Exquisite Corpse: Contemporary Conversations
Exquisite Corpse: Contemporary Conversations is a podcast series from the National Academy of Design featuring conversations between National Academicians. This podcast is a space for the artists and architects who have shaped this institution to connect, discuss, and ask questions of each other. National Academy Director of Programs and Series Host Adrienne Elise Tarver takes you into the organization that is contending with its almost 200-year history and finding its place in the 21st century.
Episodes
18 episodes
A Sense of Permanence: An Architectural Walking Tour with Richard Gluckman NA
On April 20th, 2024, the newly inducted National Academician, architect Richard Gluckman NA, led a group on a walking tour through several of his building projects in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood. This tour, titled Sense of Pe...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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46:52
Elena Sisto NA + Carroll Dunham NA
This episode of Exquisite Corpse brings together National Academicians and painters Elena Sisto and Carroll Dunham in a deep discussion about painting, abstraction, and the trajectories of their work.Both painters are interested in the a...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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Wendy Evans Joseph NA + Billie Tsien NA
In this episode of Exquisite Corpse, architects Wendy Evans Joseph and Billie Tsien discuss the art-centered roots of their friendship and the experiential nature of architecture. They discuss what it means to alter or create an experience and ...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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1:04:43
Rashid Johnson NA + Charles Gaines NA
The second episode of Season 4 joins National Academicians Charles Gaines and Rashid Johnson in conversation about the multiplicities of blackness, the properties of representation, and exploring materiality in art making. They discuss mutual f...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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1:26:42
Roberto Juarez NA + Jimmy Wright NA
The National Academy of Design’s podcast Exquisite Corpse: Contemporary Conversations launches its fourth season with an episode featuring painters and dear longtime friends Roberto Juarez and Jimmy Wright. Starting with Roberto’s time capsule ...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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1:15:41
Pat Lasch NA + James Timberlake NA
The last episode of Season 3 joins old friends, artist Pat Lasch and architect James Timberlake. Their conversation explores how their residency experiences, spirituality, and childhoods influence their work. They reminisce about their time in ...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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1:19:18
Mary Miss NA + Jeanne Gang NA
In the third episode of season three, previous guest, Mary Miss, speaks with architect, Jeanne Gang. In sharing their mutual admiration for each other’s practices, their conversation touched on social-ecological frameworks, the female gaze, and...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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1:10:02
Susanna Coffey NA + Sangram Majumdar NA
The second episode of season three joins friends and National Academicians Susanna Coffey and Sangram Majumdar in a conversation about painting. Both acclaimed painters, their conversation brings the audience into the complexities of painting–t...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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1:27:23
Frances Barth NA + William T. Williams NA
In the first episode of Season 3, previous guest Frances Barth chooses to speak with painter William T. Williams. They discuss their 50-year friendship, reminiscing about influences and interactions throughout their accomplished careers like wo...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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1:25:30
Michael Maltzan NA + Mary Miss NA
The final episode of Exquisite Corpse’s second season features a conversation between LA-based architect, Michael Maltzan, who chose to speak with an artist who had an impact on his work, Mary Miss, who is based in New York.Mary speaks a...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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1:09:31
Lorraine Shemesh NA + Frances Barth NA
In the third episode of this season of Exquisite Corpse, we hear from two visual artists, Lorraine Shemesh and Frances Barth. Though the two artists have very different visual styles, their background and interest in dance and movement in their...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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1:24:40
Lisa Corinne Davis NA + Richard Mayhew NA
In this episode, we hear a conversation between abstract painter Lisa Corinne Davis and Richard Mayhew, a luminary landscape painter, who, at 98, is still painting every day. They discuss their respective approaches to painting, their use of co...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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1:13:04
Lisa Hoke NA + Elana Herzog NA
Season 2 of Exquisite Corpse kicks off with a conversation between two installation artists – Lisa Hoke and Elana Herzog – whose friendship and practices inspired them to speak in this format. They share thoughts on sustaining their practices, ...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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1:20:56
Special Episode: “Media Relay: Intervals” with Elizabeth King NA + Stephen Vitiello
In this special episode of Exquisite Corpse, Host Adrienne Elise Tarver and Chief Curator, Sara Reisman talk about a recent exhibition at PS-122 Gallery, “Media Relay: An Exhibition in Two Parts” and present a unique conversation between two of...
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Season 2
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Episode 0
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44:15
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Dotty Attie NA + Pat Lasch NA
National Academicians Dotty Attie and Pat Lasch speak with Adrienne about the difficulties of motherhood and marriage, famous former boyfriends, lessons they’ve learned in art and life, and various successes and failures in their personal li...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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1:09:18
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Michelle Grabner NA + Stephen Westfall NA
In episode 3, Michelle Grabner and Stephen Westfall speak from their roles as artists and educators about the nuance of class, gender, and genre and question how abstraction can or cannot be in dialogue with these topics. They also discuss how ...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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1:15:31
Enrique Chagoya NA + Titus Kaphar NA
In episode 2, Enrique Chagoya NA and Titus Kaphar NA connect on their passion for arts education outside of the traditional education system, creating politically charged work that sometimes receives violent reactions, and the materiality an...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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