In our next episode, we will observe the 10th Anniversary of Dia:Beacon in Beacon, NY by asking people to interpret the reviews of the museum that users of Yelp.com have posted on that website.

If you’re interested, take a look at the reviews of Dia:Beacon on Yelp, and then check out the spreadsheet we’ve created listing the reviews and reviewers in chronological order.

What we’re asking is that folks record an mp3 on their smart phone or computer and email it to deadhareradio@gmail.com.  If you are interested in participating, but aren’t sure how you can do the recording, just shoot us an email, and we’ll help you work something out.

We want to honor the text and sentiment of the reviewers’ words, so we ask that you make your recording as clear and understandable as possible.  At the same time we really want to embody the life and emotion into these words in whatever way you see fit –  we’re thinking something like Ken burns meets Andrew Lloyd Webber

Texts will be assigned on a first come first serve basis and claimed reviews will be noted on the spreadsheet so that you can see which are yet available.  You are welcome to read more than one review, if you choose.  If you’d like to claim a review to read, let us know which one, and we’ll reserve it for you.

Deadline for submitting your recording is May 13th.

Format for recording:

Read the text of the review first, followed by the name of the reviewer.

Carolina Miranda is back on the Dead Hare Radio Hour (she was the program’s very first guest.)  In a conversation recorded in May 2012, Carolina Chris to discuss the Crystal Bridges Museum which opened in November of 2011 in Bentonville, AR.

 Click Here to listen to this episode.

Devorah Sperber‘s take on the Last Supper.

Carolina’s Crystal Bridges photo diary on her blog, c-monster.net includes images of several of the works discussed.

Carolina’s most recent radio piece for NPR on the artist Llyn Foulkes.

A recent update on the Walmart bribery scandal in Mexico.

NPR’s series on art destinations.

Martin Johnson Heade’s exquisite paintings of rain forestorchids, butterflies and humming birds.

Vik Muniz responds to Heade’s orchidpaintings.

This Washington Examiner story states that the 600,000 Crystal Bridges visitors in the museum’s first year is double the expected number.

A Wall Street Journal story on the Mark Rothko painting, No. 234/ No. 234, recently acquired by Crystal Bridges

Inside the Precious Moments Chapel.

More images from Chris’ visit to the Precious Moments Chapel in Carthage, MO. can be found in his photo album.

Finally, this episode  wraps up with a short anecdote from Peter Acheson (Show #30 & #36 ) about an encounter he and his buddy Chris Martin had while hiking in Colo

Listen to this episode HERE.

After a long hiatus, a new podcast episode.

Matthew and I visited the studio of Jomar Statkun to speak with him, Jared Friedman and Christopher Stackhouse about This Red Door.

The artists have re-mustered to bring This Red Door into its 2nd iteration at Kunsthalle Galapagos in DUMBO in Brooklyn through January 27th.

PS 122

Kenji Fujita

Incident Report, Hudson, NY.

Video of Kara Walker’s TRD talk.

This episode closes with Willie Survive’s remix and rap over Jomar’s Chinese Painting sound piece.

More links relevant to our conversation are forthcoming.

A detail of the copious amounts of material hanging on the wall in Joel Schapira’s studio.

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The First segment of this week’s show continues the last show’s theme of taking a break from art.
First, Chris, along with artists Mark DeLura, Peter Acheson (who joined us on the road trip DHRH Episode #30), and Deirdre Swords pay a visit to the studio of Joel Schapira in Connecticut.
Joel tells us about his three month break from painting – which unexpectedly stretched out for two + years.

Below are images from our studio visit with Joel showing some of the works you hear us discuss in this segment.  The captions for the studio visit shots were written by Joel.

This first image is of a painting of a painting – in the same family as the one that finally brought Joel’s painting hiatus to an end.

On the left, one of the Wolf Teeth Evermore Agains. it’s 36″ high x 19″ wide. On the right, au la la. it’s a
housey construction on old pickets…about 5 feet tall.

Vessels by Diane Schapira. painting of vessels by Joel Schapira. inspired
by Morandi. Our kitchen.

This diptych is a painting and painting of a painting (from right to
left). Each panel is 18″w x 24″h. The thing that happened is i
discovered that i didn’t have to do what i thought i did, so i could do
what i wanted to do which was what i needed to do. What if Morandi was
painting a self portrait of his bottles? What if i was doing that here?

The method of Joel’s creating the pair of works recalls Rauschenberg’s exercise in the works Factum I & Factum II from 1957:

Robert Rauschenberg, Factum I, 1957 via: arthistory.about.com

Robert Rauschenberg, Factum II, 1957 via: arthistory.about.com

Our audio studio visit concludes with us looking at these two large, pre-hiatus paintings hanging in his living room.

Ah, this painting is Crow Comes. It commemorates a visitation by crow for five years caw caw caw knock knock on the window just out of sight upper right. Our living room. Totems to the right of the painting. clay sculptural figure is crow woman – storyteller. then also clay — full moon house of forgiveness…both by Diane Schapira.

I used to make big paintings and a lot of them
were word based. This one combines the message of an old computer
screen that said: no new messages on server. ironic. with the no ball
playing signs of my childhood in the Bronx. it’s about 66″ wide x 44′
high. I think it’s pretty good.

A few more images from our studio visit can be found here.

Mark Handforth’s sculpture Wishbone sits in the mist outside of the Hessel Museum of Art.

Next, we hear from Tom Eccles, executive director of Bard College’s Center for Curatorial Studies & Hessel Museum of Art, on what exhibits will be coming in this, the 20th Anniversary year of the Bard CCS program, starting with the Matters of Fact exhibit that opened this past weekend.

Finally, we revisit a moment from our interview with Duncan McKenzie of Bad at Sports from (DHRH Episode #1) which sets up an excerpt from Tyler Green’s new Modern Art Notes Podcast.

Fred Sandback working on the installation of his work at Dia Beacon back in 2003. via: fredsandbackarchive.org

Tyler appeared in our show on Cy Twombly (DHRH Episode #17).   The excerpt we hear comes from the Dec 22, 2011 episode of the MANpodcast in which Tyler and the writer, Andrew Russeth, list their favorite art viewing spaces in America.  Number one on Andrew’s list is the Fred Sandback galleries at Dia:Beacon.

Andrea Fraser’s essay: Why Fred Sandback’s Work Makes Me Cry.

MAN Podcast Links:

http://manpodcast.com/

http://modernartnotespodcast.libsyn.com/

In this segment, Chris mentions:

Bob Edwards’ interview with Richard Serra in May 2011.

Kirk Varnedoe’s 6 part Mellon Lecture:  Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art Since Pollock at the National Gallery of Art from 2003.

The MAN Podcast episode featuring Richard Serra.

Thanks to Tyler for letting us use the snippet of the MAN Podcast.  Thanks to Tom Eccles for joining us and thanks to Joel Schapira for letting us all into his home for this episode.

PS, Peter Acheson and Deirdre Swords are teaming up to produce a new art blog:  forminthefire.blogspot.com

So how are we with our New Years resolutions? Still holding strong in March? Or is writing the check each month to pay for your membership as close as you get to the gym? We at the Dead Hare Radio Hour were curious what kind of rules artists where proposing for themselves with 2012.

One of the interesting results of snooping around the web was that we saw several artists considering the idea of taking a year away from art. What does that mean? Why would you do it? What rules do you follow? How does that effect the people we are? We have to thank Eve Mosher for placing these questions in your minds.

So we turned to Eve, Jason Eppink, and Deborah Fisher, all successful artists and creatives, to discuss what a year without art might look like.

Topics that came up in discussion

Art as a form of identity and the definitions we use to define us.

Balance

Reflection

Mythologizing and Narrativizing our work.

Innovation and art’s role in culture shifts

Process

350.org

High Waterline

Seeding the City

A Blade of Grass

Socrates Sculpture Park

Maurizio Cattelan

This week’s episode delves into a couple of events happening over the next weekend.

First, Chris checks in with Musician, Composer, Author, Philosopher, David Rothenberg to hear about the upcoming Survival of the Beautiful All Day Wonder Cabinet happening at the Cantor Film Center on Feb 25, 2012.

Chris caught up with David as he was preparing for a book party at the GV Art Gallery in London.  David also appeared at the Science Gallery in Dublin.

In addition to David Rothenberg, the Wonder Cabinet participants are:

Jaron Lanier

Gail Patricelli

Richard Prum

Ofer Tchernichovski (Chris recorded a great conversation between David and Ofer who have collaborated together in exploring birdsong…all we can say is that you had to be there.  You REALLY HAD TO BE THERE to hear this great conversation since Chris inadvertently deleted the audio recorded of the conversation which was intended for an episode of. Dead Hare Radio)

Christine Roeske

Anna Lindemann

Philip Ball

Tyler Volk

Suzanne Anker

David Soldier

Vitaly Komar

David Dunn

David Abram

Scott Snibbe

Baba Brinkman

Laurie Anderson

Elisabeth Weiss

The song heard in this episode is Trio Menura from Rothenberg’s CD Why Birds Sing.   (Bonus hint: The CD comes included with the book Why Birds Sing.

David mentions that his Wonder Cabinet is based on Lawrence Weschler‘s Wonder Cabinet events.

The books by Rothenberg mentioned in the conversation:

Thousand Mile Song

Why Birds Sing

Survival of the Beautiful

Next, we have two conversations about the dance work of Yvonne Rainer.  We hear from Choreographer, dancer and writer Susan Osberg and Kelly Kivland, Curatorial Associate at the Dia Foundation.  These conversations relate to the upcoming performances of Rainer works being hosted at Dia:Beacon on Feb 25 & 26, 2012.

A bit of Yvonne Rainer memorabiliafrom the Oct 2011 performancesat Dia:Beacon.

Next, Chris talks with Susan Osberg about her thoughts on Yvonne Rainer

From Chris’ conversation with Susan:

Judson Dance Theater

Martha Graham

Merce Cunningham

John Cage

Robert Ellis Dunn

Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis

Judson Dance founders mentioned by Susan:

David Gordon

Meredith Monk

Trisha Brown

Simone Forte

Steve Paxton

Lucinda Childs

along with Yvonne Rainer and others

(Dead Hare aside:  Billy Name, featured in Dead Hare Episode 8 did the lighting for the Judson performances.)

A handful of Yvonne Rainer’s films, including Hand Movie (which gives Chris the creeps, for some reason),  along with audio and other documentations can be seen at Ubu.com        (http://search.atomz.com/search/?sp_a=sp10042f50&sp_q=yvonne+rainer&sp_p=all&sp_f=UTF-8)

Rainer’s No Manifesto (via wikipedia):

NO to spectacle.
No to virtuosity.
No to transformations and magic and make-believe.
No to the glamour and transcendency of the star image.
No to the heroic.
No to the anti-heroic.
No to trash imagery.
No to involvement of performer or spectator,
No to style.
No to camp.
No to seduction of spectator by the wiles of the performer.
No to eccentricity.
No to moving or being moved.

The Boris Groys talk, Everybody is an Artist, which Chris mentions was given at SVA  in 2010.  (See the video of Groys’s talk on Vimeo)

Contact Improvisation

So You Think You Can Dance

White Oak Dance Project

Susan references the deaths of three leaders of the dance world; Merce Cunningham, Pina Bausch, Kazuo Ohno

Susan’s dance company Workwith Dancers will be presenting a performance called TREE at Beacon Yoga in Beacon NY in late March, and early April.

Here’s the info, but there is more on Susan’s website,(click the link above).

TREE is dance performance event by choreographer/dancer Susan Osberg.

MARCH 23, 24,25 and MARCH 30, 31 and April 1st,

Friday, Saturday, Sunday NIGHTS at 7 pm.

At Beacon Yoga, 464 Maine Street in Beacon, NY 12508.

$15.00  general admission.

Limited seating, reservations for TREE - http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/230305

At this point in the show, we take a little break……

And we’re back:

Three Distributions, “People Plan” from Aspen 8, via ubu.com

The 1974 WNYC Arts Forum interview of Yvonne Rainer by Annette Michelson can be heard on Ubuweb.com  (http://ubumexico.centro.org.mx/sound/Anthology/Rainer_Yvonne/RAINER_YVONNE_WNYC_AFA_1974.mp3)

Next, Chris speaks with Kelly Kivland, Curatorial Associate at Dia.

Joan Duddy & Dia’s Salon Project (which Susan Osberg participated in in 1995)  Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be any real documentation of the Salon Project online, save for a couple reviews of particular events.)

Joyce SoHo

Merce Cunningham Beacon Events

Trisha Brown Performance Series at Dia:Beacon

Joan Jonas at Dia:Beacon

Robert Whitman at Dia:Beacon, 2003 & 2011

Being Watched: Yvonne Rainer and the 1960s by Carrie Lambert-Beatty

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Yvonne Rainer performances at Dia:Beacon are happening on Feb 25 & 26, 2012 at 12pm and 2pm both days.  The program for these events are:

Three Seascapes (1962)

Spiraling Down (2008)

Three Satie Spoons (1961)

The Sunday, May 13th performances are scheduled for 1pm and 3pm at Dia: Beacon.  The program for that event is:

We Shall Run (1963) (featuring dancers from Sarah Lawrence College)

Trio A (2008)

Chair Pillow (1969)
Assisted Living; Good Sports 2 (2011)

The following day, May 14, at Dia:Chelsea, Babett Mangolte will be speaking on Yvonne Rainer, 

as part of the Artists on Artists lecture series.

Rainer program info and ticket information can be found at:  http://www.diaart.org/rainer

You can also call Dia:Beacon at 845 440 0100.

Thanks to David, Susan and Kelly for joining us this week. It’s likely we’ll have reports back from both the Wonder Cabinet and the Rainer performances in a future episode.

Listen to this week’s show here.
Livia Straus, Director of the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art in Peekskill, NY.

Mary-Kay Lombino, the Emily Hargroves Fisher ’57 and Richard B Fisher Curator at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY.

Ariel Shanberg, director of the Woodstock Center for Photography in Woodstock, NY.

Carl Van Brunt, gallery director at the Woodstock Artists Association and Museum (WAAM) in Woodstock, NY.

Sara Pasti, the Neil C Trager director of the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz in New Paltz, NY.

Michael Asbill of the Kingston Museum of Contemporary Art in Kingston, NY.

Inspired by Chris’ annual Christmas Thing sculptures, this episode is a little bit of a patchwork….

We start sitting around the bonfire at the Slaats family solstice party.  Chris and Matt are Joined by DHRH contributor Sara Anderson Lock and Chad Fust.

Chris’ original idea was to treat the listeners to an hour long medley of bad art related press releases set to all our favorite xmas tunes. He begins to sing some lyrics from a release for some exhibit called “Spacewomb” to the tune of “Up on the Rooftop”… and then thinks better of it.  (Not to worry, though.  He’s determined to make this work for next year.

Thanks to Paddy Johnson of ArtFagCity.com and Ken Hamel of Denverarts.org for contributing some brilliant press release candidates.

Here’s a rundown of relevant links and notes for this episode:

The Owl Project‘s 2012 Cultural Olympiad commission is nearing it’s completion. Sara interviewed the group back in Episode 19.

Steve Rossi talks about the Occupy Wall St. Arts & Culture Committee.  More information at:wallstreetoccupennial.tumblr.com

Representative Peter King’s appearance on Anderson Cooper 360.

Dead Hare Correspondents Cynthia and Kenneth check out Art Basel Miami Beach.

Among other things they look at a Mark Ryden and Cynthia speaks with Marco Rountree.

We hear Martin Creed’s sound  Work No. 117 (side A and side B)  and the song “I Like Things” from the album “I Can’t Move.”

Eve Moser

Deborah Fisher

the kork project space and the kork advent project

Lettersofnote.com is the source of the letter to Andy Warhol from his landlord.

Thanks to the Mabbys for singing this week’s intro and thanks to Lexi, the recording engineer for that piece.

Thanks to Rich Armstrong for reading the Warhol letter.

NY Times obits for Helen Frankenthaler and John Chamberlain.

Vybrainsee wraps up the year for us with the tune Vibrancy.

Be well, we’ll be back in 2012.

Coming into the holiday season, we at the Dead Hare Radio Hour were asking ourselves what we valued most about this time of year. Family visits? Stockings hung by a fire? Presents under the tree? Mistletoe? This was something we had to think about for a little while as there are so many good and bad things revolving around us at the moment. But, if we had to pick one, the consensus would be food. With waist bands growing and New Years resolutions not too far off, we thought what better than think about the role of food in the arts and as a part of culture.

We caught up with the editor of Edible Hudson Valley, Eric Steinman. Who gives us a smattering of treats about food in the Hudson Valley and broader culture. Then we spoke with Tracy Candido. Provocateur of food centered art projects such as Sweet Tooth of the Tiger and the Community Cooking Club.

Notes from our talk with Eric Steinman

Poughkeepsie Farm Project
Wild Hive Farm
Paisley Farm
Hearty Roots Farm
Cabbage Hill Farmmarin

Things mentioned in our conversation with Tracy Candido.

Marina Abromovic – Creative Time and LAMOCA projects
Paul Jonas Ramirez
Fritz Haeg
Open Engagement
Judy Chicago - The Dinner Part
Jennifer Rubell
Vik Muniz - Che (Sopa de Frijoles negros)
Eric Steen
Elaine Tin Nyo
Center for Book Arts
Tattfoo Tan
Mildred’s Lane
Leif Hedendal