and emerging artists from 19 different countries, including Sarah Lucas, Phyllida Barlow, Mark Leckey, and Nicole Eisenman. During her time at the Whitney Museum of American Art from 2002–2010, she worked to acquire and mount exhibitions by a wide range of celebrated contemporary artists.

As lead curator on the Hillman Photography Initiative at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Kukielski launched a number of digital initiatives and films series. In 2014, Kukielski co-produced a documentary film about Andy Warhol in partnership with artist Cory Arcangel documenting a digital conservation project which brought renewed attention to nearly forgotten artworks that Warhol made on an Amiga personal computer in 1985.

She is now working on the upcoming Front Triennial in Cleveland Ohio, which will open slightly delayed in 2022. The Triennial's title, Oh, Gods of Dust and Rainbows, is derived from a Langston Hughes poem. 

Some artists covered in this episode:

This episode we have a fantastic conversation with the talented artist Camilo Godoy. Camilo is an artist whose practice is concerned with the construction of political meanings and histories. His work engages with conceptual, photographic, and choreographic strategies to analyze and challenge past and present historical moments to imagine different subversive ways of being.

Some artists mentioned in this episode:

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