Michael Rush, 2011
Michael Rush, 2011
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Hosted by Michael Rush

Artists in conversation and debate with host Michael Rush, Director of the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. In addition to his career as a museum director, he is an award winning curator, and widely published author and critic. He was Director of the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University from 2005-2009, and Director of the Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art from 2000-2004.

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Hosted by Michael Rush
Originally aired Monday, October 31st, 2011

Filmmaker Eve Sussman (Rape of the Sabine Women, 89 Seconds at Alcazar) and actor Jeff Wood discuss there new film, White on White: Algorithmic Noir, a computer assisted, abstract experience about an everyman in a post-apocalyptic no-man's land.

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Hosted by Michael Rush
Originally aired Monday, June 27th, 2011

Video artist Niklas Goldbach turns controversial spaces (Nazi public swimming baths; a bombed-out discotheque in Corsica) into personal landscapes where his own digitally multiplied body occupies the space and redefines it.

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Hosted by Michael Rush
Originally aired Monday, May 23rd, 2011

The multi-tasking painter and sculptor whose "music reviews" (graphs and charts of his assorted observations experiences at concerts) have wowed New York Times readers discusses his connections to Modernism, alternative rock and the art world.

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Hosted by Michael Rush
Originally aired Monday, May 9th, 2011

On March 30-31, 2011 the Michigan State University Dept. of Art and Art History's Electronic Art & Intermedia program hosted the Form From Thought Symposium to discuss the intersections among art, science and technology. Moderated by Michael Rush.

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Originally aired Monday, April 18th, 2011

Grayson Cox, emerging from Columbia's MFA program just a year ago, takes on NY with a fully formed exhibition at Chelsea's Gasser & Grunnert Gallery, through 23 April , 2011. Refreshingly sane and realistic.

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Hosted by Michael Rush
Originally aired Friday, January 14th, 2011

Pioneering multimedia artist Carolee Schneemann is as tireless as ever in exploring new forms. In the first week of 2011 she checked in with host Michael Rush to speak about about her new kinetic works, her experimental films, and much more.

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Hosted by Michael Rush
Originally aired Friday, January 7th, 2011

Curators Manon Slome and Julia Draganovic discuss No Longer Empty, a moveable artist feast that has already transformed numerous abandoned spaces into thriving temporary artist sites.

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Hosted by Michael Rush
Originally aired Friday, December 17th, 2010
Bruce Springsteen, Meryl Streep, pollution....all from the state of New Jersey! And now contemporary art has arrived. The Garden State sprouts a new museum of contemporary art and host Michael Rush (also a native of...Read More
Hosted by Michael Rush
Originally aired Friday, December 10th, 2010
It is easy to forget that it is barely two decades since the Eastern Europe Communist bloc was dismantled. Host Michael Rush speaks with Hungaran-born Magda Sawon, Polish-born-Tamas Banovich, founders of Chelsea's...Read More
Hosted by Michael Rush
Originally aired Friday, December 3rd, 2010
Janos Stone, a Brooklyn-based sculptor known for large-scale interactive multimedia works, was commissioned by the Hungarian government to create what emerged as a monumental piece to be installed at the Hungarian...Read More
Hosted by Michael Rush
Originally aired Friday, November 19th, 2010
For more than twenty years James Casebere has been at the forefront of an international movement in photography that questions the truthfulness of any image and the potential unreliability of what we think we see....Read More
Hosted by Michael Rush
Originally aired 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
Hosted by Michael Rush
Originally aired Friday, September 24th, 2010

Paris-based Laurent Grasso was in New York for the opening of his exhibition SoundFossil at Sean Kelly Gallery (through October 23, 2010) and visited the Clocktower for a sit down with host Michael Rush.

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Hosted by Michael Rush
Originally aired Friday, August 27th, 2010
Artist Alexis Rockman was raised in Manhattan. Which, he says, may be the reason so much of his painting is about nature--both real and imagined. He spent his childhood hanging out at the Museum of Natural History and...Read More
Hosted by Michael Rush
Originally aired Friday, July 30th, 2010
Barbara Bloom's reimaginings of others' personal moments (Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Paul Sartre sharing keys from their separate apartments; a video showing Marilyn Monroe reading a book) have provided the starting...Read More
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