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Simon Patterson
Hosted by Will Corwin
Originally aired 12/26/11

Continuing his quest for his YBA roots, host Corwin interviews Simon Patterson, the brother of his former boss Richard Patterson. Simon first entered the American art-consciousness in the Sensation show at The Brooklyn Museum with his iconic print The Great Bear. Simon was also featured in the original Freeze Exhibition, organized by Damien Hirst in 1988. He talks about his 2008 exhibition, Cousteau in the Underworld, at The National Maritime Museum, and La Maision Forestiere (http://www.artconnexion.org/espace-public-public-realm/296-la-maison-for...), a monument to the great British war poet Wilfred Owen that Patterson has designed (or re-designed) in Ors, Northern France.

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Tracey Emin, What She Did For Love
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In his pursuit to collect an oral history of artists from the '70s & '80s, Will Corwin serendipitously ended up at Sandi Slone's opening. Here Corwin speaks to Slone, whose exhibition "Quick Mettle Rich Blood" is on view through October 6th, 2012.

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Lucy Skaer, a 2009 Turner Prize Nominee, visits the Clocktower to discuss her details of her practice, her father's coin collection and Sebastian Brant's "Ship of Fools" with Will Corwin. Her art involves reworking symbols and transforming materials.

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Painter Ali Banisadr sits down to talk about his 2012 exhibition at Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery in Salzburg titled We Haven't Landed on Earth Yet. The artist discusses his path from embattled Tehran through California to a Metropolitan Museum show.

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Filmmaker, collagist and sculptor Holly Zausner tells her tales tales of tigers, exploding galleries, obstructing traffic, skywriting, and an artist's life in Berlin. Her show at Postmasters in New York runs into August 2012.

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