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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.

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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.

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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.”

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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.

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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.

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Gary Schneider on Talk Art

Rebecca Robertson — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 21:52:59 +0000

In an episode of the podcast Talk Art, Russell Tovey and Robert Diament talk with photographer Gary Schneider about his work and his role as the longtime printer of Peter Hujar’s photographs. Schneider discusses his relationship with Hujar, sharing intimate memories of the artist, how he began printing for him and other artists, and how that experience influenced Schneider’s own work. Schneider was one of the curators of the 2025 exhibition Peter Hujar – Eyes Open in the Dark at Raven Row, London, and he talks about the reaction to the show.

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Life in Seven Songs

Rebecca Robertson — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 19:28:33 +0000

Richard Misrach was featured as a guest on Life in Seven Songs, a podcast from The San Francisco Standard, hosted by Sophie Bearman. The show asks guests to pick music that sheds light on the story of their lives. Misrach’s choices included songs by Bonnie Raitt, a friend since childhood; Bob Dylan, who provided the soundtrack to Misrach’s time as a student at U.C. Berkeley; and Steve Reich, who Misrach loved to listen to while driving through the desert for his Desert Cantos series.

Through his selection, Misrach tells the story of his development as a photographer, from his first series documenting Berkeley’s Telegraph Avenue, to the photographs he made in Hawaii showing people floating in the vast ocean, for his series On the Beach.

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The Modern Art Notes Podcast

Rebecca Herman — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 19:23:59 +0000

On the occasion of Kota Ezawa’s 2025 exhibition at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, the artist speaks with Modern Art Notes host Tyler Green about his work. The pair talk about subjects ranging from the history of Alcatraz and the origins of Ezawa’s piece Alcatraz Is an Idea, co-directed by Julian Brave NoiseCat, to Ezawa’s use of a crisp, graphic style in his work.

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Interviewed by David Wojnarowicz

Rebecca Robertson — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 18:01:31 +0000

On its website, the David Wojnarowicz Foundation presents excerpts from an interview between Wojnarowicz and Peter Hujar, part of the The David Wojnarowicz Papers in The Downtown Collection at NYU Fales Library. Wojnarowicz and Hujar met in 1980; Hujar encouraged Wojnarowicz to become an artist, and served as a mentor to him. In their conversation, the two joke about the tape recorder and Hujar recalls showing his photographs to Imogen Cunningham. In other excerpts, they talk about how Hujar uses photography as a way to “arrive at some personal truth,” Wojnarowicz notes.

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Archives of American Art Interview

Rebecca Robertson — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 17:38:09 +0000

Richard Misrach is one of the artists included in the Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators. In Misrach’s 2010 interview with Steven Hoelscher, part of the Oral Histories of American Photographers project, the artist talks about a wide range of subjects, from his time as a student at U.C. Berkeley in the late 1960s to his collaboration with landscape architect Kate Orff on their book that would become Petrochemical America.

Among many topics, Misrach talks about two of his early influences while at Berkeley. As he tells Hoelscher, when he was a student there was “this sort of political tumult going on everywhere,” while at the same time “I was seeing photographs by people like Ansel Adams and Edward Weston, the great f/64 landscape photographers of the West Coast.” The tension between beauty and political activism has long been a theme in Misrach’s work. “They’ve been very difficult to make work well together,” he notes.

Listen to an excerpt or read a transcript of the interview here.

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Time Sensitive

Rebecca Robertson — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 17:50:55 +0000

In a wide-ranging 2024 interview for the podcast Time Sensitive, Hiroshi Sugimoto talks with host Spencer Bailey about the role of time in his work. Sugimoto discusses his love of fossils and his thinking about photographs as a kind of fossilized time; the meditative process of making his Seascapes in remote locations; and his enduring love for cooking, opera, and Japanese Noh theater, among many other subjects.

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Frish Brandt & Joshua Chuang on The Plains, from Memory

Christa Palazzolo — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 20:08:00 +0000

In a video from Fraenkel Gallery made on the occasion of the exhibition, Robert Adams: Sea Stone & Other Pictures, Frish Brandt and Josh Chuang tour the show and discuss the artist’s painted woodblocks, featured in Adams’s book The Plains, from Memory.

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