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Private Life x Dialogues: The David Zwirner Podcast
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- May 6, 2026
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- 2186
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Summary
Private Life presents a bonus episode from our friends at Dialogues: The David Zwirner Podcast . Produced by the eponymous art gallery, Dialogues brings together artists, creatives, and intellectuals in conversation about what it means to make things today. In this episode, host Helen Molesworth is joined by the art historian Lisa Saltzman to discuss Walter Benjamin’s final days. Molesworth and Saltzman discuss philosophy, World War II Europe, and the network of intellectuals who saved Benjamin’s most prized possessions, including Angelus Novelus , the Paul Klee drawing that helped inspired one of his most well-known texts, the Theses on the Philosophy of History. Saltzman is the inaugural Emily Rauh Pulitzer ’55 Chair of Modern and Contemporary Art at Bryn Mawr College. She is currently working on a book, To Make Whole What Has Been Smashed , that explores how one passage from Benjamin’s posthumously published writingscame to transform Klee’s etching of an angel into the “angel of history,” a postwar icon of our seemingly impotent witness to historical catastrophe. You can find Dialogues: The David Zwirner Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube. This Spring, The New York Review of Books announced a new column, “At the Galleries”, featuring sharp, timely reviews of a wide variety of exhibitions, with a particular focus on contemporary art. The column debuted in the magazine’s May 2026 Art Issue. Read “At the Galleries” with a subscription to The New York Review of Books , which, in addition to twenty issues a year, gives you access to our full archive since 1963, searchable on our website.