The Art World: What If...?!
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The Art World: What If...?!
What if we reimagined everything in culture, from painting to patronage? Tune in to The Art World: What If…?! to hear leading thinkers, creators and innovators in art rethink the system, exploring the consequences with wit, wisdom and humor. Join art journalist Charlotte Burns and world-renowned a...
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The Art World: What If...?! with Thelma Golden
In this episode, Allan Schwartzman sits down with Thelma Golden, director and chief curator of the Studio Museum in Harlem, ahead of the November open...

The Art World: What If...?! with Glenn Lowry
In this episode, host Charlotte Burns sits down once more with Glenn Lowry during his final week as director of the Museum of Modern Art in New York....

The Art World: What If...?! with Sin Wai Kin
Artist Sin Wai Kin constructs fantasy worlds to show how storytelling doesn't just reflect reality—it creates it. Through characters like ‘The Storyte...

The Art World: What If...?! with Allan Schwartzman
After a long, news-filled summer, host Charlotte Burns reconvenes with founder Allan Schwartzman to take stock of an art market that feels… different....

The Art World: What If...?! with Nana Oforiatta-Ayim
There is never just one way of seeing. And Nana Oforiatta-Ayim—writer, filmmaker, cultural historian, and institution builder—has spent her career pro...

The Art World: What If...?! with Glenn Ligon
Glenn Ligon makes art that asks us to look again. An artist, writer, and curator, his practice moves between the studio and the gallery, the page and...

The Art World: What If...?! with Kemi Ilesanmi
Kemi Ilesanmi is planting seeds for the future. Three years ago, she stepped back from running The Laundromat Project, took a gap year in which she vi...

The Art World: What If...?! with Allan Schwartzman
Longtime podcast collaborators Allan Schwartzman and Charlotte Burns sit down for a conversation about an art industry in profound flux. After almost...

The Art World: What If...?! with Agnes Denes
The artist Agnes Denes saw it coming. Machines taking over. Technology converging with consciousness. History on a pendulum swinging perilously back a...
The Art World: What If...?! with Dr. Mariët Westermann
In this bonus episode, we’re joined by the newly appointed director and CEO of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, Dr. Mariët Westermann,...
The Art World: What If...?! with Deana Haggag, Mia Locks and Jay Sanders
Join us for the almost final episode of this season where we welcome back our incredible team of editorial advisors who guide, suggest — and even chal...
The Art World: What If...?! Transforming Museums with Mia Locks, Fatoş Üstek and Laura Raicovich
What if you were embroiled in a public workplace controversy? And what happens on the other side of the headlines—would you walk away from your field,...
The Art World: What If...?! with LaToya Ruby Frazier
This time, we’re joined by the artist LaToya Ruby Frazier, just before the opening of her major new exhibition 'Monuments of Solidarity' at the Museum...
The Art World: What If...?! with Bryan Stevenson
In this episode, we visit the Legacy Sites in Montgomery, Alabama, including the newly opened Freedom Monument Sculpture Park, a 17-acre site on the b...
The Art World: What If...?! with Karen Patterson
This time we welcome Karen Patterson, the Executive Director of the Ruth Foundation for the Arts. The organisation immediately became a major player w...
The Art World: What If...?! with Allan Schwartzman
“The market is poised for a big fall, so it's more ‘when’, than ‘what if’,” says Allan Schwartzman, founder of the podcast. He’s back on the show to t...
The Art World: What If...?! with Kemi Ilesanmi
We welcome back Kemi Ilesanmi, the former executive director of the Laundromat Project and one of the standout stars of our first season. In season on...
The Art World: What If...?! with Koyo Kouoh ~ Part 2
For the second part of our interview with Koyo Kouoh, the chief curator and executive director of Zeitz MOCAA, we hear about how she has worked to ove...
The Art World: What If...?! with Koyo Kouoh ~ Part 1
Joining us from Cape Town in South Africa is Koyo Kouoh, the chief curator and executive director of Zeitz MOCAA for the first in a two-part special....
The Art World: What If...?! With Barbara Gladstone
Legendary art dealer Barbara Gladstone joins us for a very rare interview from the studio in New York. What would she do differently if she started a...
The Art World: What If...?! with Phillip Ihenacho
“West African culture is starting to become the future” says Phillip Ihenacho, the director of the newly established Museum of West African Art. What...
The Art World: What If...?! with Jarl Mohn
In this episode, we welcome Jarl Mohn, the LA art collector and philanthropist who founded the E! Entertainment network in his professional life, amon...
The Art World: What If...?! with Hoor Al Qasimi
What if we write our own histories? What if we create the change we seek? In this episode, we talk to the President and Director of Sharjah Art Found...
The Art World: What If...?! with Salome Asega
Described as the “next generation of leadership”, in this episode we welcome Salome Asega, the director of NEW INC in New York and an accomplished art...
The Art World: What If...?! with Alvaro Barrington
In this episode host Charlotte Burns is joined by artist Alvaro Barrington, who brings as much generosity of spirit to this conversation as he does to...
The Art World: What If...?! with Jessica Morgan
We’re back! In this episode, host Charlotte Burns talks to Jessica Morgan, the director of the Dia Art Foundation. She has revitalized the institution...
The Art World: What If...?! with Alice Smith
Welcome back to The Art World: What If…?! the podcast all about imagining new futures. To kick off the second season in style, host Charlotte Burns is...
Introducing Series 2 ~ The Art World: What If... ?!
Welcome back to The Art World: What If... ?! the podcast all about imagining new and better futures. There are some fantastic guests lined up for this...
The Art World: What If...?! with Deana Haggag, Mia Locks and Jay Sanders
This time hosts Charlotte Burns and Allan Schwartzman welcome their team of editorial advisors Deana Haggag, Mia Locks and Jay Sanders. They’re the br...
The Art World: What If...?! Glenstone special, with Emily Rales
What if we supported artists in taking moonshots? This week we’re taking a tour around Glenstone museum in Potomac, Maryland - one of the largest and...
The Art World: What If...?! with Pope.L
What if we made more mess? What if we could sit with discomfort? This time Charlotte Burns talks to one of her heroes, the artist Pope.L. Probably be...
The Art World: What If...?! with Kathy Halbreich
What if we trusted artists more? This episode Charlotte Burns is joined by Kathy Halbreich, the outgoing director of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundatio...
The Art World: What If...?! with Allan Schwartzman
Time to take stock this episode with hosts Charlotte Burns and Allan Schwartzman. We look back at some of the big ideas that have emerged throughout t...
The Art World: What If...?! LA Special with Cauleen Smith and Kibum Kim
We’re still in the city of angels for our second special episode asking ‘What if LA is the future?’ Join host, Charlotte Burns, as she drives from the...
The Art World: What If...?! LA Special with Connie Butler and Sue Bell Yank
What if Los Angeles is the future? This episode Charlotte Burns visits the city for the first of two extra special episodes. We’re at the Hammer museu...
The Art World: What If...?! with American Artist
What if it were possible to dream up entirely new things? Join host Charlotte Burns as she interviews one of the most interesting artists working toda...
The Art World: What If...?! with Rashida Bumbray
This episode, Charlotte Burns is joined by Rashida Bumbray whose career straddles different realms within culture. A choreographer and curator, Rashid...
The Art World: What If...?! with Paul Chan
In this episode, we get into some of the biggest What Ifs —about virtue and value, about life and loss. Host Charlotte Burns is joined by one of the m...
The Art World: What If...?! with Joeonna Bellorado-Samuels
What if the art market had more faith in its own future? What if we could improve the health of the swamp? This episode, we consider the state of the...
The Art World: What If...?! with Sandra Jackson-Dumont
What if we reimagine the role of the museum? What if we bring more intention to what culture can be and do—and by whom and for whom? What if we tell o...