Basquiat's 60th Birthday, Greatest Actors of the Century, A.I. and Bias, 'Pappyland'
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, on now at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
WNYC planning editor Kate Hinds joins us to discuss the stories the newsroom is following this week.
The New York Times has compiled a list of the "Best Performers of 2020" and “The 25 Greatest Actors of the 21st Century (So Far).” A.O. Scott, chief film critic at The New York Times, and Wesley Morris, the paper's critic at large, join us to discuss these actors, their performances, and take listener calls.
Earlier this month, Google ousted Timnit Gebru, an ethicist researching how artificial intelligence can perpetuate systemic biases. Gebru's ouster, which was met with forceful backlash from her team, came after an internal review of a study she did that spotlighted injustices in one of Google's key products, text autocomplete. New York bureau chief at Bloomberg Business, Shelly Banjo, joins us to talk about her reporting on what this means for Google and the future of artificial intelligence in big tech.
[REBROADCAST] Director Shalini Kantayya and computer scientist and founder of the Algorithmic Justice League Joy Buolamwini discuss Kantayya's documentary “Coded Bias,” about racial bias, surveillance and privacy issues with AI and facial recognition. The film is available to stream via virtual cinemas across the country.
Wright Thompson joins us to discuss his new book, Pappyland: A Story of Family, Fine Bourbon, and the Things That Last. Pappyland tells the story of how Julian Van Winkle III, the caretaker of the most coveted cult Kentucky Bourbon whiskey in the world.
