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P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center

Discussions, readings, performances, presentations, and interviews with artists exhibiting work or making presentations at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center (now MoMA/PS1).

P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center

Michael Pollan: Taking the Plant's Point of View

Originally aired Monday, August 18th, 2008

In conjunction with the exhibition P.F.1 (Public Farm One), P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center and The Horticultural Society of New York presented a lecture by award-winning author Michael Pollan entitled Taking the...
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Fine Print: Critical Mess

Originally aired Monday, March 12th, 2007

This program features a reading and discussion of writer and critic (senior editor at Art in America) Raphael Rubinstein's anthology, Critical Mess(2006), on the debate over the role of contemporary art...
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Burt Barr

Originally aired Monday, February 5th, 2007

P.S.1 Director Alanna Heiss talks with artist Burt Barr about his 2006 installation of new video work at P.S.1 and, along the way, touches on his military service, Long Island culture, boats and neighbors, late...
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Philip Maysles

Originally aired Monday, December 25th, 2006

In this telephone interview, artist Philip Maysles and Dr. Frances Cress Welsing discuss the black forms in Robert Motherwell's Spanish Elegies as symbolic of the connection between black male genitalia and death in the...
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Subway Sessions

Originally aired Monday, September 4th, 2006

In Part 1, P.S.1 Programming Coordinator Colby Chamberlain interviews the artist Drew Heitzler, whose video documentary on New York City surf culture (no snickering, you Hawaiians) appears at P.S.1 from June 25 -...
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Jon Kessler

Originally aired Monday, January 9th, 2006

Artists Jen Denike and Justin Lowe sit down with Jon Kessler whose massive site-specific mixed media installation The Palace at 4 a.m. is installed at P.S.1 through Feb. 6, 2006. (29 minutes)
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Woman of Many Faces: Isabelle Huppert

Originally aired Monday, October 24th, 2005

The renowned French actress Isabelle Huppert speaks briefly at the opening event ceremonies for her film retrospective at MoMA and photo exhibit at P.S.1. MoMA's Larry Kardish introduces Patrice Chéreau, director...
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Stephen Shore: American Surfaces Revisited

Originally aired Monday, September 26th, 2005

The second in an installment of artist dialogues as host Jen DeNike gathers a distinguished panel with color photographer Stephen Shore, Jeff Rosenheim (Curator of Photographs from the Metropolitan Museum of Art) and...
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Greater New York 2005 Update with Clarisa Darymple

A telephone call from the P.S.1 crew at the WPS1 2005 Armory Show remote radio site to the mobile phone of Clarissa Dalrymple as she wanders the halls of P.S.1 assessing and caressing the installation and the...
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Greater New York 2005 Update with Lumi Tan

A telephone call from David Weinstein who is sitting in the VIP Lounge at the WPS1 Armory Show remote site to P.S.1 Curatorial Assistant Lumi Tan who thrusts her mobile phone into the hands of artists in...
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Greater New York 2005 Update with Neville Wakefield

Another of our roving correspondent reports as Mr. Weinstein attempts to visualize both world peace and the condition of P.S.1 under seige by the 160-plus artists installing the 2005 Greater New York Show, as described...
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Greater New York 2005 Update with Sarah Kessler

P.S.1 curatorial assistant Sarah Kessler spends 15 minutes on her mobile with David Weinstein as she attempts to gently ambush artists in mid-installation and get them to reveal what's up and what's not during the...
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