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Vito Acconci - listen | listen with RealPlayer In this solo talk and slide presentation at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, the irrepressible Vito Acconci tells on himself like never before as he lays out his entire career in art from the 1960s to the present, including the infamous "Seedbed," "Following," and other performance, video, sound, sculpture and architectural works. Historic indeed! Not to be missed. |
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Laurie Anderson and Greil Marcus - listen | listen with RealPlayer Laurie Anderson is well known as a solo performer and visual artist whose work involves music, storytelling, film, installation and sculpture - separate forms of creative endeavor that she has made one with the inventive use of advanced technologies. This lucid conversation with the iconoclastic critic and theorist Greil Marcus, was recorded September 23, 2004 in New York. Anderson has created large-scale theatrical works that include "Home of the Brave," "United States," and "Moby Dick". She has also released seven recordings for Warner Brothers beginning with Big Science, and two for Nonesuch Records, the most recent of which is Live at Town Hall, New York, from September, 2001. Over the last year, she has been the first artist-in-residence at NASA, the U.S. space agency. Marcus has been a columnist for Rolling Stone, Artforum, Salon, and The New York Times. Best known as a pop music critic, he is also the author of Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock n Roll Music(1975), Lipstick Traces (1989), Double Trouble (2000) and, most recently, Once Upon a Time: Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone". This conversation began a series of "Music and Media" talks presented by the Film and Video Department at MoMA. Barbara London, associate curator, introduces the evening, which includes the presentation of Anderson's video work; listeners can follow it through the sound track. |
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The Art of Assemblage - listen | listen with RealPlayer Moderator William Seitz hosts a symposium with Marcel Duchamp, Robert Rauschenberg, Lawrence Alloway, Roger Shattuck and Richard Huelsenbeck. Could it possibly get better than this? Recorded October 19, 1961. (2 hours) |
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John Baldessari and Tim Rollins (A Generation Apart) - listen | listen with RealPlayer The late Kirk Varnedoe, MoMA's longtime senior curator in Painting and Sculpture, put together panels for the museum's "Art in Context" series of conversations to accompany exhibitions. For this one, recorded on May 5, 1989, and titled "A Generation Apart," Baldessari and Rollins offer many illuminating insights into the teaching of artists and the maintenance of a career that may take many paths. If you teach or want to learn or want to teach, or are interested in the influence of artists on other artists, this program is a must. |
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Chris Burden - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast November 21, 2005 Artist Chris Burden needs no introduction. He has shot himself in the arm, nailed himself to the hood of a car, and rolled around in glass. His exploits-as-art earned him a reputation of one of the most controversial performance artists of the 70s. Burden's more recent work, however, has abandoned self-mutilation for more traditional materials: drawings, photographs, and sculptures that evoke the connections between the military, money, power, and technology. Recorded Oct. 28, 2005 at MoMA as part of the museums's Conversations with Artists series. |
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Contemporary Art listen to part 1 | listen to part 1 with RealPlayer listen to part 2 | listen to part 2 with RealPlayer Leo Steinberg tells it like it is...was...is... in a landmark lecture recorded February 1960. |
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Cineprobe: An Evening with Bernardo Bertolucci - listen | listen with RealPlayer The Conformist and Last Tango in Paris were still figments of imagination in 1969, when Bernardo appeared at MoMA for a screening of Partner, his rather tepid follow-up to Before the Revolution. This is the recording of the talk he gave then. In Italian, with translation. |
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Cineprobe: An Evening with Jack Nicholson - listen | listen with RealPlayer Jack Nicholson speaks on Easy Rider. Recorded in 1969. |
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Cineprobe: An Evening with Paul Morrissey - listen | listen with RealPlayer Paul Morrissey speaks of Flesh. Recorded in 1969. |
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Cineprobe: An Evening with Melvin Van Peebles - listen | listen with RealPlayer With the Classical Theater of Harlem reviving Melvin van Peebles' 1971 musical, "Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death," this seemed the right time to roll out van Peebles' April 13, 1971 appearance at MOMA, when its Cineprobe series screened his X-rated 1971 film, Sweet, Sweetback's Badassss Song and brought the word "blaxploitation" into everyday speech. |
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Contemporary Photography: Process and Practice - listen | listen with RealPlayer Photographers Stephen Shore, An-My Lee, and Phillip Pisciotta discuss their work with MoMA Assistant Curator of Photography Eva Respini and P.S.1 Curatorial Advisor Bob Nickas. The panel addresses contemporary approaches to photography in relation to the artists' works currently and previously shown at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center and MoMA. Recorded on January 5, 2006 at the Museum of Modern Art. (82 minutes) |
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Song Dong - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast May 8, 2006 A retrospective introspective by Beijing artist Song Dong, the multimedia artist whose performance, video installation, calligraphy, sculpture, and site-specific projects merge East and West sensibilities, Taoism, urbanization and traditionalism, and social intervention. This presentation from April 3, 2006 was recorded by WPS1 Art Radio at the Museum of Modern Art as part of its Mediascope series. (2 hours) |
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Marcel Duchamp - listen | listen with RealPlayer Duchamp explains the readymade! - defines art! - as he speaks with Richard Hamilton and George Heard Hamilton. Originally broadcast by the BBC, October 20, 1962. (26 minutes) |
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The Feminist Future: Theory and Practice in the Visual ArtsArt Radio WPS1.org, the Internet radio station of P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, streamcasted the live audio feed from the sold-out symposium, The Feminist Future: Theory and Practice in the Visual Arts . Organized by The Museum of Modern Art, the program took place on Friday, January 26 and Saturday, January 27 from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. EST. Beginning with an introductory program at 9 a.m. EST on both days, Art Radio WPS1.org offered the symposium in its entirety, including introductory remarks, keynote addresses, panel discussions, respondent lectures, and concluding remarks. |
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Deborah Wye, Agnes Gund, Lucy R. Lippard - listen | listen with RealPlayer From the historic and provocative symposium, The Feminist Future: Theory and Practice in the Visual Arts presented by the Museum of Modern Art on Jan. 26-27, 2007 we offer you the entire audio content of this presentation. In this edition you will hear the opening remarks of MoMA curator Deborah Wye and MoMA president Agnes Gund and the keynote address of the acclaimed writer and activist Lucy Lippard. |
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Activism/Race/Geopolitics - listen | listen with RealPlayer Presentations and discussion issuing from the panel organized at the Museum of Modern Art under the the topic of Activism/Race/Geopolitics on Jan. 26, 2007 with: Coco Fusco, artist and Associate Professor, Columbia University School of the Arts Guerrilla Girls Frida Kahlo and Kathe Kollwitz, two founding members of the feminist activist group Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture and Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University Richard Meyer, Visiting Professor, Department of History of Art, University of Pennsylvania Moderator: David Little, Director of Adult and Academic Programs, The Museum of Modern Art |
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Activism/Race/Geopolitics (Q & A) - listen | listen with RealPlayer The question and answer session that followed the panel on Activism/Race/Geopolitics from Jan. 26, 2007 at the Museum of Modern Art. (32 minutes) |
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Body/Sexuality/Identity - listen | listen with RealPlayer Presentations and discussion issuing from the panel organized at the Museum of Modern Art under the the topic of Body/Sexuality/Identity on Jan. 26, 2007 with: Marina Abramovic, artist Beatriz Colomina, Professor of Architecture and Director of Program in Media and Modernity, Princeton University Geeta Kapur, critic and curator, New Delhi Martha Rosler, artist Moderator: Sally Berger, Assistant Curator, Dept. of Film, the Museum of Modern Art (2 hours) |
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Body/Sexuality/Identity (Q & A) - listen | listen with RealPlayer The question and answer session that followed the panel on Body/Sexuality/Identity from Jan. 26, 2007 at the Museum of Modern Art. (37 minutes) |
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Linda Nochlin - listen | listen with RealPlayer As the chosen Respondent for Day Two of The Feminist Future Symposium in January 2007 at the Museum of Modern Art, Linda Nochlin, Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Modern Art, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University gave this summary address and offers reflections on the discussions. |
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Catherine de Zegher - listen | listen with RealPlayer As the chosen Respondent for Day One of the The Feminist Future Symposium, Catherine de Zegher, curator and art historian (New York/Kortrijk, Belgium) gave this summary address. She concludes with a dialog with Carol Armstrong from Princeton University. (40 minutes) |
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Deborah Wye, Anne M. Wagner - listen | listen with RealPlayer On the second and last day of this symposium, The Feminist Future: Theory and Practice in the Visual Arts presented by the Museum of Modern Art on Jan. 26-27, 2007, we begin with opening remarks by MoMA curator Anne M. Wagner, Professor of Modern Art, University of California, Berkeley. |
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Writing the History of Feminism - listen | listen with RealPlayer Presentations and discussion issuing from the panel organized at the Museum of Modern Art under the topic of Writing the History of Feminism on Jan. 27, 2007 with: Ute Meta Bauer, Associate Professor and Director of the Visual Arts Program, Department of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Connie Butler, The Robert Lehman Foundation Chief Curator of Drawings, The Museum of Modern Art. David Joselit, Professor and Chair, Department of History of Art, Yale University. Griselda Pollock, Professor of the Social and Critical Histories of Art and Director of Centre for Cultural Analysis, History and Theory, University of Leeds. Moderator: Alexandra Schwartz, Project Curatorial Assistant, The Museum of Modern Art. |
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Institutionalization of Feminism: - listen | listen with RealPlayer Presentations and discussion issusing from the panel organized at the Museum of Modern Art under the topic of the Institutionalization of Feminism on Jan. 27, 2007 with: Salah Hassan, Professor of Art History and Director of Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University. Helen Molesworth, Chief Curator of Exhibitions, Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University. Wangechi Mutu, artist. Ingrid Sischy, Editor-in-Chief, Interview. Moderator: Anne Umland, Curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art. |
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Linda Nochlin: - listen | listen with RealPlayer As the chosen Respondent for Day Two of The Feminist Future Symposium, Linda Nochlin, Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Modern Art, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University gave this summary address. |
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Michel Gondry - listen | listen with RealPlayer In this terrific program from a recent series of conversations with leading music and media innovators, groundbreaking director Michel Gondry keeps Village Voice film critic Ed Halter on the edge of his chair - it's better than "Inside the Actor's Studio!" The evening took place September 30, 2004 at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York, produced by the Museum of Modern Art's Department of Film and Media , and introduced by associate curator Barbara London. Michel Gondry's use of bold imagery, animation and unconventional editing techniques has revitalized the world of music videos. After making videos for his own Parisian band, Oui Oui, he went on to direct several for Björk, beginning with "Human Behavior." Since then he has also created videos for Radiohead, the Foo Fighters, Cibo Matto, the White Stripes and Beck. His two feature films are "Human Nature" (2001) and "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" (2004) starring Jim Carey and Kate Winslet. Aside from writing on film for the Village Voice, Ed Halter is also the director of the New York Underground Film Festival. |
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Eleanor Heartney and Vija Celmins - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast May 23, 2005 Artist Vija Celmins was interviewed by art critic and contributing editor of Art in America, Eleanor Heartney at the Museum of Modern Art on April 20, 2005. "Internationally known for her intensely realistic paintings and drawings, Celmins has worked in the print medium since the early 1960s, meticulously rendering details of the natural environment through a careful exploration of process and mark."-from the Met Web site. Ann Temken, curator of painting and sculpture at the MoMA, introduces the program. This interview is one of a series of conversations entitled Conversations: Critics, Artists, and Collecting, where art critics engage in dialogue about the creative process with artists whose work is included in the exhibition Contemporary Voices: Works from The UBS Art Collection. Renowned for its holdings of work by European and American artists of the last forty years, The UBS Art Collection was established in 1970 by Donald B. Marron. |
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Richard Huelsenbeck (Dada Lives!) - listen | listen with RealPlayer "Dada Lives!" with co-founder Richard Huelsenbeck, telling it like it was (or not). Recorded in December, 1960. |
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Isabelle Huppert (Woman of Many Faces) - listen | listen with RealPlayer The renowned French actress Isabelle Huppert speaks briefly at the opening event ceremonies for her film retrospective at MoMA and photo exhibit at P.S.1. MoMA's Larry Kardish introduces Patrice Chéreau, director of Gabrielle, the first film in the series, and MoMA Director Glenn Lowry introduces the actor. (12 minutes) In the P.S.1 show, Woman of Many Faces: Isabelle Huppert, the actress is seen in over 100 photographic and video portraits by a multi-generational, international group of legendary artists and fashion photographers, including Henri Cartier-Bresson, Nan Goldin, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Roni Horn and Helmut Newton. This exhibition is shown in conjunction with the screening of Huppert's films at MoMA; a catalogue accompanying the exhibition includes written portraits by Susan Sontag and Elfriede Jelinek. Woman of Many Faces: Isabelle Huppert will travel internationally to over six major institutions. Woman of Many Faces: Isabelle Huppert can be seen in P.S.1's First Floor Drawing Gallery from October 23, 2005 - December 5, 2005. The 25 film retrospective of Huppert's films at the Museum of Modern Art runs through November 23, 2005. |
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Is There a New Cinema? - listen | listen with RealPlayer Crème de la! Fiercely independent filmmakers Emil d'Antonio, Shirley Clarke, Jonas Mekas, Amos Vogel and Lino Micciche meet with film theorist and historian Annette Michelson - a stellar confab - to decide what is truly avant. Moderated by MoMA's Willard van Dyke, on January 20, 1967. (90 minutes) |
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Philip Johnson: Portraits - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast April 17, 2006 Reflections on the legendary architect Philip Johnson organized and hosted by Terence Riley, former Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design for MoMA. Also appearing, Robert AM Stern, Dean of Yale School of Architecture; and critic, curator, filmmaker and Johnson biographer Jeff Kipnis of the Knowlton School of Architecture at Ohio State University. A short CBS documentary, This Is... Philip Johnson, is also heard. MoMA Director Glenn Lowry introduces the program. This event was part of a symposium and critical retrospective on the life and career of Philip Johnson held Feb.16-18, 2006 and organized by the Yale School of Architecture in collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art. The conference, titled Philip Johnson and the Constancy of Change, took place at both MoMA and Yale. (93 minutes) |
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Joan Jonas - listen | listen with RealPlayer Joan Jonas is one of the most significant figures in contemporary art whose installations, films and performances have appeared in numerous galleries and museums around the globe, from the 1960s to the present. "Joan Jonas: Five Works", a widely acclaimed retrospective organized for the Queens Museum of Art by Valerie Smith in 2004, was Jonas's first major museum show in the U.S. She is currently a Professor of Visual Arts at MIT in Cambridge, MA and is represented by Galerie Yvon Lambert. Recorded in March, 2002. |
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Daniel Henri Kahnweiler on Pablo Picasso - listen | listen with RealPlayer Legendary art dealer Daniel Henri Kahnweiler speaks intimately of Picasso - recorded at MoMA, May 23, 1957. |
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Walter Kerr on Screen Acting - listen | listen with RealPlayer In 1978, Walter Kerr - the Pulitzer-Prize winning theater critic who now has a Broadway house named after him - organized a wonderful series of talks at MoMA on the subject of screen acting. Our favorite featured the films - and the person - of the great Claudette Colbert (star of "It Happened One Night, 1934's "Cleopatra" and "Imitation of Life," "Midnight," "The Palm Beach Story") in a good-humored and down-to-earth talk with an unusually relaxed Kerr and an appreciative New York audience. Brilliant commentary and lots of good stories. |
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Jon Kessler: 23 Years of Work - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast March 27, 2006 Alanna Heiss sets the stage with her illuminating introduction for artist Jon Kessler who winds his way through his career in parallel to the developing alternative art scene of the last two decades. This talk was presented as part of MoMA's Conversations with Contemporary Artists series and recorded on January 27, 2006. Kessler's The Palace at 4 a.m., a site-specific multiple media installation was on view at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center from October 23, 2005 through February 6, 2006. (88 minutes) |
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Lynn Marie Kirby - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast April 3, 2006 Multimedia artist and experimental filmmaker Lynn Marie Kirby (San Francisco) inventively draws upon vernacular imagery from domestic life and the American landscape and explores the unique properties of the mechanical and the digital. Her work bridges the cinema and conceptual-art worlds by putting tools to unanticipated uses, whether editing by remote control, reframing production gear as subject, or turning the editing console into an instrument for live performance. This talk was presented at MoMA as part of the Mediascope series on January 30, 2006. Dedicated to experimentation with cinematic form and content, MediaScope presents emerging and recognized artists who discuss their work with the audience. The program explores filmmaking and videomaking, as well as Web-based, installation, and digital art practices. The series is organized by Sally Berger, Assistant Curator; Jytte Jensen, Curator; Laurence Kardish, Senior Curator; Barbara London, Associate Curator; and Joshua Siegel, Assistant Curator, Department of Film and Media. (85 minutes) |
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A Literary Evening in Honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - listen | listen with RealPlayer Imagine it: Allen Ginsberg sings - howls - and reads poetry, as does that sly southern writer, Robert Penn Warren, while Ralph Ellison stuns with a story from the great second novel he never finished and James Baldwin concludes with a fiery recollection and plea for social justice. This remarkable tribute took place on November 3, 1968, just six months after the death of Dr. King. With introductions by Dr. William A. Rutherford, then director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, it is one evening that will continue to resonate long after you hear it. Fortunately, with WPS1, you will be able to listen again and again. |
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An-My Le - listen | listen with RealPlayer The Museum of Modern Art's Conversations With Artists Series, featuring photographer An-My Le was recorded at The Museum of Modern Art in New York by WPS1 on May 6, 2005. An-My Le discusses her signature large-format landscape work and re-created war scenes and how her childhood in Vietnam informed these powerful and profound images. Susan Kaczmarek, Curator in the Department of Photography at the museum, introduces the artist. |
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Elizabeth Murray Retrospective (Artists' Panel) - listen | listen with RealPlayer This panel is half of a two-part series on the career of painter Elizabeth Murray. Three contemporary artists, Robert Gober, Jessica Stockholder and Caroll Dunham, discuss the impact of Murray's work in a panel discussion moderated by curator Robert Storr. This program was recorded during the MoMA Elizabeth Murray exhibition that took place October 23, 2005 - January 9, 2006 and was recorded for WPS1 on November 21, 2005 at the MoMA in New York. Elizabeth Murray (American, b. 1940) belongs to a generation of artists who emerged in the 1970s and whose exposure to Cubist-derived Minimalism and Surrealist-influenced Pop inspired experimentation with new modes of expression that would bridge the gap between these two historical models. In this context, Murray has produced a singularly innovative body of work. Warping, twisting, and knotting her constructed canvases, she has given the elastic shapes of classic surrealism a space in their own image. The MoMA exhibition included approximately seventy-five paintings and works on paper. (1 hour 20 minutes) |
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Elizabeth Murray Retrospective (Critics' Panel) - listen | listen with RealPlayer In conjunction with the MoMA retrospective of over 70 paintings and works on paper by Elizabeth Murray, a conversation with critics Alexi Worth, Katy Siegel, Joan Simon, Carter Radcliff, curator Robert Storr, and the artist. Recorded at the Titus Theatre on Nov. 28, 2005. (1 hour 48 minutes) |
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Karyn Olivier - listen | listen with RealPlayer A talk by the artist. Born in Trinidad, Karyn Olivier was featured in the Greater New York 2005 exhibition at PS1 Contemporary Art Center. Her latest works were also showcased at the New Work, Women and their Work exhibition at Austin, Texas, and at the Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art since 1970 exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, Texas. Both a confounding delight and a perplexing satisfaction to the senses, Olivier's installations toy with dimension, scale and physical access, while challenging the social hierarchies of public and private space. Recorded Friday, September 16, 2005 at the Museum of Modern Art as part of its Conversations with Contemporary Artists series. David Little, direction of Adult and Academic Programs at the MoMA introduces the program. |
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Paris in the 1920s - listen | listen with RealPlayer With intros by the inimitable voice of Walter Cronkite, this 1952 TV program puts seminal moments of Paris in the 1920s into sharp focus with recollections by Man Ray (explaining the invention of the Rayograph) and The New Yorker's Genet (Janet Flanner), and a reading by Gertrude Stein. |
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Sir Roland Penrose presents The Sculpture of Picasso - listen | listen with RealPlayer The Surrealist painter, poet and collector Sir Roland Penrose (1900-1984) wrote essential biographies of his friends Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst and Joan Miro. He also founded (in 1947) the Institute of Contemporary Art in London. On October 16, 1967, he came to MoMA for this lecture on the sculpture of Picasso. |
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Pop Art - listen | listen with RealPlayer The hot-button issue of its day generates unbridled passions from speakers and listeners alike during this hair-raising argument at the Museum of Modern Art on December 30, 1962. Hear curator Henry Geldzahler duke it out with critics Hilton Kramer, Dore Ashton, Leo Steinberg and Stanley Kunitz over whether or not Pop is art worthy of display in the museum. Historian Peter Selz does his best to moderate. |
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Larry Rivers and Terry Southern: The Donkey and the Darling - listen | listen with RealPlayer Now the story comes out! When the artist Larry Rivers talked the irascible novelist and screenwriter Terry Southern (Candy, Dr. Strangelove, etc.) into collaborating on a book, neither knew quite what he was in for - or that it would threaten Rivers' long and fruitful relationship with Universal Limited Art Editions' Tatyana Grosman. She was the one who ultimately guided "The Donkey and the Darling" to completion a full decade later, with Southern's fairytale and 54 original lithographs by Rivers. The spunky art historian Amei Wallach moderates with humor and tact. Recorded at MoMA June 26, 1979 before a vocally appreciative audience. |
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Dieter Roth and Richard Hamilton (Collaborations) - listen | listen with RealPlayer Readings by Dieter Roth and Richard Hamilton. Both artists recite poems they created for theatrical presentation in 1977, in London, Oxfordshire, and the Hague (Not, perhaps, for the squeamish). Presented in conjunction with "Roth Time: A Dieter Roth Retrospective" at MoMA and P.S.1 |
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Tony Smith - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast Feb. 14, 2005 Nearly two decades after sculptor Tony Smith's death in 1980, the Museum of Modern Art mounted a major retrospective curated by Robert Storr, who leads this scintillating panel with Robert Swain, Richard Tuttle, Joel Shapiro and Mel Bochner whose reminiscences provide illuminating views of the artist's working process and the nature of their debt to his accomplishments. Recorded at MoMA, September 8, 1998. |
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Quentin Tarantino and Uma Thurman (Great Collaborations) - listen | listen with RealPlayer To satisfy our collective curiosity for inside views of moviemaking, the Film and Media Department of the Museum of Modern Art happily put together "Great Collaborations," a series of programs exploring the dynamics of artistic collaborations in film. In the first of these, focusing on the actor/director partnership, Quentin Tarantino and his "Marlene Dietrich," Uma Thurman, discuss films they have made together ("Pulp Fiction," the "Kill Bill" movies) in a conversation moderated by New Yorker writer Larissa McFarquahar. Mary Lee Bandy, chief curator of MoMA's Film and Media department, introduces the program; department manager Natalie Hirniak organized the series. Recorded January 10, 2005. |
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Mickalene Thomas - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast October 24, 2005 Artist Mickalene Thomas − whose colorful self-portrait was included in the 2005 Greater New York show at P.S.1 − creates sequin and rhinestone paintings that activate questions about Black identity and Black femininity in popular culture. This talk was presented as part of the Conversations with Contemporary Artists series at MoMA on September 23, 2005. Brett Littman, Deputy Director of P.S.1, introduces the artist. |
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Cy Twombly: An Artist's Artist - listen | listen with RealPlayer During MoMA's 1994 Twombly retrospective, curator Kirk Varnedoe brought a stellar group of contemporaries − Brice Marden, Francesco Clemente and Richard Serra − to his table to speak all kinds of things about the mighty scrawler in their midst. |
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Stephen Vitiello - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast February 6, 2006 A lecture presentation by sound and media artist Stephen Vitiello. Vitiello has composed music for independent films, experimental video projects and art installations, collaborating with artists such as Nam June Paik, Tony Oursler and Dara Birnbaum. In 1999 he was awarded a studio for six months on the 91st floor of the World Trade Center's Tower One, where he recorded the cracking noises of the building swaying under the stress of the winds following Hurricane Floyd. Vitiello is currently Assistant Professor of Kinetic Imaging at Virginia Commonwealth University and Archivist for The Kitchen, NYC. This event was recorded Nov. 14, 2005 at the Museum of Modern Art and was presented as part of the museum's Mediascope Series through the Film and Media Dept. (67 minutes) |
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Carrie Mae Weems - listen | listen with RealPlayer Photographer Carrie Mae Weems is interviewed by Debra Willis, an internationally acclaimed artist, curator and historian of photography. The program is sponsored by The Friends of Education, an affiliate committee of the MoMA that supports a greater appreciation of art created by African Americans and the participation and membership of African Americans at MoMA. Friends of Education Chairman Stuart Lewis hosts the evening's program and introduces Glen Lowry, the director of the MoMA. Chief Curator of Photography at the MoMA, Peter Galassi, introduces the artist. Recorded live by WPS1 on May 3, 2005 at the MoMA in New York. Carrie Mae Weems has created a rich array of documentary series, still lives, narrative tableaux, and installation works. Her art balances rich and universal themes with the specifics of personal, cultural, national, and world histories. Often mixing hard realities with a personal vision, some works are pointedly political, bitter with the pain of past injustices and still prevalent prejudices, while other work is playful and even celebratory. - from nathanielturner.com |
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The Writer Looks at Painting - listen | listen with RealPlayer With MoMA curator Monroe Wheeler moderating an amusing panel discussion with poet Marianne Moore, playwright Elmer Rice, philosopher Kenneth Burke, the New Yorker's Janet Flanner and novelist Glenway Wescott. Recorded at MoMA on February 26, 1952. (Be patient: Wheeler is a bit longwinded in his intro, but the rest is worth the wait.) |
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