I ART New York

Radio Free Brooklyn

I ART New York podcast is a guide into the NYC Art Apple. Each 60 min episode grapples with the question: How to love art in the big city, why to pay attention to it, and how to relate to it? Hosts of the show, Rebecca and Izabela in the first half of the “art hour” offer an alternative review of the large NYC museum retrospectives and selected gallery shows, soaked in candid criticism and diffused by humor. In the 2nd part of the hour, they host noteworthy guests from the art world for interviews asking questions relating to the shows but also the tricky question of a hands-on experience in the arts as a profession in practice. I ART New York’s critical insight focus on selected exhibitions, and consider concepts and narratives as told through the various forms within Contemporary art. Rebecca and Izabela take on large museum retrospectives at first and move onto the various exhibitions in different parts of NYC, galleries in Chelsea, LES, Williamsburg and Bushwick. Through emotional and considered reactions to artworks, Rebecca and Izabela attempt to unpack the work of iconic, established, and less known artists. They discuss the mediums and concepts and compare and contrast the aspects and characteristics of the art, the practice, and artists’ lives. Tune in for the alternative art tour in the Big Apple.

Radio: Radio Free Brooklyn

Categories: Arts

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Episode 17 of I Art New York is part of a special series; The Humanizing Role of Arts in the Wake of the Public Health Crisis, in which three previously interviewed guests revisit the show to respond to the topic of new realities caused by the Covid-19 Pandemic. Jared Linge, owner and director of High Noon Gallery located in the Lower East Side, brings to fore strategies of resistance developed in the context to the pandemic. Among several topics covered in the interview, including the pressures and difficulties of the art economy, Linge discussed with us his online exhibitions, Shelter/Place and Friends With Benefits, which ran during shutdown, and in which 30% of total gallery commission went to benefit organizations that stand in solidarity with Black lives and against police brutality: COVID Bailout NYC, Color of Change, The Okra Project, and the Ali Forney Center to benefit the LGBTQ community. Recorded on May 30, 2020. High Noon Gallery, 124 Forsyth St. NYC: www.highnoongallery.com Music courtesy of Nicole Renault: www.nicolerenaud.com