For the 52nd Annual International Art Exhibition known affectionately as the 2007 Venice Biennale, Art Radio WPS1.org once again moored its floating broadcast station—a fully-equipped studio and Internet hub, lushly furnished VIP lounge, and catered party headquarters—on the Venetian waterways. Building on the success from 2005 the Art Radio Venice Live project expanded its range into regions across Italy. We gathered news, reports on Venice culture, interviews, discussions, unmoderated gossip, music, historic audio, and other surprises. Visit our 2007 Venice Biennale page as we post the finished programs and check out the photos page for a visual reference.

Special programming coordinated by Art Radio project partners Malo, Perna Foundation, and PAN | Palazzo delle Arti Napoli compliment a wide range of programming including talk and music from Indonesia, Egypt, Jordan, Tunisia, Lebanon, Russia, Italy, Germany, South America and much more.

Art Radio WPS1 Live from the Venice Biennale was sponsored by Malo and organized by Perna Foundation and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center with the support of program partner PAN | Palazzo delle Arti Napoli. The project is also made possible by generous contributions from Maria Rosa and Gilberto Sandretto.

(L-R) DJ Jeannie Hopper, Station Manager of WPS1; Art Radio Managing Director David Weinstein; and P.S.1 Director of Operations Tony Guerrero at the Armory Show remote broadcast booth on Pier 94.

For the third year in a row, Art Radio WPS1 was the official radio station of The Armory Show 2007. This international art fair, one of the world’s largest, took place at Pier 94 from February 23rd through the 26th.

Located in The Armory Show’s restaurant, Cafe One, operated by Hudson Yards Catering, this year’s program was dedicated to art and food. Guests included chefs and restaurateurs, artist gourmands, and artists who work with food. Also featured was music about food, cooking shows, as well as interviews and discussions with art world personalities. Some of our guests included artists Wim Delvoye, Duke Riley, and Meredith Allen; chefs and executives from Hudson Yards Catering, part of Danny Meyer's Union Square Hospitality Group; and found-sound artist Brian Beloit. Hosts included Althea Viafora-Kress, David Platzker, with P.S.1’s Alanna Heiss, David Weinstein, Tony Guerrero, and Jeannie Hopper.

Clocktower Building eagle/gargoyle.

WPS1 Art Radio is the internet radio station of P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center and the Museum of Modern Art, providing a 24-hour stream and on-demand archive of cultural programming. The station operates out of the historic Clocktower Building in lower Manhattan, New York City, where a network of interlinked studios stream live and pre-recorded talk, performances and historic recordings to a world wide audience. Launched in April 2004, WPS1's web-tracking statistics show listeners from over 50 countries tuned in to hear nearly 1,000 programs each day over the first year of operation. Visitors select from a traditional radio program format or choose from an on-demand archive of over 1,000 hours of material.

WPS1 features talk radio styled discussions and interviews with artists, authors, musicians, actors, filmmakers, critics, curators, poets, educators, journalists, media experts, and other cultural leaders, innovators, and challengers. The station also carries a unique and important collection of music assembled by a team of music curators. This material ranges from live recordings of the widely acclaimed P.S.1 summer Warm Up series of DJ dance sets to rare and thoughtful surveys such as the recent Robert Moog Memorial Hour (honoring the passing of the synthesizer inventor) and the Gulf Coast Music Special assembled from rare vinyl recordings. WPS1 also broadcasts historic recordings from university and private collections and from the audio archives of the Museum of Modern Art; presents live remote programs from festivals including the Armory Show, Art Basel Miami, and Venice Biennale; and frequently features panel discussions hosted by different New York cultural institutions.

WPS1 broadcasts live from P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center annual summer warmup DJ parties, which are available for free on the online archive. WPS1's archive contains over 1600 programs of music, talk, and historic audio. These include DJ recordings by Norman Jay, François Kevorkian, Ben Watt, Doc Martin, Danny Krivit, Jeannie Hopper, Pete Lawrence of the Big Chill (music festival), Paddy Boom of Scissor Sisters, Rekha, Bob Sinclar, Tim Lee, and many more. The archive also broadcasts programs featuring artists such as Elliott Sharp, Juan Atkins, Michael Musto, Elijah Wood, and Uma Thurman.

The Art Radio broadcast booth at the 2005 Armory Show in New York. WPS1 has a three year history of webcasting art fairs and festivals from around the world.

For the second consecutive year, WPS1 Art Radio broadcasted live from The Armory Show, at Pier 90 in New York City from Thursday, March 9 through Saturday, March 11. The programming for the  broadcast included interviews and discussions with participating Armory Show artists, international gallerists, curators, collectors and organizers. Special Armory Show editions were broadcasted live by WPS1 hosts and correspondents including Alanna Heiss, Klaus Biesenbach, Brett Littman, Michael Rush, David Humphrey, Jen DeNike, Peter Coffin, Justin Lowe, Elliott Sharp, Althea Viafora-Kress, Jill Spalding, Max Henry, Max Blagg and Glenn O'Brien and more. WPS1's roving correspondents combed the floor of the fair for news, discoveries, gossip and interviews.

Log-on anytime, anywhere and select from the hundreds of hours of art, music, poetry, film and literature discussions, historic audio, adventurous music, DJ sessions, love songs and other programs from our on-demand archive.

The Art Radio broadcast booth for Art Basel Miami Beach 2006 was a duplex arrangement that towered over the Art Positions café with the beach at our backs.

Once again, Art Radio WPS broadcasted live from Art Basel Miami Beach. WPS1 was the exclusive source for up-to-the-minute international art news, culture and gossip.

Broadcasting from the Art Basel Miami Beach Art Positions café and gallery containers at 21st Street and Collins Avenue. New York's School of Visual Arts (SVA) and Arts Council Manhattan were co-sponsors and programming partners for WPS1 at Art Basel Miami Beach. Programs hosted by SVA alumni and faculty plus key figures in downtown New York's cultural renewal were featured daily.

Miami-based listeners were able to tune in via the local station WVUM 90.5 FM from the University of Miami. WVUM is an independent, completely student-run radio station and reaches an audience of approximately 3 million people in the greater Miami-Dade area. All programming, including the live stream and archived programs, are available on the Internet at www.WPS1.org.

For the last two years P.S.1 and WPS1 have curated the Art Sound Lounge at Art Basel Miami Beach. This shot shows the listening stations from 2005. In 2006 audio was sent via wireless headphones to people roaming the Miami Beach Botanic Gardens. See the Art Basel Miami Beach 2006 archive page to listen.

WPS1.org, the official Art Radio of Art Basel Miami Beach, continued it's artist-DJ program, curated by Alanna Heiss and Klaus Biesenbach, with the focus on artist-DJs from Latin America: Le Spam, Julieta Aranda, Yoshua Okon, and Marssares from A Gentil Carioca.

Visitors interested in music and sound art found a completely revamped "Art Sound Lounge" for 2006 in the Miami Beach Botanical Garden. A comprehensive program of audio pieces curated by P.S.1's David Weinstein featured music and sound pieces by, for, and about plants, insects, and birds. Some of the selections included Christian Marclay, Iannis Xenakis, Wendy Carlos, Jutta Koether, Alan Licht, Tom Verlaine, Shelley Hirsch, and Simon Hostettler in addition to wilderness-based field recordings.

For the 2005 Venice Biennale, this floating broadcast facility and party headquarters served as the studio for P.S.1's Internet radio streamcasts and local FM broadcasts. Art Radio WPS1.org, with the sponsorship of Bloomberg, staffed, equipped, and programmed the broadcast boat project and generated six straight days of live radio now available on-demand in our archive.

P.S.1’s Tony Guerrero, Biennale curator Maria de Corral, and P.S.1 Director Alanna Heiss with wheelbarrels full of miniature radios distributed around Venice during our FM broadcasts there in 2005.

About 20 PS1 and WPS1 staffers went to Venice and set up a local FM radio station on a boat during the opening days of the Venice Biennale. We broadcasted talk and music 24 hours a day for 7 days. Throughout our stay we were fortunate to have recorded a subtantial amount of interviews with artists, panel disussions, and audiences repsonses from our own roving reporters.  All of which can be accessed in our archive under the section 'WPS1 Venice Biennale'.

Here's a little anecdote we thought we would include from our travels: Venice survived attacks from the Turks by building alongside shallow waters which warships could not cross. A few days into our arrival a massive yacht pulled into these waters, known as the lagoon. Apparently attacks are no longer feared by the Venicians because this yacht, called the Octopus, was presented with a parking space directly in front of the Piazza San Marco, probably one of the most exclusive and historic mooring locales one could have. In fact it is normally not allowed to anchor there. Turns out the boat belonged to Paul Allen (Microsoft) and apparently the proper paperwork did not exist for his expected landing, so they gave him San Marco for a week.