In this episode, philosopher and art critic David Carrier discusses a new survey exhibition of the artist Marcel Duchamp, the subject of his review in the forthcoming issue of Athenaeum Review.

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Marcel Duchamp at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (April 11 to August 22, 2026)

David Carrier - Art Writer

In this episode, the composer and critic Daniel Asia discusses Jefferson Lives! , a new chamber opera from composer Joshua Daniel Nichols and librettist and director Stefanos Koroneos, that explores John Adams’ deathbed reflections about the founding of the United States.

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Jefferson Lives! at Teatro Grattacielo, New York

A conversation with author and critic Sean Hooks.

Part one:

Roy Lichtenstein in the Studio, at the Dallas Museum of Art and Nasher Sculpture Center

"Roy Lichtenstein show reveals the artistry behind pop art simplicity" (Dallas Morning News / archive link)

Part two:

"Put Your Kids to Work," a novelette by Sean Hooks in Socrates on the Beach

Sean Hooks at Athenaeum Review

Muscle Man, a novel by Jordan Castro

Lieutenant Gustl by Arthur Schnitzler

Homer Out Loud at Deep Vellum in Dallas

Organic Worlds: Symbiogenesis in Art , curated by Dr. Charissa Terranova and featuring the work of Ken Rinaldo and Amy M. Youngs, is at the SP/N Gallery at UT Dallas from February 7 to April 28, 2026.

Andrew Graham-Dixon's new book, Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found, is published by W. W. Norton.

Vivian Li, the Lupe Murchison Curator of Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum of Art, joins us to discuss All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins, Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirror Room now on view at the DMA.

In this conversation: the background to Kusama's work; its popularity with the viewing public; perspective on Kusama's biography and long career; smartphones and social media; Kusama's relation to Marisol and the postwar and contemporary collections at the DMA; and much more!

Christine Folch is the author of The Book of Yerba Mate: A Stimulating History (Princeton University Press).

In this conversation: the beverage's historical journey, cultural context and drinking experience; its economic and political context; the question of fair trade and ethical consumption; public interest; yaupon, the yerba mate of North America; and more!

Tessa Granowski is the owner and founder of Nature of Things, a new art gallery in Dallas. In this conversation: Tessa's background and influences; Lucretius and De rerum natura; reflections on the Dallas art world; the gallery's first show, "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place: an homage to Dave Hickey"; the importance of Dave Hickey's writing on art (see Julia Friedman on Daniel Oppenheimer on Hickey); what's next for the gallery, and much more!

Border Documents is a new photobook from Arturo Soto, a photographer, writer and educator. It is "a personal archive of ordinary events that reveals how emotions become attached to public spaces." Having grown up listening to his father’s stories about his youth in the twin cities of Juárez (Mexico) and El Paso (USA), fascinated by how much things had changed in just a generation, Soto compiled and narratively shaped his father’s memories, then photographed the sites where they occurred.

In this conversation: the concept behind the book; the structure of the narrative; Georges Perec and the infra-ordinary; biography and personal experience; the new book in relation to Soto's other work; growing up, studying, working, and traveling in places from Mexico City to Oxford to Panama to Los Angeles; further reading on Ciudad Juárez and El Paso; and much more!

A few other interesting books about Juárez:

• Edmond Baudoin and Jean-Marc Troubet, Viva la Vida: Los sueños en Ciudad Juárez (Mexico City: Sexto Piso, 2011)
• Charles Bowden, et al, Juárez: The Laboratory of Our Future (New York: Aperture, 1998)
• Julián Cardona, Stardust: Memories of the Calle Mariscal (El Paso: Rubin Center for the Visual Arts), 2014
• Ricardo Ainslie, The Fight to Save Juárez: Life in the Heart of Mexico’s Drug War (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2013) 
• Alfredo Corchado, Midnight in Mexico: A Reporter’s Journey through a Country’s Descent into the Darkness (New York: Penguin, 2013)
  

A conversation with Dr. Leigh Arnold, curator of Haegue Yang: Lost Lands and Sunken Fields at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas.