THIS WEEK'S HIGHLIGHTS: Diego Cortez talks about sex and art with the luscious Anne Livet, inside the fabulous Williamsburg bookstore Spoonbill & Sugartown, Jeannie Hopper looks into the operation that runs New York's Blue Note, Highline Ballroom and Water Taxi Beach, interviews with director Stephen Frears and photographer Tommy Mintz and more... listen links below.
OUR FILM CHOICE OF THE WEEK: The Girl From Monaco
Our film critic Stephen Schaefer talks to writer-director Anne Fontaine about her new film (opening this weekend in New York and L.A) that turns the tables on the beautiful but limited woman who uses her sexuality to get ahead in the blackly comic
STAY IN TOUCH WITH AIR
If you would like more information on Art International Radio or want to communicate with the staff on a more personal basis, check out our new profiles on ARTonAIR Interviews: Conversations on Sex with Anne Livet & Diego Cortez, Pt. 1
Long-time friends Off the Rail with Phong Bui: Jonas Kyle and Miles Bellamy, Spoonbill & Sugartown
ARTonAIR Interviews: Adam Hertz, Blue Note International
AIR's Jeannie Hopper speaks with ARTonAIR Interviews: Thomas Mintz
Host Will Corwin speaks to artist
WPS1 LEGACY ARCHIVES
The following programs are encore presentations selected from the archives of WPS1. They are included in this week’s streamcast and most can also be found in the AIR on demand audio archive. Material Culture #4: Fake Estates
In September 2002, Jeffrey Kastner, Sina Najafi and Frances Richard, the editors of Art and Technology #19: Merle Laderman Ukeles, The Social Mirror
Out There with TONY #11: Summer Drinking Game, Pt. 2 (Loreley)
Sound and Vision #27: Laurie Simmons
Laurie Simmons wrote the lyrics for six songs by Michael Rohatyn for her film The Music of Regret. They go from sad to sadder but beam with a radiant tenderness (31 minutes). Not available on demand. Microgroove Music #3: Max Roach
Drummer Max Roach made an indelible mark in jazz history in the 1940s as one of bebop's musical revolutionaries, but his vital contributions to music history only began at that time. The main work featured on this program was recorded during at a time when Roach and tenor saxophonist Archie Shepp were colleagues at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and it gives the listener an opportunity to hear extended improvisations by Roach and Shepp at the peak of their powers (58 minutes). Not available on demand. Yes Yes Y'all #19: P-Star
Listen as a then-nine-year-old P-Star proves her amazing MC skills. This little girl can spit! Priscilla Star Diaz opens the show rhyming a cappella and telling stories about her pre-teen life in Harlem. Although she is just getting started, her talents have attracted lots of attention. Check her out (1 hour). Not available on demand. Venice Biennale 2005: Realm of the Unreal by Fred Tomaselli
A mix by artist Fred Tomaselli known for paintings that incorporate acrylic, photo-collage, pills, hallucinogenic plants and medicinal herbs in abstract compositions or fictive landscapes (59 minutes). Sonorama: Negativland (These Guys are from England and Who Gives a Shit)
The notorious banned Negativland remix/parody of U2 has finally been released - after years of legal battles with U2's lawyers - on the band's own Seeland label in the form of various live performances and remixes. In a magnificent feat of hypocrisy, while suing Negativland, U2 on their own tours appropriated video and radio imagery and sounds to use in their stage show and trumpeted the modern uses of media collage (40 minutes). Not available on demand. Art Basel Miami Beach 2006: Art Sound Lounge, Music by, for, and about Plants, Insects, and Birds
This sound installation was curated and compiled specially for Art Basel Miami Beach 2006 by AIR's David Weinstein. For five days in December 2006, visitors to the Miami Beach Botanical Gardens were offered a pair of wireless headphones and allowed to roam freely through the flora and fauna to the accompanying soundtrack (1 hour 29 minutes). Not available on demand. Warm Up 2007: Dewanatron
A performance by Dewanatron (Leon and Brian Dewan) on August 18, 2007 at P.S.1 (30 minutes). Not available on demand.
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