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Art organizations and sponsorship dollars have gone hand in hand for decades. But with backlash and protests over donors ethics, should cultural in...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: May 09, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Globally engaged curators introduce IKT, the International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art, and talk about themes we'll explore during ...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2019
  • Length: 46:52
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A mini-history of Minnesota's first women-only theater company. Formed in 1976, At the Foot of Mountain Theater staged plays written by women and t...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 01, 2019
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: A still from Barbara Hammer's "Menses" (1974)
Barbara Hammer is an American feminist filmmaker known for being one of the pioneers of lesbian film. Hammer is known for creating experimental fil...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2019
  • Length: 59:01
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We meet Los Angeles based artist Mark Bradford—known for connecting art with the real world—when he represents the United States in the 57th Venice...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2018
  • Length: 09:01
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At the 57th Venice Art Biennale, Miami-based curator Tami Katz-Freiman guides us through the multi-media installation that artist Gal Weinstein cre...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2018
  • Length: 15:36
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Hong Kong Mixtape introduces our first guest producer: composer and artist Samson Young, and the sound art community of Southeastern China. Young o...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2018
  • Length: 55:58
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Today, capitalism, aka the free market, is linked to trade wars, suffocating student debt, entire countries gone bankrupt, burgeoning virtual curre...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2018
  • Length: 01:00:36
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Activism has long been a way for artists and curators, writers and filmmakers to engage with global flashpoints, inspiring new perspectives on visi...

  • Added: Jun 27, 2018
  • Length: 39:14
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Photographer and essayist Allan Sekula was a critic of capitalism and an influential theorist of documentary photography and photojournalism. In "S...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2018
  • Length: 58:19
Caption: Karen Finley performing "We Keep Our Victims Ready" at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis., Credit: Walker Art Center
In the 1990s, queer performance artists like Karen Finley (pictured) created radical, experimental and often politically risky work. These artists ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: May 24, 2018
  • Length: 04:14
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Phillips de Koninick, Portrait of a Boy, 1673, Eskenazi Museum of Art 2001.45.
From 1933 until the end of World War II, a number of Nazi units known as the Kuntschutz, plundered gold, silver and important art works from all ov...

  • Added: Apr 25, 2018
  • Length: 58:37
Caption: Martha Plimption
Featuring Emmy winners Bobby Cannavale and Martha Plimpton, and recorded live on stage at Playwrights Horizons, the entertaining and timely plays i...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR) and KUNM


  • Added: Jan 25, 2018
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Ai Weiwei, artist, filmmaker
Ai Weiwei is an artist who uses many canvases to express himself. From art installations to architecture, social media to the big screen, Ai is one...

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio, KCRW, KWIT, WUTC, WLPR and more


  • Added: Dec 28, 2017
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Jeff Chang, Credit: Jeremy Villaluz
“From almost every kind of responsibility and tie from engagement and from faith. So the artist--our task is to move ourselves and the rest of us i...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and WRIR


  • Added: Oct 10, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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An engaging conversation with both the playwright and director of the 2017 Tony-Award Winning Best Play, OSLO. The play tracks the back channel ne...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, KVSC, and KUNM


  • Added: Jul 26, 2017
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 3
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Unity sculpture in Fremont, CA.

Bought by KUER and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 19, 2017
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 2
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The Poetic Address to the Nation, brought together poets to speak powerfully against the current administration. Featuring Cam Awkward, Guillermo G...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and WRIR


  • Added: Apr 28, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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New York-based artist Patricia Cronin talks about women, power and sexuality inside her Tack Room installation at the 2017 Armory Show.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 13, 2017
  • Length: 08:40
  • Purchases: 1
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Robert Lynch is president and CEO of Americans for the Arts, which from its inception over 55 years ago has been committed to educating and partner...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2017
  • Length: 37:34
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Nato Thompson, curator and critical writer, talks about his new book Culture as Weapon, and how politicians, corporations and artists use cultural ...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2017
  • Length: 10:41
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Occupy Museums is the artist collective behind Debtfair, a project in the 2017 Whitney Biennial.

  • Added: Mar 16, 2017
  • Length: 15:38
Caption: Nik Nerburn, Credit: Nik Nerburn
Nik Nerburn grew up in northern Minnesota and is working as a photojournalist and documentary filmmaker. He recently covered the presidential inau...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2017
  • Length: 09:41
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Iranian born, New York based artist Bahar Behbahani talks about the layers of poetry and politics she discovered while researching the legendary Pe...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2017
  • Length: 13:53
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Curator Jochen Volz talks about the 32nd São Paulo Biennial exhibition titled "Live Uncertainty".

  • Added: Dec 08, 2016
  • Length: 10:47