Alexis Rockman is an artist who paints giant, beautiful and often disturbing scenes of environmental destruction. Bradley talks to him about what happens when art and reality collide. "I've made plenty of paintings that I certainly wouldn't want to live with," says Rockman, "and somehow miraculously sold."

This episode was taped at P&T Knitwear at 180 Orchard Street — New York City’s only free podcast recording studio.

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