All Of It with Alison Stewart

[REBROADCAST FROM May 12, 2021] In February, NASA's Perseverance rover touched down on the surface of Mars. We look at the line between exploration and colonization. Joining us are Dr. Alice Gorman, an archaeologist and who looks at spacecraft and off-earth landing sites, and Chris Schaberg, an English professor at Loyola University New Orleans specializing in the environmental humanities.

This segment was picked by our Producer Zach Gottehrer-Cohen.

[REBROADCAST FROM September 16, 2020] Big Tech is watching us, plugging our behaviors into hidden algorithms and then serving up a digital experience customized just for us. It's a little... creepy. But it's more than that, according to blogger, journalist, and science fiction author Cory Doctorow, who's latest book is, Attack Surface. He joins us for a deep dive into the many problems of Big Tech, and how to fix them.

This segment was picked by our Producer Zach Gottehrer-Cohen.

[REBROADCAST FROM January 26, 2021] When Wuhan, the city in China where COVID-19 was first documented, went on lockdown, two anonymous reporters recorded inside a Wuhan hospital. The resulting documentary, "76 Days," directed by filmmaker Hao Wu and produced by MTV Documentary Films, provides an intimate look inside a hospital as it faced PPE shortages and an onslaught of infected patients. Wu joins us to talk about making the film and his experience documenting the genesis of what would become a global pandemic.

This segment was picked by our Producer Zach Gottehrer-Cohen.

[REBROADCAST FROM October 30, 2020] From the construction workers who died building the Brooklyn Bridge, to the peg-legged specter of Peter Stuyvesant ambling along St. Marks, to believe in ghosts is to believe our history lives among us. Andrea Janes, founder of the ghost-tour company, Boroughs of the Dead, and author of a book of the same name, joins us to talk about the lingering spirits of New York City's history and where you might meet them.

This segment was picked by our Producer Zach Gottehrer-Cohen.

[REBROADCAST FROM April 30, 2021] Tommy Pico, a queer poet and Kumeyaay Indian joins to discuss Feed, his 2019 book-length poem about what it means to hunger and to be nourished spiritually as a colonized person in America. Feed is the fourth and final book in his "Teebs Cycle," which uses scenes from the poet's life in New York City as gateways into deeper explorations of authenticity, heritage, love and striving.

This segment was picked by our Producer Zach Gottehrer-Cohen.

[REBROADCAST FROM May 20, 2019] Director Andrey Paounov and artist Christo join us to discuss the documentary, "Walking on Water," which follows Christo as he realizes a long-planned project, “The Floating Piers.”

This segment was picked by our Producer Ursula Sommer.

[REBROADCAST FROM February 17, 2021] In January 2019, the artist Glenn Ligon was asked by curator Okwui Enwezor to serve as an advisor to an exhibition he had conceived of titled, “Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America.” While Enwezor passed away on March 15, 2019, the exhibition was able to be realized after his death with the help of an advisory team, which included Glenn Ligon, Mark Nash, and Naomi Beckwith.

This segment was picked by our Producer Ursula Sommer.

[REBROADCAST FROM December 22, 2020] Curator Chaédria LaBouvier and writer, curator, and musician Greg Tate join us on Jean-Michel Basquiat’s 60th birthday to discuss his influence on art history and music. LaBouvier was the first Black curator to curate a show at the Guggenheim with the 2019 show, "Basquiat’s “Defacement”: The Untold Story," and Tate is the co-curator along with Liz Munsell of, "Writing the Future: Basquiat and the Hip-Hop Generation."

This segment was picked by our Producer Ursula Sommer.

[REBROADCAST FROM November 6, 2019] Rosalie Varda joins us to discuss producing the autobiographical documentary directed by her late mother, Agnès Varda, “Varda by Agnès.”

This segment was picked by our Producer Ursula Sommer.

[REBROADCAST FROM July 11, 2019] Artists Melanie Crean, Shaun Leonardo, and Sable Elyse Smith join us to discuss their collaboration, "Mirror/Echo/Tilt." The exhibition was on view at the New Museum in 2019.

This segment was picked by our Producer Ursula Sommer.