WPS1.org operates out of the historic Clocktower in Lower Manhattan.
Art Radio WPS1.org is the Internet radio station of P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, an affiliate of The Museum of Modern Art. Listeners select frorm a a 24-hour stream in a variety of formats, podcasts, or on-demand archive of cultural programming. WPS1.org features talk radio-style discussions and interviews with artists, authors, musicians, actors, filmmakers, critics, curators, poets, educators, journalists, media experts, and other cultural leaders, innovators, and challengers. The station also carries a unique and important collection of music assembled by a team of music curators, ranging from live recordings of the widely acclaimed P.S.1 summer Warm Up series of DJ sets, to rare recordings and surveys of experimental and adventurous music. WPS1.org broadcasts historic recordings from university and private collections; selections from the audio archives of The Museum of Modern Art; and live remote programs from festivals including Art Basel Miami Beach, The Armory Show, Performa, and the Venice Biennale.
The WPS1.org archive contains over 2,000 hours of programs. Included in the selection are gems such as a 1962 conversation between Marcel Duchamp, Richard Hamilton, and George Heard Hamilton; Joan Didion reading from her book The Year of Magical Thinking; DJ Rekha discussing the state of Bollywood; and Melvin van Peebles’ 1971 appearance at MoMA.
Art Radio WPS1.org is a listener-sponsored Web radio station.
WPS1 gratefully acknowledges support from the Friends of WPS1: David Teiger, Enzo Viscusi, Rosa and Gilberto Sandretto, Peter A. Gordon, Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro, agnès b., Peter Norton and the Peter Norton Family Foundation, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, The JL Foundation, public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, and The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art, with special assistance from the P.S.1 Board of Directors.
WPS1.org and Time Out New York offer exclusive audio tracks to accompany exhibitions at P.S.1. Simply use the links available here to download the MP3 to your computer, which you can then import into the MP3 player of your choice.