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Listen to our Director Brett Littman speak about The Drawing Center's history, the joys of the intimate museum experience, what we are planning for the coming year, and more. Littman speaks with Yale University Radio’s Brainard Carey.

On Yale University Radio WYBCX’s website:

After four years as deputy director of MoMA PS1, where he managed five departments and oversaw the Warm Up summer DJ festival and wps1.org (now ArtonAir.org) radio, Brett Littman assumed the post of executive director of The Drawing Center in 2007.

Littman brought with him experience as a writer and critic as well as an administrator. Since 1996 he has contributed news and commentary to a range of international publications and critical essays to many scholarly catalogues.

As a curator, Littman has organized a number of noteworthy exhibitions. For The Drawing Center, he curated Yüksel Arslan: Visual Interpretations; Greta Magnusson Grossman: Lighting and Furniture; Leon Golub: Live & Die Like a Lion?, which was awarded the `Best Show in Non-Profit Gallery’ award by AICA USA in 2010, as well as Drawing and its Double: Selections from the Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome (2011) and co-curated with Joanna Kleinberg, Sean Scully: Change and Horizontals (toured to four Europe venues in 2012-2013 and will be at TDC in September 2013). Upcoming projects for The Drawing Center include: a collaboration with the Ecole des Beaux-Arts Paris on an exhibition of 400 years of portrait drawings and Runaway Girl, a new video commission by Turkish artist Inci Eniver (both April 2015); an exhibition of Richard Pousette-Dart’s drawings from the 1930’s (September 2015); a large scale installation by Louise Despont and an exhibition of Jennifer Bartlett’s Hospital 2012 pastels (both January 2016).

For the American Folk Art Museum, New York, Littman organized Eugene Von Bruenchenhein in 2010, for Japan Society Gallery, he curated the drawing component of Mariko Mori: Rebirth October 2013 – January 2014 and David Lynch Naming for Kayne Griffin Corcoran Gallery in Los Angeles, November 2013 – January 2014.

[cthouseshows]

Next Saturday Yale kicks off the semester with local boys Loner Chic and 10,000 Blades (and 1 TBA)! Get rocked! 9/6

[jwiz]

Right now I'm working on a project that includes visiting the websites of every college station in the US. I've come across quite a few good quotes in theAboutsections. Yale's was especially impressive/inspiring.

College radio exists outside the realm of commercial radio’s pigeonholed purpose of trite music and loveable talking heads, as it owes nothing to anyone. College radio takes the financial limitations of the commercial realm, obliterates them, and instead focuses on endeavors like effective content delivery and supporting local talent. Radio is solely a metonym for the YouTube and iTunes services of yesteryear. Go ahead and argue that radio is dead and we’ll agree with you. But is creativity and conversation dead at Yale? Have we run out of things to talk about? Yet where is that forum for sharing the good word? Long live radio.

 - WYBCX