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.
Marisa Mazia Katz, on 2011 road trip to the Arab country of 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Curator Julia Draganovic speaks with performance artist Maria Jose Arjona who uses a unique method of story telling to create an experience that, unlike most things today, doesn't need technology to exist. A No Longer Empty project in NYC, May 2011.
Willard Morgan, New York and LA performer and filmmaker, and Jenny Lee Mitchell, director, musician, actor and acrobat, talk with Pete McCabe about their show, Saint Hollywood starting up April 14, 2011 at Ideal Glass Gallery in NYC.
Filmmaker Terri Hanlon discusses her experimental and poetic video documentary about the founder of French grande cuisine and composer David Behrman walks us through the amazing soundtrack. Premiere at the French Institute in NYC 13 April 2011.
Pete McCabe interviews the Finnish-Estonian playwright, novelist and activist Sofi Oksanen, and Zishan Ugurlu, the Artistic Director and founder of Actors without Borders about the U.S. premier of The Purge (February 11-20, 2011) at La Mama.