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As winter tightens its grasp on our souls, let us take you to a tropical land filled with squawking birds, orange juice and gravel. Forget about snow, the white stuff blanketing this magical world is something all together different. We discuss “Hélio Oiticica: To Organize Delirium”—the first ma ...

Walk around EXPO CHGO with us! Artists notoriously love to hate art fairs and we are no exception. We spend a casual Saturday trying to find meaning in the most pointless of all the world's art fairs which is really saying something because all art fairs are pretty pointless. But hey, we had fun ...

Summer’s drawing to a close. And so we wistfully dream of Augusts past on this, the avant-est garde of podcasts. Thomas Hirschhorn and philosophical fan art, sneaky teens, Batman’s secret hotel, Nickelodeon auf Deutsch, bull semen, and Manifesta: the biennial backpacking through Europe after col ...

André has taken the unusual step of asking to appear before the Senate Subcommittee on Degenerate Funding for the Arts. Art on trial! After visiting the Whitney Biennial—portions of which remain on view through July 16—André has asked to appear before a joint session of podcast. And Lordy we h ...

Press junket! Curator Michael Darling gives an overview of Takashi Murakami's exhibition "The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg," followed by a conversation with the artist. Marc Ecko explains that access to merch is the highest form of art and Erik asks a question from the audience.

Hot off the pod! We visited the preview of Takashi Murakami’s exhibition “The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg” at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. We discuss isolationism, nationalism, adults telling teenagers the best use of their creativity is to participate in capitalism and pigeons getting i ...

We kick out the jams with some live music in Berlin's Maurer (Wall) Park, a wonderful communist-era grove known for its love of Oasis hits. Erik is late to the final opening ceremony of the Sommerakademie at the Zentrum Paul Klee because he doesn't know the exchange rate between American minutes ...

We ran into each other on the bus in a meet-cute. And like a romcom we were supposed to meet at the art opening but went to different galleries. Our star-crossed podcasters discuss the recent Christopher Williams exhibition at Corbett vs. Dempsey, podcast mattresses, the new default d-bag voice ...

The gang accidentally went for drinks after brunch last Saturday. On the walls of the bar we were confronted with works of art including a painting of a fish mounted to a plaque mounted to a wall. Co-host Nina joined us after receiving local anesthetic at the dentist. Additional topics: Ice sto ...