The Selection Committee Radio Show with Greg Carideo, 6/3/25

“Won’t you let me see your naked body?” demands Leonard Cohen from Greg Carideo’s mixtape about looking and being seen. “They cannot see me naked,” replies Michael Stipe; Anohni and Yoko Ono weigh in. My delightful conversation with artist Greg Carideo traverses topics from Elliott Smith’s appearance on a demented FX morning show in 1995 to the close relationship between Lana Del Rey’s “Blue Bannisters” and Greg’s own work.

Carideo transforms steel, old t-shirts, bits of scrap metal, and other shopworn fragments into tabernacles of urban life. Each sculpture is a little world, a structure that carries narrative, materiality, and vernacular forms of architecture and adornment—ghostly bodegas, ramshackle duplexes, basilica-shaped cuchifritos.