Tania Ketenjian

Tania Ketenjian appears in the following:

Questlove Hearts Emojis

Monday, August 07, 2017

Walk into MoMA and you’ll find everything from paintings by Van Gogh to video games and emojis. How come all these things be in the same museum?

Andy Warhol’s Art of Self-Promotion

Wednesday, August 02, 2017

Andy Warhol wanted to be a famous artist, and painting soup cans got him way more than his 15 minutes of fame. But is there more to Pop Art than being popular?

Minimalism to the Max

Monday, July 24, 2017

Sometimes art doesn’t look like very much like art at all -- and that’s kind of the point of Minimalism. But Abbi discovers there’s a lot more to simplicity than meets the eye.

How Questlove Learned to Love Silence

Monday, July 17, 2017

Works of art that are just one color -- monochromes -- are sometimes easy to walk by. But if you take the time to look, monochromes can recharge your batteries better than meditation.

Hannibal Buress Really Wants to Touch the Art

Monday, July 10, 2017

Abbi Jacobson brings comedian Hannibal Buress to look at art that takes everyday objects — like a bicycle wheel or a teacup — and puts them on a pedestal. Literally.

Prelinger Library

Friday, February 12, 2010

After they met and married, Rick and Megan Prelinger decided to merge their extensive book collections and make it public. In downtown San Francisco, the Prelinger Library is literally a labor of love. Produced by Tania Ketenjian.

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Unlicensed Therapy

Friday, April 03, 2009

Josh Greene is a conceptual artist who comes up with projects that try to provide a service to his audience. In 2008, he remounted a piece he calls "Unlicensed Therapy" in San Francisco. It's pretty much exactly what it sounds like. Produced by Tania Ketenjian.

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Art for Keeps

Friday, April 11, 2008

At Art Basel Miami, real ink tattoo designs by top-notch artists were offered up for sale, and are impossible to resell. Tania Ketenjian followed collector Ronnie Pirovino through the acquisition process.

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Teresa and Katie

Friday, February 08, 2008

Teresa Walsh wanted a song for her twin sister Katie, who’d gone away for college. Corey Dargel took the details from Teresa’s note and made them a song. Studio 360 was there when Teresa surprised Katie with the finished product. With production by

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Happiness

Friday, September 14, 2007

Tania Ketenjian recently crossed the country in an old Subaru talking to strangers. She started all of her conversations by asking them what made them happy. She also talked to scholars studying the deceptively simple idea of happiness (including Paul Ekman of UC San Francisco, ...

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Raymond Nasher

Friday, April 20, 2007

Dallas real estate developer Raymond Nasher passed away last month at age 85. He and his wife Patsy collected work by the world's great modern sculptors, including Serra, Picasso, and Rodin: much of it is housed in the Nasher Sculpture Center. Shortly before his death, he told ...

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Blood for Art

Friday, March 16, 2007

The art market is flooded with money. And that concerns an artists’ collective in San Francisco called Quorum. When they brought their etchings, paintings, and mixed-media to a big international art fair, every piece was priced the same: a single pint of blood, collected on-site by a local blood bank. ...

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Death of a Valley

Saturday, June 12, 2004

In 1956 Pirkle Jones got a call from Life Magazine for a photo assignment like no other. The farm town of Monticello California would soon be submerged under Lake Berryessa and vanish from the face of the earth. Jones joined his hero, the photojournalist Dorothea Lange, to document Monticello’s final ...

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Car Alarms

Saturday, December 13, 2003

The artist Nina Katchadourian explains how she decided to transform the car alarm, and install her new version that plays tape loops of raucous bird calls in cars on city streets. Produced by Tania Ketenjian.

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Los Carpinteros

Saturday, July 19, 2003

The artists in the Cuba-based collective ‘Los Carpinteros’ connect with their country through their abstract art. Produced by Tania Ketenjian.

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Car Alarms

Saturday, October 05, 2002

The artist Nina Katchadourian explains how she decided to transform the car alarm, and install her new version that plays tape loops of raucous bird calls in cars on city streets. 

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Los Carpinteros

Saturday, August 17, 2002

The artists in the Cuba-based collective Los Carpinteros connect with their country through their abstract art.  

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