Best Art Podcasts - Updated 2019

     If there's one thing I have to force myself to do is going to the gym. I know it's good for me blah blah but I find it utterly boring and I am so good at procrastinating that my morning session always happens around 7pm.
Because of the random nature of studio days I don't go to classes, I rather do my thing and that's when listening to some engaging conversation has the magic power of keeping me on a tedious rowing machine beyond my first sweat. Enter the arty podcast, an audio program that is just long enough to last one gym session ( or a good walk).

I like listening to podcasts when I am not in the studio, as some of them are so interesting that they distract me from painting, but some times while I work I listen again to the ones that I found more inspiring or motivating to see if they generate ideas or throw new light on the painting I am working on.

I originally drafted this list for my old blog in 2015 and it is lovely that many are still going ! Here's my updated list :


PAINTERS TALKING ABOUT PAINTING

- Studio Break
It's a new find for me, I got there following the guys from Printeresting, a printmaking blog, and had a look around to find two interviews with FB friend Joe Morzuch so started listening. The interviewer, artist David Linneweh is very good at conducting the conversation and asks the same questions I would ask. Update 2018: I since have been interviewed by David ! 

-Savvy Painter
Features artists in conversation with painter artist Antrese Wood. She touches on practical aspects of painting such as promoting the work, as well as asking interviewees about their career path or their daily studio practice. Artists that have been interviewed include Israel Hershberg, James Bland, Stuart Shils, Mitchell Johnson, Stanka Kordic, Karen Kaapke, Dean Fisher and many others.

-John Dalton Gently Does It
John  is another very good interviewer. His podcass feature many well known painters and are quite long so they go deeper into the conversation. John has also started a subscriber page on Patreon, asking for just a dollar a month to sustain the podcast: an easy way to donate.

-Suggested Donation
Generally focussed on classically trained artists, Only six women interviewees in more than forty episodes !  

- Art Grind Podcast 
Long conversations among artists conducted in person by three interviewers, very nice atmosphere and interesting considerations. 

-Artist Decoded 
Host Yoshino interviews a variety of artists, not only painters. Urban feel.
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- The Studio-
Interviewer Danny Grant also focusses mainly on classically trained painters.

MARKETING FOR ARTISTS

- Artists Helping Artists. 
Lots of tips to navigate social networks, ideas and tricks to be well organised in the studio, useful apps and more.

ART HISTORY AND EXHIBITIONS

National Gallery of Art (US)
Great collection of lectures recordings from the NGA education programs.

The Modern Art Notes Podcast 
Thoughtful interviews with artists, curators, art historians and authors

Getty Art + Ideas 
A variety of interviewees often linked with current exhibitions at the Getty Museum. 




NO LONGER UPDATED BUT STILL AVAILABLE

- The Newington-Cropsey Cultural Studies Center 
Features a variety of artists in conversation with the art critic Peter Trippi. Includes artists such as William Bailey, Lois Dodd, Gillian Pederson Krag and my friend Alexandra Tyng.
- The Royal Academy 
Features academic introductions to shows by curators or artists, interviews and conversations.
The recent conversation between Tim Marlow and  Frank Auerbach is probably THE perfect podcast.


I hope you like my selection. Alternatively here's some cardio class entartainment: