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On his ‘Long-term Relationship’ with Jeffrey Fraenkel

Rebecca Robertson — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:22:01 +0000

In Long-term Relationships, a 2026 talk at FOG Design+Art, Jeffrey Fraenkel and Richard Misrach speak about working together for more than 40 years. Moderated by Veronica Roberts, the talk also features artist/gallerist pair Sterling Ruby and Xavier Hufkens. The panelists describe the origins of their relationships, and the pressures and pleasures that come from decades of creative collaboration.

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Art from the Outside

Rebecca Robertson — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 18:50:43 +0000

In a 2025 episode of the podcast Art from the Outside, Martine Gutierrez talks with hosts Amitha Raman and Will Palley about her work. Gutierrez describes her earliest art projects, made while growing up in Vermont; how fashion and pop culture have shaped her work, including her self-published magazine Indigenous Woman; and her 2025 performance Lottery, at Paris Photo.

Listen to the podcast here.

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Neil Selkirk and Darius Himes at LUMA, Arles

Rebecca Robertson — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 23:21:09 +0000

In a 2023 video made in connection with Diane Arbus: Constellation at LUMA, Arles, Neil Selkirk and Christie’s Darius Himes present What Diane Arbus Wasn’t Doing, a two-night conversation that dispels many of the myths about Arbus’s work. Recorded during Rencontres d’Arles, the talk debunks misunderstandings about Arbus’s work, from clarifying her lack of political agenda to examining the differences between her portraits of strangers and the broad genre of street photography. Selkirk and Himes consider Arbus’s approach to the technical aspects of photography, describing how her sometimes deceptively artless use of materials was in fact a carefully calibrated strategy to convey the authenticity of the interactions she captured.

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In Conversation with Jeffrey Fraenkel

Rebecca Robertson — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 00:19:20 +0000

In a 2025 Fraekel Gallery video, Richard Misrach talks with Jeffrey Fraenkel about his long relationship with the gallery, how he began photographing at night, the poetic form of his Desert Cantos series, and his photographs of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, among other topics.

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Talk Art

Rebecca Robertson — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 22:18:53 +0000

In a 2025 episode of the podcast Talk Art hosted by actor Russell Tovey and gallerist Robert Diament, Jeffrey Fraenkel talks about Diane Arbus: Sanctum Sanctorum. Co-organized with Fraenkel Gallery, the exhibition is on view at David Zwirner London in the fall of 2025, and will be shown at Fraenkel Gallery in the spring of 2026, accompanied by a book the galleries co-published.

Recorded live in London, the episode explores the development of Arbus’s career, the wide-ranging influence of her work, and the remarkable photographs she made in homes and other private realms seldom seen by strangers.

Listen to the podcast here.

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In conversation with curator Phil Taylor

Rebecca Robertson — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 01:22:52 +0000

In connection with her 2025 exhibition Frames per Second (Silent) at the Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York, Liz Deschenes spoke with curator Phil Taylor. The pair discuss the development of the exhibition, the threads of Deschenes’s practice that it brings together, and how the artist conceives of her ongoing investigations of the histories of photography and film. Deschenes describes her affection for the dye transfer process, her study of the history of the the materials of photography, and her interest in “photography not as a metaphor but as the thing itself,” Deschenes notes, “not a stand-in for anything else.”

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Archives of American Art Interview

Rebecca Robertson — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 01:08:14 +0000

Robert Adams is one of the artists included in the Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Art Oral History Program, which documents the history of the visual arts in the United States through interviews. In 2010, Adams spoke with Toby Jurovics, curator of photography at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, at Adams’s home in Oregon. Among many topics, Adams describes growing up in Colorado and elsewhere; his transition from English professor to full time photographer; the role of spirituality and morality in art; and the environmental and societal concerns that have informed much of his work.

Talking about his enduring reverence and hope for the natural word, Adams notes that seen together, his many books are “an autobiography of a person…trying to find their proper silence.”

Listen to the interview here.

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City Arts & Lectures

Rebecca Robertson — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 18:45:44 +0000

As part of City Arts & Lectures, in 2025 Richard Misrach spoke with Steven Winn at the KQED studios in San Francisco. The focus of their conversation was Misrach’s ongoing series Cargo, which depicts the shipping industry in the San Francisco Bay, and his long career in photography. Among other topics, Misrach describes his first unsuccessful attempt at photographing the ships from the Bay Bridge in the early 1990s, and his renewed interest in the subject after the COVID-19 pandemic caused shipping traffic to stall, calling attention to a system that often seemed invisible.

Listen to the interview here.

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Dialogues

Rebecca Robertson — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 20:45:01 +0000

In an episode of the David Zwirner podcast Dialogues, host Helen Molesworth talks with writer Francine Prose, artist David Salle, and photographer Neil Selkirk about Arbus’s singular importance. Among other topics, they discuss the transformation of Arbus’s photographs into icons, the role of consent and power in her work, and her relationship with magazine photography.

Listen to the episode here.

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Art21

Rebecca Robertson — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 23:01:51 +0000

Sophie Calle is the focus of a 2025 episode of the contemporary art series Art21, titled Between Worlds. The segment follows Calle through her exhibitions at Musée Picasso Paris, in underground tunnels in Arles, France, and at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Calle describes the forces that have shaped her work, modeling a career that blurs the boundaries between art and life. “There is no method,” says Calle. “I’m used to using parts of my life, I don’t wonder why I do it. I just do it.”

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Graffiti in the wake of Hurricane Katrina

Rebecca Robertson — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 23:49:58 +0000

In a 2011 video from SFMOMA, Richard Misrach talks about photographing in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, making the work that eventually became his 2010 book Destroy This Memory. In the months after the storm, Misrach traveled to New Orleans and used a large format film camera to record what he saw. He also brought a 4-megapixel digital camera, which he intended to use to make notes. Misrach recalls printing the digital images, and finding that he had about 2,000 photographs, many of which included graffiti messages left behind by those who had fled. Misrach describes how the book evolved as he came to see the narrative forms in the writing left on homes, cars, and other damaged objects.

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A Closer Look at Mad River

Rebecca Robertson — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 21:02:07 +0000

In a video from Fraenkel Gallery, Katy Grannan talks about her newest series of portraits, made in Northern California’s Humboldt County. Presenting behind-the-scenes footage along with Grannan’s narration, the video offers insight into her process as she collaborates with subjects. The video was made to accompany Grannan’s 2025 Fraenkel Gallery exhibition Mad River, which marked the debut of the series.

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