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.
Host David Weinstein welcomes members of The Respect Sextet: trumpeter Eli Asher, drummer Ted Poor, and keyboardist Red Wierenga, along with the energetic director of Greenwich House Music School.
Host Jeannie Hopper speaks with Jessica Jelliffe, Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director of Banana Bag & Bodice Theatre Co. about the organization and its most recently lauded production, BEOWULF - A Thousand Years of Baggage.
Goodbar is a live concept album inspired by Judith Rossner's 1975 novel Looking for Mr. Goodbar and its 1977 film adaptation. The work is the result of a collaboration between avant-garde theatre company... Read More
AIR's Jeannie Hopper speaks with Toffer Christenson, whose work with The Beach Concerts, through its myriad partnerships with the likes of The Bowery Presents, Water Taxi Beach and The Highline Ballroom, has led to some... Read More
On the occasion of the release of Birds + Machines (1980-1989) on Pogus Records, sound artist, juggler, bookmaker, newspaper clipper, curator, tour guide, musician, real estate developer, composer and Generator... Read More
Jeannie Hopper interviews James Flames, one of the founders of The Underground Rebel
Bingo Club, which has taken first England, and now the world, by storm since 2008. Rebel Bingo
started in a church when various Bingo... Read More
SummerStage 2010's Danni Gee and Freedome Bradley discuss the SummerStage's 25th anniversary, the City Parks Foundation public programs, and the event series' Dance and Theater program highlights.
The Community~Word Project offers arts-in-education classes to students at New York City public schools, seeking to help young people to express themselves and their views of the world creatively and critically. It was... Read More
AIR's Jeannie Hopper speaks with James Burke, Director of the Arts and Cultural Programs for City Parks Foundation, which produces Central Park SummerStage, among other cultural events throughout the city's five... Read More
Aaron Friedman, president and founder of Make Music New York, speaks with AIR's Jeannie Hopper about the history of the organization, which has its roots in the establishment, in 1982, of a musical holiday in France... Read More
As always here at AIR, we like to focus on the most important thing in life: love. Will has been trying to get as many matching pairs as possible--artsy couples, that is--and he already interviewed Linda's significant... Read More
Will Sits down with White Columns Director and Chief Curator Matthew Higgs and talks London circa the 1990s. Matthew feels that a history needs to be written about this place and time (maybe after our Williamsburg oral... Read More
HERE Art Center's Pete McCabe speaks with playwright Charles Mee and director Anne Bogart, Artistic Director of SITI Company, where Mee is Playwright in Residence. Bogart, a frequent collaborator with Mee, shares a... Read More
AIR's Jeannie Hopper chats with Jen Lyon, co-founder with Katie Longmyer of MeanRed Productions. Lyon tells of the various triumphs and setbacks that led to the foundation of MeanRed and related ventures Good Peoples... Read More
Will Corwin stops by Pierogi founder Joe Amrhein's sur-Pierogi pad to chat about the foundation of the gallery--arising out of frustration with the lack of cultural discourse at the time, he'd had no initial intention... Read More
AIR's Jeannie Hopper speaks with Michelle Bogre, Associate Professor in the School of Art, Media and Society at Parsons and founder of The Copyright Corner.
Will Corwin greets Sideshow gallery owner Richie Temperio at home in his gallery on
South 2nd Street. Richie talks about being an artist in
Williamsburg way back when, and provides some intriguing details about
the very... Read More
Coming down from the high of the success of his book and exhibition In Numbers,
Serial Publications By Artists, curator Phil Aarons discusses with Will his work with Printed Matter, where he is Board President.... Read More
House of YES is a performance venue and art space in Brooklyn, New York. Kae Burke, Director of House of YES, describes what led her from Rochester to Bed-Stuy to Bushwick to found the space, a brief history of which... Read More
Phong Bui speaks with Jakob Fenger and Bjorn-Stjerne Christiansen of the three-person Danish artist collective Superflex while the missing member, Rasmus Nielsen, puts the finishing touches on their 2010 exhibition... Read More
Pursuant to an AIR, Art International Radio's field trip the night before to Queens' Silent Barn, Joe Ahearn, one of the venue's organizers, comes in to talk to Will Corwin about what exactly he's doing out there in the... Read More
Betsy Sussler returns to the Clocktower, where she had her first job in New York City. She gives host Will Corwin a tutorial on how to start a cutting-edge arts magazine based on a seemingly impossible ideal--to talk... Read More
Will Corwin speaks with members of Experimental Troupe Comedy aka ETC, among them Chrisopher Chan Roberson, Jamil Ellis and Gene Perelson, just in advance of their special Halloween 2009 gig at 8 p.m.... Read More
Tokyo-based DJs Kent and KZA, aka Force of Nature, fuse trip-hop and electro to disco and house. A regular radio spot on Shibuya-FM in Japan and their masterful mixed CDs have held them up as some of the best musical... Read More
Our special roving correspondent in Venice 2007 Zefrey Throwell with guest Maria Morgante who runs an artist salon in Venice called I mercoledi degli artisti. They meet every Wednesday (thus the name) and are... Read More
With intros by the inimitable voice of Walter Cronkite, this 1952 TV program puts seminal moments of Paris in the 1920s into sharp focus with recollections by Man Ray (explaining the invention of the Rayograph) and ... Read More
Cannes is not just about competition films but an international market for selling films around the world and/or raising money to make films. Michael Attardi of Dream Balloon Productions, who has the distinction of... Read More
