Max Blagg and Glenn O'Brien sit in the Art International Radio skybox high above the acres of art and cool, casting their canny gaze across the affairs below. Read More
For Bald Ego co-editors Max Blagg and Glenn O'Brien, too much of the classics is not nearly enough for the radical present. Listen as they rend sweet and bitter soundings from Petronius, Henny Youngman, Mallarme and Beatnik Bob Kaufman.
Once again, in the steamheat of August: Blagg & O'Brien, two outspoken pagans perpetuating the Word on broadband. There was praise for poet Thom Gunn, stern words from O'Brien favorite Wyndham Lewis and much more.
Following the success of their reconstituted interviews on their last show, Blagg and O'Brien repeated the format, inviting Andy Warhol to enlighten a rather earnest film student, and Alex Katz and Richard Prince to trade aphorisms and witticisms.
Hosts Max Blagg and Glenn O'Brien impersonated a studio full of ethereal guests. They began by reconvening a 1959 era panel on modern art and later shared interviews with Pablo Neruda and Jack Kerouac.
Co-hosts Blagg & O'Brien turned their focus on a single tome for this broadcast: the classic compilation, An Anthology of New York Poets, published by Vintage in 1970, and containing the cream of the New York School.
Our 13th outing featured sonnets from a diverse array of poets, spotlighting especially William Shakespeare and Ted Berrigan, and including Petrarch, the Earl of Surrey, Paul Violi and John Godfrey.
In their most unusual move yet, hosts Glenn O'Brien and Max Blagg gave center stage to Charles Bernstein- only their second studio guest in twelve episodes -and listened politely (even more unusual!) when he played several rare recordings.
Bald Ego magazine co-editor Max Blagg goes it alone, in the temporary absence of his "BEO" partner Glenn O'Brien. Blagg forges ahead to share some early influences on his own work, a few Ted Berrigan poems and more.
Poet-kibitzers Max Blagg and Glenn O'Brien turn their fine journal of art and writing into the Car Talk of literature - amusing, romantic and morbidly funny, all at once.
