Whitehot Magazine, founded and edited by Noah Becker covers contemporary art in all its forms. Art World, the magazine’s podcast, features longform interviews with living artists, curators, and critics. For the latest episode, guest host Bianca Bova interviews Jasons Zinoman, critic-at-large for the Culture section of The New York Times.

Bianca Bova is a Chicago-based curator and art critic. Her work has appeared in the Chicago Reader, Whitehot Magazine, Outside Berlin, LateNighter, and the New York Times, among others. She is a member of the United States section of the Association Internationale des Critiques d'Art, and a 2025 recipient of the Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation Travel Grant for Visual Arts Journalism.

Jason Zinoman is a critic at large for The New York Times where he has written the On Comedy column since 2011. He has authored Shock Value: How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood and Invented Modern Horror, the Kindle Single Searching for Dave Chappelle and the NYT bestseller, Letterman: The Last Giant of Late Night. He was a theater critic for many years and still occasionally reviews plays. He has written for magazines and newspapers since the first Internet boom. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two daughters.

Listen to the full episode on Spotify.

Still and All | David Letterman, Brent Cole, and Gerald Henry
Curated by Bianca Bova
The Suburban
723 S. 5th St | Milwaukee, Wisconsin
On view 27 September—8 November 2025

Still and All takes as its subject an overlap of the work of broadcaster David Letterman, glass artist Brent Cole, and the late outsider artist Gerald Henry. At the heart of the exhibition is Cellphone Case, an object consisting of an iPhone wrapped in layers of colored duct tape, applied by Letterman in complex patterns through an additive process. Following the completion of Cellphone Case, Letterman undertook the assistance of Cole (and his team at the Marilyn K. Glick Center for Glass in Muncie, Indiana) to fabricate various simulacra of the object. The resultant body of work includes Duct Tape Phone Study 4, a cast glass and enamel work that reproduces Cellphone Case at scale. Also on view in the exhibition is David Letterman, a basswood and enamel bust of Letterman by Henry, made in 1995 when Letterman was at the height of his career. The three pieces—all characteristically works of folk art—when taken together invite considerations of intimacy, obsessiveness, and the tribulations of attempting to peel subject apart from object.

No programming or press was attached to this exhibition.

Chicken Stingel: The Sequel | Kenny Schachter 
Curated by Bianca Bova 
On view at Old Friends
8/15/2025-9/21/25

Programming attached to this exhibition was not recorded.

Listen to Kenny Schachter and Bianca Bova as guests on a two-part special episode of Bad at Sports.

Part 1: Chickens, Auctions, and Foundries

Part 2: From Autodidact to Art World Outsider

Please see below for Chicken Stingel: The Sequel in the Press:

Bawk Baroque
by Natalie Jenkins
Newcity

Your network is your net worth
by Annette LePique
Chicago Reader

Ambulance Chase | Peter Fagundo, Michelle Grabner, and Jonathan Worcester
Curated by Bianca Bova 
On view at Old Friends
9/27/24-11/30/24

No lectures or programs were attached to this exhibition.

Please see below for Ambulance Chase in the Press:

Adrift in Recombination
by Natalie Jenkins
Chicago Reader

Pleasure in the Hunt
by Alan Pocaro
Newcity

Kenny Schachter in conversation with Bianca Bova for the opening of Chicago Is, Was, Will Be… at 150 Media Stream.
In partnership with the tenth edition of EXPO Chicago.

Join us on Sunday, October 16th from 12pm-6pm at Peter Fagundo’s studio (35th Street & Western Avenue)
to view all 33 works in Baroque Response in person and hear remarks from the artist.

Chicago Athletic Association Hotel | Topgolf Swing Suite, Ground Floor | Friday, July 22, 2022
An in-person conversation between Jacqueline Surdell and Bianca Bova discussing Surdell’s practice and recent exhibitions, including Laurels, on view at the Chicago Athletic Association through July 3, 2022.
THIS EVENT WAS LIVE AND UNRECORDED