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This 1943 painting by N.C. Wyeth (father of Andrew, and iconic illustrator of Treasure Island and other favorites) struck us at our recent outing to the Brandywine Museum of Art in Chadd’s Ford, Pa. The painting was commissioned by Bristol-Myers Squibb as an advertising window display for its products. It is unironically titled “Public Health and Morale.” Your mileage may vary…
Brandywine Museum of Art
Chadd’s Ford, Pennsylvania
Tom Keough died about a month ago, far too young. He was a brilliant artist, political activist, and community organizer. Tom was also a dear friend, and someone whose life I think Arts Express listeners might like to know more about. So in tribute to Tom, here’s a little bit more about him.
Click on the small triangle or mp3 link above to hear my tribute to Tom as broadcast on the Arts Express radio program, as heard on WBAI-FM NYC and Pacifica affiliates across the nation.
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“The Hours” by Edwin Austin Abbey, intended for the rotunda of the Pennsylvania State Capitol building
Yale University Art Gallery
New Haven, Connecticut
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By Martin Wong at the Yale Art Gallery
New Haven Connecticut
This is part 2 of our conversation with artist, revolutionary and Young Lord, Carlito Rovira.
Click on the triangle or mp3 link above to listen to part 2, as broadcast yesterday on Arts Express, heard on WBAI FM NYC and Pacifica affiliates across the nation.
You can find part 1 here:
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Smith Street
Brooklyn, New York
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Chelsea,
New York, New York
At the height of the Cold War, the U.S. government was determined to showcase US culture to the world as proof of capitalism’s superiority as an economic system. And so in 1964, the US government embarked on a daring plan to make artist Robert Rauschenberg the winner of the Grand Prize at The Venice Art Biennale, the world’s most influential art exhibition. A new film documentary, Taking Venice, gives us an inside look at how the Biennale was manipulated, and more than that, a look at the enigma that was Robert Rauschenberg.
I was happy to interview the director of Taking Venice, and an art critic in her own right, Amei Wallach. Click on the small triangle above or the mp3 link to hear the interview as broadcast on Pacifica affiliate stations across the nation.
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Woodstock, New York
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Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, New York
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Billie, Lester fats and Duke by artist Frederick J. Brown
The Spike Lee “Creative Sources” Exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum
Eastern Parkway,
Brooklyn, New York
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Untitled, Henry Taylor
Whitney Museum
New York, New York
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West 17th Street
New York, New York
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Boerum Street
Brooklyn, New York
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Designed by Barbara Siracusa
Avenue N
Brooklyn, New York
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Rogers Avenue
Brooklyn, New York
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Detail from “Each One Every One Equal All,” mosaic glass mural by Nick Cave
Times Square Subway Station
New York, New York
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Avenue U
Brooklyn, New York
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Mosaic of Philip Glass by Chuck Close
Second Avenue
New York, New York
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Animator, Director, Artist, Scapegoat Nina Paley recently completed her Apocalypse Animated project–that is, her unique animations (illuminations?) as applied to the Book of Revelations. She then took the animations and repurposed them to the short three minute video above.
See the whole project at https://apocalypseanimated.com/
And you can hear an interview I did years ago with Ms. Paley here
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Chrystie Street,
New York, New York
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Memorial in front of the Frank and Ella Hathaway Labour Exhibit Centre,
Saint John, New Brunswick
Canada
