Greek Sculpture, photo by Etienne Pelletier.
Greek Sculpture, photo by Etienne Pelletier.
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Originally aired on Monday, November 28th, 2011

A profile of an evening-long opening at the Invisible Dog Art Center in Brooklyn, celebrating the artists of the Celeste Network and the awarding of its 2011 prize in a variety of disciplines. Co-produced with Roberto Paci Dalò and the Celeste Lab.

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Originally aired on Monday, September 19th, 2011

A glimpse into the people and history behind Exit Art, the NYC alternative gallery and art center known for provocative exhibitions and an activist commitment to new ideas. Ingberman's August 2011 death is an immeasurable loss to our art community.

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Originally aired on Thursday, September 1st, 2011

On April 13, 2011 Dr. David M. Oestreicher, curator, lecturer, consultant, and independent scholar, spoke about the Lenape people (an Algonquian group of Native Americans from the northeastern American woodlands) in a special LMCC event.

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Originally aired on Monday, June 13th, 2011

From an Independent Curators International event on March 10, 2011 at the New Museum in New York, Philippe Vergne of the Dia Art Foundation and artist Paul Chan discuss the relevance, appropriateness, and invasiveness of the exhibition model/format.

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Originally aired on Monday, May 30th, 2011

Lynn Hershman Leeson’s film !Women Art Revolution has a theatrical premiere at New York City’s IFC Center on June 1, 2011. Robot Radio? Her next project is with Tilda Swinton and Marilyn Manson as part of her Teknolust Trilogy (DNA in cyborgs!).

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Originally aired on Monday, May 23rd, 2011

A March 9, 2011 LMCC event at the Seaport Museum with Prof. Greg Sholette, artist, author, activist, co-founder of REPOhistory, and Prof. John Kuo Wei Tchen, public historian, dumpster diver, co-founder of the Museum of Chinese in the Americas.

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Originally aired on Monday, May 9th, 2011

Zdenka Badovinac has been Director of Moderna Galerija/Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana since 1993 and has curated exhibitions of both Slovenian and international artists. She spoke at CUNY on March 14, 2011 for Independent Curators International.

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Hosted by Pete McCabe
Originally aired on Monday, April 4th, 2011

The Curator of Contemporary Architecture at the Canadian Center for Architecture talks to ARTonAIR's Pete McCabe about her work at the CCA--generating new ways to think about and conceptualize public space in cities.

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Originally aired on Monday, February 28th, 2011

Architect Michael Sorkin stresses the importance of redefining the city towards a more self sufficient model, one in which pedestrians rule the street, and where we "put the orchard back on Orchard Street."

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Originally aired on Monday, February 7th, 2011

An LMCC event recorded on the 45th Floor of 7 World Trade Center in January 2011: a conversation between Clifford Chanin of The Legacy Project and Steven Davis, architect and designer of the National September 11 Museum at the World Trade Center.

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Originally aired on Saturday, January 1st, 2011
A lecture by art critic and curator Weng Choy Lee looking at biennials, analyzing these mega-shows, and evaluating this exhibition format, particularly with regard to Asia. A skeptic of the power of generalization and...Read More
Originally aired on Friday, October 29th, 2010

A talk with the director of the Queens Museum of Art director Tom Finkelpearl on the subject of Survival Strategies for the Recession-Weary Museum Leader. This is a compelling must-listen for anyone involved in arts organizations.

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Originally aired on Friday, October 22nd, 2010

From a 1966 Pixie Records release by Dr. Timothy Leary, the man who coined the phrase, "Turn on, tune in, drop out", who was called "the most dangerous man in America" by Richard Nixon, outlines chapter and verse of his LSD gospel.

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Hosted by Michael Rush
Originally aired on Monday, October 11th, 2010
Constructing histories and obstructing understanding fascinates artist Laurent Grasso who discusses all this in a lecture at the School of Visual Arts from September 2010 (with comments by curator Béatrice Gross). To...Read More
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