CultureBlast is a podcast series featuring revelatory interviews with some of the world's greatest artists and creative minds -- hosted by Farah Nayeri, a London-based author and culture writer for the New York Times. Ranked among the world's top 10 creative conversations, it's a uniquely personal exchange with leading figures in all cultural disciplines: art, music, film, literature, performance...
They include: Emma Thompson │ Nile Rodgers │ Nan Goldin │ Elif Shafak │ Wayne McGregor │ Ai Weiwei │Charlotte Gainsbourg │ Sonia Boyce │ Ruben Ostlund │ Marina Abramovic
Farah is the author of Takedown: Art and Power in the Digital Age (2022). She has been covering culture for the New York Times for a decade. A public speaker and panel moderator, she regularly participates in conferences around the world.
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The star actress – watched by millions in the hit series “Slow Horses” -- is CultureBlast’s new guest!
Kristin Scott Thomas joins Farah Nayeri for a remarkably candid exchange on everything from class, ageism and childhood grief to the future of cinema, her friendship with Prince, and her avoidance of plastic surgery (so far).
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23 Feb 2024
Farah Nayeri and MARINA ABRAMOVIC
CultureBlast is a podcast series featuring revelatory interviews with some of the world's greatest artists and creative minds -- hosted by Farah Nayeri, a London-based author and culture writer for the New York Times. Ranked among the world's top 10 creative conversations, it's a uniquely personal exchange with leading figures in all cultural disciplines: art, music, film, literature, performance...
They include: Emma Thompson │ Nile Rodgers │ Nan Goldin │ Elif Shafak │ Wayne McGregor │ Ai Weiwei │Charlotte Gainsbourg │ Sonia Boyce │ Ruben Ostlund
Farah is the author of Takedown: Art and Power in the Digital Age (2022). She has been covering culture for the New York Times for a decade. A public speaker and panel moderator, she regularly participates in conferences around the world.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
24 Jan 2023
CultureBlast with Farah Nayeri is back with Ruben Östlund, the Oscar-nominated director of " Triangle of Sadness"
Have you seen " Triangle of Sadness"? The movie has just swept up three major Oscar nominations - best picture, best director, and best screenplay - and its director Ruben Östlund is the guest of the CultureBlast podcast!
Ruben talks about
-how the 1 percent should "stop bullshitting and pay taxes"
-how he filmed the vomiting scenes in " Triangle of Sadness"
-how watching Michale Jackson's "Thriller" at the age of 10 made him want to become a filmmaker.
And so much more.
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19 Oct 2022
Farah Nayeri and the British award winning artist, Sonia Boyce
The British artist — who won the top prize at the Venice Art Biennale this year — speaks with calm eloquence about
the pros and cons of being the first Black British woman to win the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale.
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20 Jul 2022
Farah Nayeri and Charlotte Gainsbourg
The French actor, singer-songwriter and fashion icon speaks with incredible sincerity on a wide range of topics such as:
Opening a museum in her father Serge Gainsbourg’s Paris home
Growing up as the shy daughter of two superstars
Working with director Lars von Trier
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12 May 2022
Farah Nayeri and Ai Weiwei
In an unusually candid and personal conversation, the superstar Chinese artist talks about how money kills art, why he never wanted to become an artist, how his son Ai Lao may be following his footsteps and why he does laundry to relax at home in Lisbon.
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6 Mar 2022
Farah Nayeri and Wayne McGregor
CultureBlast, the podcast series hosted by Farah Nayeri, brings you a titan of international dance: choreographer Wayne McGregor!
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17 Dec 2021
CultureBlast with Farah Nayeri and Elif Shafak
In the latest CultureBlast episode,Turkish-British Elif talks about her diplomatic mother, who took her around the world, and her storyteller grandmother, a healer who read coffee cups and melted lead at her home in Ankara. She discusses the taboos around sex in Turkey, where women are sometimes likened to a certain vegetable, and the excesses of identity politics in the West.
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8 Jul 2021
CultureBlast with Farah Nayeri and Nan Goldin
CultureBlast, the new podcast series hosted by Farah Nayeri, is back with another superstar guest -- Nan Goldin!
In her first-ever podcast, Nan makes revelations about her campaign against the Sackler family, makers of OxyContin (a painkiller she became addicted to); her experience of male brutality; and her true feelings about Instagram.
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2 Mar 2021
CultureBlast with Farah Nayeri and Nile Rodgers
Deep-dive interviews with personalities from the world of culture hosted by Farah Nayeri
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14 Dec 2020
CultureBlast with Emma Thompson
A new podcast series featuring deep-dive interviews with personalities from the world of culture, hosted by Farah Nayeri, journalist, author, and a London-based culture writer for the New York Times. Our first guest is Emma Thompson, the two-time Oscar winner actress and writer.
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