Writer and curator Dan Nadel is a hero of mine and a little bit of a renaissance man. He was the writer of the sensible and influential PictureBox for many years and was a champion of a lot of what Juxtapoz was based on however took it to a complete new degree of intricate historic analysis and making a voice of document for thus many artists who time wasn’t given them a needle to etch their title within the vinyl, so to talk. We’re speaking comedian e-book legends, graphic novelists, outsider artists who might need created among the most recognizable artwork of the twentieth century that the historical past books hadn’t given the complete retrospective for. And Dan was going to do it.
This yr in paricular, Dan is busy. From publishing his latest e-book, Crumb: A Cartoonist’s Life on the profession and lifetime of the controversial figura that’s Robert Crumb, to co-curator for Sixties Surreal, a rethinking survey the artwork historical past of the Nineteen Sixties on the Whitney Museum of American Artwork (opening September 24, 2025) and Curator-at-Massive for Geroge Lucas’ new Lucas Museum of Narrative Artwork, we had rather a lot to make amends for The Unibrow’s Radio Juxtapoz podcast. We discuss undergrround comedian’s new resurgence into modern artwork, the making of the Crumb biography and the extremely pivotal second of KAWS’ assortment present on the Drawing Middle in 2024. However greater than that, I bought to talk with somebody I love on his dedication to print, to phrases, to creating narratives in a world that should perceive it is visible historical past. —Evan Pricco
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The Unibrow’s Radio Juxtapoz podcast is hosted by Juxtapoz editor, Evan Pricco. Episode 165 was recorded in Los Angeles and Brooklyn on Might 14th, 2025.
