Joan of Art is Joan Juliet Buck’s new Radio Free Rhinecliff podcast devoted to human expression in the age of tentpoles and bots, at the dawn of AI. It's about culture in all its forms. Joan of Art is a weapon in the fight against the machines Joan of Art is the flag waving over the battlefield where institutional interests try to crush the people who make what’s called either 'Product" , or 'Content'. Product? Content? No: Art. Movies. Books. Plays. Exhibitions. Poems. Murals. Museums. Streamers. Essays. Concepts. Joan Of Art is reviews --but also interviews with people who writ...
Latest episodes
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45 min
Amy Larocca explains Wellness
Journalist Amy Larocca, for 20 years the fashion editor or New York Magazine, looks at the wellness industry in her hilarious, best-selling book 'How To Be Well, Navigating Our Sel…
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50 min
Michael Lindsay-Hogg explains Rock and Roll
Michael Lindsay Hogg directed the London Friday TV music show Ready, Steadu, Go! when he was 24, and went on to shape the history of pop music through videos. His Rolling Stones Ro…
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40 min
Molly Crabapple explains the Jewish Bund, the subject of her book “Here Where We Live is our Country”
Molly Crabapple, the illustrator and journalist, has written a vital book about the creation of the first labor movement in the Pale of settlement by Jewish intellectual and activi…
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49 min
Ian Buruma's explains Berlin 1939-1945 in his new book, 'Stay Alive"
Joan Juliet Buck in enlightening conversation with professor , writer, and public intellectual Ian Buruma, whose new book explains what it was to be every kind of German living in…
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15 min
Old Model Disasters are Obsolete, the Heart of the Matter is Death
Joan Juliet Buck dismisses 'One Battle After Another,' praises movies that face death: 'The Voice of Hind Rajab' , 'The Secret Agent', and two from 2024: 'The Life of Chuck', 'The…
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51 min
Gary Lippman explains the one sentence story
A month before Gary Lippman's new novel, 'I Wish, Therefore I Am' comes out, he discusses his book of one-sentence stories, 'We Loved The World But Could Not Stay' with Joan Juliet…
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1 h 00
Laura Day explains how to grow a backbone
Laura Day, a down-to-earth intuitive who spent her youth being lab-tested by academic researchers into ESP, tells Joan Juliet Buck how she turned her neurodiversity into an excelle…
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12 min
Ruth Zaporah, taught me to not think
This Joan of Art is taken from my Substack ‘Every Day Until I Die’, in which I wrote about Ruth Zaporah, who died on May 12. What this dancer who wanted to use words discovered , d…
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13 min
Life under the Boot: I'm Still Here and Seed of The Sacred Fig:
Walter Salles' 'I'm Still Here', about an engineer disappeared from his home by an oppressive regime in 1971, won the Oscar for best not-American film. Mohammad Rasoulof's 'The See…
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43 min
Renée Martin-Nagle explains Water
Joan Juliet Buck interviews Renée Martin-Nagle, who after being the US counsel for french aerospace companies, became an environmental lawyer, founded and runs A Ripple Effect , an…
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13 min
Emilia Perez is a masterpiece.
Juan Juliet Buck reviews Jacques Audiard’s violent musical masterpiece and explains how a drama about a drug lord who changes sex brings the shock of the new. Produced and edited b…
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47 min
Nick Quested explains Political Division in America
Do grievances constitute an ideology? No one can get a handle on today, except maybe Nick Quested, producer, director, and maker of documentaries, who embedded with the Proud Boys…
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42 min
Griffin Dunne explains how to honor your father
The actor Griffin Dunne, born rich and fame-adjacent in Hollywood, tells a family story wilder than any miniseries. His mother was an heiress, his aunt was Joan Didion , his uncle…
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36 min
Michael J Gelb explains how to walk well.
Michael J Gelb teaches normal humans how to walk, CEOs how to access genius levels of creativity, and also juggles. He began studying the Alexander Technique in London 43 years ago…
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33 min
Carolyn Pfeiffer explains the Dolce Vita, Swinging London, and net points
Carolyn Pfeiffer's unerring flair took her from North Carolina to Rome at 21 with a one way boat ticket, and straight into La Dolce Vita. As the assistant to Claudia Cardinale, she…
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Howard Korder explains how much of a trickster, and how charming, Benjamin Franklin was
Joan Juliet Buck interviews Howard Korder, co-writer and co-producer of “Franklin”, the 8-part marvel from the team that brought you "The Sopranos". “Franklin”, streaming on Apple…
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Expats and The Curse
Joan Juliet Buck explains two terrific, upsetting, unconventional, genre-defying new series , one from the brilliant Lulu Wang and set in Hong Kong, the other a satire written by a…
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George Green explains how he founded The Moth, and what makes a good story
The inside story of how, back in 1997, George Dawes Green founded The Moth, the storytelling entity that gave you-- and you and you-- permission to get up on stage and tell your st…
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John Patrick Shanley explains how he writes plays
This winter John Patrick Shanley had three plays running simultaneously in New York; the newest, Brooklyn Laundry, is a wrenching and ecstatic 80 minute ride through attraction, gr…
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Capote's Swans: cliff notes and field guide
Words that hurt: It's 1975 and Truman Capote , one of the most famous writers in the world, publishes an extract of his unfinished novel in Esquire. It's the dirty secrets his belo…