Something You Can Feel: A Black Art History Podcast

Qiaira Riley hosts this show with the sensibility of an artist talking to other artists, which it turns out is a very different thing from a curator talking to a public. She describes herself as an interdisciplinary artist and guerilla art theorist, and Something You Can Feel leans into that: loose, conversational, focused on Black contemporary art and the figures who never quite got the institutional spotlight they deserved. The recent arc, A House is Not a Home, asks what domestic space means in Black artistic practice, and the conversations roam across museums, residency programs, and the question of who gets to call a place theirs. Guests are usually working artists, cultural workers, and organizers rather than the academic circuit, so episodes feel less like book reports and more like the kind of conversation you might overhear at an opening after the wine has kicked in. Qiaira is not trying to cover canon. She is trying to build out a version of art history that centers people the textbooks skipped. Ten episodes so far, released irregularly across 2023-2025, and the reviews are strong for a reason. Go here if you want perspectives and names that the bigger art history shows rarely touch, delivered by someone who is genuinely invested in the work.