Edge of Reason

By Atlantic Re:think and Hauser & WirthSociety & Culture Arts Visual Arts

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Edge of Reason episodes

August 28 Lorna Simpson on Memory and Creating Art as Rebellion
Lorna Simpson speaks with Randy Kennedy of Ursula Magazine about memory, found images, and why creating art is the way to respond to a militaristic society.

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34 min
August 21 Legendary Photographer Don McCullin on War and the Price of Vision
Don McCullin speaks with Tim Marlow of London's Design Museum about war, memory, and finding a creative life beyond the battlefield.

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30 min
December 19, 2025 Hamza Walker and Henriette Huldisch on “Creativity in the Crosshairs”
Curators Hamza Walker of The Brick in LA and Henriette Huldisch of the Walker in Minneapolis join Alexis Lowry to explore how art persists among censorship and political divide.

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27 min
December 02, 2025 Frances Morris and Jamieson Webster on Louise Bourgeois
Frances Morris and Jamieson Webster reflect on Louise Bourgeois’s explorations of memory and the body, considering how her art renders private experience into collective meaning and deep emotional presence.

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32 min
November 11, 2025 Firelei Báez and Edwidge Danticat on "Resistance"
Firelei Báez and novelist Danticat discuss resistance as care and creativity, reflecting on how art reshapes struggle into resilience, reframes scarcity as abundance, and reclaims erased histories.

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31 min
October 28, 2025 María Berrío and Siddhartha Mitter on "Soliloquy of the Wounded Earth"
María Berrío and journalist Siddhartha Mitter reflect on Soliloquy of the Wounded Earth, tracing how myth, memory, and resilience converge in Berrío's first New York exhibition in nearly a decade.

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27 min
October 14, 2025 Anj Smith and Zoé Whitley on "The World Within"
Anj Smith and curator Zoé Whitley frame the world within as a space of ambiguity and imagination, where art resists certainty, asks for patience, and nurtures deeper forms of reflection and connection.

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30 min
October 03, 2025 Uman and Nicole Dennis-Benn on "Metamorphosis"
Uman and novelist Nicole Dennis-Benn explore metamorphosis as a journey of becoming—confronting fear, loss, and resilience while revealing how painting and writing open space for reinvention and self-discovery.

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27 min
February 06, 2025 Process
Join us for a live talk with the iconic Annie Leibovitz and Amy Sherald. In this special episode, they discuss the power of process in bringing vulnerability and intuition together, revealing the humanity behind their art.

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52 min
December 05, 2024 Attachment & Power
In this episode, artist Camille Henrot and author Melissa Febos explore how relationships reveal the dynamics of control and connection.

Henrot discusses how caregiving, education, and societal structures inform her creative process, while Febos reflects on her experiences as a dominatrix and the liberating process of writing about attachment. Together they consider how art can untangle the contradictions of intimacy and control.

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34 min

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Tune in as groundbreaking contemporary artists discuss what defines their work in all-new episodes from Hauser & Wirth and Atlantic Re:think, the creative marketing studio at The Atlantic.