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Janine Antoni - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast July 3, 2006 Conceptual/performance artist Janine Antoni gave this presentation of her work as part of the Fine Arts Lecture Series at Parsons, the New School for Design on April 12, 2006. Antoni blurs the line between performance art and sculpture (often using eating, bathing, or sleeping as point of departure) and has received numerous grants and fellowships for her work, including the MacArthur Fellowship and the Larry Aldrich Foundation Award in 1999. Antoni has exhibited extensively in the United States and abroad and was included in the 1993 Venice Biennial and the 1993 Whitney Biennial. Parsons Faculty Member David Mann introduces the program. (45 minutes) |
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The Art of 9/11@Apex Art: Arthur C. Danto - listen | listen with RealPlayer A talk on the intersection of art and philosophy by Arthur C. Danto, Prof. Emeritus of Philosophy, Columbia University and art critic who curated The Art of 9/11, an exhibition at Apex Art in New York (Sept. 7-Oct. 15, 2005) featuring responses by artists to 9/11. The exhibition aims to show how art actually embodies grief and to reflect on how artists dealt with the attack. The artists: Audrey Flack, Leslie King-Hammond, Jeffrey Lohn, Mary Miss with Victoria Marshall and Elliott Maltby, Lucio Pozzi, Ursula Von Rydingsvard, Cindy Sherman, Barbara Westman, Robert Rahway Zakanitch. I am not a curator, but I felt that such a show would itself be understood not as an ordinary art exhibition, but as what Wittgenstein calls an act of piety, and serve as an aspect of the question of what art is after all for, and how it, just as Hegel had said, serves, together with religion and philosophy, as a moment in what he called Absolute Spirit. -- Prof. Danto from the exhibition essay. |
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Harry Belafonte and Walter Mosley - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast March 13, 2006 A conversation for a live audience recorded by WPS1 at Cooper Union's Grand Hall in New York City on February 17, 2006. The two principals were noted novelist, dramatist, essayist and activist Walter Mosley and legendary performer, activist and humanitarian Harry Belafonte. The discussion was part of the Conversation with the Nation series, sponsored by The Nation magazine and the New School for Social Research. (1 hour 54 minutes) |
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Becoming Justice Harry Blackmun - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast January 16, 2006 A lecture by Linda Greenhouse, Supreme Court correspondent for The New York Times. Greenhouse discusses the legacy of Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun, the subject of her latest book, Becoming Justice Blackmun. The lecture was hosted by the president of New School University, Bob Kerrey and was recorded by WPS1 at NSU's Lang Student Center on December 8, 2005. |
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Behind Beauty: A Panel Discussion - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast November 6, 2006 In conjunction with the New York School of Visual Arts' Visual Arts Museum exhibition Still Missing: Beauty Absent Social Life, this panel discussion brings together a philosopher, a poet and two artists from the exhibition to consider the social and political implications of artistic practice that is concerned with beauty. This panel discusses how personal esthetics might relate to larger historical and social questions. What are the concerns that stand behind a beautiful painting? Perhaps not those we might expect. Recorded Sept. 21, 2006 at the School of Visual Arts, Raphael Rubinstein moderates. (75 minutes) The Panel: Richmond Burton, painter Mónica de la Torre, poet and poetry editor of The Brooklyn Rail Crispin Sartwell, philosopher and journalist Amy Wilson, artist/writer, SVA faculty Moderator Raphael Rubinstein, senior editor at Art in America, SVA faculty |
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Stephanie Brown - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast April 24, 2006 Poet Stephanie Brown reads from her work and then speaks with poet and host David Lehman in an event recorded Feb. 22, 2006 as part of the New School University's Poetry Forum series. The two discussed alternatives to life as an academic, being a librarian, having a family, and finding a publisher (it took Brown seven years to find a publisher for Allegory of the Supermarket (University of Georgia Press)). Brown also appears in four editions of Lehman's anthology, Best American Poetry (1993, 1995, 1997, and 2005) and was awarded an NEA fellowship. Program host David Lehman teaches at the New School and NYU and is a frequent visiting professor or guest lecturer at other universities and writing programs. (60.5 minutes) |
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Cabinet Magazine's "Chromophilia" - listen | listen with RealPlayer Sina Najafi, Editor-in-Chief of Cabinet Magazine, introduces the performers at this reading to benefit the art quarterly, recorded live at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center on Saturday, October 23, 2004. They appear on the program, which included several Powerpoint presentations of the columns, with commentary by senior editor Jeffrey Kastner, as follows: Andrea Codrington: Biege, Tim Griffin: Safety Orange, Albert Mobilio: Rust, Frances Richard: Indigo, and Jonathan Ames: Bice. Ames closes the program with the first-ever mass Luscher Color Test. |
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Cave Canem: Toi Derricotte with Naomi Long Madgett - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast June 5, 2006 This recording was made at the Cave Canem Legacy Conversation Series, featuring Naomi Long Madgett interviewed by Cave Canem co-founder and poet Toi Derricotte. Cave Canem (a workshop retreat for African American poets) and the The New School's Creative Writing Program collaborate on the ongoing series where prominent African American poets discuss their lives and work. This conversation took place at The New School on April 24, 2006. Naomi Long Madgett is a writer, editor, teacher and publisher, and has been the moving force behind Lotus Press, Inc., a leading publisher of poetry by African Americans. Responsible for the publication of 75 titles, she became senior editor of the Lotus Poetry Series of Michigan State University Press in 1993. Madgett's poems have been included in well over 100 anthologies in this country and abroad and have been translated into several languages. (1 hour 26 minutes) |
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"Double Talk/Double Think: The Art and Politics of Language" - listen | listen with RealPlayer In this scintillating program presented by the U.S. chapter of the International Association of Art Critics, a panel of artists and writers moderated by Arthur Danto explored how easily - even this long past George Orwell's 1984 - words and images influence popular opinion, and how one can decode the ever-elusive truth from the tangle of half-truths, contradictory messages and disinformation so rampant in this election year. Speakers are: the internationally celebrated artist Barbara Kruger, whose graphic works famously unleash the power of language and images on a blithely consumerist world, has had 48 solo exhibitions since 1974 and is currently a professor at UC/San Diego; critic and author David Levi Strauss, a regular contributor to Artforum and Aperture, and the author, most recently of Between the Eyes, on the media frenzy surrounding the events of September 11; Nancy Snow is the author of Propaganda, Inc: Selling America's Culture to the World and serves as a Senior Research Fellow in the USC Center on Public Diplomacy; Boris Groys, probably best known for his essays on Russian intellectual history and culture, is Professor for Philosophy and Media Theory at the State Academy for Design in Karlsruhe, Germany, a visiting professor at New York University, and the author most recently of Topologie der Kunst (The Topology of Art). Moderating is Arthur Danto, art critic for The Nation and Johsonian Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Columbia University, received the National Book Critics Circle Prize for Criticism in 1990 and the 2003 Prix Philosophie. His most recent book is The Abuse Of Beauty: Aesthetics And The Concept Of Art. |
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A Conversation with Daniel Eisenberg - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast May 2, 2005 A Conversation with Daniel Eisenberg was recorded on April 18, 2005 at the Museum of Modern Art as part of the Department of Film and Media's Mediascope Series. Daniel Eisenberg, Chair of the Department of Film, Video, and New Media at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, has been making nonfiction independent and avant-garde work for virtually three decades, interrogating "official" histories and investigating personal stories within the context of major social and political events. This MoMA event was presented in conjunction with a screening of Eisenberg's 2003 feature, Something More than Night, a meditation on nighttime Chicago. Filmed without narration, this featurelength essay is a luminous view of the quasi-deserted public spaces of a major urban center in which a kind of beauty informs alienation. In an intimate Q&A following the screening, Eisenberg sheds light on the intricacies of filming at night as he discusses both the technique and intent of this extraordinary film. Larry Kardish, Senior Curator of the Dept. of Film and Media introduced the program. |
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Nick Flynn - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast November 21, 2005 A reading and lecture given by poet/author Nick Flynn at the New School University in New York on Oct. 25, 2005. Author Robert Polito, director of the Writing Program, hosted the event. Flynn is the author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: A Memoir as well as the award-winning Art of the Memoir and the poetry collections Some Ether and Blind Huber. Flynn's interdisciplinary collaborations include the comic book Cartoon Physics Part 1 with graphic artist Josh Neufeld, an answering-machine-inspired pastiche of music and poetry with the Australian band Pondskater, and a poem/dance at New York's annual Improvisation Festival. |
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Yona Friedman: Simple, Protean, and Spontaneous listen to part 1 | listen to part 1 with RealPlayer listen to part 2 | listen to part 2 with RealPlayer First broadcast April 2, 2007 || April 16, 2007 This program covers a symposium, Yona Friedman: Simple, Protean, and Spontaneous, on the work of the prominent Hungarian French architect and artist held in conjunction with the exhibition Yona Friedman: About Cities on view at New York's The Drawing Center from February 24 to April 7, 2007. In this recording from February 27, 2007 artists and architects examine Friedman's influence on subsequent generations of architects, urban planners, and artists through a discussion of their own work and the fields of drawing and architecture today. Panelists on Panel I: Lisa Metcalf -- Acting Executive Director of The Drawing Center (introduction) Katherine Carl -- curator of Yona Friedman: About Cities, Curator of Contemporary Exhibitions at The Drawing Center (2005-2006), co-founder of School of Missing Studies and Link: A Critical Journal on the Arts in Baltimore and the World (moderator) Caitlin Masley -- New York-based artist Michael Rakowitz -- artist, Associate Professor in Art Theory and Practice at Northwestern University Nina Rappaport -- architectural critic, curator, educator, Publications Editor at Yale School of Architecture Panelists on Panel II: Joseph Grima -- Director of Storefront for Art and Architecture (moderator) Interboro Partners -- New York City-based research and design group Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss -- Serbian-born architect, founder of Normal Architecture Office, and co-founder of School of Missing Studies. |
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NY Times Arts & Leisure: William Gibson - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast February 13, 2006 With Neuromancer, William Gibson introduced the world to cyberspace and science fiction has never been the same. In this program the author is interviewed by author and editorial writer for the New York Times Brent Staples. This event, from Jan. 7, 2006, was part of the New York Times Fifth Annual Arts and Leisure Weekend in New York City. For a full bio of Gibson, click here. (1 hour 19 minutes) |
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A Tribute to Leon Golub - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast May 9, 2005 Remarks and remembrances by select colleagues, friends and family before an audience gathered to honor the memory of the great man and artist who died August 8, 2004. The program also includes recordings of the artist speaking. The thousand or so attendees came by invitation of Golub's wife, the painter Nancy Spero, and her sons Stephen, Philip and Paul Golub. Leon Golub was born in Chicago in 1922 and died in New York on August 8, 2004. Widely known for his paintings and depictions of torture and political oppression, he also remained a man accessible to younger artists, and was considered by many to be the model of an activist artist. Speakers at the Tribute, in order of appearance, are Hans Haacke, Nancy Spero, the voice of Leon Golub as heard in Charlie Ahearn's film Leon Golub - To the Dogs, Jon Bird, Kiki Smith, Phong Bui, Declan McGonagle, Clayton Eshleman, Samm Kunce, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Molly Nesbit, Robert Storr, and concluding with a recording of Leon Golub from the soundtrack to the film The Late Works Are the Catastrophes from Kartemquin Films. Ronald Feldman is the master of cermonies. This event was recorded on Sunday, April 17, 2005 at the Great Hall of Cooper Union in New York City. WPS1 thanks David Reynolds for making this event available to us. |
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Philip Gourevitch listen to part 1 | listen to part 1 with RealPlayer listen to part 2 | listen to part 2 with RealPlayer First broadcast February 10 + February 17, 2006 In Part One, author and long-time staff writer for the New Yorker Philip Gourevitch reads from his 1998 work We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda which won the National Books Critics Circle Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize. After the reading author Zia Jaffrey, who teaches in The New School's MFA program, discusses the book with the author. (46 minutes) In Part Two, Jaffrey and Gourevitch discuss his larger body of work and process followed by audience questions. (36 minutes) Recorded on Nov. 28, 2005 at the New School University in New York as part of its Non-Fiction Forum series. |
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"The Ground Zero Sonic Memorial Soundwalk" - listen | listen with RealPlayer Novelist Paul Auster leads this unusual walking tour of the Lower Manhattan neighborhood surrounding the site of the World Trade Center, from St. Paul's Chapel to a park bench on the Hudson River. Archival recordings, a sound work by artist Stephen Vitiello, a recollection by Philippe Petit of his 1974 high-wire walk between the Twin Towers, captured performances by Odetta and Bill Frissell (among other musicians), and interviews with witnesses to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 all evoke the history of the neighborhood with surprising freedom from sentiment. The Ground Zero Sonic Memorial Soundwalk was co-produced by Soundwalk and The Kitchen Sisters. For more information on the entire series of New York Soundwalk audio discs, go to the Soundwalks web site. |
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Hear Our Voices - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast May 31, 2005 Hear Our Voices: The Role of Student Journalism In a Time of War, a panel discussion with independent journalist Amy Goodman, host and executive producer of Democracy Now, was recorded for WPS1 on April 28, 2005 at the Tischman Auditorium at the New School University,. Following excerpts from the documentary Independent Media In A Time of War, by the Hudson/Mohawk Independent Media Center, Amy Goodman discusses media control and activist journalism with members of the Inprint newspaper staff. This event was presented by Inprint, the school newspaper of the Eugene Lang College of the New School University. In addition to her award-winning work as an independent journalist, Amy Goodman is the author of the NYT bestseller The Exception to the Rulers. Democracy Now is a daily radio and television program on over 300 stations. |
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Jim Jarmusch - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast March 20, 2006 New York Times cultural reporter Dinitia Smith interviews filmmaker Jim Jarmusch as part of the 2006 Arts and Leisure Weekend Times Talks events. Jarmusch discusses highlights of his three-decade long career making over a dozen films including the Grand Prix award for Broken Flowers at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. In addition to her work for the Times, Dinitia Smith is an author, journalist, and Emmy-award-winning filmmaker. Elise Meyers of the Times introduces the program. |
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Mary Karr - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast August 14, 2006 A reading and discussion with poet/author Mary Karr held at the New School University in New York on April 25, 2006. Author Robert Polito, director of the Writing Program, hosted the event. Syracuse English professor Mary Karr is the author of two bestselling memoirs, The Liars' Club and Cherry. She has won Pushcart prizes for both her poetry and essays and was a Guggenheim Fellow in poetry in 2005. Her newest book of poems is Sinners Welcome. (57.5 minutes) |
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Jennifer Jason Leigh - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast December 12, 2005 WPS1 Living History presents Jennifer Jason Leigh, A Life at Work, on Stage and Screen. The actress has returned to the New York stage, starring in the new production of Mike Leigh's 1977 satire Abigail's Party, at the New Group. The play runs through February 11, 2005. This interview, recorded for WPS1 at The New School University on November 3, 2005, is part of the New York Times' Times Talks: Women's Series, timely discussions for, about and by women. The award-winning actress and writer/director Jennifer Jason-Leigh talks about challenges and rewards of the creative life. She is interviewed by New York Times cultural reporter Lola Ogunnaike. John Fradis of The New School and Carol Olsen Day of the New York Times introduce the program. (64 minutes) |
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Poets on Poetry: Phillis Levin - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast February 20, 2006 From the New School University Poets on Poetry series, a talk and reading by the poet Phillis Levin, recorded by WPS1 on Nov. 29, 2005. Dr. Patricia L. Carlin of the New School introduces the program. Phillis Levin is the author of three books of poetry, Temples and Fields (1988), winner of the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award; The Afterimage (1995); and Mercury, published by Penguin Books in April 2001. She is also the editor of Penguin Book of the Sonnet: 500 Years of a Classic Tradition in English, (2001). Her many honors include an Ingram Merrill Grant, a Fulbright Fellowship to Slovenia, The Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship, spent in Italy, and a 2003 Fellowship from The Guggenheim Foundation. Levin is Professor of English and Poet-In-Residence at Hofstra University. |
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The Atlantic Monthly presents Bernard-Henri Lévy at The New School listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast July 11, 2005 How does America look to foreign eyes? This year marks the bicentennial of the birth of Alexis de Tocqueville, our keenest interpreter. Atlantic Monthly asked another Frenchman to travel deep into America and report on what he found. This lecture from June 2005 reflects those experiences. Bernard-Henri Lévy is a writer and philosopher who lives in Paris. He is the author of many books, including Barbarism With a Human Face, Who Killed Daniel Pearl?, and War, Evil, and the End of History. A French moralist and political philosopher, Levy (born 1948) won wide recognition as a social critic (especially of Marxism), an advocate of ethics and justice, a cultured non-despiser of religion, and a flamboyant intellectual maverick. |
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Liquid Architecture - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast September 5, 2005 Poet and art critic Max Henry speaks with the art agitators and musical collective Liquid Architecture comprised of lead vocalist Audrey Mascina and vocalist Jérôme Sans (also a curator and co-director of Palais de Tokyo, Paris). The band performed live at the Deitch Projects on April 22, 2005. They met up at P.S.1 to discuss pop culture, audiences, personality, anti-heroes, paradigm shifts, and tackling social issues in various art forms. |
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A Conversation with Bob Mackie - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast January 23, 2006 The award-winning designer Bob Mackie discusses his career in theater, film and television, and his scene-stealing fashions for such stars as Carol Burnett, Cher, Elton John and Diana Ross. Mackie is interviewed by Simon Doonan, Creative Director at Barney's New York, and Dorothy Twining Globus, former Director of the Museum at the Fashion Institute and curator of the exhibit Unmistakeably Mackie. Twining Globus is currently curator of exhibitions at The Museum of Arts and Design in New York. This event was recorded Nov. 17, 2005 at Christie's in New York City in conjunction with the auction of Mackie's private archive held Nov. 22, 2005. Catherine Elkies of Christie's introduces the speakers. (46 minutes) |
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Chris Martin - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast May 22, 2006 A talk by the Williamsburg, Brooklyn painter and artist's artist Chris Martin. The event was recorded on Feb. 22, 2006 at the Parsons New School of Design as part of their Fine Arts Lecture Series. Martin has shown recently at Uta Scharf (NYC), Sideshow (Brooklyn), Daniel Weinberg (LA), and Bernard Toale (Boston). Fellow artist and Parsons faculty member David Mann introduces the program. (57 minutes) |
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Thomas McEvilley - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast May 29, 2006 From Breakthrough to Cul de Sac: Recent Developments in the Social History of Art, a lecture, recorded on April 10, 2006 at the School of Visual Arts, in which Thomas McEvilley traces historical, political and aesthetic parallels and collisions between the modern and the postmodern (and the role of money in all this). McEvilley is chair of SVA's Art Criticism and Writing Department. He holds a Ph.D. in classical philology and has published widely on subjects from early Greek poetry, philosophy, and religion to contemporary art and culture including monographs on Yves Klein, Jannis Kounellis, and Pat Steir. (80 minutes) |
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Jonas Mekas: History of American Avant-Garde Film - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast May 1, 2006 In honor or the 45th anniversary of the Film-makers' Cooperative, the largest archive and distributor of independent and avant-garde films in the world, Jonas Mekas, who founded the Coop with twenty-plus other filmmakers in 1962, sat down with MM Serra, its current Director, and talked about events in the 50s and 60s that help forge his New America Cinema movement. Ultra-spry, even ferocious, at age 84 Mekas recounts events involving fascinating characters of the time such as Andy Warhol, Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan, and the miraculous Barbara Rubin. (36 minutes) In a benefit for the Coop, two programs of works by the Film-Makers' Coop's Board of Directors along with films that have inspired them from the FMC collection and a third program of old and new works selected by the Coop's staff screens at Anthology Film Archives, May 12-14, 2006. |
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Arno Rafael Minkkinen - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast September 18, 2006 Photographer Arno Rafael Minkkinen discusses his body of work, covering over 35 years, in a lecture recorded live at the Aperture Foundation Gallery in New York on March 30, 2006. Minkkinen's work serves to document the relationship humans have with nature and focuses on the nude in the landscape and in interior settings. Minkkinen's photography has been published, exhibited, and collected worldwide. He attended the MFA program at the Rhode Island School of Design, where he studied with Aaron Siskind and Harry Callahan. Jill Corson, assistant Chair of the Department of Photography at Parsons the New School for Design introduces the program. This event, part of the Parsons Photography department Lecture Series, was co-sponsored by the Aperture Foundation and Parsons The New School for Design photography department. (55.5 minutes) |
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MoMA DIY Radio:: SOUND - listen | listen with RealPlayer Audio self portraits--a day in each of the lives of program producers Karla Hendrick, Cindy Yoon, Rachael Lindhagen, Gretchen Wagner, and Virginia Poundstone (DJ CEO). The sonic illustrations include swamis, Kurt Cobain, the Panasonic RC-205 clock radio, revival meetings, Patsy Kline, John Cage, Funkadelic and personal testimonials. This program is the final result of a class project in radio production given by the WPS1 staff through the MoMA Dept. of Education. |
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MoMA DIY Radio:: Living History: New Orleans Art Re-build - listen | listen with RealPlayer A series of personal testimonials in the form of three interviews that reveal the intersection between creativity and disaster. Discussing the impact of Hurricane Katrina on their lives and work are: New Orleans musician/composer Esquisito, interviewed by Tiziana Rinaldi; David Houston, Chief Curator of the Ogden Museum (at the University of New Orleans), interviewed by Jason Farrago; and artist Lee Quiñones , interviewed--during his marathon fundraisier cross country bike trip for Boys & Girls Clubs of America Hurricane Katrina Relief Fund--by Daniel Carello. This program is the final project of a class on radio production given by the WPS1 staff through the MoMA Dept. of Education. |
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Oil of the 21st Century - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast May 7, 2007 The Oil of the 21st Century Perspectives on Intellectual Property, a conversation coordinated by Bootlab, based on a concept by Partner Gegen Berlin produced in cooperation with Sarai, The Thing, and Waag Society funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation To receive future announcements, mail to subscribe at oil21.org. |
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Lucy Orta: Late Lunch with Lucy - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast November 14, 2005 Who creates food policies? Who chooses what to eat for dinner? Who produces our food? Is trade fair? Should we think more before we shop? How far have the contents of our fridges travelled and what is the state of school dinners? Policy makers, food buyers, chefs, food producers, artists and scientists have been invited to discuss food. This was the 23rd food event in the series entitled 70 x 7 The Meal, an ongoing project by Lucy and Jorge Orta. Recorded Oct. 4, 2005 at the Barbican Gallery in London. (52 minutes) Participants: Harriet Lamb: Director of the Fairtrade Foundation Professor Tim Lang: Professor of Food Policy at City University Lucy Stockton-Smith: artist in residence at Sandwich Technology College, Arts Catalyst Kent Wendy Fogarty: International Councillor, Slow Food UK Dr Peter Barham: Reader in Physics at Bristol University Allegra McEvedy: Chef at Leon Chaired by John Slyce, writer and critic based in London Lucy Orta is the Rootstein Hopkins Chair of Fashion at the London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London. Solo exhibition of Lucy Orta curated in collaboration with the Barbican and Paula Orrell, London College of Fashion. Visit the exhibition Water + Werken, a project by Lucy and Jorge Orta in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam. |
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Nicolai Ouroussoff with Frank Gehry - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast January 30, 2006 New York Times architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff interviews architect Frank Gehry for an audience at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. This event, from Jan. 7, 2006, was part of the New York Times Fifth Annual Arts and Leisure Weekend in New York City. (1 hour18 minutes) |
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On Kitsch - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast April 10, 2006 A panel discussion entitled On Kitsch addressing the "high and low in art today" presented by the School of Visual Arts recorded by WPS1 on February 23, 2006. (94 minutes) The participants were: Brian Boucher, writer, editorial staff member Art in America Melissa Brown, artist (Bellwether), teacher (Lehman College), performer (Slow Jams Band) Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt, artist and SVA faculty Lisa Small, author and Associate Curator, Dahesh Museum Amy Wilson, artist (Bellwether) and SVA faculty |
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Porn Goes Mainstream - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast January 30, 2006 Porn Goes Mainstream was a panel discussion co-produced by the New School University (NSU) Center for Communication and NSU Media Studies Program featuring prominent social critics and activists in a discussion on the meaning and consequences of pornography in America. Recorded Nov. 15, 2005 at NSU in New York. Author and cultural critic Catherine Orenstein moderates the panel. Rebecca Weinberg, Program Director of the Center for Communication, introduces the speakers: Pamela Paul: journalist and author Pornified: How the Culture of Pornography is Transforming Our Lives, Our Relationships and Our Families Nadine Strossen: President of the ACLU Nelson George: author, cultural critic an filmmaker Ariel Levy: author and New York Magazine staff writer Kay Hymowitz: William E. Simon Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and contributing editor of City Journal |
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Parsons Fine Arts Lecture Series: David Reed, Painter - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast September 26, 2005 Light, skin, fabric, Hollywood and vampires. A talk by the abstract painter David Reed. The event was recorded for WPS1 on April 27, 2005 at the Parsons New School of Design as part of their Fine Arts Lecture Series. Reed discusses his creative process and his inspiration to an audience made up of undergraduate painting students. Parsons faculty member David Mann introduces the artist. |
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Carter Ratcliff: To Get or Not Get With the Program - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast June 19, 2006 In a new lecture prepared for and delivered during the Grey Flags exhibit at the Sculpture Center on May 17, 2006, art historian Carter Ratcliff talks about the advantages and liabilities of participating in fashion, trends, movements, and ideologies with some fascinating analysis of Beau Brummel (the ultimate dandy), Jules Olitski (expelled from the revolution) and other artists, writers, philosophers, and critics. Grey Flags, curated by Anthony Huberman and Paul Pfeiffer, runs through July 30, 2006. (64 minutes) |
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David Remnick: Reporting - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast October 2, 2006 Host Paul Holdengräber in conversation with David Remnick, author, reporter, and editor of The New Yorker, whose new collection, Reporting: Writings from The New Yorker, profiles some of the most important, complex - and, in many cases, reclusive - people of our time (Al Gore, Katharine Graham, Philip Roth, Mike Tyson, Václav Havel, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Benjamin Netanyahu). David Remnick was named editor of The New Yorker in 1998 after ten years at the Washington Post. Paul Holdengräber is the Director of Public Programs - now known as LIVE from the NYPL - for The Research Libraries of The New York Public Library from which this recording was made on May 31, 2006. (91 minutes) |
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Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast May 15, 2006 Bill Talen began the project Reverend Billy in 1997, inspired by the mass-market makeover of Times Square and the old style street preachers who protested it. The Reverend and his choir sing praises to no specific god, rather, they warn of the coming shopocalypse, the death of man, brought on by his own consumer excess. During the past decade, Talen has made himself a thorn on the sides of Wal-Mart, Starbucks, Disney and other enterprises he views as casually destroying the essence of neighborhoods. Thus the artist/preacher Talen, armed with the fiery-eyed look, the stature, the collar bought at a clerical-supply shop, and a white dinner jacket left over from a catering job, advances forth as the Rev. Billy. In this recording from March 2006, Delphine Blue visits the Reverend and his Stop Shopping Gospel Choir in rehearsal preparing for one of their activist/revivalist events at New York's St. Mark's Church. (20 minutes) |
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WPS1 Interviews: Robert Rosenblum - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast May 16, 2005 Art historian, author and critic Robert Rosenblum was a key figure in the conversation on art of many eras -- from his early and controversial revisionist view of the 19th Century, to early Modernism, through the 20th Century and up to today. His interests and subjects covered a wide scope from Ingres to Picasso to Warhol to Gilbert and George. He was a professor of Fine Arts at New York University , and a curator of 20th centry art at the Guggenheim Museum. He was born in 1927, and died in December 2006. Art critic and historian Brian O'Doherty interviewed Mr. Rosenblum for WPS1 in his Greenwich Village home on April 13, 2005. |
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Ed Ruscha - listen | listen with RealPlayer On the occasion of the 10th annual ARTWALK NY, benefit for the Coalition for the Homeless, ABC anchorman Peter Jennings, an outspoken advocate for the homeless, took the stage at the Vera List Center, New School University for this laid-back conversation with the Los Angeles language-and-landscape artist Ed Ruscha, recently chosen to represent the U.S. at the 2005 Venice Biennale. The Smithsonian's Hirschorn Museum in Washington, D.C. organized his traveling retrospective in 2000 with the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford, England.) He is represented by the Gagosian Gallery. Until its merger with UBS in 2000, Donald B. Marron was CEO of PaineWebber Group, Inc., where he put together one the country's foremost collections of contemporary art, is the chairman, founder and CEO of Lightyear Capital, a financial services company. He is also vice-chairman of the board of trustees at the Museum of Modern Art. |
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Mira Schor: The Art of Nonconformist Criticality - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast April 24, 2006 This program features a lecture by the artist, critic, editor, and educator Mira Schor entitled The Art of Nonconformist Criticality; basically, how to think straight when you are surrounded by creative influences and market demands. Schor is the author of Wet: On Painting, Feminism, and Art Culture, an influential and highly regarded series of essays, among other activist pursuits. This talk, on Feb. 14, 2006, was the second in a series launched by the newly formed MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department at the School of Visual Arts. (90 minutes) |
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Smart Choices: Building Your Collection - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast August 7, 2006 The School of Visual Arts, in conjunction with The Affordable Art Fair, presented this panel discussion for new and experienced collectors of contemporary art and photography on June 17, 2006. Writer, critic and SVA faculty member Monroe Denton led a discussion on buying art as an investment, doing research, and specializing in various media. Panelists: Monroe Denton -- North American editor of ARTI, contributor to Sculpture and Art Journal, faculty member of SVA's MFA Fine Arts Department (moderator) Lisa Hunter -- author, The Intrepid Art Collector: The Beginner's Guide to Finding, Buying, and Appreciating Art on a Budget (Three Rivers Press, 2006) Sandra Jackson -- director of education and public programs, The Studio Museum in Harlem George Robertson -- art collector Althea Viafora Kress -- commentator and advisor on contemporary and new art and culture, host of Collector's Forum on WPS1.org Art Radio. Joe Wolin -- independent curator. The Affordable Art Fair makes the art world accessible to thousands of visitors each year with a selection of contemporary art in all media under $5,000. The Fair launched in London in 1999 and has since expanded to Sydney, Melbourne, Bristol, and New York. (88 minutes) |
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Art Spiegelman and Chipp Kidd - listen | listen with RealPlayer On October 27, just days before the 2004 presidential election, Art Spiegelman sat down with eminent book designer Chip Kidd to discuss In the Shadow of No Towers, the artist's first new book of comics since Maus. for this far-reaching onstage interview at the New School University's Tishman Auditorium. |
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Neal Smith and Alice Cooper - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast March 13, 2006 Hosts David Weinstein and rock historian Glenn Leslie sat down with drummer Neal Smith whose work on the first seven albums released by the original Alice Cooper band (Alice Cooper on vocals, Michael Bruce and the late Glen Buxton on guitars and Dennis Dunaway on bass) ranks with the finest rock drumming ever recorded. The band's fabled theatrics, irreverence and hard work earned them notoriety and riches. They also made hits with tracks such as Halo Of Flies, Killer, Billion Dollar Babies, School's Out, I'm Eighteen, and No More Mr. Nice Guy. Smith's current projects include one with Dennis Dunaway and former Blue Oyster Cult bassist Joe Bouchard on guitar and vocals as Bouchard, Dunaway and Smith and the Cinematik project with bassist Peter Catucci. (65 minutes) |
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Gloria Steinem - listen | listen with RealPlayer Gloria Steinem: Woman of Vision was recorded for WPS1 at The New School University on November 16, 2005 as part of the New York Times' Times Talks: Women's Series, timely discussions for, about and by women. Gloria Steinem, the award-winning editor, journalist, equal rights leader and founder of Ms. Magazine and the Ms. Foundation for Women is interviewed by Gail Collins, editorial page editor of the New York Times. Gail Collins is also the author of the new book America's Women: Four Hundred Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates and Heroines. Isabelle Frank of the New School and Carol Olson Day of the New York Times introduce the program. (80 minutes) |
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Derrick Walcott with Elizabeth Alexander - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast February 6, 2006 A poetry reading and conversation with the poet Elizabeth Alexander and her teacher and mentor, the Nobel Laureate Derrick Walcott. Alexander's collections of poetry include Antebellum Dream Book (Graywolf Press, 2001), Body of Life (1996), and The Venus Hottentot (1990). This event was held at the New School University's Weitzman Student Center as part of a series sponsored by Cave Canem (Beware of the Dog), a program committed to the discovery and cultivation of new voices in African American poetry. (75 minutes) |
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Robert Wilson at the New York Public Library - listen | listen with RealPlayer In an unforgettable command performance, the internationally renowned opera and theater director recalls the start of his career, giving body to silence and sound to mind. Recorded April 17, 2004, at the New York Public Library. |
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Art Is Art Is, is an ongoing, single-channel video work that artist and poet George Quasha has shown (and continues to show) in museums and galleries internationally. Some 370 artists in six countries, speaking over 15 languages, have participated to date. In November, 2004, it was shown in its entirety at White Box Gallery in New York and previously appeared at the Snite Museum of Art, the International Media Art Biennale WRO 03 (Wroclaw), 10th Biennial of Moving Images (Saint-Gervais, Geneva), Bunkier Sztuki (Krakow), World Social Forum 04 (Bombay), Salt Lake Art Center (Salt Lake City), etc. George Quasha has been engaged in a twenty-year performance and video/language collaboration with the artists Gary Hill and Charles Stein. His writing about Hill's work includes Tall Ships, HanD HearD/liminal objects, Viewer, and Language Willing. Quasha has also published several books of poetry, including Ainu Dreams and the forthcoming The Preverbs of Tell. He is also an editor of the anthologies, America a Prophecy, (with Jerome Rothenberg), Open Poetry (with Ronald Gross) and The Station Hill Blanchot Reader. He is the publisher of Station Hill Press in Barrytown, New York, where he lives. Art Is, Pt. 1 - listen | listen with RealPlayer Playlist, Pt. 1 - In order of appearance: Alex Katz David Antin Dorothea Rockburne Eiko Meredith Monk Gary Hill Marina Abramovic Dennis Oppenheim Anthony McCall Jonathan Feldschuh SoHyun Bae Thomas Eller Alison Knowles Mac Adams Evelyna Domnitch Katarina Wong Cecilia Vicuña Gary Hill Brian Maguire Alison Knowles Larry Miller Tim Rollins Linda Schrank Nobuho Nagasawa Andra Samelson Dove Bradshaw Pablo Helguera William Anastasi Monika Weiss Martin Lam Nguyen Katarina Wong Tom Phillips SoHyun Bae |
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Art Is, Pt. 2 - listen | listen with RealPlayer Playlist, Pt. 2 - In order of appearance: Arman Steve Tomasula Carolee Schneemann Ann Hamilton (Jonathan Feldschuh) Kathleen Anderson (Dorothea Rockburne) (Monika Weiss) Isabela Prado Eva Karczag (SoHyun Bae) (Arman) Michael Murcil (Andra Samelson) Bill Beckley (Dove Bradshaw) (Nobuho Nagasawa) Jan Harrison Caroline Bergvall Yayoi Kusama Larry Litt Marianne Vitale Lawrence Ferlinghetti (Alison Knowles) Ellen Zweig (Alex Katz) (Bill Beckley) (Arman) (Dorothea Rockburne) Carl Skelton Pat Lipsky (Carolee Schneemann) Nyame Brown Mahmoud Hamadani (Isabela Prado) Linda Weintraub (Jonathan Feldschuh) (Jan Harrison) Praxis (Alison Knowles) (Evelyna Domnitch) (William Anastasi) (Tim Rollins) (Alex Katz) (Larry Miller) Ann Messner Dorothee Joachim (Jonathan Feldschuh) (Caroline Bergvall) Xu Bing (Dennis Oppenheim) (Tom Phillips) Raquel Rabinovich (Gary Hill) Carter Ratcliff (Thomas Eller) (Jan Harrison) (Carter Ratcliff) (Tim Rollins) (Linda Schrank) (Isabela Prado) (Dennis Oppenheim) (Dove Bradshaw) (Pablo Helguera) (Ann Hamilton) (Carter Ratcliff) (Dorothee Joachim) (Carter Ratcliff) Akira Tatehata Willoughby Sharp (Marianne Vitale) Alain Arias-Misson (Larry Litt) (Larry Miller) (Brian Maguire) |
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