Photo: Rich Niewiroski Jr.
Photo: Rich Niewiroski Jr.
Our Correspondents: San Francisco
Hosted by Tania Ketenjian
This series explores the artistic landmarks and icons that live in or visit host Tania Ketenjian's home town, San Francisco. Tania's first foray into radio began at WBAI-FM in New York where she contributed to City in Exile. She now has a weekly program, Sight Unseen, that airs in London and San Francisco. She is also a contributor to Public Radio International's Studio 360, the BBC, the BBC World Service, The Times UK and others. She makes documentaries and teaches audio production, sharing a studio with artists in the Mission district of San Francisco.
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Originally aired on Friday, August 27th, 2010
Tania Ketenjian continues her discussion with Pico Iyer, who has written eleven books, the most recent of which is The Open Road: The Global Journey of the 14th Dalai Lama. Based on his travels with the Dalai...Read More
Originally aired on Monday, September 28th, 2009
Tania Ketenjian in conversation with Academy Award winning filmmaker Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth) about his most recent film, It Might Get Loud, which brings together three of rock's greatest...Read More
Originally aired on Monday, September 21st, 2009
Tania Ketenjian speaks with San Francisco MoMA's Henry Urbach, curator of Architecture and Design, about his exhibit Sensate: Bodies and Design. The show features artists, designers, and architects, working in a...Read More
Originally aired on Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
Tania Ketenjian's Sight Unseen series continues with a conversation with Mike Judge, creator of cult classic Beavis and Butt-Head, award-winning King of the Hill and numerous films such as Office...Read More
Originally aired on Monday, August 10th, 2009
Tania Ketenjian speaks with Sandra Phillips, senior curator of photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, about the 2009 exhibit Richard Avedon: Photographs 1946—2004. The exhibition spans Avedon's...Read More
Originally aired on Monday, July 27th, 2009
Tania Ketenjian speaks with artist John Baldessari, whose work has been classified as everything from conceptual to Pop, but is quite simply and completely of its own distinction. Winner of the 2009 Golden Lion...Read More
Originally aired on Monday, April 20th, 2009
Tania Ketenjian interviews Christian McBride, one of the most acclaimed bassists today and surely one of the youngest. He has played with the leading jazz musicians and aritsts of our time - among them Freddie...Read More
Originally aired on Monday, April 6th, 2009
, about the award and this year's recipients. Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art (SECA), a group based out of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), promotes awareness and understanding of...Read More
Originally aired on Sunday, April 5th, 2009
Tania Ketenjian speaks with Pico Iyer, a journalist, writer, traveler, biographer and speaker. He has written eleven books, the most recent of which is The Open Road: The Global Journey of the 14th Dalai Lama,...Read More
Originally aired on Monday, March 30th, 2009
Tania Ketenjian talks to filmmaker Barry Jenkins about his first full-length feature film, Medicine for Melancholy, which examines issues of race in San Francisco, the city with the smallest proportional black...Read More
Originally aired on Monday, November 6th, 2006


This week, the voice of Larry Clark, photographer, filmmaker, and social voyeur. In 1995, Larry Clark came out with his first film titled KIDS. It followed a group a teenagers in New York City and revealed...Read More
Originally aired on Monday, October 23rd, 2006


In this edition our San Francisco correspondent visits the East End of London and spoke with artists FredriksonStallard, a duo whose work and life seem inseparable and glorious. Their wonderful Web site is...Read More
Originally aired on Monday, October 9th, 2006


It seems like issues of gender roles and identity continue coming to the forefront, especially in the art world. As we look back on history, it was the male artists that always took the lead, women were not...Read More
Originally aired on Monday, September 25th, 2006


In this segment, the voice of filmmaker Wim Wenders whose film, Don't Come Knocking, is hitting theatres fall 2006. Wim Wenders is best known for such films as Paris, Texas, Buena Vista Social Club and...Read More
Originally aired on Monday, September 11th, 2006


This edition features the voices of New York-based paraconceptual designer and artist Tobias Wong and curator Philip Wood of Citizen-Citizen. Tobias and Philip discuss the importance of imbuing meaning into...Read More
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