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

Ken Foster (Executive director of YBCA) and Kate Eilertsen (Interim Director of Visual Arts at YBCA)

YBCA is going through some changes…

In the wake of head visual arts curator René de Guzman leaving Yerba Buena Center for the Arts to cross the bay and work at The Oakland Museum of California, YBCA is shaking it up and heading in a new direction. Hear what the new plans are for Bay Area Now, clues as to who the new head curator will be, find out how Kate and Ken really feel about every little thing. This interview is dynamite!

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Jackie Sumell (artist) and Joseph Del Pesco (curator at Artists Space)

This is an interview with Joseph Del Pesco (curator of Artists Space) and artist and social activist Jackie Sumell who is show casing her amazing project called The House That Herman Built this October at Artists Space in the A&D (Architecture and Design) Project Space.

Sumell’s piece is a truly socially engaging and multilayered masterpiece. She has been corresponding with a falsely convicted inmate in Angola Prison in Louisiana named Herman Wallace. Wallace has been in solitary confinement for over 30 years. In one of her letters to Wallace, Sumell asked him, “What kind of house does a man who has lived in a 6’x9’ box for over thirty years dream of?” and this project was born.

Recorded inside a recreation of a Louisiana state prison maximum security solitary confinement cell at Artists Space, come and listen to this interview of Sumell and Del Pesco as they describe this powerful and truly meaningful project.

(This interview was done in collaboration with Art Radio WPS1
(PS1 Contemporary Art Center, a MoMA affiliate)

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Natalie Jeremijenko (artist)

Natalie Jeremijenko (artist) and… you guessed it!

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Natalie Jeremijenko was in town showcasing her amazing projects at the San Francisco World’s Fair, called Onetrees and the Environmental Health Clinic. In addition to being one of the smartest and most cuttingly clear and original thinkers in the art world today, Natalie is also quite a conversationalist. We covered everything from cement factory pollution, to tree clones, violence in Australia , the inner political workings of the Bush administration, and my personal favorite, the tadpole.

To listen to this interview press:

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Rebecca Miller (curator and artist)

Rebecca Miller, long time Dogpatch resident and local gallerist (Black Bird Space) swung by the festivities and had a second for an impromptu interview. We chatted about the familial origins of Black Bird, what it means to “sell out”, Myspace Suicide, how a show changes when you move it from Miami to SF, and the Rebecca’s true stance on the internet.

To listen to this interview press:

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Daniel Cheek (artist)

Daniel Cheek dropped by Sundance Coffee (HQ of NPR at the San Francisco World’s Fair) for a quick interview about his latest work which was included in the SFWF.  Tremendous photographs that ride the line between beautiful and chilling, they leave you with a true sense of the sinister in the mundane.  We talked about the MC5, the nature of photography, the absence of perfect places in the world, and the lightest 8×10 camera ever made.

To listen to this interview press:

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Joseph Del Pesco (artist/curator) and Renny Pritikin (curator/director)

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I met with Renny Pritikin (the director and curator of the Nelson Gallery at UC Davis) at Joseph Del Pesco’s house (of the Collective Foundation) on a rainy Saturday morning.  Oh… ’twere all interviews this lovely! Warm coffee cake, tea, and a smokin’ hot conversation. Renny and Joseph have known each other for quite awhile and the interplay in their dialogue was something to marvel at. Topics ranged from their most recent projects (Joseph at YBCA and Renny’s new show called Temp Work), to how to engage the community, self-publishing, Harry Houdini, the mystery of “Amy”, and a special treat at the end, Renny shares one of his poems. This interview was electric, a must listen!

To listen to this interview press:

HERE

Hou Hanru (curator)

One of my favorite things in the world is the feeling of inspiration from talking to someone who not only honestly cares, but has the ability to transmit this to other people. Hou Hanru is just such a man. Calm, collected, and good humored, his love of art is infectious. He is currently the director of exhibitions and public programs at SFAI and will be curating this years Istanbul Biennial.  We talked about what it means to move site specific work, the Istanbul Biennial, the world economy and the World Factory, his personal art collection, and why he loves San Francisco.

To listen to this interview press:

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Isabelle Massu (artist) and Dore Bowen (Assistant Professor of Art History at SJSU)

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Isabelle Massu (artist), Dore Bowen(Assistant Professor of Art History at SJSU)
bottom row- Isabelle Gressier (Installation Designer)

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Isabelle Massu and Dore Bowen have a show at SF Camerawork entitled, “Not Given: Talking of and Around Photographs of Arab Women”. These two put on a hell of an interview addressing the nature of archives, gender roles, the middle east, if you can tell a book by it’s cover and a ton more. Not to be missed!

To listen to this interview press:

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Jessica Silverman (Silverman Gallery), Dina Pugh (Triple Base Gallery), and Justin Hoover (The Garage)

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Jessica Silverman (Silverman Gallery) and Justin Hoover (The Garage)

This is something to watch folks…. a new arts alliance is in the formative stages in San Francisco. Still very new, but full of potential, 2 members of RAIL (Jessica Silverman and Dina Pugh) plus Justin Hoover (who runs a non-profit art space called The Garage) met up to discuss the art scene around the bay as they see it. If you’re wondering what the future of San Francisco art looks like, this is an excellent bellwether.

Here are some of the organizations aligned with RAIL (not a complete list mind you):

–Silverman Gallery
–Ampersand International Arts
–Ping Pong Gallery
–TART
–Joseph Del Pesco
–Triple Base Gallery

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To listen to this interview press:

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Michael Arcega (artist) and JD Beltran (artist)

JD Beltran (artist) and Michael Arcega (artist)

JD Beltran and Michael Arcega, two of my absolute favorite artists in San Francsico, come together under one roof and tear the place apart with the sheer ingenuity of their new projects. From manila folders, to messages from mom, to the question if there is such a thing as a happy secret, to the madness of the art market, this is one hell of an rap session.

To listen to this interview press:

HERE

Jem Cohen (filmmaker)

Jem Cohen is a pillar of modern film making. From his seminal piece “Instrument” (a collaboration with music legends Fugazi), to one of his latest chillingly profound movies “Chain”, to his numerous other films, Cohen is truly at the vanguard of modern cinema.  I was so happy to find that Cohen didn’t shy away from the big questions  either, he bellied up to the bar and took a stand.  Excellent!  We discussed a wide variety of topics, from how to get over creative blocks, to the possibility of a war with Iran, to the global mall culture, and advice for young filmmakers.

To listen to this interview press:

HERE

William E. Jones (Filmmaker, Photographer)

William E. Jones is one of the true heroes of Los Angeles. His movies range from the provocative, to the mind bending, to the touching.  He has a flair for the perfect quip at the precise moment, not only in his films, but in conversation as well. Probably best known for his film, “Is It Really So Strange?” which documents the large fan following that Morrisey has developed amongst Latino youth in Los Angeles, he is in town to promote his new movie, “V.O.” which is a mash-up of classic foreign films with gay porn. William and I chatted about almost every damn thing there is to talk about, from the place of computers in modern films, to how long it takes to do a proper pompadour, to movies in Paris, and of course, gay porn from the 80’s.

William will be showing his films on Tuesday (2/20) starting at 7:30pm at the
Pacific Film Archive.  in Berkeley.

To listen to this interview press:

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