THIS WEEK'S HIGHLIGHTS: Diego Cortez talks about sex and art with the luscious Anne Livet, inside the fabulous Williamsburg bookstore Spoonbill & Sugartown, Jeannie Hopper looks into the operation that runs New York's Blue Note, Highline Ballroom and Water Taxi Beach, interviews with director Stephen Frears and photographer Tommy Mintz and more... listen links below.
OUR FILM CHOICE OF THE WEEK: The Girl From Monaco
Our film critic Stephen Schaefer talks to writer-director Anne Fontaine about her new film (opening this weekend in New York and L.A) that turns the tables on the beautiful but limited woman who uses her sexuality to get ahead
in the blackly comic The Girl From Monaco (La fille de Monaco).
The great Fabrice Luchini stars as a middle-aged celebrity lawyer defending a matron (legendary Chabrol star Stephane Audran, in a nearly silent role) in the municipality of the late Princess Grace. Girl traces an unexpected love triangle between the lawyer, the local TV weathergirl (Louise Bourgoin, a marvelous discovery who had previously been an actual TV weathergirl) and the lawyer’s Zen-like bodyguard (Roschdy Zem, of the
Oscar-nominated Algerian World War II film Indigènes) (31 minutes). listen |
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Beyond the Subtitles #231: Stephen Frears, Cheri
One of cinema's most accomplished and acclaimed filmmakers, Stephen
Frears reunites with Michelle Pfeiffer for the first time since 1988's
Dangerous Liaisons with Cheri, an adaptation by Christopher Hampton
of the Colette novel. Frears, interviewed at New York's Four Seasons
Hotel, may currently be best known for directing Helen Mirren to her Oscar - and
every other film acting award in existence - for The Queen, although other his remarkable and fierce resumé also includes such notable films as The Grifters, My Beautiful
Laundrette and Dirty Pretty Things (15 minutes). listen |
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ARTonAIR Interviews: Conversations on Sex with Anne Livet & Diego Cortez, Pt. 1
Long-time friends Anne Livet and
Diego Cortez discuss, in terms conceptual and blunt, the vagaries, beliefs, assumptions and perceptions of and behind sex and sexuality. The two have led prodigious lives spanning fields artistic, curatorial, educational, managerial and commercial, often working together through their respective organizations, Livet Reichard Company, Inc. and Diego Cortez Arte Ltd (50 minutes). listen |
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Off the Rail with Phong Bui: Jonas Kyle and Miles Bellamy, Spoonbill & Sugartown
The Brooklyn Rail's Phong Bui interviews Jonas Kyle and Miles Bellamy, owners of the much-adored Williamsburg booksellers Spoonbill & Sugartown; the three reconnect for the first time since Kyle's contribution to the third issue of the Rail, an essay called The Ethics of Selling Books. They discuss their backgrounds in literature and bookselling - at one point working in a bookstore that specialized in Bibles, study guides and pornography -, meeting in high school during an LSD transaction, the value of the bookstore and attempting to plumb the effects of their respective upbringings on their current careers (49 minutes). listen |
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ARTonAIR Interviews: Adam Hertz, Blue Note International
AIR's Jeannie Hopper speaks with Blue Note International's Adam Hertz; they discuss the artistic lineage of Blue Note and the various venues - among them the Highline Ballroom and B.B. King Blues Club - that it has opened since its foundation, beginning with its famed namesake New York club that opened in 1981.
More recently they have partnered with Liberty Event Management and Water Taxi Beach to produce on The Beach at Governors Island; the large, family friendly outdoor venue will open on July 4th and will also feature a cafe, several bars and a beer garden (33 minutes). listen |
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ARTonAIR Interviews: Thomas Mintz
Host Will Corwin speaks to artist Tommy Mintz, whose work was recently exhibited, with Corwin's, in The Young and The Restless, at Gordon Parks Gallery. His photographs seek to decontextualize and collide fraught tensions between people and their environments, creating tense, tenuous, disorienting images of modern society (30 minutes). listen |
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WPS1 LEGACY ARCHIVES
The following programs are encore presentations selected from the archives of WPS1. They are included in this week’s
streamcast and most can also be found in the AIR on demand audio archive. |
Material Culture #4: Fake Estates
In September 2002, Jeffrey Kastner, Sina Najafi and Frances Richard, the editors of Cabinet magazine discussed the idea of Gordon Matta-Clark's Fake Estates project and its relevance to their upcoming issue devoted to Real Estate and Property. On November 10, 2006, Brett Littman, invited Kastner, Najafi and Richard, along with Julia Mandle, Jane South and Mierle Laderman Ukeles - three artists who participated in the exhibitions - to make sense of this complicated project for our listeners. What transpired is a personal and intimate look at the project, from both curatorial and artistic viewpoints (58 minutes). listen |
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Art and Technology #19: Merle Laderman Ukeles, The Social Mirror
Daniel Durning hosts a discussion with renowned New York-based artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Artist-in-Residence at the New York Department of Sanitation since 1978, about The Social Mirror, a 12-ton, 28-foot long DSNY collection truck reconfigured with glass panels. The conversation took place at the Armory Show in 2007 (30 minutes). listen |
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Out There with TONY #11: Summer Drinking Game, Pt. 2 (Loreley)
Time Out New York Eat Out Assistant Editor Leslie Price chats with Rudi Elders, the wine and beer specialist at Loreley, this episode's Drinking Game destination. Listen as Elders discusses the beer gardens in his hometown of Bonn, Germany, as well as the various brews served at Loreley, the Lower East Side beer garden establishment. Not available on demand.
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Radio Profiles: Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation
AIR's David Weinstein and Jeannie Hopper speak with Andrew Berman, Executive Director of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation. The nearly 30-year-old institution runs a variety of programs to help ensure the continued liveliness, intimacy and beauty of the famed and beloved New York neighborhood (51 minutes). listen |
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Sound and Vision #27: Laurie Simmons
Laurie Simmons wrote the lyrics for six songs by Michael Rohatyn for her film The Music of Regret. They go from sad to sadder but beam with a radiant tenderness (31 minutes). Not available on demand.
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Microgroove Music #3: Max Roach
Drummer Max Roach made an indelible mark in jazz history in the 1940s as one of bebop's musical revolutionaries, but his vital contributions to music history only began at that time. The main work featured on this program was recorded during at a time when Roach and tenor saxophonist Archie Shepp were colleagues at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and it gives the listener an opportunity to hear extended improvisations by Roach and Shepp at the peak of their powers (58 minutes). Not available on demand.
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Yes Yes Y'all #19: P-Star
Listen as a then-nine-year-old P-Star proves her amazing MC skills. This little girl can spit! Priscilla Star Diaz opens the show rhyming a cappella and telling stories about her pre-teen life in Harlem. Although she is just getting started, her talents have attracted lots of attention. Check her out (1 hour). Not available on demand.
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Venice Biennale 2005: Realm of the Unreal by Fred Tomaselli
A mix by artist Fred Tomaselli known for paintings that incorporate acrylic, photo-collage, pills, hallucinogenic plants and medicinal herbs in abstract compositions or fictive landscapes (59 minutes).
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Sonorama: Negativland (These Guys are from England and Who Gives a Shit)
The notorious banned Negativland remix/parody of U2 has finally been released - after years of legal battles with U2's lawyers - on the band's own Seeland label in the form of various live performances and remixes. In a magnificent feat of hypocrisy, while suing Negativland, U2 on their own tours appropriated video and radio imagery and sounds to use in their stage show and trumpeted the modern uses of media collage (40 minutes). Not available on demand.
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Art Basel Miami Beach 2006: Art Sound Lounge, Music by, for, and about Plants, Insects, and Birds
This sound installation was curated and compiled specially for Art Basel Miami Beach 2006 by AIR's David Weinstein. For five days in December 2006, visitors to the Miami Beach Botanical Gardens were offered a pair of wireless headphones and allowed to roam freely through the flora and fauna to the accompanying soundtrack (1 hour 29 minutes). Not available on demand.
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Warm Up 2007: Dewanatron
A performance by Dewanatron (Leon and Brian Dewan) on August 18, 2007 at P.S.1 (30 minutes). Not available on demand.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 10 March 2010 )
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