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Caption: Manuel Lima in The Cube, Credit: Anny Celsi
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
Caption: Kira Obolensky, Credit: Xan Holston
Playwrights are a lot like the song writers of the theatre world; both are almost always overshadowed by the artists who perform them. But local pl...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2016
  • Length: 04:16
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
I went to a performance "designed to raise awareness surrounding gun violence and its victims" the program said. The Colorado-based modern dance c...

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Sep 11, 2016
  • Length: 07:17
  • Purchases: 1
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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
Caption: Miguel del Aguila, Credit: Donna Granata
Three-time Grammy nominated Uruguayan-born American composer, Miguel del Aguila, shares insight into his most recent lauded composition, Concierto ...

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Aug 21, 2016
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
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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
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The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know!!! Featuring the band Rockstar Frame, actor Michael Sun Lee, and The Plot Against America, in...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2016
  • Length: 58:01
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One interesting thing we discover is that being an actor is the template employment for the “gig” economy that we all now seem to be facing in the ...

  • Added: Jul 11, 2016
  • Length: 59:32
Caption: Famous taxidermist Carl Akeley posing with the leopard he killed with his bare hands
Taxidermy is back. This time, with glitter.

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Jul 07, 2016
  • Length: 26:05
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: No more Prairie Home Companion ponies to ride, Credit: Susan Cook
I watched the next-to-last Prairie Home Companion live broadcast on my laptop since the show and the 1 and ½ hour encore were live streamed on You-...

  • Added: Jun 27, 2016
  • Length: 05:09
Caption: Cartoon Paul Buhle, Credit: Steve Chappell
Our guest is Paul Buhle, one of the foremost historians of American Radicalism and the American Left having authored or edited over 30 books, inclu...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2016
  • Length: 59:36
Caption: Tiempe Passate, Credit: Shelby El Otmani
Antonia Bellanca creates perfume based on experiences and memories from her life.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, PRX Remix, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 10, 2016
  • Length: 05:03
  • Purchases: 4
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The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know!!! Featuring Musician Trevor Sewell, the band March to May, and New York Times bestseller Bre...

  • Added: Jun 01, 2016
  • Length: 57:55
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Erik Didriksen takes hit songs from artists like Taylor Swift and Coldplay and rewrites them as Elizabethan-style sonnets.

  • Added: Dec 20, 2017
  • Length: 23:31
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A comic book series in which Shakespeare’s most popular characters team up in rival, warring camps

  • Added: Dec 20, 2017
  • Length: 29:14
Caption: Tom Davis, 62, starts his tour of Crown Hill Cemetery at the Before I Die Wall. Davis suffered a heart attack on March 22., Credit: Jake Harper/Side Effects
The original Before I Die Festival was held in Cardiff, Wales in 2013, and the idea has since spread to the U.K. and now, Indianapolis. The purpos...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WABE, and WNIN


  • Added: Apr 27, 2016
  • Length: 03:37
  • Purchases: 3
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The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know!!! Featuring the Ivy Blue band, Rapper 1G, and Black Wave read by Carrington MacDuffie, in ou...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2016
  • Length: 58:01
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The best of Stephen Sondheim from "West Side Story" to "Into The Woods"

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, WVTF, and WRR


  • Added: Mar 26, 2016
  • Length: 58:09
  • Purchases: 3
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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
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The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know!!! Featuring Author Nicholas Stanton, Rapper Thraxxup, and The Revenant, now a major motion p...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2016
  • Length: 58:01
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
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The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know!!! Featuring the Musician Linda Chorney, Artist Joshua Smith, and Jerry on Jerry read by Jerr...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2016
  • Length: 58:07
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The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know!!! Featuring the Artist AmarA, Director Sue Zizza, and #1 New York Times bestseller The Grave...

  • Added: Jan 06, 2016
  • Length: 58:34
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What happens when you move to NYC from Winona with hopes of making it on Broadway, but along the way you find a whole other world of artistic possi...

  • Added: Dec 23, 2015
  • Length: 32:51
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On this episode of Art Beat, we continue our coverage of Meta Conn. MetaCon is described as a new anime, sci-fi, steampunk, and popular culture Ner...

  • Added: Dec 23, 2015
  • Length: 11:56