Artist Lorraine O’Grady in conversation with WACK! curator Connie Butler in January 2008.

• WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution ::

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Nearly two decades after sculptor Tony Smith’s death in 1980, the Museum of Modern Art mounted a major retrospective curated by Robert Storr, who leads this scintillating panel with Robert Swain, Richard Tuttle, Joel Shapiro and Mel Bochner whose reminiscences provide illuminating views of the artist’s working process and the nature of their debt to his accomplishments. Recorded at MoMA, September 8, 1998.

• Historic Audio from the Museum of Modern Art ::

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How does America look to foreign eyes? The year 2005 marked the bicentennial of the birth of Alexis de Tocqueville, our keenest interpreter. Atlantic Monthly asked another Frenchman, Bernard-Henri Lévy, to travel deep into America and report on what he found. Presented by the Atlantic Monthly, this revent was recorded at New School University on May 9, 2005.

• Living History ::

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P.S.1’s David Weinstein in conversation with the founder, curator, and consultant of the Perna Foundation: Tonino Perna, Manuela Annibali, and Marc Mayer. This discussion took place at the 2007 Venice Biennale during which the Perna Foundation was the primary sponsor of P.S.1's floating radio station and rendezvous center.

• Venice Biennale 2007 ::

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The award-winning designer Bob Mackie discusses his career in theater, film and television, and his scene-stealing fashions for such stars as Carol Burnett, Cher, Elton John and Diana Ross. Mackie is interviewed by Simon Doonan, Creative Director at Barney’s New York, and Dorothy Twining Globus, former Director of the Museum at the Fashion Institute and curator of the exhibit Unmistakeably Mackie. Twining Globus is currently curator of exhibitions at The Museum of Arts and Design in New York. This event was recorded on November 17, 2005 at Christie’s in New York City in conjunction with the auction of Mackie’s private archive held on November 22, 2005. Catherine Elkies of Christie’s introduces the speakers.

• Living History ::

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Carolee Schneemann was a full participant, and a courageous one, in the cultural turbulence of the sixties; confronting taboos, challenging traditions, and embracing new forms. Her ongoing work as a painter and her merge into the downtown New York performance scene of that era (Judson Dance Theater, Warhol’s Factory, assorted Happenings and kinetic theater) lead to her own performances and films such as the notorious 1964 Meat Joy, a “celebration of flesh as material,” a living montage of naked bodies, raw fish, chickens, and sausages. In this conversation with filmmaker, archivist, and historian MM Serra, Schneemann discusses her film Fuses at length along with anecdotes and reflections on life and work, sex and tech, cats and people, and much more.

• WPS1 Interviews ::

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In 1978, Walter Kerr – the Pulitzer-Prize winning theater critic who now has a Broadway house named after him – organized a wonderful series of talks at MoMA on the subject of screen acting. Our favorite featured the films – and the person – of the great Claudette Colbert (star of “It Happened One Night, 1934’s “Cleopatra” and “Imitation of Life,” “Midnight,” “The Palm Beach Story”) in a good-humored and down-to-earth talk with an unusually relaxed Kerr and an appreciative New York audience.

• Historic Audio from the Archives of the Museum of Modern Art ::

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