Dialogues: The David Zwirner Podcast

38:28

What Does Sigmar Polke Still Have to Teach Us?

Dialogues: The David Zwirner Podcast ·

2026/09/30

Curator Mark Godfrey and painter Emma McIntyre discuss the importance of Sigmar Polke—skeptic, trickster, and visionary—on the occasion of Sigmar Polke: The Knowledge of Colours, a solo exhibition at the De Pont Museum in Tilburg, Netherlands, part of Sigmar Polke: Athanor NOW, a project by the Anna Polke Foundation. Polke is widely recognized as one of the most innovative painters and multidisciplinary artists of the postwar era, and the exhibition is on view through February 28 of next year.Emma

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37:39

The Infinite Yayoi Kusama (re-release)

Dialogues: The David Zwirner Podcast ·

2026/09/02

The international avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama has passed away at 97, but her work and extraordinary legacy will remain for posterity. As our own small remembrance, we revisit a 2025 episode exploring her unmatched influence, in which art historian Jennifer DeVere Brody, art critic Johanna Fateman, and curator Catherine Taft unpack the many versions of Yayoi Kusama—and her singular importance in 20th and 21st century art.A global travelling retrospective devoted to over seven decades of

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43:52

A Curator’s Guide to the Venice Biennale | Ebony L....

Dialogues: The David Zwirner Podcast ·

2026/07/14

Curator Adrienne Edwards joins guest host Ebony L. Haynes to share their tips, tricks, and must-see shows from the 2026 Venice Biennale, the sixty-first iteration of the world’s largest and longest-running art biennale.This year’s Venice Biennale opened to great acclaim in May, under especially poignant circumstances: its acclaimed curator, the Cape Town–based Koyo Kouoh, had passed away in 2025, just a few months into the planning. The two discuss the impact of her passing as they call out a

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76:49

From the New York Review: An Episode of Private Life...

Dialogues: The David Zwirner Podcast ·

2026/05/20

Dialogues is pleased to present an episode podcast from our colleagues at The New York Review.Private Life is hosted by Jarrett Earnest and this episode features an interview with writer Namwali Serpell on Toni Morrison, criticism, and narrative empathy. Namwali Serpell is a professor of English at Harvard University. In addition to On Morrison, she is the author of the novels The Old Drift (2019) and The Furrows (2022) and the essay collection Stranger Faces (2020). Private Life is a podcast

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23:38

Bonus Episode | Anni Albers: A Life | Live with...

Dialogues: The David Zwirner Podcast ·

2026/05/12

In this bonus live episode, Lucas Zwirner returns to the mic for an interview with Nicholas Fox Weber, the director of the Josef & Anni Albers Foundation, on the occasion of Weber’s new biography Anni Albers: A Life. Over the course of the exchange, Weber opens up about the writing process behind this major new biography and shares some rare anecdotes from a lifetime spent working closely with the Alberses.Anni Albers: A Life is out now from Yale University Press. Learn more about the book:

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66:42

Benjamin H. D. Buchloh on Gerhard Richter (Re-run)

Dialogues: The David Zwirner Podcast ·

2026/05/06

This special episode with Helen Molesworth and Benjamin H. D. Buchloh was taped in front of a live audience at David Zwirner New York for a 2023 exhibition of Gerhard Richter’s final paintings.A new exhibition of Richter’s celebrated photorealist landscape paintings from the 1960s to the 2000s, Gerhard Richter: Landschaften, is now on view at our 20th Street gallery in New York. The illuminating conversation draws on Buchloh’s decades of scholarly work on Richter, including a discussion of the

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37:07

Michael Armitage

Dialogues: The David Zwirner Podcast ·

2026/04/28

An interview with Michael Armitage about his unique use of material and color, and his singular approach to narrative on the occasion of his major retrospective at the Palazzo Grassi in Venice. Titled The Promise of Change, the show is presented concurrently with the 61st International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale and on view through January 10, 2027. Armitage is also the founder of the Nairobi Contemporary Art Institute, a non-profit visual art space dedicated to the growth and

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43:15

Marcel Duchamp: An Artist, a Rumor, a Series of...

Dialogues: The David Zwirner Podcast ·

2026/04/21

A conversation with artist Rachel Harrison and art historian Alex Kitnick on the occasion of a once-in-a-generation retrospective of Marcel Duchamp at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.Alex Kitnick teaches art history at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. Rachel Harrison is a Brooklyn-based artist. Learn more about the exhibition at MoMA.org. Image: Marcel Duchamp. Fountain, 1950 (replica of 1917 original). Porcelain urinal, 12 x 15 x 18 inches (30.5 x 38.1 x 45.7 cm)

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33:12

The Story of Walter Benjamin’s Final Days and His...

Dialogues: The David Zwirner Podcast ·

2026/03/18

Art historian Lisa Saltzman discusses Walter Benjamin’s final days in Paris before his suicide in 1940 and the network of intellectuals who saved his most prized possessions from World War II, including the Paul Klee drawing that inspired one of his most famous and trenchant texts, the Theses on the Philosophy of History. The exhibition Paul Klee: Other Possible Worlds is on view at the Jewish Museum in New York through July 26, 2026. It traces the Swiss-German artist’s departure from the Bauhaus

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42:18

The Difficulty of Critiquing Black Artists | With...

Dialogues: The David Zwirner Podcast ·

2026/03/11

Helen speaks to Rachel Hunter Himes, author of the essay “Black Block” in Triple Canopy, about the long history of black artists underserved by white critics, museums’ moral and political responsibility to the public, and more.Rachel Hunter Himes is an art writer, museum educator, and PhD candidate at Columbia University. Read “Black Block” here: https://canopycanopycanopy.com/contents/black-block?ui.header=true

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32:24

Todd Haynes x Christine Vachon

Dialogues: The David Zwirner Podcast ·

2026/03/04

Award-winning filmaker Todd Haynes and his longtime collaborator, film producer Christine Vachon, discuss their thirty-year creative partnership, from the emergence of the new queer cinema to the culture wars of the nineties. In 1987, Haynes directed the short film Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story. His first feature film, Poison, won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. After Safe, which featured Julianne Moore in a breakthrough role, he conjured David Bowie in Velvet Goldmine, then paid homage

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28:59

Rose Wylie x Russell Tovey (re-release)

Dialogues: The David Zwirner Podcast ·

2026/02/25

We revisit a conversation from the first season of Dialogues with critically acclaimed painter Rose Wylie, OBE RA, and actor Russell Tovey. Rose Wylie is the subject of a major retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, on view from February 28–April 19, 2026.Wylie, an admirer of cinema, and Tovey, a fan and collector of Wylie’s work, en

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35:04

The Art of Installation with Amy Sillman and Donna De...

Dialogues: The David Zwirner Podcast ·

2026/02/18

Acclaimed artist Amy Sillman and curator Donna De Salvo join Helen Molesworth for a deep dive into how an art exhibition comes to life. Amy Sillman is widely recognized as one of the most significant painters of her generation. Amy Sillman: Oh, Clock!, the artist’s first major institutional solo exhibition in Europe, was presented at Kunstmuseum Bern in 2024, before traveling to Ludwig Forum Aachen the following year. Amy Sillman: Alternate Side (Permutations #1–32) is currently on view at Dia

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32:54

How Pee-wee Herman Brought the Avant-Garde to TV |...

Dialogues: The David Zwirner Podcast ·

2026/02/11

Emmy Award–winning filmmaker and producer Matt Wolf joins Helen Molesworth to discuss his latest documentary series, Pee-wee as Himself, a revelatory documentary about the late Paul Reubens. The HBO original two-part documentary Pee-wee as Himself is available to stream now on HBO Max.

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35:03

The Myth of da Vinci

Dialogues: The David Zwirner Podcast ·

2026/02/04

Every era has its own version of Leonardo da Vinci, according to art historian Stephen J. Campbell. Campbell joins Helen Molesworth to unpack the 21st century myth of the tech genius that surrounds the Renaissance artist. Stephen J. Campbell is the Henry and Elizabeth Wiesenfeld Professor in the Department of the History of Art at Johns Hopkins University. His books include Andrea Mantegna: Humanist Aesthetics, Faith, and the Force of Images and The Endless Periphery: Toward a Geopolitics of Art

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26:56

How Museums are Funded, and Why They’re Vulnerable

Dialogues: The David Zwirner Podcast ·

2026/01/15

Last week the Trump administration sharply escalated its impossible demands on the Smithsonian Institution. It's hard not to wonder when, rather than if this administration will come for the rest of our museums. With this in mind, Helen Molesworth invited Jill Medvedow, the former director of the ICA/Boston, for an explainer on how museums are funded, with the hopes of arming listeners with a deeper understanding of how it all works.Jill Medvedow is director emerita at the ICA/Boston and a fellow

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29:39

The Best Art Exhibitions of 2025

Dialogues: The David Zwirner Podcast ·

2025/12/10

Helen Molesworth and Steve Locke sort through the many exhibitions of the last year to highlight their favorites, from Jack Whitten at MoMA and Stanley Whitney at the ICA/Boston, to Bo Bartlett and Lisa Yuskavage.

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51:50

Kerry James Marshall, Modern Master

Dialogues: The David Zwirner Podcast ·

2025/11/24

Helen Molesworth invites curator Mark Godfrey and artists Arthur Jafa and Steve Locke to discuss the work of Kerry James Marshall on the occasion of his acclaimed survey exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London.Kerry James Marshall: The Histories is on view through January 18, 2026 and will travel next to the Kunsthaus Zürich in Zurich, Switzerland, and the Musée d’art Moderne in Paris, France. Mark Godfrey is the curator of Kerry James Marshall: The Histories at the Royal Academy of Arts

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40:21

Special Episode | On Diane Arbus with Francine Prose,...

Dialogues: The David Zwirner Podcast ·

2025/11/19

Helen is joined by writer Francine Prose, artist David Salle, and photographer Neil Selkirk for a conversation about Arbus’s singular importance. Francine Prose’s new novel, Five Weeks in the Country, will be published in May. David Salle is a painter and essayist living in New York. Neil Selkirk is a photographer and filmmaker and the only person to print the photographs of Diane Arbus other than the photographer herself. Visit two exhibitions of Arbus on view this fall: Diane Arbus:

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37:34

The Infinite Yayoi Kusama

Dialogues: The David Zwirner Podcast ·

2025/05/28

An episode dedicated to Yayoi Kusama: arguably the most famous artist in the world and yet among the most indefinable, elusive, and transformative. Helen Molesworth is joined by scholar Jennifer DeVere Brody, art critic Johanna Fateman, and curator Catherine Taft to unpack the many versions of Yayoi Kusama—and her singular importance in 20th and 21st century art.A global travelling retrospective of Yayoi Kusama opens at the Fondation Beyeler in Switzerland in October 2025; it will travel to the

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