Listen & Look #1

By briansholis

Here is a selection of audio and video links. Each takes you to a webpage with an embedded MP3 or video and, usually, a more detailed description of its contents.

On the Media speaks with Barney Rosset, founder of Grove Books

John Updike discusses his book reviewing and the novel on which he is currently at work with Charlie Rose 

Historian Eric Foner and legal scholar Patricia J. Williams on Bill Moyers Journal

Foner again, with Mark Helprin and Jonathan Alter, discussing Barack Obama and Abraham Lincoln on Charlie Rose

Fresh Air surveys the career of the late John Leonard

Christopher Lydon speaks with Stanley Fish at Radio Open Source

Radiolab returns with the first episode of its new season, on “Choice”

Chicago Public Radio’s “Chicago Amplified” presents the recordings of a recent Museum of Contemporary Art symposium titled “Disruptions: The political in art now.” Parts one, two, three, and four

Lastly, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles has launched a new website that includes a selection of video and audio recordings. Click here for a conversation between Gary Garrels, curator of the new exhibition “Oranges and Sardines,” with participating artists Mark Grotjahn, Wade Guyton, Mary Heilmann, Amy Sillman, Charline von Heyl, and Christopher Wool.

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