Art Restart

I had a really wonderful experience in conversation with Pier Carlo Talenti for the podcast Art Restart. Have a listen. You can read a transcript of the interview here. Teaching is mind-blowingly fulfilling, especially in this time. Especially working with young people at this moment in history, it’s just such a change in what they…

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The Jealous Curator

from the creator: The Jealous Curator launched in 2009, as a place for me to show artwork that “made me jealous”. Yes, I was jealous of other artists’ work, their lives, their success, their studios. I felt like I’d never have any of that – and I was right – because I wasn’t making art!…

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Stay F. Homekins

If we need to put the experience of this pandemic into a time capsule for future generations to fully understand what happened here, I’d nominate Stay F. Homekins as a fascinating example.  Clearly improv wunderkind + podcast fixture Paul F. Tomkins and his charming, insightful wife, actress Janie Haddad Tomkins must have fallen in love…

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Storytime with Seth Rogen

There’s a troubling moment happening in podcasting. It’s a format that’s been built in the trenches by a ragtag group of misfits, experimenting and developing original ideas. And now that it has become something, it seems here comes every celebrity and influencer, each with their own podcast. It’s not that some of the new voices…

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How Did We Get Weird?

Saturday Night Live alum Vanessa Bayer specializes in weird. Her characters are at first mundane archetypes of American whiteness, but they often quickly reveal a bizarre underbelly that is at once neurotically confident, shocking, and dangerous. In her new podcast, How Did We Get Weird?, she and her brother Jonah reminisce about their childhood, reveling…

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Stay Away from Matthew MaGill

When Matthew MaGill died alone in the woods on the Florida-Georgia border, he left behind a box filled with the artifacts of an incredible life: from Broadway in the 1970’s, to a 747 hijacking, to the culture of drugs and luxury cars in 1980s Florida. A series of coincidences leads reporter Eric Mennel to the…

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