PRX - Pieces for Tone: NPR NewsMagazine-y

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

59 results


Piece image
A professor of Art at Syracuse University specializing in printmaking now aware of how toxic some art materials are and how damaging the mining and...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
Caption: Photo courtesy the Chitresh Das Institute
Pandit Chitresh Das is credited with bringing the Indian classical dance of kathak to America. Now the Chitresh Das Institute takes it back on tour...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: Some of the typefaces designed by Rajeev Prakash for Indian scripts., Credit: Sandip Roy
Responsible for typefaces of all slants and bolds, Rajeev Prakash is India’s Fontwala!

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 04, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The Round Window album cover, Credit: Richard Lock Facebook
As described by the band, The Round Window is wide-screen rock. And for lyricist Rich Lock, different listeners getting different messages from the...

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Dec 11, 2022
  • Length: 57:50
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
Andy Truscott speaks with Maia Palmer, a 2022 Individual Artist Fellow and the current artist exhibiting in the Mezzanine Gallery at the Carvel Sta...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2022
  • Length: 21:58
Piece image
Andy Truscott speaks with Don Foster, a 2019 Delaware Division of the Arts Individual Artist Fellow in the field of fiction literature.

  • Added: Oct 20, 2022
  • Length: 21:57
Caption: Our Changing Seas IV (2019), Credit: Courtney Mattison
On our show, we tell stories to make climate change seem less overwhelming. We know that our episodes are no replacement for massive policy changes...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2021
  • Length: 04:00
Piece image
Playwright Nick Green launched the Social Distancing Festival when his musical was cancelled because of coronavirus. It was a platform for artists ...

  • Added: May 08, 2020
  • Length: 06:36
Caption: Michael Atwood Mason, Credit: Michael Atwood Mason
American culture is undergoing a huge transformation. In this interview, meet Michael Mason, Director of the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cu...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2019
  • Length: 59:12
Piece image
On this episode of Art Beat we sit down with Sharon Mansur to discuss her new site specific dance film, "...in the space between". Featuring Mansur...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2018
  • Length: 12:33
Caption: Cold Snap and Three Weeks, two of Christensen's pieces, Credit: Elizabeth Miller/ideastream
At this time of year, we tend to turn away from the Great Lakes, counting down the days until we can swim, fish, or go boating. But a new art exhib...

Bought by WXXI Rochester, WDET Detroit Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WBFO, and WKSU


  • Added: Feb 02, 2018
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Hybrid image of book cover and movie poster
World reknowned author Kent Nerburn wrote the novel Neither Wolf Nor Dog in the early 1990s. Director Steven Lewis Simpson made it into a movie o...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Mar 10, 2017
  • Length: 13:54
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
Annual fiber artist event started by four local artists is now in it's 21st year. It has become one of the largest fiber art events in the nation, ...

  • Added: Sep 07, 2016
  • Length: 05:02
Piece image
Tune into our Innovate Media interview with Ryan Merkley, CEO of Creative Commons, to learn about Ryan and how CC provides accessible legal and tec...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 46:43
Caption: Cover of "I See the Rhythm of Gospel" book, Credit: Michelle Wood
Sharing American history and travel through the legendary voices of Maya Angelou and Ellis Marsalis along with well-known artists Sandra Izsadore a...

  • Added: Feb 21, 2016
  • Length: 59:55
Piece image
Today on Art Beat, we continue our coverage of MetaCon. MetaCon is a new anime, sci-fi, steampunk, and popular culture Nerd Convention in Minneapol...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2015
  • Length: 14:04
Piece image
On this episode of Art Beat, we visit with Kate Maurer who creates beautiful hand painted silk scarfs, wraps and more. You may have seen her creati...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2015
  • Length: 11:16
Caption: Ali Güreli, Credit: tourismlifeinturkey.com
Turkish art collector and hotelier Ali Güreli talks about the evolution of Contemporary Istanbul, an international contemporary art fair.

  • Added: Dec 10, 2015
  • Length: 08:29
Caption: Courtesy of The Photographing Tourist, Credit: David Noyes
Explore social responsibility through travel photography, crime writing, science and water conservation.

  • Added: Nov 01, 2015
  • Length: 59:55
Piece image
Our Innovate interview with Managing Editor Robert Rimm and Timothy Rub, CEO of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, in which Timothy discusses his role...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2015
  • Length: 40:01
Piece image
Dan Weiss, current President of Haverford College and soon to be President of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York discusses his lifelong inter...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jul 07, 2015
  • Length: 42:50
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
Stepping inside the Taurus Bookbindery is kind of like stepping back in time.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 28, 2014
  • Length: 11:20
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
Larger-than-life Serbian sculptor Zoran Mojisilov creates work from the most primal of elements: rocks, wood scraps and steel he hauls to his North...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2014
  • Length: 05:22
Piece image
Sandip Roy looks at the story behind "Upaj."

  • Added: Nov 04, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
Caption: ‘Vinyl: The Sound and Culture of Records’ at the Oakland Museum of California is open now until July 19th., Credit: Ashleyanne Krigbaum
Walking into ‘Vinyl: The Sound and Culture of Records,’ one of the newest exhibits at the Oakland Museum of California (OMCA), feels like hanging o...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jul 14, 2014
  • Length: 09:09
  • Purchases: 1