Lenape Indians, by Benjamin West
Lenape Indians, by Benjamin West
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Access Restricted: The Lenape: Lower New York's First Inhabitants
Originally aired on Thursday, September 1st, 2011

A program recorded as part of ARTonAIR.org's partnership with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC). The 2011 edition of the popular Access Restricted series concluded with this event.

On April 13, 2011 Dr. David M. Oestreicher, curator (In Search of the Lenape: The Delaware Indians, Past and Present), lecturer, consultant, and independent scholar, spoke about the Lenape people (an Algonquian group of Native Americans from the northeastern American woodlands). They are also called Delaware Indians. In Pershing Hall on Governors Island.

Originally aired Friday, May 11th, 2012

Five activist artist/producer/educators--Jan Cohen-Cruz, Randy Martin, Morgan Jenness , Rachel Chavkin and Amy Whitaker--discuss the complicated and often fraught relationship between art, money and politics, the semiotics of dissent, and more.


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Originally aired Monday, April 23rd, 2012

A discussion on the history, proposals and progress of developing a 2 mile stretch of waterfront on the lower east side of Manhattan, in an affordable housing area, with plants and grass, pavilions, music, food, recreation and more. It's complicated.


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Originally aired Monday, April 9th, 2012

In this LMCC program, recorded at St. Paul's Chapel in lower Manhattan, art directors, a composer and a journalist explore how the arts, particularly music, can bridge the sacred and the secular, creating a space for community to come together.


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Originally aired 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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Hosted by Pete McCabe
Originally aired 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 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 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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Hosted by Pete McCabe
Originally aired Friday, January 7th, 2011

A talk with the President of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council about the history and purpose of the council, how it works with scores of Manhattan's art organizations, and the many grants they issue to arts organizations and individuals.


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