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An interview with Will Gregory of Goldfrapp, conducted by Choler Magazine editor Sean Flinn at the (now defunct) Knitting Factory LA in Hollywood, California.  This took place not long after the US release of Goldfrapp's first album, Felt Mountain, and immediately prior to one of the group's first live appearances in North America.  (Part 1 of 2)

Read more at http://www.cholermagazine.com

Goldfrapp - Choler Interview 11.30.2001 - Track 1

An interview with Will Gregory of Goldfrapp, conducted by Choler Magazine editor Sean Flinn at the (now defunct) Knitting Factory LA in Hollywood, California. This took place not long after the US release of Goldfrapp's first album, Felt Mountain, and immediately prior to one of the group's first live appearances in North America. (Part 2 of 2)

Read more at http://www.cholermagazine.com

Goldfrapp - Choler Interview 11.30.2001 - Track 2

Comissioned by Austrian public radio FM4, I made this sonic essay  honoring the music of Grace Jones and the album "Island Life".

Tracklist:

Skit #1 Rodger MacFarlane On Grace Jones from BBC's documentary "Queens of Disco” 	
Skit #2 US TV Documentary on “Vamp” 	
Skit #3 On Grace Jones from BBC's documentary "Queens of Disco” 	
Gregory Issacs 	Mr. Know It All
Skit #4 On Grace Jones from BBC's documentary "Queens of Disco” 	
Skit #5 Grace Jones Interview on “Queens of Disco” 	
Grace Jones 	I Need A Man
Skit #6 On Grace Jones from BBC's documentary "Queens of Disco” 	
Skit #7 Interview Jean-Paul Goude 1982, Youtube 	
Grace Jones 	La Vie En Rose
Skit #8 Tom Moulton Interview 	
Skit #9 Paul Cooke + Grace Jones Conversation from “Slave To The Rhythm” album 	
Skit #10 Paul Morley + Grace Jones Conversation from “Slave To The Rhythm” album 	
Grace Jones 	Pull Up To The Bumper
Skit #11 On Grace Jones from BBC's documentary "Queens of Disco” 	
Skit #12 Sly + Robbie Interview Main Doc 	
Skit #13 Chris Blackwell from BBC's documentary "Queens of Disco” 	
Skit #14 Grace Jones 	
Skit #15 Paul Morley + Grace Jones Conversation from “Slave To The Rhythm” album 	
Grace Jones 	Private Life
Skit #16 Sly + Robbie Interview Main Doc 	
Skit #17 Interview Jean-Paul Goude 1982, Youtube 	
Skit #18 Grace Jones on the Joan Rivers Show, Youtube 	
Skit #19 Grace Jones Interview on Australian TV 1984 	
Grace Jones 	Libertango (Hell + Pulsinger Edit)
Skit #20 Grace Jones Interview on Australian TV 1984 	
Skit #21 Grace Jones Interview on Australian TV 1985 	
Skit #22 Chris Blackwell Interview 1998, Youtube 	
Grace Jones 	Walking In The Rain
Skit #22 On Grace Jones from BBC's documentary "Queens of Disco” 	
Skit #23 Grace Jones Interview on from BBC's documentary "Queens of Disco” 	
Skit #24 Grace Jones + Eddie Murphy movie scene from “Boomerang” (1991) 	
Skit #25 Grace Jones live in Jamaica 	
Grace Jones 	My Jamaican Guy
Skit #26 Main Doc Grace Jones 	
Grace Jones 	Love Is The Drug
Skit #27 Trevor Horn conversation w/ Pete Tong, Ibiza 2015 	
Grace Jones 	Slave To The Rhythm
Skit #28 Grace Jones on BBC Radio 6 2015 	
Skit #29 Paul Cooke + Grace Jones Conversation from “Slave To The Rhythm” album 	
Skit #30 Ian MacShane from “Slave To The Rhythm” album 	
Skit #31 Paul Morley + Grace Jones Conversation from “Slave To The Rhythm” album

Grace Jones "Island Life" Sonic Essay

Richard Kendall, independent art historian and curator 
Dedicated to Edgar Degas (1834–1917) in the centennial year of his death, Volume 3 of the conservation division's biennial journal Facture: Conservation, Science, Art History focuses on the tremendous wealth of works by Degas in the National Gallery of Art collection. The first to feature the work of a single artist, this issue includes essays by conservators, scientists, and curators. It presents insights into Degas's working methods in painting, sculpture in wax and bronze, and works on paper, as well as a sonnet he wrote to his "little dancer." The Gallery has the third largest collection in the world of work by Degas, comprising 21 paintings, 65 sculptures, 34 drawings, 40 prints, 2 copper plates, and 1 volume of soft-ground etchings. Its extensive Degas holdings and conservation resources have inspired not only groundbreaking Gallery exhibitions—such as Degas, the Dancers (1984), Degas at the Races (1998), Degas's Little Dancer (2014), and Degas/Cassatt (2014)—but also exhibitions around the world. For the public symposium held as a centenary tribute on September 22, 2017, Richard Kendall presented the keynote address—introducing new research into Degas’s interests in media and technique alongside his documented engagement with contemporary science and technology.

Edgar Degas (1834–1917): A Centenary Tribute, Part 1—Edgar Degas: Man of Science

Teju Cole, artist, curator, novelist, photography critic for New York Times Magazine (2015–2019), and Gore Vidal Professor of the Practice of Creative Writing, Harvard University, in conversation with Fazal Sheikh, artist and Artist-in-Residence at the Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton University Teju Cole was born in the United States in 1975. The son of Nigerian parents, he was raised in Lagos. He returned to the US to complete a BA at Kalamazoo College in Michigan followed by studies in art history at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London as well as at Columbia University. Cole’s work examines race, gender, migration, culture, and privilege. Born in New York City in 1965, Fazal Sheikh earned his BA from Princeton University in 1987 and has since worked as a photographer documenting the lives of individuals in displaced and marginalized communities. Upon witnessing an increase in xenophobia and authoritarian politics on a global scale, Sheikh turned to Cole for a collaboration that would reinforce their commitment to a compassionate global community and to the importance of individual courage. Through Cole’s words and Sheikh’s photos in the resulting book, Human Archipelago (Steidl, 2018), we are confronted with fundamental and pressing questions of coexistence. Their work asks us to consider, “Who is my neighbor? Who is kin to me?” 

In 2020 Cole and Sheikh created a free, online version of Human Archipelago. Amidst a devastating pandemic and uprisings against racial injustice, its questions are more relevant than ever. In this conversation, recorded on January 19, 2021, Cole and Sheikh discuss their collaborative efforts “to find a new way of speaking to the startling reappearance of some very old problems.”

The National Gallery has been honored to present The Arnold Newman Lecture Series on Photography since 2016 with the support of the Arnold and Augusta Newman Foundation. The National Gallery is thrilled to share that the Newman Foundation, which has funded the series annually since its inaugural offering, endowed it with a major gift in 2020 in order to make such conversations available to the public for years to come. We are deeply grateful for the Arnold and Augusta Newman Foundation’s generosity.

Arnold Newman Lecture Series on Photography: Teju Cole and Fazal Sheikh

The National Gallery of Art was created in 1937 for the people of the United States of America by a joint resolution of Congress, accepting the gift of financier and art collector Andrew W. Mellon. During the 1920s, Mr. Mellon began collecting with the intention of forming a gallery of art for the nation in Washington. In 1937, the year of his death, he promised his collection to the United States. Funds for the construction of the West Building were provided by The A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust. On March 17, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt accepted the completed building and the collections on behalf of the people of the United States of America.

The paintings and works of sculpture given by Andrew Mellon have formed a nucleus of high quality around which the collections have grown. Mr. Mellon's hope that the newly created National Gallery would attract gifts from other collectors was soon realized in the form of major donations of art from Samuel H. Kress, Rush H. Kress, Joseph Widener, Chester Dale, Ailsa Mellon Bruce, Lessing J. Rosenwald, and Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch as well as individual gifts from hundreds of other donors.

The Gallery's East Building, located on land set aside in the original Congressional resolution, was opened in 1978. It accommodates the Gallery's growing collections and expanded exhibition schedule and houses an advanced research center, administrative offices, a great library, and a burgeoning collection of drawings and prints. The building was accepted for the nation on June 1, 1978, by President Jimmy Carter. Funds for construction were given by Paul Mellon and the late Ailsa Mellon Bruce, the son and daughter of the founder, and by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

On May 23, 1999 the Gallery opened an outdoor sculpture garden designed to offer year-round enjoyment to the public. Located in the 6.1-acre block adjacent to the West Building at 7th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., the garden provides an informal, yet elegant setting for works of modern and contemporary sculpture.

The Collectors Committee, an advisory group of private citizens, has made it possible to acquire paintings and sculpture of the twentieth century. Key works of art have also come to the Gallery through the Patrons' Permanent Fund. In addition, members of the Circle of the National Gallery of Art have provided funds for many special programs and projects. The Sculpture Garden is a gift to the nation from The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation.

Edgar Degas (1834–1917): A Centenary Tribute, Part 1—Edgar Degas: Man of Science

National Gallery of Art

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