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This Week: An interview and guided tour with photographer and teacher Dawoud Bey.   Dawoud Bey: Harlem, USA Wednesday, May 2, 2012 – Sunday, September 9, 2012 Gallery 189 In 1979 African American photographer Dawoud Bey (born 1953) held his first solo exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem, showing a suite of 25 photographs titled Harlem, U.S.A . Bey had been in residence at that museum for one...

This week: We talk with Jason Salavon! Born in Indiana (1970), raised in Texas, and based in Chicago, Salavon earned his MFA at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and his BA from The University of Texas at Austin. His work has been shown in museums and galleries around the world. Reviews of his exhibitions have been included in such publications as Artforum, Art in America, The New York Ti...

Keeping up with Paul Chan could be two peoples full time job. This time out he and Paul talk about the context of publishing, Documenta, and what Paul has been up to since 2010. Check out Paul's site here... http://www.nationalphilistine.com/ the followoing was borrowed from Paul. He really is a lovely fellow. Paul Chan  is an artist who lives and works in New York. His work has been exhibited wid...

This week: Novelist Joe Meno! Joe Meno is a fiction writer and playwright who lives in Chicago. A winner of the Nelson Algren Literary Award, a Pushcart Prize, a Great Lakes Book Award,  and a finalist for the Story Prize , he is the author of five novels,  The Great Perhaps, The Boy Detective Fails, Hairstyles of the Damned ,  How the Hula Girl Sings , and  Tender as Hellfire . His short story co...

This week: Artist, founding member of Area Chicago, singer Daniel Tucker. Also, after the show Duncan tries his hand at announcing top 40 radio.

This week: Ken Fandell and Christy Matson! Introduced by Duncan and Hologram Richard.

This week: Shawn Smith, my hero. An artist who makes a living, is clearly having a good time, and is a damn nice guy. Along with his talented team he produces all things Shawnimals. I secretly long to live in Ninjatown. Also, I am now under contract to play Feroshi in the feature film. Coppola is directing. www.shawnimals.com www.ninjatown.com http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ninjatown-trees-of-doom...

This week: Jenni Sorkin! Also, we talk with the fine folks at Expo Chicago

This week: A PULITZER PRIZE WINNER! Holy crap. San Francisco once again brings it with an amazing guest, Holland Cotter. Holland Cotter has been a staff art critic at The New York Times since 1998. In 2009, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, for coverage that included articles on art in China. Between 1992 and 1997 he was a regular freelance writer for the paper. During the 1980s he was a co...

This week: David Salle! Great conversation. Listen. You. Now.

This week: Duncan and Abigail talk to Sam Gould. Sam Gould is co-founder of Red76, a collaborative art practice which originated in Portland, Oregon in 2000. Along with his work as the instigator and core-facilitator of many of the groups initiatives, Gould is the acting editor of its publication, the Journal of Radical Shimming. He full-time visiting faculty within the Text and Image Arts Departm...

This week: Artist, educator, and activist Suzanne Lacy. Suzanne Lacy (born 1945) is an internationally known artist, educator, writer, and former public servant. She describes her work, which includes "installations, video, and large-scale performances", as focusing on "social themes and urban issues.” She also served in the education cabinet of Jerry Brown, then mayor of Oakland, California, and...

This week: And now for something completely different! This week’s episode comes to us from our friends at Art Practical , whose current issue delves into the rich history of sound art in the San Francisco Bay Area. The included essays and interviews constitute a fraction of the rich and varied world of experimental sound. Here, Art Practical’s contributing editors Catherine McChrystal and Kara Q....

This week: We talk to artist Katharina Fritsch! Richard says "cock" and "Hologram Tupac" a whole lot. Katharina Fritsch is known for her sculptures and installations that reinvigorate familiar objects with a jarring and uncanny sensibility. Her works' iconography is drawn from many different sources, including Christianity, art history and folklore. She attracted international attention for the fi...

This week: We talk with, writer, giant of consciouness, and Chief Curator at the ICA in Boston Helen Molesworth.

This week: Another of our interviews from the Hand in Glove conference! Duncan and Patricia speak with artist Martha Wilson. Martha Wilson is a Philadelphia based feminist performance artist. She is the founding director of Franklin Furnace. Over the past four decades she has developed and "created innovative photographic and video works that explore her female subjectivity through role-playing, c...

This week: San Francisco brings another great guest to the table! Kota Ezawa, video archaeologist. Ezawa's work has been shown in solo exhibitions at the Hayward Gallery in London, Artpace in San Antonio, The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Murray Guy Gallery in New York and Haines Gallery in San Francisco. He participated in exhibitions at Museum of Modern Art in New York, Whitney Museum of Ame...

This week: The second part of our survey of residencies in the area. We speak with Nicholas Wylie and Emily Green about ACRE. Then on to with Elizabeth Chodos and Michael Andrews from Ox-Bow. Wrapping it up with Joe Jeffers for Harold Arts. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ACRE (Artists’ Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions) is a volunteer-run non-pr...

This week: We talk with the representatives of three different residency programs in part one of our residency roundup! Our guests are Stephanie Sherman from Elsewhere, Ryan Pierce from Signal Fire, and Michelle Grabner from The Poor Farm.

This week: Duncan, Patricia and Richard talk to Andy Sturdevant, Shanai Matteson and Colin Kloecker who run/host/develop/ringmaster/coordinate/brainstorm Works Progress and the related project Salon Saloon from Minneapolis, Minnesota. Does Minnesota declare war on Oregon? Not for those who live in Portlandia with sensitive feelings, skip this episode and listen your Morrissey albums instead. Come...

This week: Two for the price of one! We have two interviews, first one of Duncan's heroes, Iain Baxter& and then sound and installation artist Bill Fontana. Join us in NYC on the East River for our Kiron Robinson interview on March 17th! Bill Fontana: b 1947 in Cleveland, Ohio; sound artist. He studied philosophy and music at the New School for Social Research in New York, with Phillip Corner and...

This week: Patricia Maloney rocks Kansas and interviews Plug Projects. PLUG PROJECTS is a curatorial collaboration by five Kansas City artists who share the mission of bringing fresh perspectives and conversation to the local art community. Our goal is to energize artists and the public at large by exhibiting challenging new work, initiating critical dialogue, and expanding connections of artists...

This week: Special guest contribution magic from Ben Peterson of BenPR! BenPR is an interview series createdabout people doing creative work with a public or social dimension.

This week: The Amanda Browder Show vs. Tom Friedman. As a sculptor myself, I find his work to be some of the most interesting and innovative of the last 20 years. This is an interview that has been on our wish list for a long time! Yay NYC bureau! Tom Friedman was born in St. Louis, MO in 1965 and received his B.F.A. at Washington University, St. Louis, MO and his M.F.A. at the University of Illin...

This week: Duncan and Amy Mooney talk to motiroti. Founded in 1991 by Keith Khan and Ali Zaidi, motiroti brings together artists who are devoted to multidisciplinary exploration and whose work has been presented internationally. The collective investigates how forms of expression circulate among cultures and seeks to foster exchanges among communities in Britain. The collective's mandate is to rea...