Thomas Beard (Light Industry) and Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus (LoVid)
(as well as the lovely Rama and Dlisah)

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Thomas Beard, co-founder of Light Industry, the fabulous new venue for film and electronic art in Brooklyn, met up with Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus of the amazing art duo LoVid, and they rocked the damn house. From the intersection of analog and digital, to the nature of the glitch or the fritz, to audience participation, to the true love of Sci-fi, this is some hot talk right here.
Listen and learn!

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Zora Ezawa and Kota Ezawa (artists)

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Kota Ezawa has got to be one of the more intriguing figures in contemporary art today. Soft spoken, yet with a light in in his eyes and funny as hell, Ezawa is certainly one of the best interviews I’ve had the pleasure of doing in quite sometime. From Prince, to the Boss, to Koons, to OJ Simpson, to whether or not the emotions of the viewer matter to the artist, and back to Prince, this one is not to be missed.

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Golden Guns Investigations (Courtenay Finn and Kate Phillimore)

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Darin Klein (artist and programs director at the Hammer Museum)

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Anne Colvin (Tart and Skank Bloc Bologna)

Hot damn!
New Langton Arts hosted a hit parade of independent publishers. They call it “Book It!” and it’s got some of the hottest talent on the west coast. A one day book fair that was at once intimate as well as informative and fun, here’s a list of some of the guests:

Booklyn
Alejandro Cesarco
Veronica de Jesus
Leo Estevez
Dexter Sinister
Gallery 16
Golden Guns Investigations
InterReview Journal
Darin Klein
Zoey Kroll
Material Press
Rebecca Miller
Kottie Paloma
Airyka Rockefeller
Skank Bloc Bologna
Roddy Schrock
Silverman Gallery
James K. Tantum
Whitehot Magazine

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I went around and talked to a few people and put them together in a little sampler for you.
Enjoy.

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Alex Donis (artist)

Alex Donis is hands down one of the funniest artists working today. In addition to this (which counts for a hell of a lot in my book) he also happens to make fantastic work. Listen along as Alex tells the story of being censored in L.A., pretending to be a janitor at his own show, the current skinny on the justice system and much much more.

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Jens Hoffmann (director of the Wattis Institute) and Renny Pritikin (director of the Nelson Gallery)

These two titans of knowledge come together in a bunker style basement in the belly of California College of the Arts. A dynamite conversation where they address everything from the trials of running a gallery connected to a school, to who curates better: artists or art historians, to John Cage, to missed opportunities in the theater.
Excellent stuff

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James Gobel (painter), and Steve Zavattero (Partner at Marx & Zavattero)

Internationally acclaimed painter, James Gobel, sits down with Steve Zavattero, co-partners of one of San Francisco’s hottest galleries Marx & Zavattero. These two tear it up! From fat lumberjack bears, to the fineries of felt, to the madness of revamping a business, to one of my favorites… Lil’ Kim.

Mmmmm…. got to get on this one.

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Richard Kamler (artist, activist, educator, and curator) and Rigo23 (artist and activist)

Rigo23 and Richard Kamler, two top knotch artist/activists operating in the bay area met up at San Francisco State University’s Fine Art Gallery and told the tale of modern prison culture. They are both included in a hit show there called Criminal: Art and Criminal Justice in America. Listen along as they speak of everything from death row at San Quentin, to modern censorship, to school security, police states, and the sound of lions roaring.

Smokin!

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Zefrey Throwell (yours truly), Susanne Cockrell (artist and professor), Liz Thomas (Matrix curator at Berkeley Art Museum) and Ted Purves (artist and professor)

Artists Susanne Cockrell and Ted Purves jump in the mix with the new Matrix curator for the Berkeley Art Museum, Liz Thomas. These three are unstoppable! Conversationally relaxed and quick as a diamond whip, the three of them toss around such topics as preserved food stuffs, the nature of lemons, the bastards of the private world, revisioning museums,  and of course the big one of them all, DEATH.
If you miss this interview, consider yourself officially uninformed.

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Matt Gonzalez (human rights attorney and Nader’s vice presidential running mate) and Catharine Clark (Catharine Clark Gallery)

Catharine Clark, a cutting edge gallerist with a taste for the controversial, matches up with Matt Gonzalez who is a human rights attorney and just announced his vice president candidacy to run with Nader in 2008. These two take on public land, private galleries, the mighty JPG, and of course politics politics politics. This is an excellent interview, a must listen.

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Jocelyn Saidenberg (writer) and Margaret Tedesco (artist)

Jocelyn Saidenberg, a gifted poet, writer, and archivist here in San Francisco goes up against one of my favorite people in the whole world, Margaret Tedesco, who is an artist, teacher, curator, and happens to run the hottest new space in San Francisco called 2nd Floor Projects. Listen to these two talk about the nature of collecting, communal burrows, the trials and tribulations of the “Stacks”, and the flak that archivists across the globe take so that we may thumb idly.

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Julian Myers (Professor, Art Historian, and Writer) and Dominic Willsdon (Curator of Education and Public Programs at SFMOMA)

Julian Myers, a man of many talents and Dominic Willsdon, similarly inclined towards greatness, meet up for a duel to beat all duels! Nothing is sacred as they discuss the true nature of the museum, adult education, what makes the perfect teacher, and they even throw Thomas Crow in there.
You’ve got to be listening to this, it is a must.

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Lynn Marie Kirby (artist) and Chris Cobb (artist)

If ever there were a match made in radio heaven, it is these two. Both of these artists are making some of the most robust and vital work I have laid eyes on and who knew that they were a perfect conversational fit to boot!? They get down and dirty French style, got to hear it!

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Julio César Morales (artist and co-founder/curator of Queens Nails Annex) and Hou Hanru  (Director of Exhibitions and Public Programs at San Francisco Art Institute)

Hou Hanru is one of the most prominent curators operating in the world today, he just finished curating the 10th Istanbul Biennial and is on to other projects. Julio César Morales is one of the best artists coming out of the bay area at this time and I commonly refer to him as the man with the most projects rollin. Hanru included Julio into the Istanbul Biennial, listen along and hear how goddamn amazing it was.

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Kate Eilertsen (interim visual arts director at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts), Joyce Grimm (co-director of Triple Base Gallery) and Courtney Fink (executive director of Southern Exposure)

If you want to know who runs the show in San Francisco, who is the wizard behind the curtain pulling strings and making the wheels run, well… it’s these three ladies. Each of them plays an integral role in three of the top institutions in the bay area. Joyce Grimm mediates as Kate Eilertsen and Courtney Fink lay down the law. Listen along to hear the voices behind the power!

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Jill Miller (artist) and Anuradha Vikram (Programs Director at Headlands Center for the Arts)

Artist Jill Miller shook up the San Francisco art world recently with her hit show at 2nd Floor Projects called “Collectors”.  This spicy expose detailed 5 of the top collectors in San Francisco over the past 6 months and even used some footage found here on the Frank Prattle site to flesh out her research. Anuradha Vikram is the dynamic programs director out at the Headlands, listen to these two cover tons of ground, from surveillance to porn to cupcakes to fetish to Bob Shimshak, you name it, it’s in this interview.

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Tucker Nichols (artist) and Anne Colvin (artist and co-founder/curator TART)

Tucker Nichols an amazing artist who is well known for his large and clever window texts, met up with Anne Colvin an equally compelling video-based artist and the two of them rocked the damn house! Listen and learn…

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Sam Gould (Red76) and Adam Kleinman (Lower Manhattan Cultural Council)

Sam Gould of Red76 and Adam Kleinman the associate curator of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, were united in a bloodfest of unequaled proportions. Watch them tear into everything you hold sacred, from art institutions, to things you hang on the wall, to road trips across the south, to Capital itself. Not to be missed!

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Colter Jacobsen (artist) and Leslie Shows (artist)

Colter Jacobsen and Leslie Shows, two outstanding artists from the San Francisco, come together to chit chat about every little thing. Both of them are going through the roof right now, so listen along to hear how success is treating them, in addition hear about found photos, handling criticism, Denali Foley, Jack Hanley Gallery, and the nature of what is real. Delicious!

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Charles Guice (Charles Guice Contemporary) and JD Beltran (artist and professor at SFAI)

Charles Guice of Charles Guice Contemporary in Berkeley and JD Beltran an artist and professor at San Francisco Art Institute come together for a heated and passionate conversation mostly centered around photography and its every changing nature today. Rock solid and intriguing!

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Mark Johnson (gallery director at SFSU) and Paul Mullins (artist and professor SFSU)

Mark Johnson is a professor as well as the gallery director at San Francisco State University, he meets up with Paul Mullins who is an artist as well as a fellow professor at San Francisco State University. These two chat up everything from the four keys to happiness, to the modern state of macho painting, to the meaning of white trash, to how to survive and thrive in an institution. Lovely stuff.

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Gary Sangster (Headlands Center for the Arts) and
Ken Foster (Yerba Buena Center for the Arts)

Gary Sangster, the executive director of the Headlands Center for the Arts and Ken Foster, the executive director of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, team up for an in depth discussion on everything from funding, to the pyramids, to whether or not San Francisco is as progressive as it likes to think it is. Excellent stuff!

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Ross Mirkarimi (SF, District 5 Supervisor) and Dina Pugh (Co-director Triple Base Gallery)

Ross Mirkarimi, the District 5 Supervisor for San Francisco, goes head to head with Dina Pugh, the Co-Director/Co-Curator of Triple Base Gallery. These two cover a lot of ground, from public funding of the arts, to graffiti schizophrenia, to Iran, to how City Hall views art. Not to be missed!

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Jessica Silverman (Silverman Gallery) and Jennifer Rissler (SFAI)

Jessica Silverman and Jennifer Rissler kick off the latest Frank Prattle-a-thon at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery. Hear the crowd roar in the background as everyone huddles around to hear these ladies drop pearls of wisdom to the masses. Public vs. Private, tally-ho!

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So the special time has come again! A large scale, multi-date interview get-down is upon us. This time it is being graciously hosted by the fantastic people at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery as part of the hit show Reconciling America: Miraculous Encounters With The Mundane. The broad topic for investigation will be Public vs. Private and all the delicious details and back alleys therein.

KPOO 89.5FM will be broadcasting the culminated interviews a few days after each event. Look below for what time the interviews will be on the air.

Also WPS1 Art Radio (P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center) will be archiving the interviews on their website.

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Ye Old Schedule:

All interviews are at the
San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
401 Van Ness ( @ McAllister, across from City Hall)
Please stop by and listen.
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January 18th, Friday, 7pm

Jennifer Rissler
from the San Francisco Art Institute

and

Jessica Silverman
from Silverman Gallery

(Broadcast on January 22nd, Tuesday, 8pm-10pm
on KPOO 89.5FM)
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January 19th, Saturday, 2pm

Ross Mirkarimi
San Francisco District 5 Supervisor

and

Dina Pugh
co-director of Triple Base Gallery

(Broadcast on January 22nd, Tuesday, 8pm-10pm
on KPOO 89.5FM)
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January 24th, Thursday, 2pm

Ken Foster
Executive Director of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

and

Gary Sangster
Executive Director of the Headlands Center for the Arts

(Broadcast on February 12th, Tuesday, 8pm-10pm
on KPOO 89.5FM)

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February 2nd, Saturday

NOON

Mark Johnson
Gallery Director at
San Francisco State University

and

Paul Mullins
Artist

(Broadcast on February 12th, Tuesday, 8pm-10pm
on KPOO 89.5FM)

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1pm

JD Beltran
Artist and Professor

and

Charles Guice
Charles Guice Contemporary

(Broadcast on February 12th, Tuesday, 8pm-10pm
on KPOO 89.5FM)

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February 9th, Saturday

1pm

Colter Jacobsen
Artist

and

Leslie Shows
Artist

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2pm

Sam Gould
Artist, Founder of Red76

and

Adam Kleinman
Associate Curator
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council

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February 23rd, Saturday

NOON

Anne Colvin
Artist and Co-founder/Curator of TART

and

Tucker Nichols
Artist

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1pm

Jill Miller
Artist

and

Anuradha Vikram
Program Director
Headlands Center for the Arts

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2pm

Kate Eilertsen
Interim Director of Visual Arts at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

and

Courtney Fink
Director of Southern Exposure

Mediated by special guest:
Joyce Grimm
Co-Director of Triple Base Gallery

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3pm

Hou Hanru
Director of Exhibitions and Public Programs at
San Francisco Art Institute

and

Julio César Morales
Artist and
Co-founder and Curator Queens Nails Annex

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4pm

Chris Cobb
Artist

and

Lynn Marie Kirby
Artist

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February 29th, Friday

3:30pm

Julian Myers
Professor, Art Historian, and Writer

and

Dominic Willsdon
Curator of Education and Public Programs
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Mediated by special guest:
Meg Shiffler
Program Director of the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery

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March 1st, Saturday

NOON

Jocelyn Saidenberg
Writer

and

Margaret Tedesco
Artist

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1pm

Catharine Clark
Catharine Clark Gallery

and

Matt Gonzalez
Civil rights attorney and former SF city supervisor

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3pm

Susanne Cockrell
Artist

and

Ted Purves
Artist

and

Elizabeth Thomas
Phyllis Wattis MATRIX Curator
Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive

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March 19, Wednesday

NOON
(At the CCA Wattis Gallery)

Jens Hoffman
Director of the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts at CCA

and

Renny Pritikin
Director of the Nelson Gallery at UC Davis

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Here’s a non-complete participant list:

JD Beltran
Catharine Clark
Anne Colvin
Chris Cobb
Kate Eilertsen
Courtney Fink
Ken Foster
Matt Gonzalez
Sam Gould
Charles Guice
Hou Hanru
Jens Hoffmann
Colter Jacobsen
Mark Johnson
Lynn Kirby
Adam Kleinman
Jill Miller
Ross Mirkarimi
Julio César Morales
Paul Mullins
Julian Myers
Tucker Nichols
Renny Pritikin
Dina Pugh
Jennifer Rissler
Jocelyn Saidenberg
Gary Sangster
Leslie Shows
Jessica Silverman
Margaret Tedesco
Liz Thomas
Anuradha Vikram
Dominic Willsdon