PRX - Pieces for Format: Soft Feature

Can't find it? Try Advanced Search
View by:

150 results


Pop-up bookstore sells permanence, for a limited time only
From: KALW
Caption: Pop-up bookstore Scanners is oepn through November at the Mina Dresden Gallery in San Francisco
The current state of our economy is getting everyone to think more creatively. For business owners, this means finding ways to cut costs, and in Sa...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2011
  • Length: 05:22
Meet your neighbor: the Salvadoran Idol
From: KALW
Piece image
KALW’s Nathanael Johnson lives in San Francisco, near Mission and 30th Street. It’s at the intersection of several different neighborhoods with lot...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 13, 2011
  • Length: 06:20
  • Purchases: 1
SFMOMA conservators turn back time
From: KALW
Caption: Paula de Cristofaro treating Matisse’s “Portrait of Sarah Stein” in the SFMOMA conservation lab., Credit: Photo courtesy of SFMOMA
Art conservators work behind the scenes at museums. Though they’re sometimes confused with curators, who acquire works for a collection, conservato...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 03, 2011
  • Length: 05:23
  • Purchases: 1
The Cries of San Francisco: Artists celebrate the call of the street peddler
From: KALW
Piece image
Last Saturday, June 11, 70 artists gathered in downtown San Francisco to call, cry, sell, barter, and gift items ranging from love poems to insect ...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2011
  • Length: 05:17
Parents and teachers get creative about keeping arts in school
From: KALW
Caption: Students in Art Vistas at Eastin Elementary. , Credit: Hana Baba
While budget cuts in Brisbane schools mean larger class sizes or pink slips for some teachers, in many schools they also translate into eliminating...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2011
  • Length: 08:26
Emeryville's poet laureate thinks outside the big box
From: KALW
Caption: Janell Moon is Emeryville's first poet laureate
It may surprise you to learn that 40 of the 50 states have Poet Laureates, as do a growing number of California cities – including Emeryville, whic...

  • Added: May 16, 2011
  • Length: 06:43
Going retro: the art of hatmaking
From: KALW
Piece image
San Francisco may not be known for its fashion, but it’s certainly a fashionable city – the item of the day might be a bulky scarf or skinny jeans,...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: May 16, 2011
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 1
Washington Color and Light
From: Emily Berman
Caption: "Light Depth" Sam Gilliam, 1969, Credit: Corcoran Gallery of Art
What's the deal with abstract art, anyway?

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 13, 2010
  • Length: 04:27
  • Purchases: 1
Riddles from the Border Regions, 10/9/10
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
Piece image
HIS HOUSE HAS NOW BECOME A GHOST...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Oct 06, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Pakistani Art of Truck Decoration
From: Seattle Globalist
Caption: Truck Grille, Credit: Sarah Stuteville
Shipping is a big business in Pakistan. With new paved highways offering a fast track to Afghanistan and northern Pakistan, trucking is an importa...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 20, 2010
  • Length: 03:21
  • Purchases: 1
Riddles from the Border Regions, 8/14/10
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
Piece image
I HAVE STORIES I CAN'T TELL...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Aug 12, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Riddles from the Border Regions, 4/24/10
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
Piece image
WHAT IS IT THAT'S CAUGHT...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Apr 22, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Riddles from the Border Regions, 3/27/10
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
Piece image
ONE HAS SUBSTANCE, ONE HAS NONE...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Mar 24, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Riddles from the Border Regions, 2/20/10
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
Piece image
TULIPS PLANTED...

Bought by KMXT and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Feb 17, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Riddles from the Border Regions, 2/13/10
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
Piece image
RUMMAGING THROUGH THE FOLDS OF GRAY...

Bought by KMXT and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Feb 10, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Riddles from the Border Regions, 1/30/10
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
Piece image
THIS SAILBOAT OF THE ENDLESS SANDS...

Bought by KMXT and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Feb 05, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
The Evolution of the Mash-Up
From: Andrew Davis
Caption: Thru-You YouTube Music Mash-up from User Generated Content, Credit: Thru-You.com / Kutiman
Mash-ups (creating new art works from existing creative pieces) have been around for at least two decades, but the digital universe has helped this...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and Remix Radio


  • Added: Feb 04, 2010
  • Length: 07:44
  • Purchases: 2
Riddles from the Border Regions, 1/16/10
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
Piece image
BROUGHT ALIVE ON A GUST...

Bought by KMXT and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Jan 12, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Riddles from the Border Regions, 12/26/09
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
Piece image
HIS FIRST NAME, REMEDY OR SPICE...

Bought by KMXT and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Dec 22, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Instruments and Rhythms of the Arab World
From: Richard Paul
Caption: An Arab musician demonstrates traditional upright fiddle-playing
Georges Collinet on the instruments and rhythms of the Arab World

Bought by WSLR


  • Added: Nov 07, 2009
  • Length: 13:31
  • Purchases: 1
Opera Underage
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Piece image
A look into the teenage world of opera, give it a try, it's cooler than you think!

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 22, 2009
  • Length: 07:56
  • Purchases: 1
Part 1 - the 18th Century
From: Richard Paul
Piece image
Classical music in the years before and just after the Revolution

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Dec 04, 2008
  • Length: 15:02
  • Purchases: 1
Part 2 - the 19th Century
From: Richard Paul
Piece image
Classical music in American in the 19th Century

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Dec 04, 2008
  • Length: 15:01
  • Purchases: 1
Part 3 - the 20th Century
From: Richard Paul
Piece image
Classical music in American in the 20th Century

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Dec 04, 2008
  • Length: 13:51
  • Purchases: 1
The Des Moines Metro Opera
From: Charles Richards
Series: Turn On The Lights
Piece image
Interviews with performers in the Des Moines Metro Opera.

  • Added: Jan 26, 2008
  • Length: 22:00