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 podcast was born, sitting down with Suzy...
6 Aug 48min
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 worlds—places where beauty, ecology, pleasure, an...
23 Jul 54min
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 conversation about obsession as creative ...
9 Jul 48min
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 medium. Kazarian’s story begins in several ...
25 Jun 48min
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 organized around taste, mischief, and a hi...
11 Jun 45min
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, sacred life of images—to talk about tarot n...
28 Mai 53min
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 the kinds of platforms the art world doesn...
14 Mai 45min
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 lowest moments of his life became a belov...
30 Apr 51min
