The ArtiFact Podcast is a long-form show on books, culture, painting, and music hosted by Alex Sheremet, Joel Parrish, and a revolving door of co-hosts and guests. Each subject is covered in depth and at length, with past shows featuring the Epic of Gilgamesh, Charles Johnson's "Oxherding Tale", Leonard Shlain’s "Art & Physics", John Williams's "Stoner", and more. Opinionated, controversial, and prone to making enemies and friends of friends and enemies, ArtiFact delivers new perspectives on the arts by artists of talent.
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[TEASER] ArtiFact #65: New Georgia Film, Musk & Trump, Crypto Dystopia, & Looming Catastrophes (00:01:06)
Topics: discussing our upcoming film on Don Moss in Savannah, Georgia & Tybee Island; "Camera Work" photos curated by Alfred Stieglitz; adopting new cinematic techniques; Donald Trump, Elon Musk, & Am...
Donald Trump & The Liberal Hydra | ArtiFact 64: Benjamin Studebaker (01:41:17)
Donald Trump's 2024 win surprised many pundits, but not Benjamin Studebaker, who had assumed the worldwide incumbency crisis in 2024 would ultimately come for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
His newest b...
GAME OVER: Kamala Harris Pulls The Plug | ArtiFact 63: Alex Sheremet, Keith Jackewicz (01:11:33)
As soon as Joe Biden dropped out, Kamala Harris cinched the Democratic Party nomination. We assess Kamala Harris's uphill battle, and the extent to which Joe Biden condemned her to it. For example, wh...
Thaao Penghlis on Memory & Greek Mythology | ArtiFact 62: Alex Sheremet, Thaao Penghlis (01:04:41)
Thaao Penghlis is a legendary actor who appeared on "Days Of Our Lives", "General Hospital", "Mission Impossible", and more. Yet he is also an intellectually curious person, and put together a mini-se...
The Arts Naked & Up Close | ArtiFact 61: Erik Hill, Alex Sheremet (01:02:40)
Author and filmmaker Alex Sheremet sits down with Erik Hill of Erik Hill Reviews @erikhillreviews to discuss all things art: the relationship between filmmaking and poetry, how the Harlem Renaissanc...
I Made The Film Nobody Else Would | ArtiFact 60: Destin Davis, Joel Parrish, Alex Sheremet (01:05:58)
Filmmaking can be highly technical, or not. As first-time director Alex Sheremet argues, finding the right topic and having an artistic blueprint in mind are far more important to master, as no amount...
Why White People LOVE Thomas Sowell | ArtiFact 59: Alex Sheremet, Dan Schneider (00:56:36)
Thomas Sowell has a reputation for unorthodox positions and intellectual chops, but does he deserve it? His comments on slavery, equality, freedom, and philosophical concepts are rather thin, while hi...
How Jared Taylor WASTED His Life | ArtiFact 58: Alex Sheremet, Dan Schneider (02:48:50)
Jared Taylor was born in Japan, traveled the world and became fluent in several languages, yet has wasted his life on white separatism. In this way, he extracted all the benefits of diversity—personal...
Lust for Survival in Shakespeare's ANTONY & CLEOPATRA | ArtiFact 57: Laura Woods, Keith Jackewicz (01:41:51)
Myths of Rome and the Orient, as well as questions of race and sexuality all play major roles in William Shakespeare’s underrated play, Antony and Cleopatra. It follows the final years of Roman triumv...
Bitcoin For Socialists? | ArtiFact 56: Joshua Davila, Alex Sheremet (01:14:06)
Bitcoin and cryptocurrency are a hotbed for right-wing ideologues, but Joshua Davila argues this technology is not going away and ought to be used for left-wing activism. Bitcoin, for example, is not ...
Norman Maclean’s ”A River Runs Through It” Is Great | ArtiFact 55: Alex Sheremet, Keith Jackewicz (01:07:31)
Norman Maclean's "A River Runs Through It" is a great American novel, which is particularly shocking since it was Maclean’s first book and written in his 70s. In essence a memoir, “A River Runs Throug...
Israel Against The (Civilized) World | ArtiFact 54: Mouin Rabbani, Alex Sheremet (00:48:56)
The Hamas attack of October 7 was preceded by a number of escalations: ethnic cleansing in the West Bank and Jerusalem, Netanyahu’s threats to annex Palestine, encroachments into the Al Aqsa Mosque, t...
Decolonizing Shakespeare in ”The Tempest” | ArtiFact 53: Keith Jackewicz, Alex Sheremet (01:09:39)
In light of decolonization and postcolonial theory, William Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” has received new interest. Although Caliban is often thought of as the play’s centerpiece, Prospero remains its ...
Predicting the Human with Loren Eiseley | ArtiFact 52: Arnold Schroder on ”The Night Country” (01:26:03)
Loren Eiseley was a paleontologist more famed for his beautiful writing than for scientific discoveries, a fact that both oppressed and liberated him. In his book, “The Night Country”, Eiseley discuss...
Ivan Katchanovski on the Future of Ukraine | ArtiFact 51: Alex Sheremet, Ivan Katchanovski (01:34:00)
Now that Israel’s invasion of Gaza is center stage, Russia’s war in Ukraine is getting less attention. This has frustrated Zelensky in the midst of bad news. The Ukrainian counteroffensive has failed,...
Making GREAT Independent Films On A Budget | ArtiFact 50: Joel Parrish, Alex Sheremet (00:58:19)
Although there’s often a desire for big, Hollywood films, having too many resources, and too much polish, contradicts the mission of art. Independent films can be shot with minimal equipment and lend ...
What The Al-Ahli Gaza Hospital Bombing Really Meant | ArtiFact 49: Alex Sheremet, Keith Jackewicz (01:31:26)
The IDF is accused of bombing the al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza. As a result, both Israelis and Palestinians have staked their reputations on the responsible party. Yet this would already be the 35th ...
Frank Whaley’s ”The Jimmy Show” Is So Underrated | ArtiFact 48 (00:59:49)
Taking great influence from Martin Scorsese's "The King of Comedy", Frank Whaley's underrated character portrait, "The Jimmy Show", was attacked by critics and filmgoers upon release, and is mostly fo...
How The Black Panthers Changed My Life | ArtiFact 47: Eldridge Cleaver’s ”Soul on Ice” (01:55:09)
Two years after the creation of the Black Panther Party, Eldridge Cleaver’s prison writings were published as SOUL ON ICE. He became the party’s Minister of Information, but would soon have a falling ...
Norman Finkelstein on the IMPLOSION of Ibram X Kendi | ArtiFact 46 (01:13:52)
Ibram X Kendi (born Henry Rogers) is an "antiracist scholar" who is now under investigation by Boston University due to alleged mismanagement of the Center for Antiracist Research. In ArtiFact #46, Ho...
Dreamscapes In Scorsese’s ”Taxi Driver” | ArtiFact #45: Laura Woods, Jessica Schneider (00:59:58)
Universally heralded as an American classic, Martin Scorsese’s TAXI DRIVER (Robert DeNiro, Jodie Foster) deserves its reputation for nuance and the subtle ways in which its thematic, cinematic, and ps...
Norman Finkelstein On Race, Class, & Robin DiAngelo’s Fraud | ArtiFact #44 (01:02:02)
In the last few decades, political correctness has divided Americans and reduced their ability to embark on a real political project. According to Holocaust and Israel/Palestine scholar Norman Finkels...
Norman Finkelstein Exposes The Cult Of Barack Obama | ArtiFact #43 (01:27:37)
According to Holocaust and Israel/Palestine scholar Norman Finkelstein, Barack Obama’s “neat trick” allowed voters to imbue whatever political values they wished on to a blank slate who seemingly came...
Benjamin Studebaker On The Crisis Of Democracy | ArtiFact #42: Alex Sheremet, Benjamin Studebaker (02:07:51)
According to the Left, Right, and Center, democracy is under attack. Donald Trump claimed election fraud in 2020, while both Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton hinted at fascism with a Republican administr...
ArtiFact #41: Is YouTube Destroying Art? | Alex Sheremet, Ezekiel Yu, Dan Schneider (02:05:08)
Art YouTube ranges from academic to street, high-brow to low-brow, natural, performative, good and bad. In ArtiFact #41, writers Alex Sheremet, Ezekiel Yu, and Dan Schneider tackle some of the more po...
