Arts Express

Arts Express 5-17-23 Featuring Leslie Uggams

* Leslie Uggams talks Dottie & Soul in a conversation about defying race and class in her latest film
* Julian Assange's Letter to Charles
* Dennis Broe on the Hollywood Writers Strike
* Garland Nixon's Corporate Media Watch

Arts Express 5-10-23 Featuring Actress Famke Janssen

* Actress Famke Janssen Talks Knights Of The Zodiac--and how she is drawn to take-charge female film roles 
* Caitlin Johnstone with a real Mothers Day poem
* Dennis Broe converses with historian Gerald Horne about neo-colonialism
* Empire Hollywood: The Pentagon Calls the Shots

Arts Express 5-3-23 Featuring Cinematographer Roger Deakins

* Legendary Cinematographer Roger Deakins Talks Byways, Blade Runner, and his photography 
* "Red Iowa:" Peter Wise tells tales of the "Global Trotsky"
* Dirty Work-- prisons, slaughterhouses and drones operators as the hidden dirty work that is essential to capitalism
* "The New McCarthyism Censorship," with Garland Nixon

Arts Express 4-26-23 Featuring Actor Yul Vazquez

* Actor Yul Vazquez Talks White House Plumbers and Godfather Of Harlem
* The Rubber Stamp Man: Poems and Snippets from Political activist and poet, Mitchel Cohen, Part 2
* 32 Sounds: Filmmaker Sam Green on his immersive new documentary on the power of sound
* Garland Nixon commentary on those who push our buttons

Arts Express 4-19-23 Featuring Comedian W. Kamau Bell

** Comedian W. Kamau Bell Talks Growing Up Mixed: Taking up race as no laughing matter
** Red Iowa: Artists Peter Wise and Cecile Houel talk art & politics
** Jack & Rick with Bob & Ray homage episode #2
** Garland Nixon on US Empire, Crime Scenes Edition

Arts Express 4-12-23 Featuring Mick Box of Uriah Heep

** Chaos Of Color: A Conversation With Uriah Heep guitarist, Mick Box.
** Caitlin Johnstone on NPR and its wild biases, greasing the wheels of the US empire.
** Garland Nixon on "Why I oppose imperialism."
** The Statue of David --Controversy, Now And Then

Arts Express 4-5-23 Featuring CNN Legal Analyst Elie Honig

* CNN analyst Elie Honig Talks Untouchable: How Powerful People Get Away With It
* Garland Nixon dissects how propaganda works
* Broe on Dispatches: The Invaders - Alien beings from a dying empire 
* Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs Of Mary Rodgers

Art Express 3-29-23 Featuring John Sayles

** Filmmaker, writer John Sayles talks Jamie MacGillivray, his new novel 
** Joel Thurm visits the Hollywood casting couch
** Activist/poet Mitchel Cohen presents "The Rubber Stamp Man" Pt. 1
** Peter Wise celebrates musician/poet Gil Scott-Heron 

Arts Express 3-22-23 Featuring John Shipton On His Son, Julian Assange

** John Shipton Talks Ithaka: His struggle to free his son Julian Assange from captivity
** Art Express Artist-In-Residence Peter Wise on the necessity of artists to fight the Deep State in their work. HIs work can be seen here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/192835167@N04
** Coriolanus, Shakespeare's most class-conscious play

Arts Express 3-15-22 Featuring Filmmaker John Ridley

** John Ridley Talks Shirley: The African-American filmmaker discusses his new graphic novel and his biopic, Shirley, about Shirley Chisolm, the first black Congresswoman and first black woman to run for President
** Arts Express Crime Scenes Edition: US Gangsterism and how it plays out around the world: Lionel and Garland Nixon

Arts Express 3-08-23 Featuring Actress Mia Wasikowska

* Mia Wasikowska talks Blueback, playing a child of environmentalists who struggles against corporations destroying ocean life
* Poet Connie Norgren reads recent poems
* Bro on Diana Dors vs. Marilyn Monroe
* An International Women's Day arts celebration

Arts Express 3-1-23 Featuring Charlotte Rampling

* Screen legend Charlotte Rampling talks Juniper, playing WWII correspondent Martha Gelhorn
* Dennis Broe reads from his latest noir thriller, The Precinct With The Golden Arm.
* A tribute to comedians Bob & Ray.