Lisa Fevral
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Lisa and Bissistant talk about contemporary art in cultural context, featuring segments on artists/art pieces, music, films and pop culture tidbits. (No reading of art wiki pages out loud into a mic here, this is not a pod for the bourgeois nitwits) lisafevral.substack.com
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Lisa and Bissistant connect art, film and celebrity culture through funny, combative criticism alert to the politics beneath appealing images.
Lisa and Bissistant treat cultural criticism as an argument between friends who have arrived with opinions, references and little patience for received wisdom.
A Grammys outfit becomes a Degas argument, for anyone whose group chat needs better art history.
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A sharp, unruly take on Severance that ties its ethics and world-building together.
Ugh, As If! treats Severance season one less like recap and more like a conversation about ethics. It keeps circling the show's world, its moral logic, and the odd childbirth material, while also using the three-year gap between seasons to make a sharper point: long absences can…
A chaotic, sharply judged riff on Xiaohongshu, Nara Smith, and the rot of too much money.
It starts with a self-aware apology for inconsistency, then moves into a comic pass at Xiaohongshu, the Little Red Book, and the American drift toward the app.
A sharp art conversation that keeps asking whether provocation actually earns its shock.
The episode stays with camera discomfort, comment-section jokes, and a pointed art argument about Superflat, exploitation, and where critique stops and something simply gross begins.
A blunt, loose art-world roast that runs through pop culture and criticism with plenty of attitude.
The episode opens with a face reveal and settles fast into a blunt pose: it is here to be ruthless about artists who seem far too full of themselves.
A sharp look at alter egos in art and music, especially when a persona starts to outgrow the person who made it.
This episode treats alter egos as more than a gimmick in art and music, moving from Blackpink and Childish Gambino to Lynn Hershman Leeson and Roberta Breitmore. It asks where a made identity begins to do real cultural work, and where it is still just style.
A sharp, scrappy conversation about art's price, process, and the absurdity of being judged for trying.
Two voices work through the rough, funny business of making art: what materials cost, what judgment feels like, and how hard it is to keep working while broke and watched.
A sharp backstage cautionary tale about looking past the polished first impression.
This episode treats horror stories from photo shoots as more than gossip. The hosts are tired, profane, and funny, and that gives the whole thing a scrappy feel as they turn one backstage mess into a wider lesson about how fast a booking can go wrong.
An Avatar joke turns into a loose, opinionated talk about disagreement, politeness, and saying the uncomfortable thing out loud.
The episode starts with an Avatar joke about the blue aliens, then settles into a talk about taste, disagreement, and how hard it can be to say things plainly. The hosts let the bit run long enough to matter, and the family conversation gives the episode its shape.
Art historian Tamar Avishai interviews critics, curators, and writers about single paintings and ideas.
Jennifer Dasal narrates art history's overlooked lives, from Picasso's police file to Rauschenberg and Twombly's romance.
Russell Tovey and Robert Diament interview artists about their materials, biography, and process.
Cinematographer Roger Deakins and James Deakins interview film crew about the craft behind specific shots.
Robert Bound interviews artists and reviews new film, book, and music releases with critics.
Sound art from places, recordings, and memory.
Christopher Anderson's Vanity Fair White House photoshoot becomes a larger argument about photography, criticism, and how public figures are seen online.
This episode jumps from a Samsung smart-fridge ad that reportedly sent a UK woman to hospital to a longer argument about AI-generated media, monopolized culture, and the feeling that everything online is becoming harder to trust.
The episode centers on criticism of a Diary of a CEO discussion about men who may “die out of the gene mating pool,” where the speaker objects to comparing non-procreation with cancer or virus survival.
They start with the Grammys and then pivot hard into Degas.
The episode centers on the speaker’s dispute with a woman named Masha, after an Access Gallery post announced the speaker as vice president of the board of directors and sparked comments about the speaker being Russian-Canadian.
Lisa and Bissistant share personal stories about their journeys into art, discussing the high costs of art school, technical challenges like film photography, and how they transitioned from sentimental to conceptual works.
The episode explores confessional and conceptual music by women and non-binary artists, focusing on themes of gender-based violence, power dynamics, and cultural differences.
Hosts discuss the migration of Americans to the Chinese app Xiaohongshu after TikTok bans, exploring cross-cultural exchanges and propaganda revelations.
The episode argues that Yugoslav spomeniks are being misread through abstract expressionism and Western art-history frameworks, with the speaker repeatedly pushing back against that timeline.
The episode pairs a critique of an SNL Stranger Things sketch with a separate takedown of Timothée Chalamet’s Marty Supreme publicity campaign.
The episode centers on a Mexico resort trip where a birthday stay turns into repeated pressure to attend a two-hour concierge meeting and a sales pitch.
Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle denim campaign is the trigger for a long argument about “genes” versus “genes,” a crossed-out “great genes” poster, and why the speaker reads the ad as deliberate rather than accidental.
Lisa opens by addressing a long absence, health issues, and a birthday trip to Mexico before turning to the Lapu Lapu festival in Vancouver and the grief it caused in the Filipino community.
The hosts spend much of this Sabrina Carpenter discussion on the album cover for "Man's Best Friend," arguing that the image is being defended with the wrong art terms.
Ugh, As If!
The hosts start with a heat complaint, an ice cream truck, and a joke about who can actually tolerate the weather.
The episode takes on Severance as a season-one discussion first and foremost.
She opens with rain, a missing expensive LED mask, and a joke about looking like Miss Nula.
The hosts come back loud.
The duo starts wiped out and makes the exhaustion part of the joke.
The hosts finally sit down with Onora after putting it off for weeks, maybe months.
The hosts open with a face reveal and immediately promise to be ruthless.
The hosts open with *A Short Introduction to Beauty* and then quickly move into *Babygirl* and *Nosferatu*.
It opens with mic panic and camera panic.
They start with a disclaimer and a joke.
The hosts return to a Vancouver gallery opening they visited earlier and work through the awkward room energy, their jokes, and assorted side complaints before settling into the show’s curatorial framing.
The hosts spend the episode taking shots at Camille Paglia and the kind of prestige that gets mistaken for depth.
The episode begins with a VUGLAM sponsorship and a five-pair glasses try-on, including a classic pair, a white-and-black diagonal frame, a purple rectangular pair that feels like a "cartoon character" look, and leopard-print handles.
The episode returns after the host says she has been away, blaming the workload of a podcast, two YouTube channels, a literature club on Patreon, and constant research-heavy production.
The hosts discuss Soviet animation, focusing on the cartoon Chipolina and its recent viral clip.
The host discusses surrealism as an art movement, its origins after WWI, its popular perception, and its connection to dada, focusing on its intended purpose versus its later reputation.
Lisa and Bissistant discuss contemporary art in cultural context, with segments on artists, music, films, and pop culture.
Lisa and Bissistant discuss contemporary art intertwined with pop culture, music, and film in an entertaining, non-academic style.
The hosts humorously discuss Timbaland's signature sound, a TikTok parody of his music videos, and his beat-making process with Jay-Z and Kanye West.
Lisa and Bissistant discuss the indie erotic film 'The Last Mistress', analyzing its plot and characters.
Lisa and Bissistant discuss contemporary art in cultural context with segments on artists, music, films, and pop culture.
The host discusses feeling tired and approaching burnout, reflecting on societal pressures related to aging and economic instability.
Lisa and Roman discuss the world of repainting dolls and their collaborative project for Lisa's jewelry business.
Lisa and her assistant discuss art school horror stories and plan a bi-weekly podcast format.