I Don't Hate This

...Fills Us With Anxiety Nina has become a pupil in the way of the KonMari and is converting Erik to the stealthy art of sock folding. Like ninja assassins adherents of the KonMari ruthlessly ask of their possessions, “Does this spark joy?” If the answer is, “No,” the items in question are honorably discharged to the land of wind and ghosts, freed from roaming the earth in the backs of closets and parents’ basements. We also talk about the proper way to destroy your art and if there was anything worth seeing at EXPO Chicago this year. The full title of this episode is: Sorting Through Possessions Which Hang About Our Necks Like Millstones Sparks Panic and Fills Us With Anxiety

Erik wraps up his travelogue and discusses the Venice Biennale where you can get a brick for free if you make a mandatory voluntary donation of at least €10. We do the hard work of breaking down all the lazy art about physical labor. Also therapy donkeys.

Erik tells us of his pilgrimage to see a talismanic artwork that forms the center of his Elements & Principles of Art & Design pedagogy and his yearly sojourn to die Schweiz. Topics include a unique annual residency for artists and curators funded by a Swiss bank and what it feels like to be a cat who wants nothing more than to just be let in.

What do a dead tree, a (possibly imaginary) silver dog, a mime, a dad bod and a hover hand have in common? They can all be seen in the work of American sculptor Charles Ray. Listen to Nina and Erik review the exhibition "Charles Ray Sculpture: 1997–2014" on view at the Art Institute of Chicago.

This round it’s time for Erik to enter the hot seat when Nina puts his advanced art vocabulary knowledge to the test with her Modern and Contemporary final exam notes.

Howard L. Willett Most Valuable Adjunct Professor Erik Wenzel has a midterm test for all of you freshman Intro to Art students out there. And this test proves that sometimes the simplest questions are the hardest to answer.

It's the Fourth of July and you know what that means? Summer school is in session! Drop your hot dogs, grab your books, and hit the classroom with Nina and Erik in their three-part quiz series where they revisit their art education. In part one: Nina's memory is put to the test when she rediscovers her AP Art History practice test from the 11th grade.

Nina went to Germany and is back to tell us all about it. She and Erik address important contemporary art concerns, like falling asleep in yoga class, the Phantom Menace licensed Monopoly game and buying a dumb old rock from a vending machine.

Nina and Erik won't...stop...thinking about tomorrow, or about Documentia, the show Erik curated at Sidecar Gallery on the subject of archival obsessions.

Nina and Erik carefully document each moment as it passes during a conversation about the career of conceptual artist On Kawara.

Jan. 16, 2015. Recorded Podcast. In honor of the passing of On Kawara and the New Year 2015, Erik and Nina perform one hour's worth of subtitles from On Kawara's Today series.

Let's travel back to the year 2012, and hear Nina and Erik meet for the very first time in a time warp/gift wrap episode of I Don't Hate This!

Nina and Erik crawled up a vaseline-drenched cement ramp to bring you this episode on smashed vases, torn canvases and all kinds of other unfortunate events.

Senior Christopher Williams Correspondent André Callot went to see the Christopher Williams show at David Zwirner in New York, so you don't have to.

Parents. They care for you, love you, protect you, and they just don't understand your art. Join Erik and Nina for some emotionally searing personal stories of their parents as well as stories of famous parents from art history.

On an extra-special crossover episode with Noisy Ghost, Erik and Nina get lost in a moonage daydream, oh yeah, with Eleanor Russell, André Callot and Amy Wenzel. They went to "David Bowie Is" at the MCA in Chicago, and you're gonna hear all about it.

On episode two, Erik and Nina are ordered around by this summer's MoMA retrospective for Sigmar Polke, whom we all love. Plus, listener mail!

Episode one of I Don't Hate This, a new contemporary art podcast hosted by Nina Litoff and Erik Wenzel. On the first episode, Nina and Erik don't hate the Christopher Williams show "The Production Line of Happiness" at the Art Institute of Chicago. Follow @idonthatethis on Twitter and idonthatethispod.tumblr.com.