Beatrice Johnson
Beatrice Johnson
Host , Curator , Staff

Beatrice Johnson is Managing Director of Art International Radio and the Clocktower Gallery. She is responsible for the production of visual arts programs, is editor of the website, produces programs on performance and New York culture, and is senior coordinator for gallery Special Events. She is a former dancer, and was Curatorial and Administrative Assistant at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, where she was involved in a variety of P.S.1 programming as well as Art Radio WPS1.org's presence at the Slick art fair in Paris and at the Art Basel Miami Beach fair in 2008. Beatrice studied Art History and Spanish at Wellesley College, and was born and raised in Paris, France.

Shows and Series by Beatrice Johnson
Originally aired Monday, October 17th, 2011

The writer talks about his work including his 2011 novel, Noon, about a young man who, in a quest to rediscover and understand his family ties to India and Pakistan, finds himself confronted with worlds of power, corruption, and great violence.


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Originally aired Friday, May 28th, 2010

SummerStage 2010's Danni Gee and Freedome Bradley discuss the SummerStage's 25th anniversary, the City Parks Foundation public programs, and the event series' Dance and Theater program highlights.


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Hosted by Beatrice Johnson
Originally aired Monday, June 22nd, 2009

Lyle Rexer, curator of The Edge of Vision: Abstraction in Contemporary Photography, talks to artists Charles Lindsay, Seth Lambert and Penelope Umbrico. The exhibition displays contemporary conceptions and investigations of abstraction.


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Hosted by Beatrice Johnson
Originally aired Friday, May 29th, 2009

Philippe Vergne, Director of the Dia Art Foundation, discusses his vision for continuing Dia's tradition of carrying out "the heroic voice of the artist" even while readjusting for the contemporary artistic and ontological moment.


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Hosted by Beatrice Johnson
Originally aired Friday, May 8th, 2009

The final series of Merce Cunningham Dance Company's Events at Dia:Beacon, marking the culmination of the company's two-year residency at the institution. Snippets of performances and interviews with dancer Daniel Madoff and musician David Behrman.


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Hosted by Beatrice Johnson
Originally aired Monday, April 27th, 2009

General supporter of the arts Jeremy Steinke and many-hatted curator Isolde Brielmaier speak about their friendship, the Art Basel Miami fair and the implications, limitations and thoughtful provocations of the exhibition 30 Americans.


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Originally aired Monday, April 20th, 2009

Artists Fritz Welch and Andre Stitt about SHIFTwork, their exploration of art's relation to capitalist production; the result investigates notions of the artist as "worker" and of the artist's method of production as "work."


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Originally aired Monday, March 30th, 2009

Artist and musician Marilyn Manson discusses his 2009 exhibition, Trismegistus, with the Galerie Brigitte Schenk in Miami, along with a myriad of other topics: art, love, embalming tables, Angelina Jolie...


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Originally aired Monday, March 9th, 2009

Alanna Heiss and Beatrice Johnson with artist Ry Rocklen, who uses a wide range of materials to create playfully anarchic and witty works that call to mind his spiritual Dadaist and Postminimalist forbears both.


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Originally aired Friday, February 20th, 2009
Artists Yoshua Okon and Adriana Lara, whose work was presented as part of Art Basel Miami Beach's Art Perform series, speak with AIR's David Weinstein and Beatrice Johnson.
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