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On this episode of Audacious: Protest art including abortion pills as jewelry, word art amplifying messages of racial justice, and Disney character...

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Jan 02, 2024
  • Length: 50:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Our conversation with Shiraz Bayjoo reveals one artist’s approach to Thinking Historically in the Present, the theme of the 2023 Sharjah Biennial. ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 16, 2023
  • Length: 16:02
  • Purchases: 1
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Artist Sheryl Oring began "I Wish to Say" in 2004. For this project, Oring sets up a portable public office—complete with a manual typewriter—and i...

  • Added: May 04, 2021
  • Length: 13:44
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Our show is about the great Paul Robeson. Our guests are Sharon Rudahl about her new graphic biography Ballad of an America published by (Rutgers U...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and RADIOLEX


  • Added: Feb 23, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
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What part can creativity play in such turbulent times? We speak to six women artists and curators responding to the challenges of the past year wi...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2021
  • Length: 28:24
Caption: A BAGGAGE TICKET FROM RUKEYSER’S TRANSATLANTIC VOYAGE FROM NEW YORK TO LONDON (1936)
Our show centers on the book The Life of Poetry by Muriel Rukeyser which can be seen as an anti-fascist manifesto pitting poetry - the poetic as a ...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Jan 26, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Looking for Peace, Credit: Art Young
Art Young, like many others, was “converted” or radicalized by the injustice of the arrest, trial, and executions of the so-called Haymarket Anarch...

Bought by RADIOLEX and WGHC-LP 98.3 FM Chicago


  • Added: Jan 12, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
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The show is Against Moral Saints: on the politics and philosophy of two writers who, by reputation at least, must stand as almost antithetical figu...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2020
  • Length: 59:02
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Helen Scott’s book tracks the way productions of the play reveal the politics of each successive age – how to some Prospero is the benevolent mage ...

  • Added: Apr 07, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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For everything the West Bank barrier represents to people on both sides, it’s easy to forget that it is an actual physical structure. And as Joel S...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Aug 26, 2019
  • Length: 17:45
  • Purchases: 1
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Lisa from Austin describes postcard activism projects in Texas and around the country. She explains how postcards can help get out the vote and in...

  • Added: Aug 16, 2019
  • Length: 05:33
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Artist Charles Gaines has been delving into philosophy, abstraction and mathematics to address politics and race since the 1970s. In August 2019, G...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2019
  • Length: 19:29
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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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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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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: 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
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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
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
Caption: Maria Alyokhina, Credit: Belarus Free Theater
Maria Alyokhina talks about political art, Pussy Riot, Hannah Arendt, and working with Belarus Free Theatre.

  • Added: Jul 28, 2016
  • Length: 06:53