
Thought Pieces, the podcast from celebrated publisher MACK, brings you the best of arts writing across literature, poetry and criticism. Each week, discover a new piece of writing, read by the artist or writer themself. Episodes include Moyra Davey on encountering Peter Hujar’s photographs through the archive, Ishion Hutchinson’s homage to the British artist Donald Rodney, Stephen Shore on the imp... more
| Publishes | Weekly | Episodes | 13 | Founded | 5 years ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Category | Arts | |||

Listen to Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and educator Tracy K. Smith interpret the photography of RaMell Ross into a lyrical and uncanny text. Taking five images from Spell, Time, Practice, American, Body (2023), Smith’s poem complements photographs tak... more
In this episode, artist Moyra Davey describes encountering Peter Hujar’s photographs through the archive. Reading from The Shabbiness of Beauty, Davey focuses on Hujar’s lesser-known work of farm animals and babies, culminating in a thoughtful reflec... more
Jamaican poet and essayist Ishion Hutchinson reads ‘Splash Crowns: On Donald Rodney’ from Fugitive Tilts (2025). This piece is a tender homage to the life and work of British artist Donald Rodney, a leading figure of the BLK Art Group during the 1980... more
What can instructional photographs teach us about ways of seeing? This is the question asked by artist Carmen Winant in the introduction to her book Instructional Photography: Learning How to Live Now (2021). Drawing from books, catalogues and pamphl... more
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