Microphone, photo by Tim Snell.
Microphone, photo by Tim Snell.
ARTonAIR Interviews
Hosted by Becca Lieb

An assortment of new interviews conducted by AIR, Art International Radio in its home in the historic Clocktower building in New York.

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Hosted by Pete McCabe
Originally aired on Monday, January 23rd, 2012

Actor Will Bond, of the SITI Company, discusses his performance as Bob at New York Live Arts, Jan. 19-29, 2012. They discuss the show, the background of the company, the work of the playwright and director Robert Wilson, upon whom the show is based.

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Hosted by Jeannie Hopper
Originally aired on Monday, December 12th, 2011

Jeannie Hopper discusses photojournalism, activism, and a new book by photo educator, documentary photographer, writer, and copyright lawyer Michelle Bogre, Associate Professor in the School of Art, Media and Society at Parsons The New School.

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Hosted by Jeannie Hopper
Originally aired on Monday, December 12th, 2011

On Dec. 17, 2011 at 7pm, Phil Kline will lead a massive chorus of boomboxes from the West Village to the East Village in the 20th annual holiday presentation of Unsilent Night. Jeannie Hopper sat down with the composer and organizer to learn more.

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Hosted by Marisa Mazria-Katz
Originally aired on Monday, December 12th, 2011

Marisa Mazria Katz with Iraqi-born artist Wafaa Bilal in late 2011 just days after the 31st anniversary of the Iran Iraq War to discuss his newest politically risky piece featuring 80 performers standing silently inside the Aaran Gallery in Tehran.

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Hosted by Jeannie Hopper
Originally aired on Monday, December 5th, 2011

Learn about a dozen musical parades on the first night of winter, Dec. 21, 2011, open to all. Projects using bells, beatboxes, hubcaps, iPhones, traditional instruments, singers and more will convene at various parks and public buildings around town.

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Hosted by Becca Lieb
Originally aired on Monday, November 14th, 2011

Hartley, Thomson, and Lieb discuss everything from feminist surrealism to what constitutes a monochrome in this interview about Cloud, an exhibition curated by Hartley showing Surrealist work by both older and contemporary artists.

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Hosted by Alanna Heiss , Joe Ahearn
Originally aired on Monday, October 24th, 2011

Curators Alanna Heiss and Joe Ahearn host the insightful and provovative curator, producer, and professor from Tokyo, Kazue Kobata. The discussion revolves around the state of the performing arts and their relation to performance art.

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Originally aired on 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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Hosted by David Weinstein
Originally aired on Tuesday, October 11th, 2011

Hallucinogenic films made in the former Yugoslavia in the 60-70s collected by Branko Franceshi on view at Stephan Stoyanov Gallery on Orchard Street in NYC thru Oct. 30, 2011. Really trippy but also really thoughtful and a lot of fun. A time capsule.

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Hosted by Marisa Mazria-Katz
Originally aired on Monday, September 26th, 2011

The director and chief curator of Yaffo 23, located at one of Jerusalem’s busiest destinations, sat down during the 2011 summer Season of Culture festival to discuss his vision and what its like working with contemporary art in this ancient city.

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Hosted by Marisa Mazria-Katz
Originally aired on Monday, September 12th, 2011

Marisa Mazia Katz, on 2011 road trip to the Arab emirate Qatar, is joined by Wassan al Khudairi, the acting director and chief curator for the nearly two-year-old modern art museum founded by patron Sheikh Hassan bin Mohamed bin Ali Al Thani.

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Hosted by David Weinstein
Originally aired on Friday, September 9th, 2011

Two artists discuss their 2011 project involving dozens of volunteers spending a few minutes, first thing in the morning of a typical work day on Wall Street, going about their business naked or nearly so. Messages, anecdotes and arrests heard here.

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Hosted by Jeannie Hopper
Originally aired on Monday, June 27th, 2011

Host Jeannie Hopper sits down with Joseph Ian Henrikson, the founder and director of Anonymous Gallery, and artist Kenny Scharf to discuss The Gates Project, a new public gallery hosted by Manhattan's storefront security gates.

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Hosted by Will Corwin
Originally aired on Monday, June 20th, 2011

Will Corwin chats with Rebecca Wilson over cappuccinos at the Saatchi Gallery Cafe. Wilson is the Associate Director at the gallery and the Founding Editor of the Saatchi Gallery Online Magazine and offers insight into the Saatchi universe.

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Hosted by Lorissa Rinehart
Originally aired on Monday, June 13th, 2011

Artist duo and Guggenheim fellows, caraballo-farman discuss their newest collaboration, Object Breast Cancer, an extroverted look at a disease that threatens the lives of so many women.

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