Not Real Art

About Not Real Art

The NOT REAL ART podcast celebrates creative culture and the artists who make it. NOT REAL ART is fresh, fun and inspiring. It contains material not suitable for pretentious art snobs. Guests include the world-class artists, designers and creatives who drive the $2T creative economy. NOT REAL ART is hosted by L.A. based art world insiders Man One and Sourdough who bring their devil-may-care attitude to discussing their mutual love — and hate — for the contemporary art world, creative culture, and everything in between. If you're an an arts professional or creative culture enthusiast, NOT REAL ART is for you!

Publisher

Crewest Studio

Category

arts · arts · business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

1 Oct 2019

Latest episode

6 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

4 of 283 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   6 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Arterial: A Fresh Way to Fund the Arts

   Scott “Sourdough” Power interviews Morgan Laurens, editor-in-chief of NOT REAL ART, about Arterial, a new nonprofit grantmaking arm for arts funding.

2. 

   1 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Creative Machines: Joseph O’Connell on Play, Problem-Solving, and Public Art

   Host Scott “Sourdough” Power interviews Joseph O’Connell, founder of Creative Machines, about inspiring creativity and social interaction through public art.

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   4 Aug 2026

   ‘Voodoo Craftsman’ Marcus Brown on History, Cultural Memory, and Technology in Public Spaces

   Host Scott ‘Sourdough’ Power interviews sculptor and educator Marcus Brown about his art that blends history, technology, and cultural memory in public spaces.

Inside a recent episode

Arterial: A Fresh Way to Fund the Arts

Published 6 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And it just was a wonderful story. And she said, you know, Scott, she said, I think that, you know, not real arts content and some of its podcasts and videos, educational videos that we have in the not real art school, you know, a lot of these things would be really, really, you know, relevant and meaningful, you know, to these men and women. And by the way, no small number, 1.1 million incarcerated men and women now have access to our content. We were able to, um, through arterial through our nonprofit, uh, we were able to license, uh, and underwrite the licensing of over 50 hours of content at not real art content, podcasts, videos, um, artists, interviews, things that, that now these men and women can watch, read, listen, learn, grow and become better people. […]

Who has been a guest on Not Real Art

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Morgan Laurens
• Joseph O’Connell
• Marcus Brown
• Toni Sikes
• Joan Cox

Reach and audience

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

YouTube views

110,752

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

34 ratings

Spotify

4.2 / 5

5 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 79 / 100

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

Quality

89

Social presence

0

YouTube

86

Engagement

85

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