THIS WEEK on the GWA Podcast, @katy.hessel interviews is one of the world's most influential artists: Barbara Kruger.Hailed for her distinctive poster-style language, Kruger merges text and image to bring attention to urgent political concern

Karon Davis

Jan 24th, 2024 47m 54s

I am so excited to say that my guest on the GWA Podcast is one of the most groundbreaking artists working today, Karon Davis.Hailed for her life-size sculptures, that she covers in white plaster dust and bases on her own or friend’s bodies, D

Furio Rinaldi on Tamara de Lempicka

Jan 17th, 2024 46m 18s

I am so excited to say that my guest on the great women artists podcast is the renowned curator, scholar, and expert in 15th- and 16th-century Italian drawings, Furio Rinaldi to discuss TAMARA DE LEMPICKA!Dubbed “the Baroness with the Brush''

Doris Salcedo

Jan 10th, 2024 36m 49s

I am so excited to say that my guest on the GWA Podcast is one of the most renowned artists alive today, Doris Salcedo. Born in Colombia, where she is based today, Salcedo, is hailed for her mid to colossal-scale sculptures and public install

Kirsten Buick on Edmonia Lewis

Dec 13th, 2023 52m 35s

I am so excited to say that my guest on the GWA Podcast is the renowned art historian, Kirsten Pai Buick to discuss EDMONIA LEWIS!Edmonia Lewis (1844–1907) is hailed for her stunningly chiselled marble busts and figurative sculptures – with t

Lauren Elkin on Carolee Schneemann and Hannah Wilke

Dec 6th, 2023 39m 6s

I am so excited to say that my guest on the GWA Podcast is one of the most brilliant writers around today, Lauren Elkin! On today's episode we speak about feminist pioneers, Carolee Schneemann and Hannah Wilke!! Elkin is an American in London

Caroline Vout on Venus, Hermaphroditus, and other Classical Bodies in Art

Nov 29th, 2023 38m 18s

I am so excited to say that my guest on the GWA Podcast is the world-renowned Classics scholar and professor at the University of Cambridge, Caroline Vout! Today we are discussing all sorts of figures in Classics, from Venus to Hermaphroditus

Hilton Als on Diane Arbus and Alice Neel

Nov 22nd, 2023 33m 20s

I couldn’t be more excited to say that my guest on the GWA Podcast is one of the most renowned writers, curators, critics, and cultural commentators in the world right now… Hilton Als! A Pulitzer prize winner, a recipient of a Guggenheim Fell

Elif Shafak on storytelling in art (+Frida Kahlo, Artemisia Gentileschi, and more!)

Nov 15th, 2023 44m 30s

I am so excited to say that my guest on the great women artists podcast is one of the most pioneering – and my favourite – writers alive today, Elif Shafak! In this episode, we talk about the power of storytelling, the importance of writing w

Julia Bryan-Wilson on Louise Nevelson

Nov 8th, 2023 38m 23s

THIS WEEK on the GWA Podcast, we interview world-renowned scholar, Julia Bryan-Wilson – the Professor of Art History and LGBTQ+ Studies at Columbia University – on the trailblazing artist, Louise Nevelson!“It’s not the medium that counts. It

Marina Warner on Eve, Lilith, Athena, Medusa

Oct 31st, 2023 45m 23s

I am so excited to say that my guest on the GWA Podcast – for the second time! – is Dame Professor Marina Warner, one of the leading historians on this planet!A writer, lecturer, author of almost 40 books, and former president of the Royal So

Rachel Whiteread

Oct 24th, 2023 38m 51s

I am so excited to say that my guest on the GWA Podcast is one of the most pioneering artists alive today, Rachel Whiteread. Working across sculpture and drawing, in mediums ranging from concrete to resin, and in scales that go from miniscule

Christina Quarles

Aug 10th, 2023 44m 50s

I am so excited to say that my guest is one of the most renowned painters working in the world right now, Christina Quarles. A painter of bodies that stretch, condense, tangle, and meld into shapes that range from fleshy to stringy, Quarles i

The Story of Art Without Men (Surrealism -- Audiobook!)

Jun 27th, 2023 35m 13s

In this episode, of The Great Women Artists Podcast, Katy Hessel reads 30 MINS of her chapter on SURREALISM from her book – and audiobook! – The Story of Art Without Men. The Story of Art Without Men is published by Penguin (UK), WW Norton (U

Ruth Ozeki on objects and observation

Jun 13th, 2023 55m 41s

THIS WEEK on the GWA Podcast, I interview one of the most important, pioneering and impactful writers and novelists working today, Ruth Ozeki. In this episode, we deep dive into looking, writing, observation and perception in a fascinating di

Anna Weyant

Jun 6th, 2023 44m 36s

THIS WEEK on the GWA Podcast, I interview one of the most exciting artists working in the world right now, Anna Weyant.From girls on the cusp of adolescence swept up in an eerie atmosphere to dollshouses with doors only slightly ajar, the sub

Mickalene Thomas

May 30th, 2023 34m 59s

THIS WEEK on the GWA Podcast, I interview one of the most renowned artists working in the world right now, Mickalene Thomas. Working across painting, photography, installation, film, collage and more, Thomas, for the past two decades has been

Kiki Smith

May 23rd, 2023 38m 42s

THIS WEEK on the GWA Podcast, I interview one of the most pioneering artists alive today, Kiki Smith!Born in 1954, in Germany, raised in New Jersey, and now based in the Catskills and New York City, where we are recording today, Kiki Smith is

Adriana Varejão

May 16th, 2023 38m 46s

THIS WEEK on the GWA Podcast, I interview one of the most renowned artists living today, Adriana VarejãoBest known for her sculptural, almost architectural, paintings that extend far beyond the frame, Varejão has tackled themes of Brazilian c

Marilyn Minter

May 9th, 2023 45m 9s

THIS WEEK on the GWA Podcast, I interview the renowned painter, photographer and filmmaker, Marylin Minter! A legend on the New York art scene for over 50 years, Marylin Minter is a pioneer of electrically graphic, photorealist paintings whic

Siri Hustvedt on Artemisia Gentileschi, Louise Bourgeois, and more

May 2nd, 2023 58m 22s

THIS WEEK on the GWA Podcast, we interview the acclaimed novelist, essayist and author of 18 books, SIRI HUSTVEDT!From memoir to poetry, non-fiction to fiction, Hustvedt’s writing has touched on the topics of psychoanalysis, philosophy, neuro

Sarah Sze

Apr 26th, 2023 50m 59s

THIS WEEK on the GWA Podcast, we interview one of the most renowned artists working today, SARAH SZE!Working across sculpture, painting, drawing, printmaking, video, and installation – and the culmination of them – Sze’s creations often take

Pamela Bannos on Vivian Maier

Apr 18th, 2023 48m 9s

THIS WEEK on the GWA Podcast, we interview author, artist, writer, and academic, Pamela L Bannos on the very private yet supremely inquisitive street photographer who spent her days working as a nanny, VIVIAN MAIER!!Maier (1926–2009) was stre

Sonia Boyce

Apr 11th, 2023 51m 21s

WELCOME BACK TO SEASON 9 of The GWA PODCAST! This week, we interview one of the most influential and groundbreaking artists alive, SONIA BOYCE! Born and raised in London, where she still lives today, Boyce has been taking the art world by sto

Nellie Scott on Sister Mary Corita

Dec 21st, 2022 47m 22s

THIS WEEK on the GWA Podcast, to end this season, we interview Nellie Scott, Director of the Corita Art Center in California, on SISTER MARY CORITA!Sister Mary Corita Kent is the legendary Los Angeles icon, pop artist, activist, nun, and educ