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Joan of Art is Joan Juliet Buck’s new Radio Free Rhinecliff podcast devoted to human expression in the age of tentpoles and bots, at the dawn of AI. It's about culture in all its forms. Joan of Art is a weapon in the fight against the machines Joan of Art is the flag waving over the battlefield where institutional interests try to crush the people who make what’s called either 'Product" , or 'Content'. Product? Content? No: Art. Movies. Books. Plays. Exhibitions. Poems. Murals. Museums. Streamers. Essays. Concepts. Joan Of Art is reviews --but also interviews with people who write, think, paint, direct, dance, perform, who use the arts to enhance, elevate, and question our lives. It's not a show about solutions, it's a show about questions. As a critic, Joan Juliet Buck crisply and coherently shares her enthusiasms.Today there's more at stake than when she wrote for the classic primary pollinators of culture, the arts pages, features sections, and magazines. Today, the newsstands are
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- Aug 3, 202645 min
Amy Larocca explains Wellness
Journalist Amy Larocca, for 20 years the fashion editor or New York Magazine, looks at the wellness industry in her hilarious, best-selling book 'How To Be Well, Navigating Our Self Care Epidemic, One Dubious Cure at a Time. Produced and edited by Matty Rosenberg, co-produced by Jennifer Hammoud, and Joan Juliet Buck @ radiofreerhinecliff.org Graphics by Joseph Maresca Send comments to comments@radiofreerhinecliff.org or call (845) 307-7446
- Jul 21, 202649 min
Michael Lindsay-Hogg explains Rock and Roll
Michael Lindsay Hogg directed the London Friday TV music show Ready, Steadu, Go! when he was 24, and went on to shape the history of pop music through videos. His Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus is shown at Upstate Films July 23rd, and before that he explains what it was all about Produced and edited by Matty Rosenberg, co-produced by Jennifer Hammoud, and Joan Juliet Buck @ radiofreerhinecliff.org Graphics by Joseph Maresca Send comments to comments@radiofreerhinecliff.org or call (845) 307-7446
- May 26, 202639 min
Molly Crabapple explains the Jewish Bund, the subject of her book “Here Where We Live is our Country”
Molly Crabapple, the illustrator and journalist, has written a vital book about the creation of the first labor movement in the Pale of settlement by Jewish intellectual and activists in 1897. She makes the disputes of the early socialists read like a thriller. ‘Here where we live is our country’ is brilliant, cool, astonishing, rational, and also moving. The idealism of the anti -Zionist men and women who created and fought for the Bund was tested by the horrendous events of the 20th century, but this book is ultimately about persistence and survival. A thrilling interview for Joan of Art Produced and edited by Matty Rosenberg, co-produced by Jennifer Hammoud, and Joan Juliet Buck @ radiofreerhinecliff.org Graphics by Joseph Maresca Send comments to comments@radiofreerhinecliff.org or call (845) 307-7446
- Apr 14, 202648 min
Ian Buruma's explains Berlin 1939-1945 in his new book, 'Stay Alive"
Joan Juliet Buck in enlightening conversation with professor , writer, and public intellectual Ian Buruma, whose new book explains what it was to be every kind of German living in Berlin while Hitler sent his armies into Western Europe and then the Soviet Union. HIs father did forced labor in a Berlin factory in Berlin during the war. The book is European history, personal history, and vital reading for today, right now. Produced and edited by Matty Rosenberg, co-produced by Jennifer Hammoud, and Joan Juliet Buck @ radiofreerhinecliff.org Graphics by Joseph Maresca Send comments to comments@radiofreerhinecliff.org or call (845) 307-7446
- Mar 14, 202615 min
Old Model Disasters are Obsolete, the Heart of the Matter is Death
Joan Juliet Buck dismisses 'One Battle After Another,' praises movies that face death: 'The Voice of Hind Rajab' , 'The Secret Agent', and two from 2024: 'The Life of Chuck', 'The Uninvited'. The old story lines don't work when the world s exploding. Only the heart of the matter counts. Produced and edited by Matty Rosenberg, co-produced by Jennifer Hammoud, and Joan Juliet Buck @ radiofreerhinecliff.org Graphics by Joseph Maresca Send comments to comments@radiofreerhinecliff.org or call (845) 307-7446 RFR
- Aug 21, 202550 min
Gary Lippman explains the one sentence story
A month before Gary Lippman's new novel, 'I Wish, Therefore I Am' comes out, he discusses his book of one-sentence stories, 'We Loved The World But Could Not Stay' with Joan Juliet Buck, who reads the one about the deer with one antler, the one about scared actor, and the one about the public scribe in Saigon. Gary Lippman reads the one about the suicidal cab driver. Produced and edited by Matty Rosenberg, co-produced by Jennifer Hammoud, and Joan Juliet Buck @ radiofreerhinecliff.org Graphics by Joseph Maresca Send comments to comments@radiofreerhinecliff.org or call (845) 307-7446
- Jun 8, 20251h 0m
Laura Day explains how to grow a backbone
Laura Day, a down-to-earth intuitive who spent her youth being lab-tested by academic researchers into ESP, tells Joan Juliet Buck how she turned her neurodiversity into an excellent career-- predicting the future for large companies and private clients, and training more intuitives . In a long, fizzy interview, she claims it’s her severe ADHD that keeps her away from the pitfalls of interpretation. with the poised delivery and charm of a 1930s movie star. She has written seven books, two bestsellers including ‘Pratical Intuition’. She’s on Joan Of Art to discuss her latest book, 'The Prism’, and to debunk a lot of superstitious woo-woo. Produced and edited by Matty Rosenberg, co-produced by Jennifer Hammoud, and Joan Juliet Buck @ radiofreerhinecliff.org Graphics by Joseph Maresca Send comments to comments@radiofreerhinecliff.org or call (845) 307-7446
- May 31, 202512 min
Ruth Zaporah, taught me to not think
This Joan of Art is taken from my Substack ‘Every Day Until I Die’, in which I wrote about Ruth Zaporah, who died on May 12. What this dancer who wanted to use words discovered , devised, and taught about direct expression, about the stage, about improvisation, influenced generations of performers and changed the way I wrote. Buddhist, shaman, breaker of conventions, she ushered us all to another place. Produced and edited by Matty Rosenberg, co-produced by Jennifer Hammoud, and Joan Juliet Buck @ radiofreerhinecliff.org Graphics by Joseph Maresca Send comments to comments@radiofreerhinecliff.org or call (845) 307-7446
About Joan of Art
Joan of Art is Joan Juliet Buck’s new Radio Free Rhinecliff podcast devoted to human expression in the age of tentpoles and bots, at the dawn of AI. It's about culture in all its forms. Joan of Art is a weapon in the fight against the machines Joan of Art is the flag waving over the battlefield where institutional interests try to crush the people who make what’s called either 'Product" , or 'Content'. Product? Content? No: Art. Movies. Books. Plays. Exhibitions. Poems. Murals. Museums. Streamers. Essays. Concepts. Joan Of Art is reviews --but also interviews with people who write, think, paint, direct, dance, perform, who use the arts to enhance, elevate, and question our lives. It's not a show about solutions, it's a show about questions. As a critic, Joan Juliet Buck crisply and coherently shares her enthusiasms.Today there's more at stake than when she wrote for the classic primary pollinators of culture, the arts pages, features sections, and magazines. Today, the newsstands are
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