Joan of Art

About Joan of Art

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 write, think, paint, direct, dance, perform, who use the arts to enhance, elevate, and question our lives. It's not a show about solutions, it's a show about questions. As a critic, Joan Juliet Buck crisply and coherently shares her enthusiasms. Today there's more at stake than when she wrote for the classic primary pollinators of culture, the arts pages, features sections, and magazines. Today, the newsstands are closed, many of the magazines have become the living dead. What's left, on paper : Harper's , The Atlantic, New York Magazine, The New Yorker. The LRB. Guardian weekly. Online: Flying headlines. Trending information. Aggregated opinions. Rotten slimy tomatoes. Joan Of Art is a guide through what’s out there. It will feed your soul, and provide the jolt of insights with the thrill of the new.

Publisher

Radio Free Rhinecliff

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

11 Aug 2023

Latest episode

3 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

35 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   3 Aug 2026

   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 Self Care Epidemic, One Dubious Cure at a Time. Produced and edited by Matty Rosenberg, co-produced by Jennifer Hammoud, and Joan Juliet Buck @ radiofreerhinecliff.org Graphics by Joseph Maresca Send comments to comments@radiofreerhinecliff.org or call (845) 307-7446‬

2. 

   21 Jul 2026

   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 Rock and Roll Circus is shown at Upstate Films July 23rd, and before that he explains what it was all about Produced and edited by Matty Rosenberg, co-produced by Jennifer Hammoud, and Joan Juliet Buck @ radiofreerhinecliff.org Graphics by Joseph Maresca Send comments to comments@radiofreerhinecliff.org or call (845) 307-7446‬

3. 

   26 May 2026

   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 activists in 1897. She makes the disputes of the early socialists read like a thriller. ‘Here where we live is our country’ is brilliant, cool, astonishing, rational, and also moving. The idealism of the anti -Zionist men and women who created and fought for the Bund was tested by the horrendous events of the 20th century, but this book is ultimately about persistence and survival. A thrilling interview for Joan of Art Produced and edited by Matty Rosenberg, co-produced by Jennifer Hammoud, and Joan Juliet Buck @ radiofreerhinecliff.org Graphics by Joseph Maresca Send comments to comments@radiofreerhinecliff.org or call (845) 307-7446‬

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.7 / 5

12 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 49 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

69

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

71

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