Daniel Henri Kahnweiler on Pablo Picasso (1957)
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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 (1978)
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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 (2006)
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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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Kirchner and the Berlin Street at MoMA: the Preview Reception on 29 July 2008
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First broadcast September 8, 2008
This exhibition (on view August 3-November 10, 2008)
seeks to bring together German Expressionist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's renowned Street Scenes series, created between 1913 and 1915. Considered by many to be the highpoint of Kirchner's career as a whole, this series of seven to nine paintings is showcased with forty to fifty related prints and drawings. Art Radio speaks with curators and special guests at the preview reception on July 29, including the exhibition organizer, Deborah Wye, plus live DJ sets by DJ Spun!
With Deborah Wye, MoMA's Chief Curator of Prints and Illustrated Books; Dr. Ina-Maria Conzen, Curator of Modern Art, Staat Galarie-Stuttgart; Cornelia Henze, representing the Estate & Archive of Kirchner interviewed by MoMA curatorial assistant Gretchen Wegner; Nelson Blitz, Collector, lent Kirchner pieces from his collection; Reinhold Heller, Professor of Art History, University of Chicago
Correspondent Zefrey Throwell; Announcers David Weinstein & Jeannie Hopper; DJ sets by DJ Spun-Rong Music.
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Lynn Marie Kirby (2006)
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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 Jan. 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. (1968)
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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 (2005)
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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 (2005)
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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 (2005)
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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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North African and Middle Eastern Curatorial Symposium: Opening Remarks (2007)
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First broadcast June 25, 2007
The following are the opening remarks from North African and Middle Eastern Curatorial Symposium (April 16-17, 2007), held at the Museum of Modern Art at New York City. The speakers are:
Jay A. Levenson - Director, International Program at the Museum of Modern Art, NY
Glenn D. Lowry - Director of the Museum of Modern Art, NY
Feri Daftari - Assistant Curator, Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, NY
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North African and Middle Eastern Curatorial Symposium: Omar Amiralay (2007)
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First broadcast July 30, 2007
Omar Amiralay is a documentary filmmaker and producer who describes himself as a "civil society activist". In 2000 he was one of the signatories to a document demanding the end to the state of emergency, imposed in 1963. WIth works such as A Flood in Ba'ath Country, he is known both in Syria and in international film circles.
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North African and Middle Eastern Curatorial Symposium: Galit Eilat (2007)
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First broadcast July 23, 2007
Galit Eilat is a Curator and the Founding Director of The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon. She is Co-Editor in Chief of Maarav - an online arts and culture magazine, as well as a teacher at Tel Aviv University in the Department of Film Studies. She is currently a member of the Art Directors Board of "Amanut Ha'aretz," an annual festival of young Israeli art.
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North African and Middle Eastern Curatorial Symposium: Bassam El Baroni and Mai Abu ElDahab (2007)
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First broadcast June 25, 2007
Bassam El-Baroni is a writer/curator based in Alexandria, Egypt. In late 2005, he founded Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum (ACAF), an alternative art space (the first in Egypt's second largest city) which he currently co-directs. As a writer he has published texts on the work of many artists, including Susan Hefuna, Amina Mansour, Mona Marzouk and Karim Rashid. His writings have also appeared in a number of local and international publications such as Bidoun, A-42 Arte and Culturas, and Canvas. He has also lectured in Cairo, Amsterdam, Addis Ababa, Dubai, Tenerife and Cape Town among other cities. Recent curatorial projects include the exhibition Family - You, Me and the Trajectories of a Post-Everything Era, PROGR - Zentrum für Kulturproduktion, Bern, Switzerland (2006) and Prototypes for an Advanced Outdoor Visual Culture (2006), an art in public spaces project in Alexandria with the artist duo Winter/Holbert and art students from Alexandria and Frankfurt
Mai Abu ElDahab is an independent curator based in Cairo. Since 2000, she has been involved in producting, curating and writing about contemporary art in Egypt and internationally. She is currently involved in editing the upcoming issues of Aprior (Brussels), Interviu (Vilnius) and Dot Dot Dot (New York) magazines. This summer of 2007, she will be a curatorial resident at PROGR, Bern.
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North African and Middle Eastern Curatorial Symposium: Abdellah Karroum (2007)
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First broadcast July 23, 2007
Abdellah Karroum (born 1970, Morocco) works as an independent art researcher, publisher and curator. He is the founder and artistic director of several art projects: 'L'appartement 22', an experimental space for encounters, exhibitions and artists' residencies founded in 2002 in Rabat, Morocco; the 'Le Bout Du Monde' art expedition undertaken since 2000; and, the 'editions hors'champs' art publications that have been published since 1999. He obtained his Ph.D. in Communication and Visual & Performance Arts from the Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux 3 in 2001, and is currently doing research for a thesis at EHESS (Paris) on contemporary art in the Maghreb and its international connections. He has curated numerous exhibitions for capcMusée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, and was one of the curators for the 2006 DAK'ART Biennial for African Contemporary Art. He is also an advisory member of the SUD (Salon Urbain de Douala-Cameroun) of the Doul'art Association. Since 2006, Mr. Karroum has been part of the Artistic Council of the International Prize for the contemporary art of the Prince Pierre Foundation, Monaco. In 2007, he is the President of the International Jury for the UNESCO Prize for the Promotion of the Arts at the Sharjah Biennial 2007.
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North African and Middle Eastern Curatorial Symposium: Nadira Laggoune-Aklouche (2007)
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First broadcast July 23, 2007
Nadira Laggoune-Aklouche is an Algerian art historian based in Algiers. Since 1986, she has taught aesthetics and the history of art at l'Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-arts d'Alger. She has concurrently held several other associated positions at the Institut Supérieure d'Art Dramatique d'Alger and at the Institut Supérieure de Musique d'Alger. She has served on several exhibition juries in Algeria and in France. Her first publication "Alger dans la Peinture" (2000) has been followed by numerous articles, most recently "Theorie et Pratiques dans l'Art Comtemporain Algerien," (2006) which was adapted from her talk at the "Revue des Revues" Symposium at Documenta.
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North African and Middle Eastern Curatorial Symposium: Farhad Moshiri (2007)
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First broadcast July 2, 2007
Farhad Moshiri is an Iranian artist who lives and works in Tehran. Mr. Moshiri took his B.F.A. and M.F.A. from the California Institute of the Arts in 1981 and 1984, returning to Tehran in 1991. His works have been regularly exhibited in Tehran since his return and have appeared abroad in numerous group and solo exhibitions in the United States (1989- ), France (2003), the United Arab Emirates (2003- ), Sweden (2003- ), Spain (2003- ), Switzerland (2004), Germany (2004- ), Norway (2004-2005), Estonia (2004-2005), Italy (2005), the United Kingdom (2006- ), the Netherlands (2006- ), and Turkey (2007). Mr. Moshiri's practice encompasses a wide range of mediumsL from paintings depicting archaic vessels inscribed with text lifted from popular culture to installations, collages, and video where critical references to Iranian society remain apparent. In 2005 he curated "Welcome," an exhibition at the Kashya Hildebrand gallery in New York.
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North African and Middle Eastern Curatorial Symposium: Jack Persekian (2007)
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First broadcast July 9, 2007
Jack Persekian is a curator and producer. He is the Founding Director of Anadiel Gallery and the Al-Ma'mal Foundation for Contemporary Art in Jerusalem. He is also the Artistic Director of the Sharjah Biennial 8 (2007) and served as Head Curator of Sharjah Biennial 7 (2005). Recently curated exhibitions include: "Reconsidering Palestinian Art", Fundacion Antonio Perez, Cuenca, Spain (2006); "Disorientation - Contemporary Arab Artists from the Middle East", Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2003); "in weiter ferne, so nah, neue palastinensische kunst", Ifa Galleries in Bonn, Stuttgart and Berlin (2002); Official Palestinian Representation to the XXIV Biennale de Sao Paolo. Additional productions and directing include: The Palestinian Culutural Evening at the World Economic Forum in the Dead Sea, Jordan (2004), The Geneva Initiative, Public Commitment Event (2003), Artistic Director and Producer of the Millennium Celebrations in Bethlehem - Bethlehem 2000. Short films and video works: 'A Ball and a Coloring Box' by Liana Saleh, "my son" with Imad Ahmad, 'the last 5 short films of the millennium' and 'the first 4 short films of the millennium' in collaboration with 9 Palestinian filmmakers.
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North African and Middle Eastern Curatorial Symposium: Laura Srouji (2007)
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First broadcast July 2, 2007
Initially fascinated by the sciences, Laura Srouji studied biochemistry at Imperial College in London. Upon graduating, she began a career in marketing at the largest pharmaceutical company in Amman. Srouji eventually found herself in art when working research and concept development at a local graphic design office. She then served in the communications department of UNICEF in Amman, developing its print publications and public service announcements. Soon afterward, Srouji became qualified in exhibition design from a specialized institute in Montreal, Canada. She is currently active in managing and curating exhibitions at Darat al Funun, a leading arts institution that features art and artists from the Arab world.
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North African and Middle Eastern Curatorial Symposium: Rachida Triki (2007)
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First broadcast July 2, 2007
Rachida Boubaker-Triki is a professor of Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art at Tunis University, President of Tunisian Aesthetic Association ATEP, Vice president of the International Society of Poietics, founding member of the Mediterranean Aesthetics Society (Athens since 2002) and member of International Aesthetic Assosciation (IAA). She was a member of the internation cultural festival of Sfax (Tunisia 1992-1996) and a member of the scientif committee of arts festival of Mahares (Tunisia 1998-2002). She has organized several contemporary art exhibitions in Tunisia and is currently a curator for the Maghreb Exhibition at the Bamako Museum. She has published six book, most recently Les femmes peintres en Tunisie (Women Painters in Tunisia) (2001), and has worked on over twenty-five documentray films on Tunisian painters.
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North African and Middle Eastern Symposium: Akram Zaatari (2007)
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First broadcast July 30, 2007
Akram Zaatari is an artist who lives and works in Beirut. Author of more than 30 videos, and video installations, Zaatari has been exploring issues pertinent to postwar Lebanon, particularly the mediation of territorial conflicts and wars through television, the logic of religious and national resistance, and the circulation and production of images in the context of a geographical division of the Middle East.
Co-founder of the Arab Image Foundation (Beirut), he based his work on collecting, studying, and archiving the photographic history of the Middle East notably studying the work of Lebanese photographer Hashem El Madani (1928 - ), as a register of social relationships and photographic practices. His ongoing research was the basis for a series of exhibitions and publications such as "Hashem El Madani: Studio Practices" (with Lisa Lefeuvre) "Mapping Sitting" (collaboration with Walid Raad).
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North African and Middle Eastern Curatorial Symposium: Q&A (Day 1) (2007)
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First broadcast July 16, 2007
The speakers are:
Bassam El Baroni
Mai Abu ElDahab
Farhad Moshiri
Jack Persekian
Laura Srouji
Rachida Triki
Vasif Kortun (Moderator) is the Director of the Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, in Istanbul (2001- ). He was the founding director of Proje4L Istanbul Museum of Contemporary Art (2001-2003). Between 1994 and 1997, he worked as the founding director of the Museum of the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. His texts have appeared in many different books, magazines and exhibition catalogs. Jahresring 51: Szene Turkeu: Asbeits aber Tor, a book on Turkey co-authored with Erden Kosova was published in 2004. Recent exhibitions include "Of One and the Many," Platform Garanti CAC, 2006; the 9th International Istanbul Biennial, 2005 (co-curator); "Ahmet Öğüt", 2005, Mala Galerija, Museum of Modern art, Ljubljana and "Normalization 1 through 4", (co-curator, Platform. Projects in 2004 include, "Placebo Effect," Sparwasser HQ, Berlin, Istanbul, IFA, Stuttgart and Berlin and "Mediterraneans," Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, (co-curator), Kortun is a collection of the New Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, and is on the board of American Center Foundation, E-Flux, and the Office for Contemporary Art, Norway. He served as a jury member for 26. Graphic Arts, Ljubljana Biennial (2005), 5. Gwangju Biennial (2004), 50th Venice Biennial (2003). Kortun received the 9th annual Award for Curatorial Excellence given by the Center for Curatorial Studies in 2006.
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North African and Middle Eastern Curatorial Symposium: Q&A (Day 2) (2007)
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First broadcast July 30, 2007
The speakers are:
Omar Amiralay
Gali Eilat
Abdellah Karroum
Nadira Laggoune-Aklouche
Akram Zaatari
Catherine David (Moderator) studied Linguistics and History of Art at the Université de la Sorbonne and Ecolde du Louvre in Paris. From 1982 to 1990 she was curator at the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, and from 1990 to 1994 she was Curator at Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, both in Paris, where she organized several monographic and group exhibitions including: Lothar baumgarten; Passages de L'Image; Stan Douglas: Monodramas and Television Spots; Marcel Broodthaers; Helio Oiticica; Eva Hesse; Robert Gober; Jeff Wall and Chantal Ackerman: D'Est, among others. From 1994 to 1997 David served as Artistic Director for documenta X in Kassel, Germany, and from 1998 on is Director of the long-term project Contemporary Arab Representations produced by Tapies Foundation Barcelona. In 200 she organized The State of Things for Kunst Werke, Berlin. Between 2002 and 2004 David was Director of the Witte de With Rotterdam in the Netherlands. In 2004-2005 she was Rudolf Arnheim Guest Professor at Humboldt University and in 2005-2006 Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg, both in Berlin. In 2005-2006 she organized the Iraqi Equation at Kurnstwerke Berlin and Tapies Foundation in Barcelona.
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Karyn Olivier (2005)
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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 (1952)
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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: The Sculpture of Picasso (1967)
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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 (1962)
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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 (1979)
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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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Tony Smith (1998)
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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 (2005)
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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 (2005)
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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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