Beginnings: The Howl! Arts Podcast

We are pleased to share Edgar Oliver’s reading of The Steadfast Tin Soldier by Hans Christian Andersen. A tale of Lead, Loyalty, Love, Life and… you’ll just have to listen to Edgar’s compelling narration. This is the first offering in our Slumber Series of audio recordings intent on taking you somewhere, way over there. Support the show

Talking Basquiat the Teenage Years The great iconic artist Jean-Michel Basquiat is remembered by his friends who knew him when, as a teenager, he first burst upon the Downtown New York scene as Samo and began to make the artworks that sell for millions of dollars today. Sara Driver’s movie Boom for Real is the jumping off point for a conversation about Basquiat and New York in the 80s with “Beginn...

Carlo McCormick is more than a cultural critic and curator. He’s a seminal figure in the evolution of the Downtown art scene where he’s lived for more than 40 years. Championing work from marginal communities, he’s written hundreds of catalogue essays about contemporary artists and contributed to Paper, the East Village Eye, Juxtapoz and many other publications and in the process become perhaps th...

Jean-Michel Basquiat didn’t know how to play an instrument, but that didn’t stop him from asking Michael Holman to join him in starting up a band. Called Gray, they created an improvised collage of sounds more in tune (or out of tune) with the avant-garde than with rap music which had arrived as the new pop sound. Holman talks with “Beginnings" host and Paper magazine founder David Hershkovit...