Arts Archive

Mississippi Records presents a wide-ranging overview of their 20+ years in existence, featuring sounds saved from the dustbin of history.

The New York War Crimes is a free newspaper, produced by and for the Palestine solidarity movement in New York City. This conversation will discuss the evolution of the project, the latest issue, and the larger history of agitprop, counterpropaganda, and radical publications in NYC.

The mean book review is enjoying a renaissance. Every time a new epic takedown drops, literary New York stops working to join the pile-on. What’s the function of this ritual? To get to the bottom of this new culture of hostility, Pioneer Works Broadcast sits down with two author-critics who’ve experienced both sides of the violence: Lauren Oyler and Brandon Taylor. Moderated by Hannah Baer.

Spend time with the cassette release "too low/too far," from Palestinian musician Dakn's nine-track journey of post-trauma soundscapes. Released by Bilna’es, this haunting collection blends harmonic textures, dissonant layers, and pulsing rhythms, evoking sensations that feel as if they’re emanating from within the body or the land itself.

Hanuman Editions gathers a poetics of contemporary avant-garde culture from key voices of our times. In the spirit of the cult series of pocket-sized volumes published by Hanuman Books in the 1980s and 1990s, their editions invite playful criticality, unexpected parallels and unique pairings within a diffuse planetary context.

A deep dive into the latest issue with special guests and a chance for letter-to-the editor-style feedback and questions. Call during the broadcast or submit in advance to thewhitneyreview@gmail.com / @thewhitneyreview

Artist collective and label PTP host a conversation between YATTA and GENG PTP, moderated by timmhotep aku. Together they will discuss sampling, sound, and how expressions of memory can subvert language, space, and ownership.

Les The DJ spins an all-vinyl set of Manila Sound and Original Pilipino Music from the ’70s and ’80s—the uplifting sounds that carried Filipinos during the nation’s most challenging times. Les's work and vinyl archive are collected in a new publication by Passenger Pigeon Press.

The hosts of the Celebrity Book Club with Steven & Lily podcast, Steven Phillips-Horst and Lily Marotta, are joined by Laura Albert, the author behind the J.T. LeRoy phenomenon, to discuss self-destruction vs. self-acceptance, how to challenge the literary status quo, and her forthcoming memoir. A special introduction by artist Leigh Ledare.

Where to go when you’ve got to go? Bathrooms are a place for business, pleasure, and unsurveilled breaks—little wonder, then, that our access to toilets is so restricted. A conversation about the right to public bathrooms with Lux, Hell Gate, and New York Review of Architecture.

Topos Press hosts a listening session of Sonifying the Sun: The Mass Emergence of Brood XIII and XIX Periodical Cicadas, Volume 1, in which sound artist Patrick Quinn captures the rare sounds of periodical cicadas emerging after 13 and 17 years underground

Wendy’s Subway presents a reading of Dafne Phono, artist Nour Mobarak's experimental translation and reimagining of the first opera, Dafne, composed and written in 1598—a story of unrequited love, patriarchal possession, conquest, and transformation, inspired by the myth of Daphne and Apollo from Ovid’s Metamorphoses.

Attention independent musicians! Join an expert panel—including Moses Sumney, Fabienne Leys, Brandon Sánchez, and Robbie Gong—Ben Rafson––for a discussion on the financial realities of releasing music independently. Presented by The Rising Artist Foundation and UMAW as part of the "Office Hours" educational series.

Playing selections from their upcoming album (via Bayonet Records), Kinlaw will disclose the process behind making selected tracks, getting stuck and unstuck, and how her thinking around performance and choreography helps the artist get closer to words.

Sarah Barlyn interviews Major Jackson, originally broadcast 3/8/2023.

Eric Einhorn, General and Artistic Director of On Site Opera, discusses his recent work on Gianni Schicchi, On Site Opera’s 10th anniversary, and his vision for the future of the opera world with host Ale Díaz-Pizarro.

A conversation with award-winning poet Ada Limón about the poetry podcast The Slowdown, her writing process and inspiration, and the role of poetry—written or otherwise—in today’s world, hosted by Ale Díaz-Pizarro.

Recorded audio from Studio A on Sunday, July 30 from 9:00-10:00 PM ET: live reading and interview with writer Caits Meissner. Meissner is the author of the hybrid poetry book Let It Die Hungry (The Operating System, 2016), and The Letter All Your Friends Have Written You(Well&Often, 2012), co-written with poet Tishon Woolcock.

Lynne DeSilva-Johnson is a non binary artist and author working in performance, exhibition, and publication in conversation with new media. She is a visiting assistant professor at Pratt, the founder and Managing Editor of The Operating System, as well as Libraries Editor at Boog City. Lynne is the author of 'GROUND', 'blood atlas', and 'Overview Effect', co-author of 'A GUN SHOW' with Adam Sliwinski/Sō Percussion, and co-editor of the anthologies 'RESIST MUCH, OBEY LITTLE: Inaugural Poems for the Resistance', and 'In Corpore Sano: Creative Practice and the Challenged Body'.

Listen to the in-studio reading and interview with writer Darrel Alejandro Holnes, originally aired on April 16, 2017 on Studio A. Holnes is a poet and a playwright from Panama and a professor at NYU and Medgar Evers College. His poems can be found at American Poetry Review, Poetry Magazine, Callaloo, Best American Experimental Writing, and elsewhere in print and online.

Listen to the live recording of Studio A from Sunday, March 5 for a reading and interview with poet JP Howard. Howard, a Cave Canem graduate fellow, is the author of SAY/MIRROR, a debut poetry collection published by The Operating System (2016, 2nd expanded ed and 2015, 1st ed) and a chaplet "bury your love poems here" (Belladonna Collaborative*, 2015). SAY/MIRROR was a 2016 Lambda Literary Award Finalist in the Lesbian Poetry Category.

Listen to the audio from poet Diana Delgado's live interview and reading Studio A from Sunday, February 19. Delgado received her MFA in Poetry from Columbia University and a BA in Poetry from University of California, Riverside. Her poetry chapbook, Late-Night Talks With Men I Think I Trust, selected by Cornelius Eady, won the Center for Book Arts 2015 Poetry Chapbook Competition.

This interview with internationally-bestselling memoirist Aspen Matis originally aired January 15, 9:00 PM on Studio A. Her book, Girl in the Woods, tells the story of her sexual assault and her flight from college, which led to a journey of self-discovery as she set out to hike the entire Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada. A brief account of her experiences appeared first in The New York Times' Modern Love column, and that subsequentally led to her inspiring and heart-wrenching memoir.