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Hosted by Michael Shaw · arts · EN · 100 episodes
A podcast featuring both one-on-one and three-way roundtable conversations with contemporary artists, dealers, curators, and collectors--based in Los Angeles, but reaching nationally and internationally.
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The Conversation Art Podcast is hosted by Michael Shaw. The show has published 100 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Episode 392: NYC artist Nancy Goldring- living in Westbeth for 50+ years, artist housing in the West Village that's a world unto itself" (12 October 2026, 42 minutes), "Episode 391- OLD NEWS plus Lucien Smith mini-tribute" (26 September 2026, 15 minutes), and "Episode 390: a broken plate catapults a career: Nyack, NY-based artist Rob Strati" (6 September 2026, 55 minutes).
The Conversation Art Podcast publishes roughly monthly, with episodes averaging 51 minutes across 100 episodes.
Booking probability for The Conversation Art Podcast is 34%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Conversation Art Podcast requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Conversation Art Podcast's contact route on record: verified email.
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Michael Shaw hosts The Conversation Art Podcast, an arts show with 100 episodes published.
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Episode #392
New York City-based artist Nancy Goldring talks about: The artist building in the West Village of Manhattan, Westbeth , where she's lived since 1971, when she moved in as a graduate assistant, and was paying $144 a...
Episode #391
This episode is a mix of excerpts from OLD NEWS (Jeff Weiss's nightly email blast of art-related content) and a Lucien Smith obituary, including comments from readers of the obit more than the obituary itself. George...
Episode #390
Nyack, New York-based artist Rob Strati talks about: Living in Nyack, as far as its local arts community and proximity to NYC; his early artist years in San Francisco, including driving a cab for several years, and...
Episode #389
"To Post, or Not to Post….That is the Question" In this pilot episode of The Intrepid Artist , the main question asked by a listener is whether sharing (or even having) one's social media plays an important role in...
Episode #388
Hunter College professor and author of The War of Art , Lauren O'Neill-Butler talks about: Her 12 years at Artforum magazine, including its balance between advertising and hard-core art writing, and how her chapter on...
Episode #387
<p >Writer and Frieze editor-in-chief Andrew Durbin talks about:</p> <p >His book tour for "The Wonderful World That Almost Was," which has been hectic; how he became familiar with Peter Hujar's work initially, and why...
Episode #386
<p></p> <p>James Delbourgo, professor of history at Rutgers University and author of A Noble Madness: the Dark Side of Collecting from Antiquity to Now, talks about:</p> <p></p> <p>Why he's written about contemporary...
Episode #385
<p >John Byrne, author of "Useful Art- How Activist Artists Can Change the World," and professor of Useful Art at Liverpool John Moores University's School of Art and Design, talks about:</p> <p >The city of Liverpool...
Episode #384
<p></p> <p>Boston-based photographer Jim Dow talks about:</p> <p></p> <p>The Boston art community (which is often connected to the art school and universities) and why he's lived there the great majority of his life (he...
Episode #383
<p >Hadley, Massachusetts and NYC artist Sarah K. Khan talks about:</p> <p >How it's a "little miracle" to have a studio (a former chick coop on a farm in the 5-college area of Mass.) after so many years working in...
Episode #382
<p></p> <p>Artist and legendary street artist Robbie Conal talks about:</p> <p></p> <p>His family history, including his two activist-and-politically inclined parents, his background in fighting the power; moving up to...
Episode #381
<p></p> <p>Napa, CA-based artist Arleene Correa Valencia talks about:</p> <p></p> <p>Why she lives in Napa, CA, and the two distinct versions of the town, for the wealthy and for the poor ("you're either the owner of...
Episode #38
<p >London-based photographer and writer Michael Collins talks about:</p> <p >The flat where he's lived for 35 years, which is getting 'Wallace & Gromit' crowded; how he keeps film in his deep freeze (aka freezer) as...
Episode #379
<p >Pasadena-based artist Linnéa Gabriella Spransy talks about:</p> <p >Growing up between Wisconsin and a commune in Oregon, the latter which she describes as a complete commitment more than an experiment (the town was...
Episode #378
<p >Camilla Taylor, Los Angeles artist, and curator of "My House Burned Down" (at Track16 Gallery), talks about:</p> <p >Her childhood with complicated religious origins, between her Mormon LDS father and her mother who...
Episode #377
<p >Brooklyn-based artist and sometimes New Yorker magazine cartoonist Guy Richards Smit returns to the podcast eight years after his first visit to talk about:</p> <p> His admitted high self-regard, paired with...
Episode #376
<p >In Episode 376, Alex and Theo Gribaudi-Plytas talk about:</p> <p >Their location in rural France, at the southern end of the Champagne region, where there are tons of vineyards, many of which they take friends from...
Episode #375
<p > Marcie Begleiter, an artist based on the Central Coast of California, talks about: artist residencies, including the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, where she recently did a 4-week residency, including collecting...
Episode #374
<p>Oakland-based graphic artist Hugh D'Andrade, author of the graphic novel "The Murder Next Door," talks about:</p> <p> His first graphic novel, The Murder Next Door, including what led him to finally making a graphic...
Episode #373
<p>In Episode 373, Molly Rice & Rusty Thelin, co-founders of RealTime Arts in Pittsburgh, talk about:</p> <p><br /> The especially niche field of their work, which is the performance of live theater that aligns more...
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