About the show

Official podcast for artistic failures.

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Episodes

  • 68: Spilled Bowl of Chili

    October 2nd, 2020  |  1 hr 26 mins

    I'm wondering if I should buy a Chinese Marine Corps jacket...I'm thinkin' yea. Other than that, we talk about the presidential debate for 45 minutes, but honestly...who cares. There's a special announcement at the end. We engage in some real talk about big life changes.

  • 67: Bad Behavior w/ Natalie Lerner

    September 26th, 2020  |  1 hr 18 mins

    Natalie (@natalie_lerner) is back for the first IN PERSON guest-ep in ages. Feels good man. We discuss the favor economy in the workplace, sanitizing Discovery Zone, corona guilt, discernment & judgement, declining mental plasticity, lots of studio stuff, and the meaning of art without pomp. At the end we shit talk Jerry Saltz.

  • 66: The Bababooey Industrial Complex

    September 18th, 2020  |  1 hr 10 mins

    "Will's Dip Corner" is turning into a recurring segment and I'm having a manic spell. This week we talk about taste in movies, discrepancies in Roger Sterling's age, and whether things were really that good in the 90's. We end on a long thread about voting (or not) in the upcoming election, civic engagement, and what we can learn from the Tao of Will.

  • 65: Back in a Holy Place

    September 12th, 2020  |  1 hr 16 mins

    Will has a crippling dip addiction. Our main topic this week is the reopened Metropolitan Museum of Art! We talk conservation, viewing with sunglasses on, having positive feelings about art again, exhibition design, reading labels, and Richter's Birkenau paintings.

  • 64: The Nihilism Slip 'N Slide

    September 3rd, 2020  |  1 hr 31 mins

    This week we discuss being back to work in these strange times. Topics include: October vacation, social awkwardness, shameful sick days, the genus and phylum of assholes, and wasting time vs. dilly-dallying.

  • 63: Laurel Leaves Used to Mean Something

    August 27th, 2020  |  1 hr 9 mins

    Cupcakes WERE a surprising idea in 1997, I swear. Talking the Rock, NYC Nannystate, the exquisiteness of a 90-Minute movie, and we learn a terrible secret about Peg from Accounting.

  • 62: Individual Mass Confusion

    August 20th, 2020  |  1 hr 16 mins

    In which, I take a trip to a hood dentist. We also discuss Will's disdain for being photographed, the DNC's cucked convention, post office hysteria (and Forever 21's forgotten collaboration), collective delusion, mass confusion, Baudrillardian nightmares, and cultural death drive (fun!). Don't worry everyone...it's over now.

  • 61: A Thinking Potato

    August 12th, 2020  |  1 hr 23 mins

    An old fashioned menagerie! We cover a lot here. We talk Stew Leonard's (there's 12 lbs. of dip in the fridge), KHIVE, the hoggies at Sturgis, Guy Fieri's body double, politics with my uncle, Ivy League schools, Vermont vs. New Hampshire, more vexillology, Reddit/forum drama, are you Mr. Mime or Ditto?, consumption as a generative act, the difficulty of authentic thinking, and giving hard problems to lazy people.

  • 60: Here I'm a Moralist, There I'm a Marxist

    August 5th, 2020  |  1 hr 28 mins

    We dicuss stonks, the bidet, and our float tank experience.

  • 59: Pandemic Nostalgia

    July 30th, 2020  |  1 hr 15 mins

    Will impulse bought a bidet...This week we talk targeted ads ("Please bro. Use this moisturizer bro."), UFOs and ookie-spookies, the lower east side murder, Canada's mass shooting, friends of the police, stonks, and nostalgia for April.

  • 58: Triple Wonka

    July 23rd, 2020  |  1 hr 11 mins

    We talk about Zuckerberg and sunscreen, followed by a long art chat. We discuss a new painting I made (@ccamperchioli on instagram), setting work aside, editing your oeuvre, and lessons from the formalist past.

  • 57: The Kabuki of Normal

    July 16th, 2020  |  1 hr 20 mins

    This week we discuss Wayfair children, gay flags, feeling vs. describing, Johns and Rauschenberg, plus a bunch of other art talk. Towards the end we vent about the many peculiar anxieties of our current moment.
    the kabooki of normal

  • 56: Dancing With A Chicken

    July 9th, 2020  |  1 hr 38 mins

    This week we're talkin' SNL, 'Whose Line is it Anyway?', being high AF, and the reality of winning the lottery. We also do a long a studio visit with Will, in which we discuss: his new readymades, Felix Gonzales-Torres, anachronism, avant-garde and kitsch, and optimists masquerading as pessimists.

  • 55: Low-Upper-Middle

    July 2nd, 2020  |  1 hr 10 mins

    Hey! It's one year of Greene & Lewis! We totally forgot to mention it...oh well. On the bright side, it's a great episode. We talk about fast-food for 30 minutes then move into a more serious conversation about posting, cancel culture, and logging off.

  • 54: Parmageddon

    June 25th, 2020  |  1 hr 9 mins

    Topics include: proximity to genius, powers of 10, the 2012 vs. the 2016 election, flippin' dippers, economy and consolidation from Applebee's to high art, a US-China merger, and how Flavor Town could save us.

  • 53: Millenial Zoomer Cusp w/ Natalie Lerner

    June 18th, 2020  |  1 hr 19 mins

    Natalie returns to talk quarantine, BLM, McMuffin Cop, posting, authenticity, and strength.