WPS1 Art Radio is the Internet radio station of P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center providing a 24-hour stream and on-demand archive of cultural programming. The station operates out of the historic Clocktower Building in lower Manhattan.
An-My Le discusses her signature large-format landscape work and re-created war scenes and how her childhood in Vietnam informed these powerful and profound images. Susan Kaczmarek, Curator in the Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art, introduces the artist. Recorded at MoMA by WPS1 on May 6, 2005.
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Jeannie Hopper chats with Colonel Abrams, delivering a retrospective on his long standing career as a pop icon and underground sensation. He especially offers insight into the music industry and his days performing at the Paradise Garage, Bentleys, Zanzibar, and more.
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Legendary art dealer and connoisseur Daniel Henri Kahnweiler speaks intimately of Pablo Picasso. Recorded at MoMA on May 23, 1957.
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The grand graffiti expressionist Lee Quiñones discusses his graffiti works, cult film “Wild Style”, and his bicycle ride from NYC to Miami as a way to raise money to aid the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
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Photographer Carrie Mae Weems interviewed in 2005 at the Museum of Modern Art in by Debra Willis to discuss the personal, political, painful, and playful in her work.
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Reverend Billy warns us of the coming shopocalypse: the death of man brought on by his own consumer excess.
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“Dada Lives!” with co-founder Richard Huelsenbeck, telling it like it was (or not). Recorded December, 1960
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Ginsberg talks about and Burroughs reads from an extraordinary correspondence from Mexico in which the seeds of Burroughs’ seminal stories would grow. Hosted by Charles Ruas.
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