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The NewCrits Podcast

with Ajay Kurian

This is what critical care for the arts sounds like. Meaningful conversations on creative practice and the conditions shaping artistic life today. Tune in on the second Thursday of every month for SPENT with Ajay Kurian, our series on creative burnout and breakthrough, and on the fourth Thursday for The Forum, our recorded artist talks. Subscribe today at newcrits.substack.com or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also join our community for transcripts and archival access via the Substack app

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59:44

The Forum 18 | Reginald Sylvester II: Discipline as...

The NewCrits Podcast ·

2026/03/05

Reginald Sylvester II approaches painting as a structure of discipline. What begins in daily rituals—routine, repetition, and care—extends into a larger philosophy about belief, responsibility, and endurance. Practice, for him, is not separate from life. It is shaped by it.Fatherhood, spiritual inquiry, and the demands of time become part of the architecture of the studio. Rather than protecting art from those pressures, Sylvester allows them to recalibrate how the work unfolds. The result is a

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53:32

The Terms Of Autonomy: NewCrits Talk with Ebony L....

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2026/01/09

NewCrits Talk with Ebony L. Haynes: The Terms of AutonomyWhen David Zwirner approached Ebony L. Haynes, the conversation didn’t begin with vision statements or prestige. It began with reality: exhaustion, uncertainty, and the question of whether staying in the art world was even possible. What followed was not an acceptance but a recalibration. If she was going to continue, it had to be on terms that reflected how she actually works—through care, risk, and sustained presence. That recalibration

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53:39

Inside the Machinery of Ruin: NewCrits Talk with...

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2025/12/17

He built a career on dark stages, scorched metal, and fragile narratives. Banks Violette looks back at the neo-goth label, the toll of self-destruction, and what it means to walk away from the art world and return on his own terms.Working between sculpture, installation, and sound, Violette treats subcultures, violence, and fandom as unstable stories rather than fixed identities. From Slayer panic and satanic scare headlines to burned stages and Jägermeister firepieces, his work tracks how trauma

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54:04

On Tender Assembly and the Politics of Display:...

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2025/11/07

He builds with fabric, scaffolding, and light — Eric N. Mack on tenderness as structure and the unseen labor that makes art visible.Eric N. Mack works between painting, installation, and fashion, reimagining how material, care, and collaboration shape contemporary image-making. His large-scale assemblages drape and lean, collapsing distinctions between surface and structure, styling and architecture, autonomy and support. His practice reveals how beauty, fragility, and display coexist within shared

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62:15

Saints, Stained Glass, and the Work of Belief:...

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2025/10/10

He builds worlds from devotion, labor, and light. Raúl de Nieves on myth, death, and the joy of transformation.Raúl de Nieves is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans sculpture, performance, stained glass, and music. His work merges ancestral craft with queer exuberance, creating ecstatic spaces where life, death, and rebirth coexist. Known for his intricate beaded sculptures and radiant installations, de Nieves transforms discarded materials into devotional objects that question

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60:55

Tracing Absence and the Lives We Inherit: NewCrits...

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2025/08/01

She builds archives, conjures futures, and questions everything. Tamika Abaka-Wood on ritual, refusal, and the joy of cultural strategy.Tamika Abaka-Wood is a cultural anthropologist, conceptual strategist, and artist whose practice moves between community building, archival work, and spiritual inquiry. She's the creator of Dial-An-Ancestor, an ongoing project that collects voice notes as offerings to the past, present, and future. Her work resists categorization, merging care and critique, and

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81:09

Codes, Color, and Mapping the Invisible: NewCrits...

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2025/07/04

She paints memory, sensation, and the space between languages. Candida Alvarez on intuition, inheritance, and color as a vessel for care.Candida Alvarez is a painter whose work explores personal and cultural memory through abstraction, vivid color, and layered visual language. She draws from Caribbean diasporic experience, family history, and city life to build complex surfaces that hold both clarity and mystery. Her work has been shown at the Whitney Museum, MoMA PS1, and the Chicago Cultural

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90:00

Contorted Worlds, Distorted Identities, and Cartoons...

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2025/06/03

She paints distortion, vulnerability, and the psychic residue of history — Janiva Ellis on contortion as language and survival.Janiva Ellis is a painter whose work stretches emotional and political registers through fluid mark-making, surreal juxtapositions, and animated dissonance. Her paintings contort and erupt, channeling humor, grief, and ancestral hauntings. She’s exhibited widely, including in the Whitney Biennial and at the Carpenter Center, and is known for refusing easy resolution.She

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76:39

Emotional Realism and the Architecture of Feeling:...

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2025/05/05

He paints exhaustion, desire, and the ghosts of modern life—Aaron Gilbert on how to stay human in a fractured worldAaron Gilbert is a painter whose work bridges the mythic and the domestic, capturing moments of intimacy under the weight of spiritual, political, and economic pressure. He’s exhibited internationally and is currently represented by Gladstone Gallery. His paintings are both tender and prophetic, filled with symbolic ruptures, spectral presences, and radiant color.He explains:* Growing

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73:37

Culture Gardening and Counter-Futures: NewCrits Talk...

The NewCrits Podcast ·

2025/04/14

Ajay Kurian: I've been trying to think of a way to aptly describe what it is that Salome Asega does because the way she's thinking about a practice, artistic and otherwise is something that is hard to recognize if we maintain the terms of our discernment into what an art practice is meant to look like. But once you see what she's up to, you can't unsee it and you start to see how this paradigm is one we need to cultivate. With that in mind. The phrase I've come to is that Salome is a culture

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68:22

Expanding Textiles as Sculpture: A Conversation with...

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2025/02/27

NewCrits provides one-on-one studio visits, portfolio reviews, and mentorship with some of the world's most visionary artists.This week on NewCrits, we sit down with artist and educator Sagarika Sundaram, whose textile-based sculptures and installations blur the line between human and nature. We explore her early training in Batik, the detour into graphic design that led her back to fiber art, and how felt-making became central to her practice. Sagarika reflects on artistic sabotage as a creative

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75:45

Blasphemy, Bird Shit, and the Sublime: A Conversation...

The NewCrits Podcast ·

2025/01/31

A BDSM dungeon for alchemist Bitcoin investors. A druid hideaway in the abandoned Palo Alto headquarters of the corporation Theranos. A crossover between Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones where Walter White cooks meth for White Walkers. These are some of the images that Elaine's work conjures up for people.In this case, the writer and art historian Colby Chamberlain. I like to look at Elaine's work thinking about the shifts in difference between visual prose and visual poetry. There are narratives,

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76:45

Artist Steve Locke isn't interested in your Pain /...

The NewCrits Podcast ·

2024/05/08

I met Steve this past summer at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture where we were both resident faculty. I quickly fell in love with his wit (biting), his work (also biting), and his tenderness (much less biting). In our conversation here, we cover his first experience with an artwork, his relationship to portraiture, and the origins of Modernism in the auction block.He’s unabashed in his distaste for prioritizing personal hardship to make art. In his own words, “This idea that we’re going to

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39:46

The NewCrits Podcast Ep 3: Jamian Juliano-Villani

The NewCrits Podcast ·

2024/04/09

Hey everyone, Welcome to the third episode of the NewCrits Podcast with me, Ajay Kurian. This month, I interviewed Jamian Juliano Villani. We recorded this live at O’Flaherty’s, a gallery Jamian started with Billy Grant in the East Village. It was an incredible turnout, as Jamian tends to draw a crowd, and the conversation was great. We talk about her insane family, the way she works, the blurry lines between taste, comfort and expression. We even talk about the time we didn’t talk for a year.

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61:39

A Conversation with Elliott Jerome Brown Jr.

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2024/04/01

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63:57

A Conversation with Ser Serpas

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2024/04/01

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