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The new Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt rom-com "The Fall Guy" is all about a stuntman. We speak with Chris O'Hara, the stunt designer for the film, about his work on the project and his career as a stuntman and stunt designer.

Opening this weekend at the Museum of Modern Art is the first wholistic survey of artist and activist LaToya Ruby Frazier, who was just named as one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2024. Frazier was born in the industrial down of Braddock, Pennsylvania, and travels to working class communities around the country using her art as a form of social documentary, from Flint, to Pittsburgh, to Baltimore. LaToya Ruby Frazier: Monuments of Solidarity is on view at MoMA from May 12 to September 7, and Frazier joins us to preview her exhibition.

It'sMother's Day Weekend!We talk about some of the things happening around the city such as the African Film Festival, the Tony-nominated musical Stereophonic, and the Kelly Reichardt career retrospective at the Metrograph. Listeners also share their recommendations for activities and events to participate in over the weekend.

The final day to send a song into the Public Song Project is this Sunday, May 12! Producers Simon Close and Zach Gottehrer-Cohen explainhow to submit, talk about how to think about adapting old works, and why this particular branch of intellectual property law is actually super exciting.

Over the past four decades, hundreds of permanent artworks have been installed across New York City's transit system. The new book, Contemporary Art Underground: New York MTA Arts & Design, highlights more than a hundred recent installations that span the five boroughs. Co-authors Sandra Bloodworth and Cheryl Hageman join us to discuss the art work, the process of how artists get chosen, and how having art in the subway connects riders to the city around them.

[REBROADCAST FROM MARCH 19TH, 2024] "Illinoise" is a new dance adaptation of the seminal Sufjan Stevens album, with a story by Tony-winning choreographer Justin Peck and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury. Drury and Peck, who also directed and choreographed the production, join us.

Filmmaker Kelly Reichardt has spent 30 years making films about everyday people set in the Pacific Northwest. A new retrospective at the Metrograph celebrates all eight of her films in the series American Landscapes: The Cinema of Kelly Reichardt. She joins us to discuss the retrospective and her career thus far.

Mel Asseraf knew at an early age that baking was her passion. A graduate of culinary school, she's also a trained pastry chef who studied under established chefs in Paris and has been a winner of the show "Chopped" twice. Her first cookbook contains 100 recipes made with just 10 ingredients. It's called Sweet Treats: from Brownies to Brioche and she'll join to discuss.

In the last few weeks, hip-hop fans have been following Drake and Kendrick Lamar in a beef for the ages. Vulture critic Craig Jenkins helps us understand where the feud between the two began and share some of the highlights from the diss tracks.

The 2023 Pulitzer-winning play from Eboni Booth tells the story of a bookstore worker named Kenneth who is forced to face everything he's been avoiding when he is laid off from his job. William Jackson Harper, who stars in "Primary Trust" as Kenneth, discusses the play, alongside Booth.