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Edition #23: Sandra Phillips, Richard Avedon: Photographs 1946—2004
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 entire career, from fashion photography at Harper's Bazaar, where Avedon began working at the age of 22, to his more recent works, among them his iconic images of politicians, bee keepers and celebrities. Phillips takes us through the entire exhibition and here explains how Avedon captured the infamous shot of the Duke and Dutchess of Windsor (30 minutes).
Originally aired 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...
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Originally aired 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...
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Originally aired 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...
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Originally aired 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...
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Originally aired 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...
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Originally aired 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...
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Originally aired 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...
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Originally aired 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,...
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Originally aired 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...
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Originally aired 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...
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Originally aired 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...
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Originally aired 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...
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Originally aired 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...
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Originally aired 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...
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Originally aired Monday, August 21st, 2006
Oakland is just across the bay from San Francisco but has long been known not so much for its art work but more for its higher level of crime and its lower income population. What many seem to forget is that in the...
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Originally aired Monday, July 24th, 2006


William Pope.L is a performance artist, sculptor, painter, writer, and social critic. His performances range from crawling on the streets of New York City to sitting in Wall Street and ingesting the...
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Originally aired Monday, June 26th, 2006


A couple of weeks ago, President Bush sent the National Guard to the Mexican Border and just a couple of weeks before that, immigrants across the country took to the streets to demonstrate for their rights,...
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Originally aired Monday, May 23rd, 2005


Mark Horowitz created Dinner with Mark out of a serendipitous event: he snuck his cellphone number into a photograph for a major mail order catalog. The minute the catalog went out, he started...
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Originally aired Monday, April 4th, 2005


Irreducible: Contemporary Short Form Video, was on view in early 2005 at the Wattis Institute in San Francisco. The show presented video works by artists from over 20 different countries. By bringing...
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Originally aired Monday, February 14th, 2005
First broadcast Feb. 14, 2005

Are repertory film houses succumbing to Hi-Def TV? Host Tania Ketenjian gathers three people steeped in the experience of American art-house cinema to pump up its volume in...
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Originally aired Wednesday, December 31st, 1969
Robert Frank's The Americans, one of the most important photography books in history, is celebrating the 50th anniversary of its publication in the United States. In the current exhibition Looking In: Robert...
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Hosted by Tania Ketenjian

Bay Area correspondent Tania Ketenjian opens the debut show of her program with a visit to the quiet storm of sound artist Aaron Ximm host of San Francisco's weekly "Field Effects" concert series and Ralph Rugoff, curator of Baja to Vancouvez.


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As Tania Ketenjian tells the story, while New York artists priced out of Manhattan were moving to Brooklyn in the late 90s, a similar spike in San Francisco real estate values forced a number of artists and made it...
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Tania Ketenjian spotlights "Soy y Que: New Chicano/Latino Representations," one of three new exhibitions on view at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (through January 9, 2005) featuring work...
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