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This week: The west coast bureau keeps on bringing it large! Patricia Maloney talks with the concept engineer and Otolith Group co-founder Kodwo Eshun . Kodwo Eshun is a British-Ghanaian writer, theorist and film-maker. He studied English Literature (BA Hons, MA Hons) at University College, Oxford University and Romanticism and Modernism MA Hons at Southampton University. He is currently course le...

This week: Philip von Zweck sits down to talk with artist and educator Kelly Kaczynski. GO CHECK OUT HER SHOW AT THE COLLEGE OF DUPAGE-GAHLBERG GALLERY! I heart the Gahlberg Gallery. Kelly Kaczynski: Study for Convergence Performance (ice) Jan.19 to Feb. 25, 2012 Study for Convergence Performance (ice) is the second work in a series that seeks to conflate the artist's studio as a performative site...

This week: New York presents Jonathan Grossmalerman interviewed by special guests The Ladies Auxiliary. After that the Amanda and Tom bus keeps right on rolling to the Socrates Sculpture Park. Epic!

This week: The second installment of our pirate radio sessions, recorded live from NADA 2011! We are joined by local heroes The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago curators Michael Darling and Naomi Beckwith. Naomi Beckwith is a curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Beckwith joined the curatorial staff in May 2011. A native Chicagoan, Beckwith grew up in Hyde Park and attended Lincol...

This week: Happy 2012! We kick off the new year with Mark Staff Brandl reporting from Venice 2011! A Venice Biennale 2011 extravaganza. Mark Staff Brandl is in the City of St. Mark. Brandl, the Central European Bureau and VaporettoShark, traverses and discusses his way through this huge international festival with sporadic assistance from Peter Stobbe, Claudia Tolusso, Manuela Gritsch , Elisabeth...

This week: Living legend, innovator, visionary, Carolee Schneemann. Working across a range of disciplines, including performance, video, installation, photography, text, and painting, the artist Carolee Schneemann has transformed contemporary discourse on the body, sexuality, and gender. During her recent visit to San Francisco, Schneemann participated in the November 30, 2011 panel discussion, “L...

This week: Put on your footie pajamas, get a cup of hot coco, and eavesdrop on Max's bedtime story. There is enough hamming it up here to make a vegetarian squirm. This episode is squeaky clean and safe for the kiddies.

This week: This week we talk with artist, writer, and WhiteWalls co-founder Buzz Spector! Buzz Spector is an artist and critical writer whose artwork has been shown in such museums and galleries as the Art Institute of Chicago, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, and the Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA. Spector's work make...

This week: Bad at Sports changes in to 88.5 "the shack" for NADA Miami where we were kindly and patiently hosted by Ox-Bow and Jonas Sebura and Alex Gartelmann (who let us set up our lunacy in their sculptural installation). We talk to John Riepenhoff, artist, gallerist, awesome person (who has work in a show at Western Exhibitions opening this Friday). Then Art Practical sums up the fair(s) and P...

This week: Brian and Patricia talk to Artist Jim Campbell.

This week: After an inappropriately long and silly intro Duncan talks to artist and hilarious person David Shrigley. David Shrigley was born in 1968, in Macclesfield, England. He studied Fine Art at Glasgow School of Art from 1988 to 1991. His work encompasses drawing, sculpture, photography, animation and music. Recent exhibitions include Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen; BQ, Cologne; Anton Ke...

This week: Richard and Duncan talk with Anders Nilsen. Anders Nilsen was born in northern New Hampshire in 1973. He grew up splitting his time between the mountains of New England and the streets and parks of Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was weaned on a steady diet of comics, stories and art, from Tintin and the X-Men to Raw, Weirdo, punk rock, zines, graffiti and regular trips to art museums. Nilse...

This week: We talk to cartoonist, artist, UFO afficianado Esther Pearm Watson! Esther Pearl Watson grew up in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. Her family moved often since her father's hobby of building huge flying saucers out of scrap metal and car engines didn't always sit well with the neighbors. Esther's pieces are often overtly narrative, clear but mysterious, scenes of houses or figures, ornament...

This week: Our final installment in the Open Engagement series. This week we talk to Jule Ault! Julie Ault Julie Ault is a New York based artist and writer who independently and collaboratively organizes exhibitions, publications, and multiform projects. She often assumes curatorial and editorial roles as forms of artistic practice. Her work emphasizes interrelationships between cultural productio...

The week: More Open Engagement "SoPra"! This week we talk to Pablo Helguera! Pablo Helguera (Mexico City, 1971) is a New York based artist working with installation, sculpture, photography, drawing, and performance. Helguera’s work focuses in a variety of topics ranging from history, pedagogy, sociolinguistics, ethnography, memory and the absurd, in formats that are widely varied including the lec...

This week: Duncan, Brian, and Abigail Satinsky in conversation with Christine Hill at the Open Engagement conference, which took place from May 13 to 15, 2011 at Portland State University. Open Engagement is an initiative of PSU’s Art and Social Practice MFA program that encourages discussion on various perspectives in social practice. Christine Hill is an artist, musician, hobby librarian and the...

This week: Another chapter in our festival of social practice! We talk to Mark Allen, Founder and Director, Machine Project, Los Angeles, CA  and Allison Agsten , Curator of Public Engagement & Director of Visitor Services at Hammer Museum. Come check us out at the shiny new DePaul museum this Wednesday at 6 PM!

This week: Duncan, Brian, and Abigail Satinsky in conversation with James Voorhies at the Open Engagement conference, which took place from May 13 to 15, 2011 at Portland State University. Open Engagement is an initiative of PSU’s Art and Social Practice MFA program that encourages discussion on various perspectives in social practice. In this conversation, Voorhies, who was a featured presenter a...

This week: Duncan MacKenzie, Brian Andrews Abigail Satinsky and Bryce Dwyer begin an adventure in caring and sharing called "Open Engagement." These four adventures of love check in with all the haps in Portland over the next 6 episodes.   This week they kick it live with Jen Delos Reyes and FRITZ HAEG! Take that internet. Jen Delos Reyes Jen Delos Reyes is an artist originally from Winnipeg, MB,...

This week: We talk to Maud Lavin about her most recent book and more! Lifted from elsewhere: In the past, more often than not, aggressive women have been rebuked, told to keep a lid on, turn the other cheek, get over it. Repression more than aggression was seen as woman’s domain. But recently there’s been a noticeable cultural shift. With growing frequency, women’s aggression is now celebrated in...

This week: Duncan talks to Chris Johanson and Jo Jackson from Ox-Bow this summer! Johanson was born in suburban San Jose, California in 1968. He has no formal training in art, learning some technique by painting skateboards and houses. He moved to San Francisco, California 's Mission District in 1989, where he became a member of the local art community, initially drawing cartoons on lampposts and...

This week: Special correspondent Philip von Zweck in conversation with artist Zachary Cahill. ZACHARY CAHILL USSA 2012: The Orphanage Project September 9-October 15th, 2011 Opening reception: Friday, September 9th, 6-9pm Artist talk: Thursday, October 6th, 7pm Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 11am-5pm Much of contemporary art is motivated by the relational – a position-cum-buzz-word that has grown...

This week, Brian, Patricia, and Art Practical contributor Mary Anne Kluth sit down with artist Elaine Buckholtz and gallery president Richard Lang at Electric Works in San Francisco where Buckholz’s solo show, Light Making Motion: Works on Paper and in Light, was recently on view. In her review, Kluth notes that Buckholtz, whose primary medium is light, “is a generous guide, making instructive obj...

This Week: Has it really been 6 years? Really? Wow. Duncan and Richard have a rambling bout of personal abuse as the intro and then get on to the good stuff. Richard talks to Peter Zegers and Jill Bugajski about their work on the stellar new show at the Art Institute of Chicago Windows on the War, Soviet TASS Posters at Home and Abroad, 1941-1945, and on the accompanying catalog. Overview: During...

This week: We talk to artist David Hoffos. Next, we talk with Joe Lanasa about the Fulton Street Collective. About David: In 1994, David Hoffos received a BFA with great distinction from the University of Lethbridge. Since 1992 Hoffos has maintained an active exhibition schedule – with over 30 solo exhibitions, including Catastrophe, 1998 (Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary; Fundació Joan Miró, Bar...