Music Around the World
Broaden your musical palate as we explore sounds of the world, new and old. Cafe Del Unda uncovers gems from around the globe and the history that accompanies it.
New York-based Brazilian music producer and A&R Béco Dranoff hosts this monthly, hour-long radio program dedicated to modern and classic Brazilian music.
Experimental Music and Audio Art
Emerging and established innovators share their work. These programs are usually a combination of an interview with a far-reaching perspective on the artist's career, some recordings illustrating this history, and something new. Open territory.
Programs recorded at the legendary downtown New York venue, incubator, showcase, and community center for composers and experimenters in the arts, known for being first and best at presenting (and recording!) new music and new media since the 70s.
Traditional, folk, vernacular, endangered, and extinct music from America and elsewhere hosted by Nathan Salsburg, an archivist, producer, and writer based in Louisville, Kentucky.
Music and mixes that aspire to challenge you, surprise you, tickle you, jostle you, and to crack you open and put you back together again.
A show dedicated to the ephemeral: improvised music throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, particularly the outer edges of the spectrum. Visions--spectral, cosmic, worldly and solitary--provide the musical inspiration for so many musicians.
Jam Sandwich is how it sounds: A ridiculously awesome super sandwich of some favorite jams. You could say Joe is one piece of bread and that Ginny is the other, working in concert to hold together some of the freshest ingredients on the radio.
A series of lost recordings, abandoned tapes, forgotten disks, orphaned voices, errata, garbage, and random audio documentation of American detritus and treasure.
Orbital Mash is a monthly eclectic radio show on Art International Radio produced by Me Raabenstein and featuring music with a view, classical music, neo-classical, score, and contemporary beats...
Hosted by artist Shu-Min Lin, who traverses Taiwan's various cultural and artistic detours to find the island's most intriguing and exciting artists, curators, politicians, and other public figures.
Elliot Stapleton lives deep in the dirty trenches of sound, occasionally emerging to talk about it.
Teenage Kicks is hosted by Alec Hanley Bemis, co-founder of New York's Brassland label and a producer who conceives and manages creative projects that make a global impact. He promises that the track selections will be intense and deeply felt.
The Warper party, New York City's largest electronic music showcase, brings its posse of "Omnidigital DJs and Biomorphic Musicians" to the rest of the globe.
DJ Sessions and Conversation
The Black Rock Coalition was founded in 1985 by guitarist Vernon Reid, journalist Greg Tate and producer Konda Mason in reaction to the constrictions that the commercial music industry places on black artists.
As a kid in London, DB used to fall asleep at night with a transistor radio hidden under his pillow. He has been addicted to hearing new music ever since. Here, he brings that music to you.
The latest gems from independent artists, record labels and producers, with AIR's Jeannie Hopper.
Scott Hardkiss continues his mission as a DJ to seek out and play the finest music from around the globe. Never a slave to one sound, he has spent his entire career exploring the limits of electronic dance music, and his radio show is no different.
Performers, entertainers, and musicians live in our studios, hosted by Frances Sorensen.
DJ and Producer Nickodemus and guests paint an audio collage of past events with live mixes, as well as future sounds from the worldwide eclectic dance music spectrum.
A lot is going on in the courtyard of PS1 Contemporary Art Center, and it's not just Public Farm One (P.F.1). It's the 10th Anniversary of one of New York's most cherished summer lineups, featuring the hottest DJs in town and all over.
Charlie Ahearn invites hip-hop, DJ and dance world elites and up-and-comers up to the Clocktower studios to talk history and music. Ahearn, a foundational figure in the hip-hop and DJ scenes, is the director of the movie Wild Style.
Contemporary Culture, Art, and Politics
Art & Technology is a radio program that investigates how advancements in new technologies are affecting artists and their work.
This series of interviews is a partial oral history of AICA/USA, the United States chapter of the Association Internationale des Critiques d'Art.
Creative Time is a New York-based non-profit organization dedicated to commissioning, presenting and preserving the most challenging art of the contemporary period. AIR and Creative Time bring you interviews, public programs and performances.
Greater New York 2005 is an exhibition displaying the new work of more than 100 local artists, selected by curators from P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center and The Museum of Modern Art.
ICI produces exhibitions, events, publications, and training opportunities for diverse audiences around the world. A catalyst for independent thinking, ICI connects emerging and established curators, artists, and institutions.
Host Laura Craven travels around metropolitan Los Angeles uncovering the mysteries and discovering thriving art scenes in all corners of the city and its environs.
LMCC brings art where it’s least expected and engages the ideas of the moment by exploring the links between culture and capital. LMCC curates and commissions, produces and presents, and champions the arts community in Manhattan.
Brett Littman hosts a series of interviews and performances that explore the concept of materiality in contemporary art.
Discussions, readings, and interviews with artists exhibiting work or making presentations at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center (now MoMA/PS1).
School of Visual Arts (SVA) is one of the nation's leading colleges of art and design. Since its inception in 1947, the College has engaged a faculty of well-known artists, critics, designers, and writers who are active and respected in their fields.
Althea Viafora-Kress interviews curators, artists, directors, collectors, patrons and more, getting the scoop on the commercial side of the art world.
An outside view inside issues of art and identity. Hosted by Kim Steger, and produced by Darrell M. McNeill, Dianne Smith and Kim Steger.
Recorded events, panels, and performances from P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center's WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, the first comprehensive, historical exhibition to examine the international foundations and legacy of feminist art.
Art Fairs and Events Around the World
A series of programs recorded during WPS1 and ARTonAIR's coverage of the Armory Show, the world-renowned art fair presented every March in New York in what is now called Armory Arts Week.
Couldn't make it down to Miami for the steaming hot art scene? This set of programming is your next-best ticket. Listen to exclusive radio coverage of events at Art Basel Miami Beach 2004-2008, including interviews, music and more.
Leeza Ahmady, independent curator and director of Asian Contemporary Art Week (ACAW), conducts interviews with artists, curators, critics, and experts working both inside and outside of Asia. This series also archives lectures and panel discussions.
PERFORMA is a non-profit interdisciplinary arts organization committed to the research, development, and presentation of performance by visual artists from around the world.
A series of talk and musical programs assembled from our various trips to Venice for the Biennale dating back to 2005. The programs range from round table discussions to interviews to DJ sets to virtual pavilions rendered in music and sound.
Radio Theater, Performance, and the Theater Arts
Adjusted by Addition is a six-part radio theater piece created in collaboration between artists Lovett/Codagnone and playwright Tom Cole.
AIR's Dumpling Diva, Marja Samsom, brings her pots and pans into the AIR kitchen, where she cooks all her most alluring, signature dishes and provides you with any help you need to make them yourself.
HERE Arts Center is a New York City based off-off broadway presenting house, founded in 1993, with two stages specializing in hybrid performance, dance, theater, multi-media and puppetry.
Live Nude Radio Theatre is a free form radio show with poet host Edwin Torres.
Computers, video, film, light, sound, metaphysics, transmission, magic, wireless, inputless, timeless, interactive, blood and tears all cross pollinating and testing the multiverse.
A collection of conversations and documentation on that peculiar and provocative area of live action, intervention, site-specific, process, anti-theater and objectless art called performance.
The Island series is produced by curators Victoria Brooks and Andrew Bonacina, and shares on-site recordings of UK-based performance, music, panels and artist interviews plus organizes The Island Studio Sessions artist residencies at the Clocktower.
The Kalup Linzy Variety Show features original material by Kalup Linzy based on characters and themes from his video and performance work. The show is hosted by Labisha (the diva) with Linzy appearing in interview segments with special guests.
This series is dedicated to the works created as part of the Residency Program of the Watermill Center, a laboratory for performance founded in 1992 by Robert Wilson as a unique environment for young and emerging artists.
Artist Profiles
Artist Jen DeNike draws modern and contemporary artists into conversation about their work and the state of the art world.
An assortment of new interviews conducted by AIR, Art International Radio in its home in the historic Clocktower Gallery in New York.
Frank Prattle is an interview-style radio show run by artist Zefrey Throwell which brings two people together (curators, gallerists, critics, collectors, artists, etc) to tackle everything under the sun.
Jane Kaplowitz invites guests over for discussions about art and the necessary digressions and parentheticals that thus ensue.
The New York Public Library public programs are recorded and shared with ARTonAIR.org as part of a partnership coordinated by artist, curator and senior librarian Arezoo Moseni. The Artist Dialog and Artist Book series' recordings are in our archive.
Artist, critic, curator, teacher and newspaperman Phong Bui takes his insatiable talent to the airwaves.
Curator and art critic Daniela Salvioni reports from assorted locales across Italy to bring us interviews with contemporary art's most revered as well as emerging and overlooked artists.
Host Jill Spalding records the art scene in Miami and its environs through interviews with the artists who live, work or/and show in the burgeoning cultural capital.
This series explores the artistic landmarks and icons that live in or visit host Tania Ketenjian's home town, San Francisco.
Artists in conversation and debate with host Michael Rush, Director of the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University.
Host artist/writer and occasional musician David Humphrey invites different artist guests to select material for each show with the faith that their playlists will reflect the vitality of their practice.
From "wetware" practices to "live" art, from reproductive technologies to cloning, from plastic surgery to brain chips, the "Bio-Blurb" show explores the futuristic aspects of the "sci-art" conjunction in the US, the UK, Germany and Australia.
Multimedia artist Will Corwin conjures, compels, and consoles in an effort to profile people, places, movements, materials, trends, and techniques.
Poets, Writers and The Spoken Word
Hosted by Max Blagg and Glenn O'Brien, editors of the literature and arts journal Bald Ego.
Founded in 1981, BOMB Magazine is a not-for-profit quarterly featuring interviews between artists, writers, architects, directors and musicians. AIR and BOMB team up to give you discussions, readings, how-to's, and more.
Writers from here and beyond read their work at Jack Macrae and Paula Cooper's 192 Books.
Conversations and readings with poets and artists, produced in cooperation with PennSound and hosted by Charles Bernstein, the American poet, theorist, editor, and literary scholar.
Host Charles Ruas in conversation with contemporary writers and poets, continuing a stream of intelligent discussion dating back to his legendary days at WBAI Pacifica Radio in New York in the seventies.
Film and Video Art
Stephen Schaefer hosts candid conversations with actors, filmmakers, producers and movie people near and far.
Hosted by Elise MacAdam, this series explores contemporary cinema through interviews with and discussions about its most pertinent contributors and contributions.
The Film-Makers' Cooperative series of radio conversations enables active members of the film community to express their views and visions on the past, present, and future of experimental and underground cinema.
Living History
Stories, projects, exhibitions, and performances by the artists who occupy AIR's legendary space, the Clocktower Gallery, founded in 1972 by AIR Director and visionary Alanna Heiss.
The New York Public Library public programs are recorded and shared with ARTonAIR.org as part of a partnership coordinated by artist, curator and senior librarian Arezoo Moseni. The Artist Dialog and Artist Book series' recordings are in our archive.
This is a collaborative community project featuring an ever-expanding collection of short audio portraits of organizations, spaces, and activities as described by the people who manage them.
A collection of memories from the earliest years of the Clocktower Gallery, by the artists, gallerists, and cultural players who helped shape it, including Vito Acconci, Ann Magnuson, Richard Nonas, Jeffrey Deitch, and Mary Heilmann.
Historic Audio and Conversations
A collection of recovered and restored programs produced by Charles Ruas at WBAI-FM, the Pacifica station in New York, in the seventies. Ruas is a distinguished author, scholar, and translator. His programs are a national cultural treasure.
An archive of recordings made at The Museum of Modern Art, collected from recent and past exhibitions and public programs.
Audio from the archives of the Poetry Society of America.
