WPS1 Art Radio
Althea hosts and produces Collectors' Forum for WPS1's art radio program sponsored by New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and its affiliate P.S.1. She has held conversations with notable collectors, dealers, and scholars discussing how to establish, maintain and make a collection accessible to the public.
WPS1 Art Radio is the Internet station of P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, a MoMA affiliate, featuring an MP3 stream of music, talk, and historical recordings.
Altheas' past talk shows:
Edition #9: David Graeber
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First broadcast May 5, 2008
Althea Viafora-Kress and David Graeber anthropologist, activists and Goldsmiths lecturer discuss the psychology of the object. Graeber distinguishes Marx's fetishes, Mauss' gift theory and his ideas on possibilities. He explains how Duchamp fits in, where creative actions are held, and what "inmaterial labor" is. He also discusses his book Possibilities: Essays on Hierarchy, Rebellion, and Desire. Hear how these are connected to capital and where the artist fits in.
Armory Show 2007: The Collectors' Forum Edition
Wim Delvoye - listen | listen with RealPlayer
Host Althea Viafora Kress and Belgian artist Wim Delvoye sit down in Danny Meyer's Café One at the 2007 Armory Show. Hear the social, cultural, and political contradictions around Delvoye's projects and art. His Art Pig Farm in China where Delvoye, a vegetarian, tattoos his pigs and "harvests" his art. The Cloaca Machines is his sculpture that is fed in museums and has a digestive system from beginning to end. And more. Once you hear it and see it you can't take their contradictions apart. It's not classical art, modernism, or formalism. It's not high or low. What is this new pollination of practices? (32 minutes)
Edition #9: Althea Viafora-Kress with Tom Eccles - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast January 8, 2007
Find out what it takes to be entrusted with with ideas and art from Tom Eccles the newly appointed executive Director of the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard. Host Althea Viafora Kress goes behind the scenes.
Tom Eccles was the director and curator of The Public Art Fund from 1997-2005 now he has curated the Hessel Museum of Art inaugural exhibition: Wrestle with Trevor Smith. How does Tom move from a living museum to a universal museum? How does he bring these two ideas together and break open the container? What are the curatorial goals around a private collection? If collecting is self-representation how does he curate a collector's choices for the public? As a result of private philanthropy how do you curate for a larger audience? Find out from this dynamic interview about the art of our time in the public domain. (16 minutes)
SVA Hour: A Creative Game in Art Culture - listen | listen with RealPlayer
Althea Viafora-Kress in conversation with cofounder Anne Livet of the arts management and marketing firm Livet Reichard Company, Inc. talk about creativity in collecting and play a game with the art culture. Are you an explorer, creator, critic, or warrior when you buy art? Tips are given for collecting at art fairs, benefit auctions, and galleries. What are the different visions of institutional exhibitions and private exhibitions? What are the differences of the large art fairs and satellite art fairs? Presented by School of Visual Arts specially for Art Radio Live at Art Basel Miami Beach 2006. (20 minutes)
Edition #8: David Brafman, Getty Research Institute - listen | listen with RealPlayer
First broadcast April 18, 2005
Althea Viafora-Kress in conversation with the collections curator of rare books, David Brafman, for the Getty Research Institute, who visited recently during the Grolier Club exhibition of Past Presence, Objects of Study at The Getty Research Institute. The wide-ranging display looks at how artists, writers, and architects responded to the ephemeral quality of time and the urge to capture a moment, recreate the past, record the present, or imagine the future. Among many fine objects on display, an 18th-century etching by Francesco Piranesi recreates a long-destroyed monument from the 1st century B.C. The exhibition also features the earliest known copperplate engraving of a curiosity cabinet from 1622 alongside Marcel Duchamp's Box, produced three centuries later in 1958. Inviting comparison.
Edition #7: Werner H. Kramarsky- listen | listen with RealPlayer
Collector, curator and educator, Werner (Wynn) Kramarsky is chairman of the board of the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, PA, and also serves on the boards of the Museum of Modern Art In New York and the Hammer Museum at UCLA. In this conversation with Althea Viafora-Kress, he speaks of the formation of his sensibility and his concentration on postwar drawings of the reductive, abstract variety. Kramarsky says he dislikes the word patronage but he is certainly one of the world's most enthusiastic and generous collectors of drawings by contemporary artists. In the last six years, he has given the Museum of Modern Art nearly 200 separate pieces, 81 in the last year alone. "You have a responsibility to challenge, to move the world along, to add insight to what beauty can be," he says.
Edition #6: Architects for Art- listen | listen with RealPlayer
Althea Viafora-Kress persuades architects Richard Gluckman, Mark Dubois and Steven Learner to reveal their relationships with clients private and public while discussing a range of bracing issues associated with such challenges as building a museum on the 52nd floor of a skyscraper, adapting a design to a client's aesthetic, and making a space for viewing art where people are going to live or work.
Architect Richard Gluckman has made a specialty of working with artists, galleries and museums. He has been the principal architect at Gluckman Mayner in New York since 1977, designing commercial, residential and institutional projects around the world. These include, among many others, the Larry Gagosian, Paula Cooper and Mary Boone galleries and the Dia Center for the Arts, all in Chelsea; the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, PA; and most recently, the Mori Art Center in Tokyo and the Museo Picasso in Malaga, Spain. He has also completed homes and studios for artists Ellsworth Kelly, Richard Serra and Chuck Close. The Steven Learner Studio recently completed an apartment in the Richard Meier-designed residential towers on the Hudson River in New York, the VBH jewelry store in New York, the Sean Kelly Gallery and several private residences in Del Mar, California; Greenwich, CT; Sag Harbor, NY and elsewhere. Mark Dubois is a partner in Ohlhausen Dubois Architects. Recent art-related design projects include the spectacular Klein residence and the Sherrie Levine studio, both in Santa Fe, NM; the Danese Gallery in New York; the Orozco Room at the New School University, and work with the Metropolitan Transit Authority on the Elizabeth Murray mosaic in the Lexington Avenue/59th Street subway station, also in New York. Dubois has also done exhibition design for the Arthur M. Sackler Museum of Art and Archeology in Beijing, China.
Edition #5: Cynthia Hazen Polsky- listen | listen with RealPlayer
If proof were needed for Cynthia Polsky's taste and erudition in the visual and decorative arts of India, it is currently available in the exhibition, "In the Realm of Gods and Kings: Selections from the Polsky Collections and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, more than 200 works on view at the Asia Society through January 6, 2005. Here she speaks to Althea Viafora-Kress about her education in Indian art and aesthetics, the disparate export laws in Europe and Asia, and her seat on the acquisitions board for photography at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she is a trustee. She is also a trustee of the Morgan Library, Trustee Emerita of the American Academy in Rome, Honorary Life Trustee of the Asia Society, and a member of Collectors Committee National Gallery of Art, in Washington.
Edition #4: Thomas Crow, Elizabeth Dee, Alexis Hubshman- listen | listen with RealPlayer
Althea Viafora-Kress meets with Getty Research Institute director Thomas Crow, New York gallerist Elizabeth Dee and Alexis Hubshman, art dealer and founder of the Scope Art Fair.
Edition #3: Ben Heller - listen | listen with RealPlayer
What's it like to live with a Pollock and a Rothko or two? Host Althea Viafora-Kress invites Ben Heller, one of abstract expressionism's greatest appreciators, to tell all.
Edition #2: Agnes Gund- listen | listen with RealPlayer
Host Althea Viafora-Kress presents a rare interview with art collector and President Emerita of the Museum of Modern Art, Agnes Gund.
Edition #1: Arthur and Carol Goldberg, Lisa Mamounas - listen | listen with RealPlayer
Guests today are the prominent collectors Arthur and Carol Goldberg and, representing a new generation of art patrons, MoMA Junior Associate Lisa Mamounas. Althea is an art advisor and private dealer who has specialized in both emerging artists and advising young collectors.
Art Basel Miami Beach 2004
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The Collectors' Forum ABMB, Day Two: David Meets Goliath- listen | listen with RealPlayer
Althea Viafora-Kress in an unusual tete-a-tete with Dr. Petra Arends, who represented UBS (a fair sponsor) and its art collection, and Javier Peres, proprietor of Peres Projects, one of the few galleries granted a shipping-container showroom right on the beach.
Dr. Arends is Collection Executive of the UBS Art Collection, which was created from the merger of PaineWebber and UBS financial services companies and claims world-class holdings of the art of the last fifty years.
Peres Project opened on L.A.'s Chung King Road in March 2003, and continues to foster relationships between international contemporary artists, collectors, critics, curators and consultants. Artists who have exhibited there include Assume Vivid Astro Focus, AsianPunkboy, Amie Dicke, Terence KOH, Jim Drain, John Kleckner and Matthew Greene.
The Collectors' Forum ABMB, Day Four- listen | listen with RealPlayer
The art-rock puppet show, "Don't Trust Anybody Over 30" (DTAOT) by Dan Graham and Friends (Tony Oursler, Rodney Graham, and Paul McCarthy with live music by the two-man band, Japanther and the Huber Marionettes), was the hottest ticket in Miami - but it may soon be coming to an art space near you. Hear all about it from its producers, backers and presenters Sandra Antelo-Suarez (for TRANS>, producer), Francesca Thyssen-Hapsburg (for the ThyssenBornemisza Contemporary Art Foundation, co-producer), Tim Nye (for Foundation 20 21, co-producer), Ali Hossaini (for LAB, the world's first 24-hour Hi-Def art-TV channel on the Voom satellite system) and curator Philippe Vergne, (currently senior curator at the Walker Art Center, copresenter, and recently named director of the Francois Pinault Foundation of Contemporary Art), as Althea Viafora-Kress gets the lowdown at the WPS1 hoedown.
Art Basel Miami Beach 2005
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The Collectors' Forum: Armory Show Edition- listen | listen with RealPlayer
Host Althea Viafora-Kress sits down for a live opening night conversation from The Armory Show 2005. Find out how the Armory, Rockefeller Center and Phillips, de Pury & Company cross paths with guest Abby Messitte, co-director of Clementine Gallery and Daniel Kunitz, U.S. editor of ArtReview.
How do 250,000 people a day see an exhibition with ten young artists? Abby Messitte, produced Art Rock, an indoor/outdoor public exhibition on the plaza at Rockefeller Center and tells us about sponsorship, curating and collecting.
How do emerging artists exhibit at Phillips, de Pury & Company and not be on the auction block? Daniel Kunitz tells us how he and Assistant Editor, Jo?o Ribas, selected these artists and how they arrived.
Collectors will hear tips about selecting and showing emerging artists, such as Ivan Navarro and Taylor McKimens and Charlotte Bercket.
Art Basel Miami Beach 2006
coming soon
Venice Biennale
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WPS1 Venice Interviews: Robert Storr- listen | listen with RealPlayer
WPS1's Althea Viafora-Kress moves her Collector's Forum to Venice and invites curator Robert Storr onboard. Storr is the first Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art at the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University, where he teaches the history of Modern Art. Prior to this appointment, Storr was senior curator in the department of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Storr was curator of many notable MoMA exhibitions, including Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting in the Spring of 2002, and Projects, a series of exhibitions from 1991-2000 devoted to the work of contemporary artists.
The Armory Show 2005
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Collectors' Forum: Armory Show 2006 Special with Nicholas Logsdail- listen | listen with RealPlayer
From the WPS1 skybox studio at Pier 92, Althea Viafora-Kress interviews Nicholas Logsdail, founder of the highly respected Lisson Gallery in London. Logsdail started the gallery in 1967 and was witness at the creation of many movements and careers. He is one of the few to have embraced minimalism and conceptualism, first bringing to British attention the work of Donald Judd, Dan Graham and Carl André. The gallery also supported sculptors who emerged in the 1980s: Anish Kapoor, Richard Deacon, Tony Cragg. The current pool of young artists include Douglas Gordon, Francis Alys, Jane and Louise Wilson, Ceal Floyer, Santiago Sierra, and Danielle Puppi. (42 minutes)
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