This publication presents two of the most renowned voices in contemporary art today: artist Jim Dine and curator and critic Hans Ulrich Obrist. Talking comprises candid, in-depth conversations between these influential minds, exploring diverse facets of Dine’s biography and practice throughout his unparalleled 70-year career. From Dine’s early childhood to his current inspirations; from the development of motifs such as Pinocchio, classical figures and tools to his favorite detective novels; from Picasso, Claes Oldenburg and Robert Creeley to Dine’s bountiful garden in Walla Walla—the book is at once sprawling yet detailed, personal yet focused on the specifics of the artist’s creative methods. Arranged into six booklets, each named after the location of Dine’s studio where the individual conversation took place, Talking reveals the diverse rhythms of life and work that have and continue to shape the output of one of our most accomplished and prolific artists.