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Talk Art

Katy Hessel

Talk Art

Russell Tovey and Robert Diament c/o Independent Talent

Entertainment, Art, Arts, Painting, Talk Art, Robert Diament, Russell Tovey, Art Talk, Studio Visit, Sculpture, Drawing, Contemporary Art, Artwork, Artist Interview, Visual Arts, Celebrity, Modern Art

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

We meet Katy Hessel to discuss her incredible new book How To Live An Artful Life. The year ahead is a gift that has been given to you. What might you do with it?


Dive into the year with the wisdom of artists. Gathered from interviews, personal conversations, books and talks, How to Live an Artful Life moves through the months of the year offering you thoughts, reflections and encouragements from artists such as Marina Abramovic, Nan Goldin, Lubaina Himid, Louise Bourgeois and many more.


With a thought for every day of the year, whether looking for beginnings in January, freedom in summer, or transformation as the nights draw in, this is a book of words to cherish. The year is full of the promise of work that has yet to be written, paintings that are yet to be painted, people who have yet to meet, talk, or fall in love. With this book in hand, pay attention, and see the world anew. Go out and find it, taste it, seize it, and live it – artfully.


Katy Hessel is an art historian and the author of The Story of Art without Men, the international bestseller and Waterstones Book of the Year 2022. She runs @thegreatwomenartists on Instagram, hosts The Great Women Artists Podcast, interviewing artists such as Tracey Emin and Marina Abramovic, and is a columnist for the Guardian. Hessel is a Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University and a Trustee of Charleston. In 2024, she launched Museums Without Men, an audio series highlighting works by women artists in museum collections worldwide, such as The Met and Tate Britain.


Follow @Katy.Hessel on Instagram.


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0:00.0

Good afternoon, good morning, good evening, whatever you are in the world.

0:09.4

I'm Russell Tovey.

0:10.2

And I'm Robert Diame.

0:11.2

And this is Talk Art.

0:12.0

Welcome to Talk Art.

0:13.5

How are you today?

0:14.8

Robert.

0:15.6

Today, Russell, we are sat in my home in Margate and we're surrounded by all of my things and all of my things

0:23.3

are art related and last night when we were sat here with your parents I was actually having a bit

0:28.8

of a panic attack because there is so much stuff in my house but then today's guest her new book

0:35.3

made me feel better about it all because her new book is called

0:39.3

How to Live an Artful Life. And today, Russell, I've realized, I've come to this huge kind

0:45.4

of conscious, very present realization that I am living an artful life. And with today's book,

0:52.6

I'm going to live an even better artful life. Wow. Yes. Now, today's

0:56.6

guest is a real breakthrough. But if you are listening to this podcast and you haven't turned

1:03.7

off yet, go on. Want to also live an artful life.

1:11.7

Yeah.

1:14.2

Then you're in the right place.

1:15.5

All right, breathe.

1:19.9

Oh God, I'm crying because I love today's guest so much.

1:21.8

She's a dear friend of ours.

1:22.8

She's a pioneer.

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