Recorded September 30, days after New York’s fall art fairs wrapped, Urgent Matter founder and editor Adam Schrader and longtime friend Colton Crews, a Texas-based musician with the bands Burning Slow, American Sycamore and Bum Lucky, run through a short, loose week of art news as Urgent Matter nears its first anniversary.

The episode opens with R.C. Horsch, a late Philadelphia erotic photographer whose former home police have linked to seven missing women. Colton and Adam dig through Horsch’s self-published books and debate whether talking about his art only gives it a bigger audience.

From there, Colton brings up another podcast’s roast of Sergio Furnari’s Charlie Kirk statue in Times Square, which leads to a sculpture the guys actually like: a 300-pound bronze faun by Alfred Lepère. It was stolen from a French zoo in 1993 and returned to the Musée de Picardie after an auction house’s provenance check turned it up. A detour through Colton’s handmade drums raises questions about how anyone proves they own anything.

In a rapid-fire round, Adam walks through the Nasher Museum’s “Turn the volume up!,” a protest-art show inspired by New York’s 2025 mayoral turnout. He also covers a quiet Armory Show where Canadian dealers faced a new 50% U.S. tariff, and Alice Herbert’s redacted arrest report and house-arrest self-portraits at Spring/Break.

Cold Take is the podcast arm of Urgent Matter, an independent arts-accountability publication. Read the reporting behind these stories at urgentmatter.press, where Insider subscribers can read the full episode transcript, and check out Colton’s music with Burning Slow (@burningslowmusic on Instagram), American Sycamore and Bum Lucky.