Our goal with every episode is to break down fancy art talk, provide links to everything discussed, and share some additional reading we found that was inspired by our conversation.

Agnes Martin, Canadian American abstract artist (1912-2004) known for her reserve color palettes and meditative geometric works, characterized as a minimalist but a self-proclaimed abstract expressionist.

Billie Chernicoff, American poet and author of several books of contemporary poetry.

Brooklyn Rail, Monthly journal turned online publication founded in 2000 by Phong H. Bui, now a highly respected forum for presenting ideas about arts, culture, politics and community.

Come Together: Surviving Sandy, 2013 exhibition near the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York City overseen by Phong H. Bui of the Brooklyn Rail and featuring over 300 artists who tell the story of survival and community after Hurricane Sandy.

Daniel Turner, American artist (b. 1983) known for his conceptual works of sculpture.

Dante, Dante Alighieri, Italian poet and philosopher (1265-1321) known chiefly for his epic poem The Divine Comedy.

Dore Aston, American writer, professor and critic (1928-2017) who has published books about 20th century art including surveys called A Reading of Modern Art (1962) and Abstract Expressionist Painting in America (1983).

Giuseppe Penone, Italian artist and sculptor (b. 1947) who explores the link between man and the natural world.

Herbert Marcuse’s “One Dimensional Man,” One Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society, book published by philosopher Herbert Marcuse in 1964 that speaks to the shortcomings of both market capitalism and Soviet Union communism in the name of social repression.

Irving Sandler, Ukrainian-American critic and art historian (1925-2018) who began writing on the Abstract Expressionist movement of the 1960s and who helped solidify the place of the Brooklyn Rail in the New York art world.

Isaiah Berlin’s “The Hedgehog and the Fox,” 1953 essay by philosopher Isaiah Berlin characterizing writers and thinkers into two categories: hedgehogs, who view the world through a single defining lens, and foxes, who draw on a wide variety of experiences and cannot boil the world down to a single idea.

Joe Shapiro, NPR News Investigations correspondent who has reported on inequalities in the justice system, sexual assault on college campuses, incarceration, civil rights, and children’s issues.

Joseph Beuys, German artist and theorist (1921-1986), co-founder of Fluxus and key figure, with Allan Kaprow, in the development of “Happenings” in performance art.

Julian Schnabel, American painter and filmmaker (b. 1951) known for his canonical parodies with broken plates and other mixed media.

Kant, Immanuel Kant, German philosopher (1724-1804) and key thinker in the European Enlightenment of the 18th century.

Katherine Bradford, American artist (b. 1942) known for her moonlit figurative paintings, especially of bathers.

Leonardo, Leonardo da Vinci, Italian philosopher, inventor and artist (1452-1519) and the pioneer of scientific and artistic advancement in the Italian High Renaissance, especially in the domains of anatomy and engineering.

Louise Bourgeois, French-American artist (1911-2010) best known for large-scale sculpture and installation art which comments on gender, sexuality, domesticity and the family, death, and the unconscious.

Lucy Lippard, American writer, art critic, activist and curator (b. 1937) who was among the first to champion feminist art and write about ‘dematerialization’ in conceptual art, as well as a founding member of Printed Matter, a non-profit publisher for artists’ books.

Marina Adams, Contemporary American artist (b. 1960) who makes large-scale, brightly colored abstract paintings inspired by textile design, architecture and poetry.

MoMA PS1, Contemporary art museum (est. 1971) in Queens, New York now affiliated with the MoMA, founded as a collaborative space for the making, showing, and performing of contemporary art.

Peter Brook, Emmy-winning English theatre and film director (b. 1925) primarily working in France and known for his modern interpretations of Shakespeare.

Printed Matter, Independent 501 non-profit New York bookstore, artist organization and publishing house (est. 1976 by Lucy Lippard, Sol LeWitt, Walter Robinson and Carl Andre) which distributes artists’ books.

Richard Serra, American artist (b. 1939) whose monumental, site-specific sculptures question the relation between the viewer, the work, and the site, whether landscape, urban, or architectural.

River Rail, Offshoot of the Brooklyn Rail dedicated to environmentalism and publishing and reviewing works addressing ecological and climate concerns.

Robert Kelly, Contemporary American artist and poet )b. 1956) known for his collaged geometric abstractions and working within the formal languages of painting and printmaking.

Robert Ryman, American painter (1930-2019) best known for his abstract white-on-white paintings and characterized as a minimalist and conceptual artist.

Robert Storr, Famed American curator and critic (b. 1949), who has published dozens of essays and books, curated the 2007 Venice Bienale, and taught at CUNY, RISD, Harvard University, and the Yale School of Art, where he served as the Dean for two terms.

Stanley Whitney, American painter (b. 1946) known for abstract works which follow a loose grid pattern with rich color palettes and active brushwork.

Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Undergraduate and graduate school of art (est. 1935) now based out of Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Ursula von Rydingsvard, American sculptor (b. 1942) known for her large-scale, textured works inspired by nature and primarily made from cedar and other forms of timber.

War and Peace, 1869 novel by Russian writer Leo Tolstoy focused broadly on Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812. Over one thousand pages long, it is regarded today as a classic of world literature.