ANGELIC TRANSMISSIONS

ANGELIC TRANSMISSIONS

a talk show about art in NYC

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June 2, 2025 105 mins

hosts Jarrett Earnest and Leigha Mason welcome guest Alissa Bennett! Alissa is a writer and iconic "historian of bad behavior". Alissa talks about the circuitry of fandom and obsession, the purposes of over-identification with cultural figures, and her interest in Janet Malcolm's book The Silent Woman. In the second half of the show, Alissa dishes advice to listeners who have called in with questions (if you'd like to leave a gener...

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hosts Jarrett Earnest and Leigha Mason talk about the incredible Jack Whitten show at MoMA (Jack Whitten: The Messenger), the paintings of Nicole Wittenberg and visiting her show at the Ogunquit Museum of American Art in Maine. Also, dog training and abstraction! In the second half of the show, writer Lynne Tillman talks about her new collection of short stories, Thrilled to Death. We hear about her use of artworks as fuel for her ...

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May 5, 2025 100 mins

Hosts Jarrett Earnest and Leigha Mason talk about pop performances, Forough Farrokhzad's film The House Is Black, Alice Coltrane's public access TV show from the 80s, medieval memoirs, and a lot more!  In the second hour, they are joined by painter Salman Toor to discuss his new show "Wish Maker" at Luhring Augustine (paintings in the Chelsea location, and works on paper in TriBeCa), up through June 21, 2025!

 

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April 21, 2025 94 mins

Hosts Jarrett Earnest and Leigha Mason talk with painter Sam McKinniss about his new eponymous monograph of paintings (with text contributions from both Jarrett and Natasha!) published by Rizzoli, as well as writer Natasha Stagg. Stagg is the author of Artless: Stories 2019-2023, Sleeveless: Fashion, Image, Media, New York 2011-2019, and Surveys: A Novel. Image culture, the self-mythologized lore of states, and James ...

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April 7, 2025 103 mins

Host Jarrett Earnest talks with the founding members of fierce pussy! fierce pussy is a collective of queer women artists, formed in NYC in 1991 through their immersion in AIDS activism. Zoe Leonard, Carrie Yamaoka, and Joy Episalla talk with us about the politics of form, the connections between individual and collective art acts, the mutable and bodily conceptual approaches to making exhibitions, and so much more! W...

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March 10, 2025 106 mins

hosts Jarrett Earnest and Leigha Mason speak with painter Cynthia Daignault about her work both in painting and writing, her deep childhood relationship to Twin Peaks, love of grunge, melodramatic film, and more. 

Her work is included in two museum surveys proposing new frameworks for thinking about recent painting history - "The Living End" at MCA Chicago and "Ordinary People" at MOCA. Additionally, Jarrett wrote about one of Cind...

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February 24, 2025 81 mins

hosts Jarrett Earnest and Leigha Mason talk with filmmaker Charles Atlas, on the occasion of the major survey of his work, "About Time" at ICA Boston. Charlie shares insights into his working process with video and dance, art as a memorial medium, and his wide array of collaborations with everyone from Merce Cunningham to Michael Clark to Leigh Bowery to Lady Bunny! 

A special thank you to Luhring Augustine Gallery for your help in...

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January 27, 2025 114 mins

hosts Jarrett Earnest and Leigha Mason talk with inimitable NYC icon Joey Arias! On the occasion of Joey's new album, PAST PRESENT FUTURE, we discuss Joey's artistic practice and creation of Self within singing, drag, performance, fashion, and more. Joey shares stories across a wide variety of collaborative friendships with The Groundlings (cameos in Elvira and Pee Wee movies), Sylvester, Klaus Nomi, David Bowie (SNL performance), ...

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January 13, 2025 91 mins

host Jarrett Earnest speaks with painter Chris Martin about painting's ability to cast spells, hold secrets, and expand the lived experience. Also, glitter and Temporary Autonomous Zones. For the second hour, we are joined by art critic and musician Johanna Fateman to discuss her new project 'The Critic's Table' at Cultured magazine!

In between, the Essential Cinema segment has us talking about Errol Morris' first film Gates of Hea...

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December 2, 2024 104 mins

Hosts Jarrett Earnest and Leigha Mason catch up on their holiday topics; dance coach intimacy, The Aluminum Christmas Tree Museum, and Julia Fox’s memoir Down The Drain. They are joined by photographer Matthew Leifheit to talk about his project, The Gay Chorus Endless Recital, in which he has been traveling around the country to various queer archives and unearthing recordings from different gay men’s choruses through...

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November 4, 2024 86 mins

Host Jarrett Earnest speaks with the great artist Glenn Ligon about his new book Distinguishing Piss from Rain: Writings, Interviews (2024) out now from Hauser & Wirth Books. Then we are joined by Whitney Mallett to discuss her eponymous new outlet for criticism, The Whitney Review!

In between, the Essential Cinema segment has Leigha Mason attempting to describe one of the best films of all time, Maya Deren's Meshes of the Afte...

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July 29, 2024 74 mins

 Host Jarrett Earnest speaks with Simon Wu about his new book Dancing On My Own. Also, NYC icon Tabboo! enlightens us with, among other things, a personal history of the Pyramid Club! 

  In between, Leigha Mason talks Robert Bresson's Au Hasard Balthazar during AT's midshow 'Essential Cinema' segment.

 This episode was broadcast live on East Village Radio July 29, 2024. The live show included music for context of our commentary, wh...

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