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JM Stevens is a singer/songwriter based out of Austin, Texas. He grew up in West Point, Mississippi fortunate enough to have a mother who was a sin...
- Added: May 11, 2024
- Length: 58:05
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
Sukumar Ray is sometimes called the Edward Lear of Bengal. Abol Tabol his book of nonsense rhymes was part of my growing up. And I dare say every B...
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- Added: Jan 23, 2024
- Length: 06:00
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When artist Benigna Chilla got a frayed sari, more than six decades old, from Sandip's mother it set the stage for an artistic conversation that sp...
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- Added: Jan 02, 2024
- Length: 06:00
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Kolkata's biggest festival Durga Puja has earned a UNESCO tag for intangible cultural heritage. This has led to a lot of interest among art fans in...
- Added: Nov 08, 2023
- Length: 06:00
I first encountered Ben de la Cour and his songs when he opened a concert in support of Peter Case. To say I was immediately smitten by his songwri...
- Added: May 29, 2023
- Length: 57:42
Responsible for typefaces of all slants and bolds, Rajeev Prakash is India’s Fontwala!
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- Added: Apr 04, 2023
- Length: 06:00
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After turning 16 Peter Case left home in Buffalo, New York and headed West to California. He became part of the street musician scene out there and...
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- Added: Mar 05, 2023
- Length: 57:00
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Robin Armstrong's music project, Cosmograf, has released a new album entitled 'Heroic Materials'. It's a song cycle based on the life of a World Wa...
- Added: Sep 25, 2022
- Length: 01:56:11
We bring you stories of "Living and Grieving in a Time of Covid 19." Each story crosses a line ... from before pandemic ... to after. The stories e...
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- Added: Jun 18, 2020
- Length: 54:52
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On April 15th While Americans rush to file their taxes, Bengalis in Kolkata celebrate their new year.
But April 15 is also World Art Day. And this...
- Added: Apr 16, 2019
- Length: 06:00
The very first rock billboard arrived on the strip fifty years ago, just in time for the Summer of Love. It was the brainchild of Elektra Records...
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- Added: Jul 10, 2017
- Length: 05:12
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A man, a plan, a piano: For 10 days, Brazilian composer Manuel Lima ate, slept and played the piano in a 10 x 10 foot square cube erected on a tria...
- Added: Sep 19, 2016
- Length: 08:03
Three-time Grammy nominated Uruguayan-born American composer, Miguel del Aguila, shares insight into his most recent lauded composition, Concierto ...
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- Added: Aug 21, 2016
- Length: 05:00
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Gemini GEL, Graphic Editions Limited, has been contributing to the cultural fabric of American Contemporary Art for over 50 years. As they celebrat...
- Added: Aug 20, 2016
- Length: 05:43
- Added: Jul 07, 2016
- Length: 26:05
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William Farley talks going full circle, delivering an aesthetic, and becoming an artist.
- Added: Aug 22, 2015
- Length: 16:16
I’m inside what looks like it could be a college library or a research institute. People sit quietly working at desks and tables, surrounded by she...
- Added: Jul 21, 2015
- Length: 10:05
California has long been a land of possibility. From the Gold Rush to the promise of fertile farmland, people from all over the world have flocked ...
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- Added: Jun 05, 2015
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Is art a public good? In the cash-strapped city of Bangor, a suggestive sculpture sparks debate.
- Added: May 27, 2015
- Length: 05:31
Some people who take dance classes regularly have a saying: “Dance is my church.”
Dancer Stella Adelman says just that about going to Afro-Cuban f...
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- Added: Apr 20, 2015
- Length: 09:26
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Bill Plympton talks mundane dreams, the honesty of hand-drawing, and the passion behind the passion.
- Added: Apr 18, 2015
- Length: 26:41
Roland Stock, after retirement, re-kindles a youthful dream of being a guitar maker, and builds a dream guitar using Brazilian Rosewood.
- Added: Mar 02, 2015
- Length: 07:00
For centuries, religion has sparked the design of some of the world’s most beautiful buildings. But what is that process? What built elements make ...
- Added: Feb 05, 2015
- Length: 07:53
Little G Weevil is a Hungarian-born Blues musician living in Kennesaw, Georgia. When he talks, you know he had to come from Budapest. But when he s...
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- Added: Jan 20, 2015
- Length: 07:05
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