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Off The Rail
Hosted by Phong Bui

Artist, critic, curator, teacher and newspaperman Phong Bui is now taking his insatiable talent to the airwaves.

A man with a voracious appetite for all things artistic, social and cultural, Phong's work has been shown at such galleries at Pierogi, Sarah Bowen Gallery, Wooster Art Space and the Brooklyn Museum of Art, winning him numerous awards and grants from the American Academy of Letters, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and the National Academy, among others. He is a curatorial adviser at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center and has taught at such institutions as Columbia University, Bard College and the School of Visual Arts. He used the money from his first sold painting to create the venerable arts, culture and politics journal The Brooklyn Rail and the publishing press The Brooklyn Rail/Black Square Editions. He is an unstoppable force of unyielding curiosity.

Here Phong interviews artists, curators, booksellers and anyone else he finds notable and interesting on the cultural landscape. Follow his lead; it's always proved impeccable.

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Hosted by Phong Bui
Originally aired on Monday, December 19th, 2011

Phong Bui hosts curator John Elderfield of MoMA, and his associates Jennifer Field, Lauren Mahoney, Delphine Huisinga who assembled the first true Willem de Kooning retrospective since the artist's death in 1997 (through January 9, 2012).

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Hosted by Phong Bui
Originally aired on Monday, March 7th, 2011

Known mostly for her “Waterfall” paintings, which are infused with an energy generated from her interest in Western and Eastern painting and philosophy, Pat Steir reveals a far more complex history as a painter in her interview with Phong Bui.

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Hosted by Phong Bui
Originally aired on Monday, February 14th, 2011

Joe Bradley discusses his two solo exhibitions, at CANADA and Gavin Brown’s Enterprise--Human Form shows paintings of silhouetted men in dance formations, while Mouth and Foot reveals his newfound appetite for monumental expressionism.

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Hosted by Phong Bui
Originally aired on Friday, December 17th, 2010
Esteemed by conceptual and performance artists, including Mike Kelly, Paul McCarthy and many others of a younger generation, Peter Saul, in his insistence on autonomy, has sustained a vision rather than succumb to what...Read More
Hosted by Phong Bui
Originally aired on Friday, November 19th, 2010
Having gone to Cooper Union where he had studied with Angelo Ippolitto and Nicolas Marsicano, among other known artists and teachers of the New York School (1961-1967), Thomas Nozkowski perceptively adapted their...Read More
Hosted by Phong Bui
Originally aired on Friday, November 12th, 2010
Informed and shaped by both the political issues of his native country Iran and the aspiration to make art with great universal appeal, Nicky Nodjoumi came to New York during the height of the Vietnam war in 1969 to...Read More
Hosted by Phong Bui
Originally aired on Wednesday, October 13th, 2010

In this conversation Sze discusses at length the evolution of her growth as an artist.

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Hosted by Phong Bui
Originally aired on Thursday, September 9th, 2010
On the occasion of Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913 – 1917 at the MoMA (July 18 – October 11, 2010), John Elderfield, Chief Curator Emeritus of Painting and Sculpture, the Museum of Modern Art, who co-organized the...Read More
Originally aired on Friday, July 16th, 2010
After the closing of James Hyde's most recent exhibition, Stuart Davis Group, at Pierogi's Boiler in Williamsburg, the painter stopped by AIR to talk to Phong Bui about his life and work. Hyde's earliest...Read More
Originally aired on Friday, May 14th, 2010
Largely known for his playfully and energetically charged installation that infuses found and made objects including Styrofoam, blown and slumpe glass, neon, fur and other unpredictable materials, Gandalf Gavan sits...Read More
Originally aired on Friday, April 30th, 2010
Artist and filmmaker Shoja Azari sits down with Phong Bui in advance of his May 2010 exhibition Shoja Azari: Icons at New York's Leila Heller Galleries. Azari talks about the various familial, social and...Read More
Originally aired on Friday, February 19th, 2010
Phong Bui speaks with painter David Reed about the multimedia influences on his work and his 2010 exhibition at New York's Peter Blum Gallery, David Reed: Works on Paper. Reed discusses his admiration of painter...Read More
Originally aired on Friday, February 5th, 2010
Phong Bui speaks with Jakob Fenger and Bjørnstjerne Christiansen of the three-person Danish artist collective Superflex while the missing member, Rasmus Nielsen, puts the finishing touches on their 2010 exhibition...Read More
Originally aired on Friday, January 22nd, 2010
Artist Martin Wilner heeds Phong's desires and discusses, at implicit distance, his two most well-known works, The Journal of Evidence Weekly and Making History. They also discuss their shared time during...Read More
Originally aired on Friday, January 8th, 2010
Leonard Lopate is host of the public radio talk show The Leonard Lopate Show, broadcast on WNYC. Consummate Brooklynite and New Yorker, he attended Brooklyn College and later Hunter College, where he trained as a...Read More
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