Dialogues: The David Zwirner Podcast
What we talk about when we talk about art. Exceptional makers and thinkers across art, literature, film, fashion, music, and more come together to talk about what it means to make things today.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 38 minutes
- Episodes
- 106
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
The Infinite Yayoi Kusama
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 DeVe…
00:37:34 |
Wed 28 May 2025
An Art Historian’s View of How We Got Here with Jonathan Crary
Helen Molesworth speaks to art historian and culture critic Jonathan Crary, whose recent books Scorched Earth and 24/7 constitute both a polemic against what he calls the “internet complex”—and a dia…
00:32:48 |
Wed 21 May 2025
Dispatch from a Humanities Field in Crisis | with Darby English
With higher education facing existential threat under the current administration, Helen Molesworth speaks to art historian, critic, and educator Darby English about the difficulties of understanding …
00:39:48 |
Fri 02 May 2025
Joan Mitchell at 100 with Julie Mehretu and Eileen Myles
On the occasion of Joan Mitchell’s centennial year, Helen Molesworth speaks to artist Julie Mehretu and poet Eileen Myles about what Mitchell’s life and work means to them.
Julie Mehretu, (b. 1970,…
00:31:16 |
Wed 23 Apr 2025
Julianne Moore
Academy award-winning actor and writer Julianne Moore goes in depth on her craft, the art of filmmaking, and passion for design.
Julianne Moore has starred in numerous award-winning films since the…
00:34:09 |
Wed 16 Apr 2025
Annabelle Selldorf, Architect to Artists
Celebrated architect Annabelle Selldorf on her life and work, which includes numerous cultural spaces, from commercial galleries to major museums.
Selldorf Architects's most recent project, a criti…
00:31:19 |
Wed 09 Apr 2025
Re-release: The Legacy of Ruth Asawa
Helen Molesworth invited artists EJ Hill and Sarah Sze to listen to archival audio interviews with Ruth Asawa and discuss her ideas and art.
Ruth Asawa: Retrospective, the first major posthumous ret…
00:46:48 |
Wed 02 Apr 2025
Candy Darling, More Than a Warhol Superstar
A revealing look into the real life behind the icon and Warhol Superstar Candy Darling. Cynthia Carr, author of the acclaimed Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz discusses her …
00:26:06 |
Wed 26 Mar 2025
The Untold Story of Black Mountain College
The history of a radical cooperative farm at Black Mountain College that defined both daily life and pedagogy at the birthplace of American art education. David Silver, an expert on the farm at Black…
00:26:28 |
Wed 19 Mar 2025
Anni Albers: Her Life, Her Work, Her Words
Helen Molesworth explores the life and work of Anni Albers in the artist’s own words, with rare archival interviews with Albers and insights from artists Kristine Woods and Diedrick Bracken and art h…
00:48:12 |
Tue 11 Mar 2025
From DAS MINSK: The Sound of Noah Davis
A conversation about the late artist Noah Davis, the sounds he left behind, and the ones he imagined.
Join podcaster and curator Helen Molesworth, professor and writer Tina M. Campt, pianist and ar…
00:39:20 |
Wed 05 Mar 2025
The Art of Rivalry with Wesley Morris
Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times critic Wesley Morris comes on the podcast to unpack the long history and current state of artistic rivalries, from Leonardo daVinci and Michelangelo to Drake and…
00:44:31 |
Wed 26 Feb 2025
The Unconstitutional War on Trans People
Helen Molesworth hosts a special episode, starting with a conversation with leading ACLU lawyer Chase Strangio and followed by an interview with artist Laurie Simmons and activist Maryhope Howland.
C…
00:37:58 |
Wed 19 Feb 2025
The Best Art Exhibitions of The Century (So Far) | with Steve Locke
As we turn the page on a quarter century, Helen Molesworth and the artist Steve Locke look back with a highly opinionated list of their favorite art shows of the last 25 years.
00:40:49 |
Wed 18 Dec 2024
Has Contemporary Art Lost Its Edge? | With Dean Kissick
Helen Molesworth speaks to Dean Kissick, author of The Painted Protest, a polemic piece on the state of contemporary art in this month’s Harper’s Magazine that has had a lot in the art world talking.…
00:46:42 |
Wed 04 Dec 2024
Special Episode | On Richard Serra with Hal Foster
Art historian and critic Hal Foster joins Helen for a live conversation on Richard Serra (1938–2024) at David Zwirner New York. They discuss Foster’s decades-long engagement with Serra’s work and the…
00:56:57 |
Thu 21 Nov 2024
Re-release | Luc Tuymans and Timothy Snyder
We revisit an episode from Season 5, a conversation between artist Luc Tuymans and the eminent Yale Historian Timothy Snyder. The two discuss history, truth, and lies, and art’s singular ability to l…
00:46:19 |
Fri 15 Nov 2024
The Problem of Taste: On the Late, Great Dave Hickey with Jarrett Earnest
Writer, curator, and editor Jarrett Earnest joins Helen to discuss his most recent edited volume of writings by the iconoclastic, enduring art critic Dave Hickey, titled Feint of Heart: Art Writings,…
00:30:51 |
Wed 16 Oct 2024
Special Episode | Alice Neel in the Queer World with Hilton Als
New Yorker critic Hilton Als joins Helen to discuss his exhibition, Alice Neel in the Queer World, on view at our Los Angeles Gallery through November 2nd, 2024.
Alice Neel in the Queer World is acc…
00:35:35 |
Wed 25 Sep 2024
Luca Guadagnino and Michaël Borremans (Re-run from Season 7)
A conversation between the Academy award-nominated writer, producer, and director Luca Guadagnino and the Belgian painter Michaël Borremans on the relationship between painting and film. They muse on…
00:46:30 |
Tue 04 Jun 2024
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