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The Russi Hive
The Russi Hive is a podcast about creativity—unfolding in conversations with expected and unexpected people; not only artists, but anyone with a practice, a system, or an obsession that shapes how they think and live.
Presented by Ricco/Maresca and hosted by Alejandra Russi, The Russi Hive is filmed and recorded in the gallery’s New York City space. This show is a place for those drawn to the unseen mechanics of making, the inner weather reports, invented languages, and the way an idea arrives…
Episodes
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Roz Chast and Patty Marx: Two-Minded Creature — Friendship as Creative Method
There are friendships that produce memories, and there are friendships that produce books, cartoons, fake awards, strong opinions about humming, and…
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Phong Bui: Culture-Maker — The Brooklyn Rail, Social Energy, and Slowness of Culture
Phong Bui has spent decades turning culture into a social act—bringing artists, writers, thinkers, and people from very different worlds into the same…
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Kate Berry Brown: Holding Form — Motherhood, Repetition, and the Shape of a Life
Kate Berry Brown joins The Russi Hive to discuss her new body of work: painstaking drawings made from thousands of marks that build forms at once flat…
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ChatGPT: Questionable Guest — A Voice Without a Body, a Body Without a Voice
Season 2 of The Russi Hive opens with its first Hive Construct: part interview, part performance, part conceptual experiment. Alejandra collaborates with…
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Creative Dispatch 3: The Restless Form — Range, Disruption, and the Hive Construct
In the final installment of a late-summer Creative Dispatch trilogy closing Season 1 of The Russi Hive, Alejandra considers what a filmed podcast might be…
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Creative Dispatch 2: The Thursday Machine — Nothing Happens. Then the Work Begins (Bonus)
In the second of three late-summer Creative Dispatches closing Season 1 of The Russi Hive, Alejandra moves from the thrill of launching a project to the…
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Creative Dispatch 1: The Spark — Perfectionism, an Imaginary Assistant, and Doing the Obvious Thing
In the first of three late-summer Creative Dispatches closing Season 1 of The Russi Hive, Alejandra rewinds to the podcast’s private prehistory—the research…
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Gallerinas: A Beginner’s Reality Check — Chic Illusion vs. Clockwork Machine
For the last interview in Season 1 of The Russi Hive Podcast, Alejandra turns the mic toward the team behind Ricco/Maresca, the Chelsea (NYC) gallery where the…
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Natalie Crist: Ecosystem Builder — Bloom, Decay, and Designing for Awe
In Episode 11 of The Russi Hive Podcast, Alejandra sits down with landscape designer Natalie Crist for a conversation about gardens as sensual, unruly…
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Alejandro Triana: Dude with the Oud — Passion, Place, and Playing Between the Notes
In Episode 10 of The Russi Hive Podcast, Alejandra sits down with Alejandro Triana—her nephew, almost-sibling, and the musician behind Dude with the Oud—for a…
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Choghakate Kazarian: Unquicken the Pace — Curating as Medium and Letting Ideas Ripen
In Episode 9 of The Russi Hive Podcast, Alejandra sits down with Choghakate Kazarian—art historian, curator, and writer—to talk about curating as a creative…
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Scott Asen: The Enemy Is Boredom — Taste, Risk, and Turtle Bay Records
In Episode 8 of The Russi Hive Podcast, Alejandra sits down with Scott Asen: founder of Turtle Bay Records, investor, raconteur, and proof that a life can be…
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Laetitia Barbier: Pocketable Museum — Tarot as Creative Language and Mirror
In Episode 7 of The Russi Hive Podcast, Alejandra sits down with Laetitia Barbier—tarot reader, writer, art historian, and longtime explorer of the strange…
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Elizabeth Dee: Who Gets Seen — Attention, Power, and Building Independent
In this episode of The Russi Hive Podcast, Alejandra sits down with Elizabeth Dee, founder of the Independent Art Fairs, to talk about what it means to build…
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Marc Brown: A Letter from the Future — Arthur, the Inner Child, and Keeping It Honest
In episode five of The Russi Hive Podcast, Alejandra sits down with Marc Brown, the creator of "Arthur," to explore how a bedtime story told during one of the…
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Adam Hanft: Half Man, Half Machine — AI, Creativity, and the Human Edge
Adam Hanft is a brand strategist, writer, and cultural critic who’s spent decades decoding how language, persuasion, and creativity actually work—from his…
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Sarah Theresa Lee: The Inner Archive — Intimacy, Fantasy, and a “Process with No Process"
Sarah Theresa Lee paints domestic scenes that feel like stage sets for the psyche: living rooms, bathrooms, and bedrooms where women, animals, and masked…
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Hydeon: Don’t Force the Magic — Alter Egos, World-Building, and Meditative Focus
Ian Ferguson—aka Hydeon—builds worlds where time folds in on itself: street‑level present, layered pasts, and speculative futures all coexist like screenshots…
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Frank Maresca: Legendary Eye — Fear, Instinct, and the Art of Looking
In the debut episode of The Russi Hive Podcast, Alejandra sits down with Frank Maresca, co-founder of Ricco/Maresca Gallery and one of the most influential…
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The Russi Hive — Official Trailer
Welcome to The Russi Hive Podcast—where we stay with the moment creativity meets the world, and listen to how an idea turns tangible… then keeps changing once…