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- 2 weeks ago1h 16m
Jan Tumlir, 2026 Rabkin Prize winner
Jan Tumlir is an author, editor, educator, and founding editor of the Los Angeles-based contemporary art journal X-TRA. He is a winner of the 2026 Rabkin Prize. You can read more about Jan on our website.We invited Jan to have a conversation about his work and ideas. The interview is accompanied by a newly commissioned portrait of Jan at his home office in Los Angeles by Kevin J Miyazaki.The interview has been gently edited for length and clarity.Mentioned in this episode:* World Trade Organization* University of California, Los Angeles* California Institute of the Arts* George Schultz (U.S. secretary of state, 1982-1989)* Cultural critic Walter Benjamin* October journal* Writer Rosalind E. Krauss* Art historian Benjamin H.D. Buchloh* Philosopher Martin Heidegger* Artist Michael Asher* The Beatles* Mythologies by Roland Barthes (Editions du Seuil, 1957)* X-TRA Contemporary Art Journal* The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles* Helter Skelter: LA Art in the 1990s exhibit curated by Paul Schimmel (The Museum of Contemporary Art, 1992)* Sunshine & Noir: Art In L.A. 1960–1997 by Max Kozloff (Artforum, November 1997)Los Angeles 1955-1985: The birth of an art capital exhibit (Centre Pompidou, 2006)* Getty museum* PST ART experience* Artist and writer Ellen Birrel* Artist Stephen Berens* Occidental College* LA Weekly* Art Issues magazine (1989–2001)* Writer Gary Kornblau* Artist Ron Athey* Writer Malcolm Gladwell* Artist Mike Kelley* Artist Andy Warhol* Coca-Cola [3] by Andy Warhol (1962)* Made in L.A. 2025 exhibit (Hammer Museum, 2025-2026)* L.A. Artland, Contemporary Art from Los Angeles by Chris Kraus, Jane McFadden, Jan Tumlir, Oriana Fox, and Catherine Grant (Black Dog Publishing, 2005)* Writer Chris Kraus* ArtCenter College of
- 3 weeks ago1h 15m
Alicia Inez Guzmán, 2026 Rabkin prize winner
Alicia Inez Guzmán is a critic and award-winning investigative journalist focused on culture and land use. She is a winner of the 2026 Rabkin Prize. You can read more about Alicia on our website.We invited Alicia to have a conversation about her work and ideas. The interview is accompanied by a newly commissioned portrait by Kevin J Miyazaki of Alicia at her home with her dog, Frida, in Chimayo, N.M., surrounded by art, including “Questions,” by Monika Guerra; “Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe,” by Vicente Telles; and “The Frenchman’s House, Ojo Sarco, NM,” by Richard Guzmán.The interview has been gently edited for length and clarity.Mentioned in this episode:* Buried secrets, poisoned bodies by Alicia Inez Guzmán (Searchlight New Mexico, Dec. 20, 2023)* The terrible emptiness of ‘Oppenheimer’ by Alicia Inez Guzmán (Searchlight New Mexico, Aug. 8, 2023)* Artist Joanna Keane Lopez* American Progress by John Gast (1872)* U.S. Homeland Security post (X, July 23, 2025)* Tewa Nangeh/Tewa Country exhibit (Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, 2025- Nov. 1, 2026)* O’Keeffe Country was never O’Keeffe’s to begin with by Alicia Inez Guzmán (High Country News, May 29, 2026)* Artist Jason Garcia on Facebook* Portraits of Georgia O’Keeffe (Alfred Stieglitz Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago)* Photographer Alfred Stieglitz* Artist and filmmaker Tara Najd Ahmadi* Unfinished: Art, Film, and Revolution in Iran, 1979 by Tara Najd Ahmadi (University of Rochester, N.Y., 2021)* Machu Picchu* Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange (Penguin Random House, 2025)This episode of the Rabkin Interviews was produced by the Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation, an artist-endowed foundation based in Portland, Maine. The interview was conducted by Mary Louise Schumacher, a journalist and the executive director of the Rabkin Foundation. The portraits were made by artist-photographer Kevin J. Miyazaki. The production team includes Cindy Eggert Johnson, producer; Johnathon Olsen, editor; with research and copy editing by Danielle Yovino and Nan Williams.Music is HaHaHa by Ariel Shalom, Present in the Past by Flint, March the Machine (Instrumental) by Envy, and Lakeside Cafe by WOOLFSON. The Rabkin Prize is awarded through a nomination process, and an independent jury selects the winners. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit rabkinfoundation.substack.com
- 4 weeks ago1h 33m
Sarah Lewis, 2026 Rabkin Prize winner
Sarah Lewis is an award-winning author, associate professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, and founder of Vision & Justice, an initiative that reveals the role of culture in representational democracy. She is a winner of the 2026 Rabkin Prize. You can read more about Sarah on our website.We invited Sarah to have a conversation about her work and ideas. The interview is accompanied by a newly commissioned portrait of Sarah in the Franklin Street Park of Cambridge, Mass., by Kevin J Miyazaki.The interview has been gently edited for length and clarity.Mentioned in this episode:* If Emmett Till Lived: Freedom on American Ground exhibit curated by Sarah Lewis in collaboration with Reverend Wheeler Parker, Jr. (Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago, fall 2026)* Reverend Wheeler Parker, Jr.* If Emmett Till Lived: A Creative Monument edited by Sarah Lewis (DelMonico Books, 2026)* Vision & Justice Initiative* Emmett Till Gets a Bulletproof Memorial by Jasmine Weber (Hyperallergic, Oct. 19, 2019)* Monument Lab* Curator Paul Farber* Civil rights lawyer Sherrilyn Ifill on Instagram* Writer Siddhartha Mitter (2024 Rabkin Prize winner)* Writer Vinson Cunningham* Lonnie G. Bunch III, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution* Writer Jeneé Osterheldt* Restorative Justice is Vital: The Ever-Revealing Truths of Emmett Till’s Story by Patrick Weems and Ronald K.L. Collins (Mississippi Free Press, Sept. 26, 2024)* Artist Kenn Cook Jr.* Artist Stephen Marc* The Effects of Stand-Your-Ground Laws (RAND Corp., Jan. 26, 2026)* Artist Hank Willis Thomas* Artist Theaster Gates* Artist Amy Sherald* Castle doctrine* Examining Breonna Taylor’s Death (Academy for Justice, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University)* Understanding Race and History Through Photography by James Estrin, includes an image of musician and artist Shadrach Emmanuel Lee, Sarah Lewis’ (The New York Times, March 24, 2017)* Chatham House Rule* Afternoon of Conversation Sarah Lewis’ interview with actor/director Jodie Foster (Aspen Ideas, June 28, 2026)* Nieman Foundation* Photographer Dorothea Lange* Photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson* Photographer <a target="_blan
- Sep 30, 20261h 16m
Tyler Green, 2026 Rabkin Prize winner
Tyler Green is a critic, author, historian, and longtime host of The Modern Art Notes Podcast. He is a winner of the 2026 Rabkin Prize. You can read more about Tyler on our website.We invited Tyler to have a conversation about his work and ideas. The interview is accompanied by a newly commissioned portrait of Tyler in the Edgar Shannon Library at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va, by Kevin J Miyazaki.The interview has been gently edited for length and clarity.Mentioned in this episode:* The Modern Art Notes Podcast* A Return to Round Top by Tyler Green (Medium, Nov. 10, 2014)* The Yosemite by John Muir (Dover Publications, 2018, reprint of Century Co., 1920)* Artist Juan Gris* Juan Gris exhibit curated by Mark Rosenthal (National Gallery of the Arts, 1983-84)* When Richard Diebenkorn Worked Through Henri Matisse’s Greatest Painting by Tyler Green (Medium, Jan. 15, 2016)* Matisse and Picasso: The Story of Their Rivalry and Friendship by Jack Flam (Basic Books/Hachette Book Group, 2008)* Matisse/Diebenkorn exhibit (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2017)* Artist Robert Colescott* Gerhard Richter: ‘Post-remembering’ the Holocaust in German Contemporary Art by Kris Belden-Adams (European Network Remembrance and Solidarity, 2016)* Uncle Rudi by Gerhard Richter (1965)* Gerhard Richter’s Uncle Rudi: Hidden History talk with René Block and Miloslav Vorlíček (Centre Tchèque Paris, 2026)* No. 769: Remembering Betye Saar The Modern Arts Notes Podcast (July 30, 2026)* Carleton Watkins: Making the West American by Tyler Green (University of California Press, 2020)* Emerson’s ‘Nature’ and the Artists: Idea as Landscape, Landscape as Idea by Tyler Green (Prestel Publishing, 2021)* Photographer Carleton Watkins* Artist Albert Bierstadt* Lewis Hine’s photographs for the National Child Labor Committee Library of Congress* The Ahwahneechees: A Story of the Yosemite Indians by John W. Bingaman (1966)* Fire Over Ahwahnee: John Muir and the Decline of Yosemite by Eric Michael Johnson (Scientific American, Aug. 13, 2014)* Artist Jacob Lawrence* Jacob Lawrence: ‘The American Struggle’ exhibit curated by Randall Griffey and Sylvia Yount (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, fall 2020)* Reckoning with American History in Jacob Lawrence’s ‘The America
- Sep 23, 20261h 13m
Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, 2026 Rabkin Prize winner
Kaelen Wilson-Goldie is a journalist and critic with decades of international reporting experience who writes often about the relationship between art and politics. She is a winner of the 2026 Rabkin Prize. You can read more about Kaelen on our website.We invited Kaelen to have a conversation about her work and ideas. The interview is accompanied by a newly commissioned portrait of Kaelen at the Center for Fiction in Brooklyn, N.Y., by Kevin J Miyazaki.The interview has been gently edited for length and clarity.Mentioned in this episode:* The Boston Globe* Writer Mike Barnicle* University of Virginia* The Cavalier Daily student newspaper* The Declaration student newspaper* C-VILLE Weekly* Writer Allen Ginsberg* BBC America* The Daily Star newspaper on web.archive.org* Writer Lysandra Ohrstrom* American University of Beirut* Beautiful, Gruesome, and True: Artists at Work in the Face of War by Kaelen Wilson-Goldie (Columbia Global Reports, September 2022)* Filmmaker Amar Kanwar* Artist Teresa Margolles* Artist collective Abounaddara* Universal Declaration of Human Rights* abou naddara by Abounaddara* Syrian Film Collective Withdraws from Venice Biennale, Claims Censorship by Hrag Vartanian (Hyperallergic, May 2015)* Major U.S. Museums Criticized for Responses to Ongoing George Floyd Protests by Alex Greenberger and Tessa Solomon (ARTnews, June 2, 2020)* Artforum Fires Top Editor After Its Open Letter on Israel-Hamas War by Zachary Small (The New York Times, Oct. 26, 2023)* Equator* Le Temps newspaper* Tribune de Genève newspaper* Le Courrier newspaper* Writer Jason Farago (2017 Rabkin Prize winner)* Writer Siddhartha Mitter (2024 Rabkin Prize winner)* Writer Emily Labarge
- Sep 16, 20261h 6m
Melaine Ferdinand-King, 2026 Rabkin Prize winner
Melaine Ferdinand-King is a cultural strategist, poet, and writer focused on historical and community narratives, and the inaugural curator of the African American Museum of Rhode Island. She is a winner of the 2026 Rabkin Prize. You can read more about Melaine on our website.We invited Melaine to have a conversation about her work and ideas. The interview is accompanied by a newly commissioned portrait of Melaine in her home by Kevin J Miyazaki.The interview has been gently edited for length and clarity.Mentioned in this episode:* African American Museum of Rhode Island* Navigating by Starlight/PhDs of Practice speech by Melaine Ferdinand-King (Brown University, May 2025)* Reimaging Cultural Frameworks: Afrosurrealism in Practice speech by Melaine Ferdinand-King (Brown University, April 2025)* Sojourner Truth* Activist and writer Angela Davis* Ida B. Wells* Scholar Brian Meeks* Scholar Geri M. Augusto* Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals by Saidiya Hartman (W.W. Norton & Company Inc., 2020)* 1967 Interview between Aimé Césaire and René Depestre originally published in Poesias by Aimé Césaire (Casa de Las Emericas, 1969)* Manifestoes of Surrealism by André Breton, translated by Richard Seaver and Helen Lane (Ann Arbor Paperbacks, University of Michigan Press, 1969)* Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination by Robin D.G. Kelley (Penguin Random House, 2003)* Scholar Barrymore Bogues* Surrealism and Us: Caribbean and African Diasporic Artists Since 1940 curated by María Elena Ortiz (Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 2024)* Artist Kara Walker* Artist Wifredo Lam* 21st Century Ph.D. at Brown University* Antidisciplinary term popularized by Joi Ito (MIT Media Lab, 2014)* Jazz Improvisers Score High on Creativity by Kimber Price (Science News, Jan. 2, 2018)* States of Consciousness: The Layered Life of Donnamaria Bruton by Melaine Ferdinand-King (Boston Art Review, Feb. 3, 2026)* Cade Tompkins Projects* Artist Edward Loper Jr.* Artist Shahzia Sikander* Delaware Art Museum* Black Biennial 2022 co-founded by Melaine Ferdinand-King* Rhode Island School of Design* Artist Bob Dilworth* Scholar Farah Jasmine Griffin* Musician Boots Riley on Instagram<
- Oct 29, 202552 min
Nicole Martinez, 2025 Rabkin Prize winner
Nicole Martinez is an arts journalist and the deputy director of Fountainhead Arts in Miami. She is a winner of a 2025 Rabkin Prize, and you can read her full bio on our website. We invited Nicole to have a conversation about her work. The interview is accompanied by a newly commissioned portrait of Nicole in her home office in Miami.The interview has been gently edited for length and clarity.MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:* Ballet Etudes* “Trump’s Former Pal Plans To Beat Tariffs And The Immigration Crackdown” by Giacomo Tognini (Forbes, June 2025)* Carolina Drake* Artburst Miami* Fountainhead Arts* The Yearbook: 2024, An Annual Survey of Fountainhead Residency Artists by various writers (Fountainhead Arts, 2024)* Writer Ta-Nehisi Coates* Otter.ai app* Laurie Simmons’ Instagram account* “With the help of fellow Floridians and artificial intelligence, a Miami artist imagines a climate-resilient future for his city” by Nicole Martinez (The Art Newspaper, August 2022)* Ragnar Kjartansson’s solo show Las cosas que ves al momento de caer el telón, (The Things You See Before the Curtain Hits the Floor), Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, 2023.* Ragnar Kjartansson, God* Ragnar Kjartansson, The Visitors * Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Portrait of Ross in L.A.) * RUNIK by Petrit Halilaj, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City (2023-2024)* Art on my mind by bell hooks* Mother Reader: Essential Writings on Motherhood, edited by Moyra Davey (Seven Stories Press, 2001)This episode of the Rabkin Interviews was produced by the Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation, an artist-endowed foundation based in Portland, Maine. The interview was conducted by Mary Louise Schumacher, a journalist and the executive director of the Rabkin Foundation. The portraits were made by artist-photographer Kevin J. Miyazaki. The production team for the Rabkin Interviews also includes Cindy Eggert Johnson, producer; Johnathon Olsen, editor; with research and copyediting by Katie Avila Loughmiller and Karen Samelson. Music is by Flint, HaHaHa, Just for Kicks, and Curtis Cole. The Rabkin Prize is awarded through a nomination process, and an independent jury selects the winners. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit rabkinfoundation.substack.com
- Oct 22, 202552 min
Eva Recinos, 2025 Rabkin Prize winner
Eva Recinos is an arts and culture journalist, educator, and creative nonfiction writer based in Los Angeles. Her essay collection, Underneath the Palm Trees, is forthcoming in 2027 from Northwestern University Press. She is a winner of a 2025 Rabkin Prize. You can read her full bio at our website.We invited Eva to have a conversation about her work. The interview is accompanied by a newly commissioned portrait of Eva in her home office in Los Angeles.The interview has been gently edited for length and clarity.MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:* Mellon Foundation – Poet StoryLabNarrative, Community, and the Transformative Possibilities of Brown Storytelling at Whittier College* Carolina Miranda* KCRW’s Art Insider newsletter* Image Magazine* LA Public Press* Writer and brand strategist Tasbeeh Herwees* Fred Eversley at David Kordansky Gallery* Mona Lisa Smile movie, directed by Mike Newell (Sony Pictures, 2003)* Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays by Durga Chew-Bose (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) 2017)This episode of the Rabkin Interviews was produced by the Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation, an artist-endowed foundation based in Portland, Maine. The interview was conducted by Mary Louise Schumacher, a journalist and the executive director of the Rabkin Foundation. The portraits were made by artist-photographer Kevin J. Miyazaki. The production team for the Rabkin Interviews also includes Cindy Eggert Johnson, producer; Johnathon Olsen, editor; with research and copyediting by Katie Avila Loughmiller and Karen Samelson. Music is by Flint, HaHaHa, Yarin Primak, and Out of Flux. The Rabkin Prize is awarded through a nomination process, and an independent jury selects the winners. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit rabkinfoundation.substack.com
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