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WPS1 Art Radio is the Internet station of P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, a MoMA affiliate, featuring an MP3 stream of music, talk, and historical recordings and a free on-demand archive of over 1200 programs.
WPS1's Jeannie Hopper interviews Lee Quiñones,
the world-renowned contemporary painter and star of the 1981 cult classic film
Wild Style.
Quiñones rode a bicycle from NYC to Miami to
raise money to aid children and their families affected by Hurricane Katrina via the
Boys & Girls Clubs of America Hurricane Katrina Relief Fund.
He departed Brooklyn on Oct. 27, 2005 in a send off that featured Borough Prez Marty Markowitz and actress Rosie Perez. His arrival in Miami came just at the start of the Art Basel Show on Dec. 1.
Quiñones is considered the grand expressionist of the New York Graffiti Art Movement. As part of the legendary crew The Fab 5ive, he came to prominence in 1976 with a socially daunting piece called Doomsday that covered two full subway cars. The piece established Quiñones as a poetic and painterly graffiti artist with powerful activist abilities.
P.S.1's Director Alanna Heiss makes the effort to politely savage the virtues and liabilities of high finance in the arts with two sharp and engaged art world professionals. The discussion includes a dissection of the modern auction process as well as pig auctions, snooping, collusion, and collecting on a working income. Jonathan Greenberg specializes in modern and contemporary art at Sotheby's New York office. Author Phoebe Hoban (Basquiat: A Quick Killing In Art) has written about culture and the arts for Vogue, Vanity Fair, GQ, Harper's Bazaar, The New York Times, and New York Magazine.
Host Michael Rush sits down at our seaside studio the morning after the opening of a video show he curated at the new Cisneros Foundation space in Miami. He heads most directly into the elusive passageways between artists, collectors and commerce with guests artist Stephen Pascher, collector Mickey Cartin, curator Charles Wylie, and writer/editor Sarah Douglas. (30 minutes)
Michael Rush hosts a discussion and enjoys the sea breeze with guests Terrie Sultan Director of the Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston; Anne Pasternak, President and Artistic Director of Creative Time; and Christopher French, an artist, writer and contributing editor to Glasstire. (29 minutes)
After a couple minutes of music (WPS1's Miami intro theme and a slice of Plunderphonics) you'll hear WPS1's David Weinstein with artist Jared Whitman discuss his illegally parked (and eventually banished) rocketship-spaceship-RV-truck-car garage sale installation near the Art Basel Art Positions show. (7 minutes)
Artist Jen DeNike holds a discussion about works shown in the alternate
fairs during Art Basel Miami Beach 05. Her guests are Julianne Swartz (whose Mingle was
shown at NADA) and David
Hardy and Siebren Versteeg
(whose Sprit Tours was a part of Frisbee).
Artist Jen DeNike takes a break from her curatorial and party-managing activities at the Cavalier Hotel (where she and co-founder Anat Ebgi held Frisbee, a nomadic curatorial project) and sits down beachside in Miami to host a revolving table of artists including Melissa Brown, Michael Williams and Andy Hershey of the Slow Jams Band; Flora Weigman of Champion Fine Art; Felicia Ballos of Champion Dance; artist Abbey Williams; Joshua Neuman of Heeb Magazine; and Mahomi Kunikata from Kaikai Kiki studio.
Host Jill Spalding convenes an extraordinary panel of young artists working in South Florida: Beatriz Monteavaro (painter), Michael Velasquez (painter), Matthew Schreiber (light artist), Damian Rojo (film and photography), and from Rocket Projects, Jonathan Peck and TM Sisters. Recorded on the boardwalk on the beach at 21st and Collins Avenue.
P.S.1's Deputy Director Brett Littman interviews British born ceramic sculptor David Packer at our Art Basel Miami Beach site. The artist is known for his meticulously sculpted insects and machines. He lives and works in New York. Recent shows have been with Garth Clark Galleries in New York and a solo show in spring of 2005 was at Enoch Pratt Gallery in Baltimore.
WPS1's resident radio princess and DJ Jeannie Hopper sits down on the beach with some of the late night entertainment for the Art Basel parties. Meredith Danluck has made art, clothes, and music and performs as a DJ. She has paid tribute to Robert Moog's and Bucky Fuller's projects while admiringly taking them apart. She also made a case for how, in America, science has often been a fitting, even indispensable, ally of art. David Dewaele, with his brother Stephen, are also known as the 2 Many DJs, or perhaps even better know as members of the guitar band Soulwax.
Host Althea Viafora-Kress held a session of her WPS1 program at our
oceanfront studio during the fair. Her guests were Florence Bonnefous of Air de
Paris, Helen Allen of Pulse, George Vamvokiolis of The
Breeder, and Javier
Peres from Peres Projects in Los Angeles.
(28.5 minutes)
Kira Wisniewski, General Manager of WVUM (90.5 FM out of Coral Gables/U. of Miami) and her compatriot Kimm Jacobs talk with artist Sam Brown of explodingdog.com. WVUM hosted our signal live to greater Miami during our Art Basel programs. Sam Brown (whose Web site is know for his scratchy drawings based on captions sent by email) dropped in for a WVUM fundraiser. (8 minutes)
P.S.1's Brett Littman continues his WPS1 show on the waterfront at Art Basel Miami Beach 05 with two guests. Peter Nesbett is Art on Paper magazine's owner/editor and co-founder of the Harlem exhibition space Triple Candie with his wife, Shelly Bancroft. David Kiehl is the Whitney Museum of American Art Curator of Prints.
for a WVUM fundraiser. (8 minutes)
Art Basel Conversations: Art Collections/Contemporary Philanthropy Broadcast Permission Pending
From a series of panel discussions held as part of Art Basel Miami Beach 2005, this group was tasked with the following questions:
- How can collecting become a philanthropic activity?
- How closely is your work as a philanthropist related to your life as a collector?
- What are the checks and balances of philanthropy and collecting?
- What do you hope will be the heritage you will leave to future generations?
The panelists:
Eli Broad, collector and business leader (SunAmerica and KB Home)
Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, collector, Fundacion Cisneros
Howard Rachofsky, collector and Chairman, Regal Capital Co.
David Rockefeller, collector, former Chairman Chase Manhattan Bank, Rockefeller Group, Inc.
Richard Flood (Host), Chief Curator, New Museum of Contemporary Art
The themes of Art Basel Conversations series focus on the collection and exhibition of art. Distinguished art collectors, museum directors, Biennale curators, gallery owners, publishers, sponsors, celebrities, prominent artists and architects take part. This event was recorded Dec. 2, 2005.
(67 minutes)
Art Basel Conversations: Architecture for Art/Museum Architecture Broadcast Permission Pending
From a series of panel discussions held as part of Art Basel Miami Beach 2005, this group presented examples, shared experiences and experiments, and labored to illuminate the following:
- What are the most challenging architectural configurations for an artist to work with?
- How should the issue of museum architecture and the art experience be weighed?
- How does museum architecture affect the relationship between art and the observer?
- What can artists do to influence architects and museum directors in their building choices?
- What are the most ideal examples of museum architecture and activity?
Terence Riley (Host), Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture, MoMA; New York, NY, USA, soon to become director of the Miami Art Museum (March 2006)
The themes of Art Basel Conversations series focus on the collection and exhibition of art. Distinguished art collectors, museum directors, Biennale curators, gallery owners, publishers, sponsors, celebrities, prominent artists and architects take part. This event was recorded Dec. 4, 2005. (88 minutes)
P.S. 1 Deputy Director Brett Littman in a beachfront conversation with MoMA architecture and design curator (Safe: Design Takes on Risk) Paola Antonelli, Icelandic sculptor and installation artist Katrin Sigurdardottir, and curator, author, dealer, Warhol print expert, and outsider art supporter (American Dream) Martina Batan.
