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Karen Malpede
Hosted by Will Corwin
Originally aired on Friday, May 28th, 2010
Karen Malpede comes to the Clocktower to talk to Will about her play, Prophecy, which opened to rave reviews in London in 2008 and, as of this 2010 recording, was soon to be performed at New York's East Fourth Street Theater. She talks about her origins first as a contemporary historian of the downtown theater, with Mabou Mines and the Living Theater, and her rather quick transition to an active creative member of that community. Prophecy weaves the story of a returning Iraq war vet with the Greek dramas of Sophocles. Malpede's numerous other plays include The Beekeeper's Daughter, Another Life and I Will Bear Witness, and she has written such theatrical histories as Women in Theatre: Compassion and Hope and Three Works by the Open Theater (29 minutes).
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Hosted by Will Corwin
Originally aired Monday, April 30th, 2012

Will Corwin sits down with artist Liam Gillick to discuss a recipe for creating public art that is neither grandiose, kitschy, nor dismissive of the public; the responsibilities of contemporary curators; and the joys of lying face down on the floor.


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Hosted by Will Corwin
Originally aired Monday, April 9th, 2012

During their exhibition, Iran via Video Current, on display at the Thomas Erben Gallery in NYC in late 2011, curator Sandra Skurvida and artist/gallerist Amirali Ghasemi stopped by to talk about the exhibition and about the art scene in Teheran.


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Hosted by Will Corwin
Originally aired Monday, March 19th, 2012

Jarrett Earnest and Leigha Mason discuss their new artists-run venue 1:1, founded with Alex Sloane and Whitney Vangrin, and their first film exhibition of Marie Losier and Leigha Mason's video work, on view through April 2012. George Kuchar rules.


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Hosted by Will Corwin
Originally aired Monday, February 27th, 2012

Chris Martin stops by the Clocktower to fill in a few blank spaces in host Will Corwin's ongoing Williamsburg art scene oral history project. The artist also has an exhibit at New York's Mitchell-Inness and Nash through March 3, 2012.


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Hosted by Will Corwin
Originally aired Monday, February 13th, 2012

Will Corwin stops by the Hackney studio of artist Peter Davies. The artist, who is known for his meticulously painted list paintings, such as The Hip One Hundred, speaks candidly about the early days of his career and the ups and downs of success.


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Hosted by Will Corwin
Originally aired Monday, January 23rd, 2012

On a visit to Hamburg, Will Corwin sits down with videographer/photographer Jeanne Faust, asks her about the vaunted Hamburg Hochschule für Bildende Künste and about her current undertaking, a film about Vietnamese flower arrangers in Berlin.


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Hosted by Will Corwin
Originally aired Monday, January 9th, 2012

In Cambridge, Corwin finds himself at a lecture on Gobekli Tepe (in southeastern Turkey, The World's Oldest Temple) and gets Britain's Godfather of archaeology to talk about the ancient origins of art making and the intersection of art and archeology


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Hosted by Will Corwin
Originally aired Monday, December 26th, 2011

The British YBA artist talks about his history with Damien Hirst, the London Underground project, his 2008 exhibition Cousteau in the Underworld, at The National Maritime Museum, and La Maision Forestiere, his 2010 poetry house in France and more.


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Hosted by Will Corwin
Originally aired Monday, December 5th, 2011

After spotting her awesomely cool photographs in the 2010 Greater New York Exhibition, Will Corwin manages to get Turkish artist Pinar Yolacan into the studio to talk about her multimedia work and the House of Missoni.


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Hosted by Will Corwin
Originally aired Monday, November 7th, 2011

Will Cotton talks about his project Cockaigne, part of Performa 11. Get the "scoop" on Cotton's candy obsession in his painting practice, plus what it is like to collaborate on works that break out of the discipline of painting.


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Hosted by Will Corwin
Originally aired Monday, October 24th, 2011

In the fall of 2010, Will Corwin stopped by the Hamburg studio of the painter Ingeborg Zu Schleswig-Holstein. She regales Will with tales of life at PS1 in the early 80's plus stories from when she worked for Andy Warhol at the Factory, and more...


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Hosted by Will Corwin
Originally aired Monday, September 26th, 2011

A visit to the downtown New York studio of the great photographer to discuss his exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, The Latino List (through Dec. 11, 2011) and the Sept. 28 premier of his documentary on the project on American television (HBO).


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Hosted by Will Corwin
Originally aired Monday, September 19th, 2011

One half of the architectural experiment Atelier Bow-Wow discusses the 2011 BMW Guggenheim Lab on Houston Street in lower Manhattan until Oct 16. The Lab is a giant tool box with equipment to host lectures, performances, film festivals, workshops...


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Hosted by Will Corwin
Originally aired Saturday, September 10th, 2011
Will goes on location to the International Center of Photography to interview Maurice Berger, the curator and author of the exhibition and book For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil...
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Hosted by Will Corwin
Originally aired Monday, September 5th, 2011

A talk with Andrew Hewish of C4RD in London which exists both as a gallery space, studio residency program, and an online forum and community for artists who look at drawing more as an end than a means. Plus artist/curator Paul Kindersley drops in.


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Hosted by Will Corwin
Originally aired Monday, August 1st, 2011

Corwin arrives at Saxmundham in the south of England and is picked up by artist Sarah Lucas and taken to Snape Maltings where she's in the outdoor exhibition Snap organized by Michael Craig-Martin. Her Kunsthalle Krems show runs to November 2011.


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Hosted by Will Corwin
Originally aired Monday, July 4th, 2011

While on residency in Hamburg, Will strolls over to the St. Georg neighborhood of the town to check out Michel Chevalier's basement art shop, "Unlimited Liability." Chevalier schools Corwin on the ins-and-outs of the Hamburg scene.


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Hosted by Will Corwin
Originally aired Monday, May 23rd, 2011

A visit to the London studio of the Godfather of the Young British Artists movement to talk about his large scale works (whole streets, whole buildings), his background at Yale with Richard Serra and Alex Katz, and other tales of welcome wisdom.


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Hosted by Will Corwin
Originally aired Monday, May 9th, 2011

Turner Prize winner Gillian Wearing discusses her 2011 New York show, People (Tanya Bonakdar Gallery 5 May-24 June). It's a catch-all title that is probably the only way to discuss the photos that feature her disguised as her "spiritual" mentors.


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Hosted by Will Corwin
Originally aired Monday, April 18th, 2011

Will Corwin interviews the Hamburg-based artist about her 2010 collaboration at the Muu Galeria in Helsinki. They discuss everything from growing up with a physicist father, to the influence of Beuys on her generation of artists in Germany.


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Hosted by Will Corwin
Originally aired Monday, April 4th, 2011

A visit to the London studio of Turner Prize nominee Fiona Rae and a discussion about the process behind her most recent paintings, appliques and text, multiple voices, and her preparations for a 2011 exhibition in Berlin at Buchman Gallery.


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Hosted by Will Corwin
Originally aired Monday, March 14th, 2011

After verifying that he has not been driving while making art, Hockney shares his newest creations--video installations resulting from tooling around the East Yorkshire countryside in a beat-up Toyota truck with 9 video cameras mounted on the front.


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Hosted by Will Corwin
Originally aired Monday, March 7th, 2011

Will goes on location at the Hayward gallery to talk to the 2011 British Art Show co-curators Lisa Le Feuvre and Tom Morton about the behind the scenes of the exhibition, including its strange, H.G. Wellsian secondary title: In the Days of the Comet.


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Hosted by Will Corwin
Originally aired Monday, March 7th, 2011

Will goes one-on-one with artist Nathaniel Mellors to get the inside scoop on his video piece, Ourhouse, and two accompanying animatronic sculptures showing as part of 2011's British Art Show 7.


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Hosted by Will Corwin
Originally aired Monday, February 28th, 2011

Will interviews ARTonAIR's Director of Programs, David Weinstein, as part of the Williamsburg Oral History Project. They play a couple of Weinstein's tunes, and David proffers his theory for why the Williamsburg art scene took off: Thai food.


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