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RADIO // Conversations with Writers Jean Nathan on Dare Wright Hosted by Charles Ruas Radio show Charles Ruas interviews Jean Nathan, a journalist who began a quest to find The Lonely Doll, a children's book she loved as a child. She located not only the book, but also its author, Dare Wright, who by then was lying comatose in a hospital. Charles Ruas asks all the right questions of Jean Nathan, a journalist who began a quest to find a children's book she loved as a child; she ended up locating not only the book, The Lonely Doll, but also its author, Dare Wright, who was by... Originally aired 12/6/04 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Art Basel Miami Beach Miami 2004: The Spit Roast Boys Radio show P.S.1's Alanna Heiss and Klaus Biesenbach say what's-uppp to Stunners International Brit party guys and producers Wade and Spike. A P.S.1 exclusive! Wade and Spike are record producers and entrepreneurs who put on dance parties around the world.... Originally aired 12/5/04 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Art Basel Miami Beach Miami 2004: Wrap Up with Samuel Keller Radio show The amazing Samuel Keller, director of Art Basel and Art Basel Miami Beach, stops by the WPS1 cabana to have the joyous last word from the temporary center of the world. Meet Samuel Keller at the next Art Basel, # 36, which commences in Basel,... Originally aired 12/5/04 Listen Read More »
RADIO // Art Basel Miami Beach Miami 2004: Miami On the Mind Radio show John Baldessari drops in on Jill Spalding to gently tout his part in "Drift," his knockout, hexagonal video collaboration with Lawrence Weiner and Julião Sarmento presented by the Design Districts Moore Space. No sooner is he gone than who... Originally aired 12/4/04 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Art Basel Miami Beach Miami 2004: Art Statements Roundtable, Day Four Radio show Brett Littman in a poolside chat with the wildly illustrative Clayton Brothers (Rob and Christian) and, through a translator, the highly political Salvadoran artist Ronald Moran. Ronald Moran's installation at Art Basel Miami Beach consisted of an... Originally aired 12/4/04 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Art Basel Miami Beach Miami 2004: The Yay/Nay Show Radio show Linda Yablonsky and Carey Lovelace get hip to Miami art politics with artists Kenny Scharf and Tania Bruguera, and Moore Space director Silvia Karman Cubiñá. Kenny Scharf, at one time a Miami resident, returned to the beach from his... Originally aired 12/3/04 Listen Read More »
RADIO // Art Basel Miami Beach Miami 2004: Rush Interactive Radio show With the art market looking like the Wall Street of the 1990s, some ask if such trade shows as Art Basel are not toxic places for artists to visit - too garish if their art is selling, too depressing if it isn't. Or are art fairs valuable places for... Originally aired 12/3/04 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Art Basel Miami Beach Miami 2004: The Yay/Nay Show Radio show Linda Yablonsky and Carey Lovelace pack them in with several pairs of strange bedfellows, beginning with Documenta curator Rodger Buergel and Art Newspaper editor Anna Somers Cocks, adding JP Morgan Chase art advisor Manuel Gonzales and critic... Originally aired 12/2/04 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Art Basel Miami Beach Miami 2004: Art Statements Roundtable, Day Two Radio show P.S.1 Deputy Director Brett Littman interviews artists having solo shows at the art fair: New York's Beth Campbell (with Peter Krieder) and L.A.'s Stephanie Taylor. At Art Basel Miami Beach, Beth Campbell showed her enigmatic bathrooms, a stream-of... Originally aired 12/2/04 Listen Read More »
RADIO // Art Basel Miami Beach Miami 2004: DJ Hour, Ani Phearce Radio show Beats and booze by the beach were natural talking points for DJs Jeannie Hopper and her guest, Ani Phearce, during this live show from the Delano Hotel. Phearce is a New York native who settled in Miami four years ago and now deejays weekly at Club... Originally aired 12/2/04 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Experimental Composers The Music of Ennio Morricone Radio show Composer Morricone may be best known for his scores for Clint Eastwood "spaghetti westerns" but he's far more than an Italian Henry Mancini, as this 3-part survey by Fabio Roberti makes clear. The host is, as you must know, one of the greats of WFMU. Ennio Morricone may be best known for his scores for Clint Eastwood "spaghetti westerns" but he's far more than an Italian Henry Mancini, as this 3-part survey by Fabio Roberti makes clear. Here Morricone emerges as a Class-A experimentalist with a... Originally aired 12/2/04 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Art Basel Miami Beach Miami 2004: The Yay/Nay Show, Art and Commerce Radio show Linda Yablonsky and Carey Lovelace acclimate themselves to the high-powered commerce of Art Basel Miami Beach at the Miami Beach Convention Center by gathering some of the comforts of home -- artists and writers -- in their cozy cabana by the Delano... Originally aired 12/1/04 Listen Read More »
RADIO // Art Basel Miami Beach Miami 2004: Bald Ego Online Radio show Glenn O'Brien was trading poolside art quips with WPS1's Linda Yablonsky and fashion and Clinton family photographer Todd Eberle when photographer Lisa Eisner blew in dressed to meet the fez-capped subjects of her new book, Shriners, - text... Originally aired 12/1/04 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Art Basel Miami Beach Miami 2004: Interviews, Art Loves Music Radio show For this epochal confab, P.S.1 Director Alanna Heiss and Senior Curator Klaus Biesenbach climb into a poolside cabana with Scissor Sisters' hottie Jake Shears and his Fischerspooner idol, Casey Spooner. Casey Spooner is, with Warren Fischer, the... Originally aired 12/1/04 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Art Basel Miami Beach Miami 2004: Rush Interactive, Day One Radio show Before he hosted his own show on WPS1.org, Michael Rush was director of the Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, which he put on the map with several exhibitions devoted to new art forms in all disciplines. His guests here, on his first day in... Originally aired 12/1/04 Listen Read More »
RADIO // Live Nude Radio Theatre Pop Tunes Hosted by Edwin Torres Radio show Your gold-tiara wearing host Edwin Torres celebrates drama in music with The Who's Rael 2; Os Mutantes's Dom Quixote; Brian Wilson's Vege-Tables; Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody; Indian Soundscapes; Bjork's Selmasongs/Cvalda and more! Your gold-tiara wearing host Edwin Torres celebrates drama in music with The Who's Rael 2; Os Mutantes's Dom Quixote; Brian Wilson's Vege-Tables; Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody; Indian Soundscapes; Bjork's Selmasongs/Cvalda; German Radio, Warheit Uber... Originally aired 11/29/04 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Conversations with Writers Mary Dearborn and Karole P.B. Vail Hosted by Charles Ruas Radio show Charles Ruas's guests on this program, dedicated to the life and work of Peggy Guggenheim, are her biographer Mary Dearborn, and Karole P.B. Vail, Guggenheim's granddaughter and currently a curator at the Solomon Guggenheim Museum in New York. Charles Ruas's guests on this program, dedicated to the life and work of Peggy Guggenheim, are biographer Mary Dearborn, author of Mistress of Modernism: The Life of Peggy Guggenheim and Karole P.B. Vail, Guggenheim's granddaughter and... Originally aired 11/22/04 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Beyond the Subtitles Ousmane Sembene, Moolaadé Hosted by Stephen Schaefer Radio show Photographed with extraordinary sensitivity, with a cast of nonprofessionals, Moolaadé (Sanctuary) is the 10th and possibly most powerful film of the great Senegalese director Ousmane Sembene's career. Moolaadé (Sanctuary) is the 10th and possibly most powerful film of the great Senegalese director Ousmane Sembene's career. Photographed with extraordinary sensitivity, with a cast of nonprofessionals, it considers the struggle of a... Originally aired 11/15/04 Listen Read More »
RADIO // Cineopolis The 2004 Margaret Mead Film Festival Hosted by Elise MacAdam Radio show Beauty Academy of Kabul Filmmaker Liz Mermin and Margaret Mead Film Festival director Kathy Brew take a close look at this year's lineup for the Museum of Natural History's anthropological annual. What would it be like to start a beauty academy in Afghanistan just after the fall of the Taliban? Find out here, as host Elise MacAdam brings filmmaker Liz Mermin and festival director Kathy Brew to her table for a close look at this year's lineup... Originally aired 11/15/04 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Conversations with Writers Ron Padgett Hosted by Charles Ruas Radio show Charles Ruas welcomes Ron Padgett, author of Joe: A Memoir of Joe Brainard. Padgett's evocation of his friendship with artist Joe Brainard reveals an enigmatic friend & brilliant artist who fell ill at the height of his success. Charles Ruas welcomes Ron Padgett, author of the indelible memoir Joe: A Memoir of Joe Brainard (Coffeehouse Press). Padgett's haunting evocation of his friendship with artist Joe Brainard, which began in first grade in Tulsa, Oklahoma,... Originally aired 11/15/04 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Live Nude Radio Theatre Wordspeak Music, Vol.1 Hosted by Edwin Torres Radio show Edwin Torres hosts a short tribute to verbal and rhythmic fireworks with Eric Dolphy's Improvisations And Tukras from his classic album Other Aspects; The Spirit, Kamau Daa'ood's incendiary performance with Billy Higgins on drums, and more. Edwin Torres hosts a short tribute to verbal and rhythmic fireworks with Eric Dolphy's Improvisations And Tukras from his classic album Other Aspects; The Spirit, Kamau Daa'ood's incendiary performance with Billy Higgins on drums; Non Compos... Originally aired 11/8/04 Listen Read More »
RADIO // Historic Audio from the Museum of Modern Art Michel Gondry (2004) Radio show In this terrific program from a series of conversations with leading music and media innovators, groundbreaking director Michel Gondry talks to media critic and curator Ed Halter. Recorded at the CUNY Graduate Center, September 30, 2004. In this terrific program from a series of conversations with leading music and media innovators, groundbreaking director Michel Gondry keeps media critic and curator Ed Halter on the edge of his chair - it's better than Inside the Actor's Studio... Originally aired 11/8/04 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Impossible Music Christian Marclay, djTRIO Radio show "Not a band but an idea," Marclay says of his rotating trio of DJs, djTRIO founded in 1996. This recording documents several Marclay improvisations with four of the best avant-garde turntablists: Toshi Kajiwara, DJ Olive, Marina Rosenfeld and Erik M. "Not a band but an idea," Marclay says of this compilation of live performances by the best avant-deejays around: Toshio Kajiwara, Marina Rosenfeld, Gregor Asch aka DJ Olive and Erik M., as well as Marclay himself. Artist and musician... Originally aired 11/8/04 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Radio Theatre and Spoken Word Downtown for Democracy: A Joyful November Radio show Downtown for Democracy, the choice political action group of the arts, brings you the acclaimed playwright and comedienne Lisa Kron. Oh say can you see? The stars! They came down - Downtown for Democracy, that is. ("D4D" is the choice political action group of the arts.) The acclaimed playwright and comedienne Lisa Kron (Well, 2.5 Minute Ride, 101 Humiliating Stories) organized... Originally aired 11/1/04 Listen Read More »