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Thursday, October 11, 2012
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
The Picture Show
Time-Traveling In The Pacific Northwest
![The caption for this photo in Edward Curtis' book reads: " ... a masked [Kwakiutl] man personating the thunderbird, dances with characteristic gestures as the canoe approaches the bride's village."](http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2012/10/10/cp10009v-94cf9a4d0662018d1bef7fee2cbb7988b680b9b6-s1.jpg "The caption for this photo in Edward Curtis' book reads: \" ... a masked [Kwakiutl] man personating the thunderbird, dances with characteristic gestures as the canoe approaches the bride's village.\"")
October 10, 2012 Seattle was just a baby when these photos were taken. But the people in the photos had been in that region for a long time.
Thursday, October 04, 2012
Wednesday, October 03, 2012
Tuesday, October 02, 2012
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Like 007 Himself, James Bond Movie Posters Live To See Another Day
October 2, 2012 A lavish new book explores the essence of one of cinema's most enduring brands as defined by Bond posters from around the globe and across the decades.
Monday, October 01, 2012
In 'Music Of Trees,' A Symphony In The Key Of Cedar
October 1, 2012 Abby Aresty created music by weaving together sounds recorded at the Washington Park Arboretum in Seattle, including bird song, jingling dog collars and bicycles on gravel.
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Fine Art
Print-Inspired Art: All The News That's Fit To Paint
September 25, 2012 Newsprint is both the medium and the message in the "Shock of the News" exhibit currently on display at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. The show examines a century's worth of interaction between artists and the journals of their day.
Saturday, September 22, 2012
Fine Art
The Landscape Art Legacy Of Florida's Highwaymen
September 22, 2012 The Highwaymen were a group of African-American artists in the '60s and '70s who sold idyllic paintings by the roadside of Florida's Route 1. Back then, they nearly saturated the market with their pictures, but today their work is sought after by the likes of Steven Spielberg and Michelle Obama.
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A Photographer's Ode To Unsung Artists
September 22, 2012 Here's a photographer you probably don't know, but who's worth a closer look.
Thursday, September 20, 2012
The Picture Show
Photographing Literature's Famous Food Scenes
September 20, 2012 What are scuppernongs? Scout's meal in To Kill a Mockingbird is just one of many re-created and captured by Dinah Fried.
Monday, September 10, 2012
Fine Art
For Museum, Long-Lost Picasso Is Too Costly To Keep
September 10, 2012 WFIUFor more than 40 years, Pablo Picasso's Seated Woman with Red Hat went unnoticed in the Evansville Museum of Arts, History and Science's storage area. Now that it's resurfaced, the Indiana museum says it can't afford to insure the multimillion-dollar artwork.
Sunday, September 09, 2012
Fine Art
Are All Young Artists 'Post-9/11' Artists?
September 9, 2012 In the 40 Under 40 exhibit at the Smithsonian's Renwick Gallery, young artists bring modern-day technology together with old-fashioned craft techniques. Curator Nicholas Bell says it is a worldview and artistic approach "defined by the angst, the unease, the trepidation, the difficulties of the 21st century."
Wednesday, September 05, 2012
The Picture Show
100 Words: Photographer Meike Nixdorf On Perspective
September 5, 2012 By moving your perspective slightly, you might find a whole new story.
Tuesday, September 04, 2012
NPR Cities: Urban Life In The 21st Century
Bridging The Gap Between Two Neighborhoods
September 4, 2012 In the nation's capital, park planners have drawn up an ambitious plan to transform an old bridge into an active recreation space. If realized, the park would offer a physical and symbolic link between two very different communities.
