In this landmark episode, Emily sits down with one of the most influential figures in modern theater—Jeffrey Seller, the Broadway producer behind Rent, Hamilton, Avenue Q, and In the Heights.
Recorded in Jeffrey’s own home, this intimate and revealing conversation explores:
His early creative influences and the making of Rent
What it takes to recognize and develop groundbreaking work
The emotional and financial risks behind Hamilton
His revolutionary $20 ticket lottery and commitment to accessibility
How he balances artistic vision with the demands of production
Advice for creatives building sustainable, impactful careers
In celebration of the release of his new memoir Theater Kid, Jeffrey opens up about the real moments behind the musicals that changed Broadway.
Jeffrey is one of the most successful American producers of our time. His shows have won 22 Tony Awards, earned over $4.6 billion, and reached more than 43 million attendees. He’s the only producer in history to mount two Pulitzer Prize–winning musicals—and he revolutionized theater accessibility with Rent’s $20 ticket lottery.
Order his memoir Theater Kid: https://www.amazon.com/Theater-Kid-Broadway-Jeffrey-Seller/dp/1668064189
With a legacy that is not just extraordinary—but transformational—this episode is essential listening for anyone interested in storytelling, producing, or creating at the highest level.
Jeffrey Seller NYT article: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/theater/jeffrey-seller-theater-kid-hamilton-memoir.html
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In this episode of The Art Career, Emily sits down with the incomparable Melissa Auf der Maur — musician, visual artist, filmmaker, and co-founder of the multidisciplinary arts center Basilica Hudson.
Known for her role as the bass player in iconic 1990s rock bands Hole and The Smashing Pumpkins, Melissa’s journey spans far beyond the stage. From self-producing solo albums to launching a nationally recognized cultural venue in Hudson, NY, Melissa has spent the past two decades creating space — literally and metaphorically — for artists to gather, experiment, and thrive.
This conversation covers the full spectrum of her creative life: music, motherhood, mythology, and the radical act of sustaining a long-term, independent practice. We also talk about her upcoming literary memoir, which will explore her time inside the legendary 1990s rock scene — set to be released in 2026 by Grand Central Publishing / Hachette Books.
We discuss:
• Touring the world with Hole and The Smashing Pumpkins
• Creating Basilica Hudson as a haven for artists and community
• Her deep roots in visual art and photography
• Storytelling, place-making, and the role of women in music history
• Writing her forthcoming memoir on the 90s rock era
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Melissa Auf der Maur was born and raised in Montreal, Canada where she received a fine arts education focused on music and photography. Auf der Maur is most prominently known for her
role as the bass player and band member in two Grammy Nominated and Winning 90’s rock bands, Hole and The Smashing Pumpkins. At the turn of the millennium, after multiple world tours she set off on her own to self-produce two solo albums, released on Capitol Records and
RoadRunner / Warner Brother Records. In 2010 she co-founded the multidisciplinary art center Basilica Hudson in Hudson, NY with filmmaker Tony Stone, which welcomes up to 20,000 yearly visitors to genre-pushing music festivals, large-scale marketplace events, film screenings, and public installations. In addition to her work as an arts and music curator at Basilica Hudson, Auf der Maur has produced films that have been presented at Sundance Film Festival, Berlin Film Festival, New Directors New Films, and released by NEON and Magnolia Pictures. Her photography work has been published in National Geographic, American Photo, SPIN and BUST Magazines, and exhibited at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and Sotheby's NY, among other venues. Her literary memoir, focusing on her time in the iconic 90’s rock scene, is due to be released in 2026 by Grand Central / Hachettes Books.
In this candid and richly layered episode, Emily sits down with artist and actress Jemima Kirke for a conversation that unfolds with wit, depth, and honesty. Best known for her role as Jessa in HBO’s Girls, Jemima is also a RISD-trained painter whose work explores vulnerability, womanhood, and identity through a deeply personal lens.
Jemima opens up about the nuances of balancing visibility in the film world with the more private act of painting, the impact of motherhood on her creative process, and why she remains uninterested in pleasing anyone but herself when it comes to making art.
The interview was photographed by the inimitable Matthew Tully Dugan, who captured Jemima at home—images as intimate and magnetic as the conversation itself.
As always, The Art Career Podcast is brought to you by a small but passionate team. These unscripted, heartfelt dialogues are made possible by a community that values art, storytelling, and truth. Thank you for being here.
Jemima Kirke is a British-American actress and visual artist. She rose to prominence for her role as Jessa Johansson on the HBO series Girls, and has since starred in acclaimed projects such as Conversations with Friends, Maniac, and Sex Education. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, Jemima’s first love is painting—her figurative works often exploring themes of intimacy, identity, and the complexities of womanhood. Her art has been exhibited in both the U.S. and the UK, and she continues to cultivate a multidisciplinary practice that defies easy categorization.
Jemma Rose Brown is an artist, strategist and curator of cultural programs raised & based in NYC. Her approach is shaped by a decade+ career in podcasts and the audio industry. Jemma is the General Manager of The Signal Awards and Co-Creator of On Air Fest, the premiere event for audio storytelling. She is the Co-Founder of Cosmophage. Previously, she was the Director of creative agency work x work and a Producer at The Moth. Her projects have been covered widely in Vanity Fair, Wired, Forbes, Rolling Stone & more. Jemma sits on the Advisory Committee of UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art. Alongside her professional work, Jemma’s art practice is in incessant pursuit of intimacy: reaching across the asymptote of human experience to create momentary acts of connection. Jemma utilizes memoir, staged meals and performance to test the boundaries between self and other.
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Cultural Icons is here. A new editorial series by Emily McElwreath, spotlighting the spaces, brands, and experiences shaping today’s creative landscape.
As a curator, art advisor, and cultural journalist, Emily has spent years immersed in the art world, uncovering the people and places that truly move culture forward. Now, she’s bringing that insight to Cultural Icons—a definitive selection of the most inspiring destinations, institutions, and brands that understand the intersection of art, design, and experience.
In this episode, Emily introduces the vision behind Cultural Icons, how it expands upon The Art Career Podcast, and what’s to come. Stay tuned for the first feature this spring.
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In this episode of The Art Career, Emily travels to Galerie Lelong & Co in Chelsea to sit down with gallerist Mary Sabbatino.
Mary Sabbatino is Vice President and Partner of Galerie Lelong & Co., New York. She was appointed director of the New York location of Galerie Lelong & Co. in 1991 and became a gallery partner in 2007. In 2021, she was awarded the prestigious Chevalier de L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters) from the Government of France. Championing a diverse roster of contemporary artists from throughout the world, the gallery has pioneered the community both in presenting a balanced roster of male and female artists, and artists from the Global South. Contributing to the overarching contemporary art scene, she served on the boards of ArtTable and the Executive Board of the Art Dealers’ Association of America, during which she initiated and co-authored the ADAA’s first code of ethics. Sabbatino served on the Selection Committee for Art Basel Miami Beach (2013-2020), the Art Basel Joint Selection Committee, and is a founding member of the Council for the Elizabeth Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum, New York. In 2020, along with colleagues from international galleries, she initiated the platforms Galleries Curate and SOUTH SOUTH. In addition to fostering the careers and legacies of the gallery’s artists, Sabbatino co-curated Art from Brazil in New York (1995) which presented the first solo exhibitions of the region’s most vital figures—Waltercio Caldas, Cildo Meireles, Hélio Oiticica, Mira Schendel, and Tunga—and curated Juan Downey: Video Installations and Drawings (1995), at the Museo Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile. The gallery is proud to have represented leading contemporary artists and estates for over twenty years, including Petah Coyne, Andy Goldsworthy, Jane Hammond, Alfredo Jaar, Cildo Meireles, the Estate of Ana Mendieta, Jaume Plensa, Kate Shepherd, the Estate of Nancy Spero, Ursula von Rydingsvard, and Krzysztof Wodiczko.
About Galerie Lelong & Co
Since 1991, Galerie Lelong & Co., New York, has championed a diverse roster of contemporary artists from throughout the world. Led by Mary Sabbatino, Vice President and Partner, the gallery has pioneered the community both in presenting a balanced roster of male and female artists, and artists from the Global South. The gallery’s programming is noted for its political acuity and museum-quality exhibitions that include contemporary sculpture and installations, as well as its work with artists to help develop large-scale public art commissions beyond the gallery’s walls. In tandem with the gallery’s artists who present works that examine the human condition and collective consciousness, Galerie Lelong & Co. demonstrates its commitment to social justice and good citizenship through charitable initiatives and collaborations. Galerie Lelong & Co. is a member of the Art Dealers’ Association of America, the most esteemed organization of art galleries in the United States.
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Welcome to episode 2 of Art21 x The Art Career: Behind the Lens—a series dedicated to the curators and filmmakers who create the magic behind Art21’s iconic documentaries and publications. Art21 is the world’s leading source to learn directly from the artists of our time.
In this episode, host Emily McElwreath sits down with Senior Producer for Art21, Ian Forster.
As a producer and director, Ian Forster creates documentary content for Art21’s various digital and broadcast programs. Since joining the organization in 2009, he has worked on six seasons of Art in the Twenty-First Century, most recently directing and producing “London” from the tenth season and “Johannesburg” from the ninth season. Additionally, he worked on the Peabody Award-winning film William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible and has overseen the digital series Extended Play since 2012, producing over 100 short artist portraits. Forster created the online video series Artist to Artist in 2013, which featured artists in conversation with their peers at international biennials.
His films have screened at festivals internationally, including DC Shorts, DOC NYC, and Artecinema, and have been honored with a Vimeo Staff Pick and as a Webby Award Honoree. He graduated from the Newhouse School at Syracuse University with a B.S. in Television, Radio, and Film.
About Behind the Lens
This season, we’re spotlighting the often-unsung visionaries—curators and filmmakers—who shape the stories behind today’s most influential contemporary artists. Behind the Lens offers a rare glimpse into how Art21’s groundbreaking films and publications come to life, bridging the gap between artists and audiences.
About Art21
Art21 is a celebrated nonprofit organization dedicated to inspiring a more creative world through the works and words of contemporary artists. Through their award-winning documentary series, educational programs, and digital resources, Art21 brings audiences closer to today’s leading artists and their processes. Learn more at art21.org.
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On season 7, Episode 3 of The Art Career Podcast, Emily sits down with fashion photograher and director Brianna Capozzi in her Brooklyn, NY apartment.
First published in 2014, Brianna Capozzi has been working for over a decade to make distinctive images that have contributed to a movement of contemporary female-led fashion photography. Capozzi’s work places less emphasis on an ideal and instead uplifts the raw, fierce and playful that exists innately and uniquely in each subject. Her work demonstrates a fervent interest in the power, versatility, and inherent creative force of the female form.
Advertising: Adidas, Agent Provocateur, Alexander Wang, Bally, Bottega Veneta, Burberry, Calvin Klein, Carolina Herrera, Cartier, Chloe, Chopard, Deisel, DKNY, Eckhaus Latta, Fenty, Frankie’s Bikinis, GAP, Gucci, Jonathan Simkhai, Khaite, Marc Jacobs, Maryam Nassir Zadeh, Nike, Nordstrom, Pinko, Puma, Rare Beauty, Stella McCartney, Victoria’s Secret, Skims, Zara.
Editorial: All In, American Vogue, British Vogue, Beauty Papers, Blau, D Republica, Dazed & Confused, Double, Interview, M Le Monde, Marfa, Myth, Pop, Re-Edition, Vogue Italia.
Published: Well Behaved Women (Idea Book, 2018), Sisters (Idea Book, 2024)
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🎙️Season 7, Episode 2 of The Art Career Podcast – Emily McElwreath sits down with the incredible performance artistKinlaw in Chinatown, NYC.
Kinlaw is an audio composer, choreographer, and sculptor whose work highlights processes that accommodate and respond to the changing frequencies (i.e., liveness) of space. Their practice includes producing albums and creating large-scale performance works.
Kinlaw’s performance works have been featured in several museums and arts institutions, including MoMA, MoMA PS1, MOCA, The New Museum, Pioneer Works, and Mana Contemporary; and in arts venues throughout Europe. Kinlaw was a Pioneer Works Musician-in-Residence, as well as a member of New Inc at the New Museum, with work focusing on Experiments in Art and Technology and psychoacoustical research at Bell Labs.
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We’re launching Season 7 of The Art Career Podcast with a special collaboration, Art21 x The Art Career: Behind the Lens—a series dedicated to the curators and filmmakers who create the magic behind Art21’s iconic documentaries and publications. Art21 is the world’s leading source to learn directly from the artists of our time.
In this season’s premiere, host Emily McElwreath sits down with curator Jurrell Lewis to explore Artists and the Unknown, a compelling new book from Art21 that delves into the mysteries, curiosities, and uncertainties that drive contemporary art.
From the supernatural to the speculative, Artists and the Unknown captures how artists navigate the limits of human knowledge, embracing the unknown as a space for creativity and transformation. Jurrell Lewis brings his curatorial insight to this conversation, offering a deep dive into the book’s themes, featured artists, and the ways in which art helps us interpret the unexplainable.
Artists and the Unknown is available HERE from Art21.
About Behind the Lens
This season, we’re spotlighting the often-unsung visionaries—curators and filmmakers—who shape the stories behind today’s most influential contemporary artists. Behind the Lens offers a rare glimpse into how Art21’s groundbreaking films and publications come to life, bridging the gap between artists and audiences.
About Art21
Art21 is a celebrated nonprofit organization dedicated to inspiring a more creative world through the works and words of contemporary artists. Through their award-winning documentary series, educational programs, and digital resources, Art21 brings audiences closer to today’s leading artists and their processes. Learn more at art21.org.
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Known for her large-scale, participatory installations, Molly Gochman speaks to Emily in this all new episode about caregiving, motherhood, artmaking, and monuments. This episode follows the recent release of her podcast, Monuments to Motherhood, alongside a series of new sculptural works of the same title which will be sited across New York City and the larger U.S early next year.
Molly Gochman, an artist and activist deeply engaged in social practice, focuses on activating spaces for profound collective experiences. Her practice encompasses a diverse range of mediums including photography, sound, installation, and sculpture. Through these mediums, she often challenges and subverts conventional material boundaries to foster interaction, play, exploration, and meaningful dialogue.
Molly frequently explores concepts encompassing human connection, environment, and community, rooted in the belief that life's experiences shape us. Guided by the concept that "life leathers us," her works not only aim to aestheticize but also reflect the passage of time through weather, wear, and change. Her practice continues to evolve with a desire to actively engage participants, inspire meaningful dialogues, find commonality, and discover shared human experiences.
Molly has exhibited her work at The Ukrainian Museum, New York; NYC Parks Art in the Parks; NADA House, New York; Lincoln Center, New York; Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston; Diverse Works, Houston; Chashama, New York; Sara Roney Gallery, Sydney; Grace Farms, New Canaan; Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston; Zilkha Hall, Houston; Elsewhere, Greensboro and other traditional and non-traditional exhibition spaces.
She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture from Guilford College. Originally from Texas, Molly is currently based in New York.
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This holiday season, the team at The Art Career Podcast is collecting art supplies for children and adults served by the New York City Department of Homeless Services (DHS). While food and shelter are understandably the primary focus for the Department of Homeless Services, the team at The Art Career has been in direct conversation with them, and they’ve expressed a pressing need for art supplies.
We will be delivering all donated supplies before the holidays, ensuring that your contributions reach the individuals and families who need them most. As we all know, art has the power to heal, inspire, and transform lives. It offers a vital outlet for self-expression, creativity, and connection, particularly for individuals and families navigating challenging times. By providing access to art materials, we aim to nurture creativity, encourage emotional well-being, and bring moments of joy and possibility to those who need it most. Your generosity will directly help foster a sense of empowerment and hope within these communities.
Whether you donate supplies or help spread the word, every effort makes a difference.
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Emily McElwreath, Host of the Art Career Podcast, in conversation with Marilyn Minter and Jasmin Wahi at the Neuburger Museum at Purchase College. Now, more than ever, our work as artists, activists, and advocates is critical in challenging oppressive structures and ensuring our voices are heard. Please join me @neubergermuseum next Thursday, November 14th, at 7pm. I will be speaking with two of the greatest, @marilynminter and @browngirlcurator About the Yaseen Lectures on the Fine Arts: This lecture series, which began in 1974, was endowed by the late Leonard C. Yaseen and his wife Helen, former residents of Larchmont, New York, who financed a similar series at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Featured speakers have included Gordon Parks, Claes Oldenburg, Maya Angelou, Faith Ringgold, Chuck Close, John Shearer, Hank Willis Thomas, and Purchase College alumnus Fred Wilson. The legacy of the Yaseens’s gift continues today through the support of Roger Yaseen and his family in honor of his parents. The Yaseen Lectures on the Fine Arts Fund is stewarded by The New York Community Trust.
The Art Career is honored to share a conversation with Alannah Farrell, recorded on November 8th, 2024, in their Chinatown apartment. Releasing this episode during Trans Awareness Week feels especially meaningful, but the importance of celebrating and uplifting trans voices extends to every day. Alannah’s perspective is a powerful reminder of the beauty, resilience, and talent within the community. Thank you, Alannah, for sharing so much with us.
Farrell is a queer, trans non-binary painter who lives and works in Chinatown on the LES, New York City. Conversations around portraiture often focus on identity, gaze, style, and expression. Their paintings touch on these but further delve into how the human psyche is affected by relationships, selfhood, place, architectural spaces, gender dysphoria, existing in a changing body, and memory. They grapple with a complex tenderness, light piercing through a brooding sadness. Farrell presents queer individuals through a lens of understanding and connection, a context shielded from a society eager to erase or enact violence. Their paintings depict more than a moment; rather, time itself unfurling before our eyes—shifting light, shifting weight, the emergence of the inner world. Furthermore, Farrell paints thoughtfully and attentively from life. They describe inviting sitters into the studio as an adrenaline rush—having to work with time as a restriction and the challenge of attempting to capture what is full of life and motion into a singular image. — BL
Alannah Farrell (b. 1988, Kingston, NY) is a queer painter who lives and works in New York, NY. Farrell completed their BFA at The Cooper Union, New York, NY. They have presented their work in solo and group exhibitions at Anat Egbi, Los Angeles, CA and New York, NY; Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, TX; Lyles and King, New York, NY; Alexander Gray Associates, New York, NY; Harper’s, New York, NY; Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA; The Painting Center, New York, NY; Theirry Goldberg Gallery, New York, NY; and UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles, CA. Their work is in the permanent collection of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL. They are represented by Anat Egbi, Los Angeles.
http://alannahfarrell.com
https://www.alexandergray.com/exhibitions/821-alannah-farrell-erect/
https://www.instagram.com/alannah.farrell.studio/
Join us for a spine-chilling dive into the dark, haunting world of Norwegian black metal. In this Halloween special, we explore the shadowy history and intense controversies surrounding this extreme music genre that rose from Norway’s icy landscapes. From its eerie beginnings to its violent, scandal-filled lore, we’ll unravel the chilling events and cultural influences that gave birth to black metal. Featuring insights from the documentary Until the Light Takes Us, we uncover the movement’s roots in rebellion, darkness, and the supernatural, giving you a glimpse into one of music history’s most intense subcultures. Perfect for Halloween, this episode will keep you on the edge of your seat—and perhaps make you rethink the power of music to summon shadows.
On an all new episode of The Art Career, Emily sits down with artist, Nick Doyle, in his Ridgewood studio where his recent installation, Human Resources, a friendly neighbourhood kink bar, is situated until it leaves for Paris. The two have a brave and intimate conversation about sexuality, shame, and, of course, art.
Nick Doyle is keenly aware of the legacy of the American notion of Manifest Destiny. Known best for sculptural wall works made from collaged denim, Doyle infiltrates the vocabulary of Americana to examine greed, excess, and toxic masculinity. Doyle uses the road trip—a pillar of American mythology—as a point of entry to his work in order to question the persistence of Rugged Individualism as the fabric of our national identity. Through a series of mechanical miniatures, theatrical scenery, and satirical prop-like denim works, the artist foregrounds the dangers of nostalgia and our evolving relationship to consumerism. Seemingly innocuous, Doyle’s imagery—vending machine, typewriter, cigarette pack—and materials—indigo and cotton—tell a story of American colonialism and consumerism, as well as explore the influence of media on global trade systems. By employing materials that hold cultural significance, the artist both reflects on and critiques social and political agendas that are often at play in contemporary life and visual culture.
https://www.nickdoyle.org
https://www.perrotin.com/artists/nick_doyle/777#news
https://www.instagram.com/nickdoyle333/?hl=en
https://www.instagram.com/human_resources._/?hl=en
With the Halloween season upon us, we're looking back to one of our favourite episodes recorded on a beautiful fall day in Chinatown with Mathew Tully Dugan. Before we sat down for our interview, artist Mathew Tully Dugan cooked the most delicious small plate for my editor Ben and myself; Thomas Keller’s potato pavé with whipped roasted bone marrow, salt cured egg yolk, hackleback caviar and wasabi microgreens. A most delicious way to launch Season 4!
Matthew Tully Dugan (b. 1986) Rochester, NY born and NYC based multidisciplinary artist. Dugan's interests span celebrity, psychology, pop iconography, privacy, and fanaticism. Dugan often employs promotional, social, and found imagery in a practice motivated by digital media’s physical and emotional divide. His paintings, sculptures, installations, texts, and curatorial projects collapse the popular and the subcultural, the collective and the personal, as a means of processing contemporary conditions and their impact on the psyche. Recent exhibitions include solo shows at Will Shott, NY (2023), 56 Henry, New York (2022), Loveclub, NY (2021), Fierman, New York, NY (2018) as well as a public works in collaboration with Half Gallery, NY (2023). Dugan also runs a curatorial program, Art Death with yearly exhibitions in Miami Beach.
Tully's upcoming exhibition, "Inferno", will open at Lomex's new Walker Street project space this Halloween. It will be up until November 5th.
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Recently, Emily was invited to spend 2 weeks of uninterrupted time to conceptualise a show that will open at UCROSS Art Gallery in June, 2025. In this episode we go behind the scenes with Emily on the beautiful UCROSS Foundation ranch in Wyoming.
Located on a 20,000-acre ranch in the wide open spaces of northeastern Wyoming, Ucross is a magical setting for individual creative work, reflection, innovation, and dreaming. Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News, Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat Pray Love, Adam Guettel’s The Light in the Piazza, Ricky Ian Gordon’s operatic adaptation of The Grapes of Wrath – these are just a few of the acclaimed works that have been created in part during Ucross residencies.
The UCROSS renowned residency program has been around for more than 40 years. In that time, UCROSS has served 2,700+ artists, and approximately 1,000 of those artists are in the visual arts. These artists come from all over the country, as well as many pockets around the world.
The talented artists, writers, and musicians that accompanied Emily at Ucross:
Diana Marie Delgado - poetry
Megan Culhane Galbraith - non-fiction
Nancy Y. Kim - mixed media
Sarah Lass - Dance
Linn Meyers - painting
Nicky Sohn - music
Tyler Stoll - mixed media
Kate Sullivan - fiction
Therese Workman - music
Special thanks to:
William Belcher, President
Caitlin Addlesperger, Deputy Director
Brittney Denham-Whisonant - Gallery Associate
Tawni Shuler, Program Director
Lacasa Michelena, Gallery & Events Associate
Carl Largent, Program Coordinator
Jackie Vitale, Chef
This week on The Art Career we are bringing back a crowd favorite: Eileen Myles. As Emily embarks on her UCROSS Foundation residency in Wyoming we have taken a week off to plan for our residency episode that will be live Thursday, Oct 10th. Being around so many talented writers and poets for these two weeks, it seems appropriate to bring Eileen Myles back for our many new listeners, in addition to anyone who hasn't listened to this episode.
Eileen Myles (they/them) came to New York from Boston in 1974 to be a poet, subsequently novelist, public talker and art journalist. A Sagittarius, their 22 books include For Now, evolution, Afterglow, I Must Be Living Twice/new & selected poems, and Chelsea Girls. In 2019 they wrote and directed an 18-minute super 8 film, The Trip, a puppet road film. See it on youtube. Eileen is the recipient of a Guggenheim, a Warhol/Creative Capital Arts Writers grant, 4 Lambda Book Awards, the Shelley Prize, and a poetry award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. In 2016, they received a Creative Capital grant and the Clark Prize for excellence in art writing. In 2019 Myles received a poetry award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. In 2020 they got the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Publishing Triangle. They live in New York and Marfa, TX.
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Editing: Zach Worden
In this special episode Emily sits down with Laurie Simmons on a Monday morning in Chinatown at, DEEP PHOTOS / IN THE BEGINNING, the artists' second solo show at 56 Henry.
Laurie Simmons is an internationally recognized artist. Since the mid-70s, Simmons has staged scenes for her camera to create images with intensely psychological subtexts and nonlinear narratives. By the early 1980s Simmons was at the forefront of a new generation of artists, predominantly women, whose use of photography began a new dialogue in contemporary art. Her work is part of the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art and The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC; the Hara Museum in Tokyo; and the Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art in Amsterdam, among others. In 2018-2019 Simmons’s retrospective Big Camera/Little Camera was presented at The Modern Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. In 2006 she produced and directed her first film, The Music of Regret, starring Meryl Streep, Adam Guettel and the Alvin Ailey 2 Dancers. The film premiered at The Museum of Modern Art. Her feature film MY ART premiered at the 73rd Venice Film Festival and Tribeca Film festival in 2017. Simmons lives and works in New York and Connecticut.
DEEP PHOTOS / IN THE BEGINNING
105 Henry Street
September 4 – October 27, 2024