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Washington Week
Looking for some good summer reading? Check out the books Gwen and the Washington Week panelists recommend for the beach, the car, the plane or the pool. From fiction to politics, history to biography, there is something for everybody. The smartest reporters in Washington, D.C. bring you their suggestions for the summer's best reads. Continue
Antiques Roadshow
In this ANTIQUES ROADSHOW bonus footage, host Mark Walberg gets a step-by-step lesson in making paperweights from a master glassmaker at the Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center outside Atlantic City. Continue
ART:21
This episode features artists whose works explore the distinctions between balance and imbalance, and demonstrate that the smallest change in a line, a formal element, or a structure can be a radical proposition. Featuring artists Rackstraw Downes, Robert Mangold, and Sarah Sze. Continue
ART:21
In this episode, artists play with historical events, explore and expose commonly held assumptions about historic ‘truth’, and create narratives based on personal experiences. Featuring artists Glenn Ligon, Mary Reid Kelley, and Marina Abramović. Continue
Chautauqua - An American Narrative
Trace the history and impact of the Chautauqua Institution and capture its contemporary essence and energy. 4/27/2012 Continue
ART:21
In this episode, artists Glenn Ligon, Mary Reid Kelley and Marina Abramovic play with historical events, explore and expose commonly held assumptions about historic "truth" and create narratives based on personal experiences. 4/27/2012 Continue
ART:21
To celebrate the sixth season of the broadcast series, “Art in the Twenty-First Century”—premiering April 13 on PBS—Art21 presents an exclusive online Q&A; with two of the season’s featured artists, Catherine Opie and El Anatsui. Both artists, as well as artist Ai Weiwei, are featured in the season’s first episode, “Change.” The full episode is can be viewed online ahead of the April 13 premiere. Continue
PBS NewsHour
Henry Ossawa Tanner is known as the first African-American artist to gain international success and fame. He was born in Pittsburgh in 1859, spent much of his youth in Philadelphia, but lived most of his adult life in Paris. More than 100 of his works appear in the exhibition, "Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit," at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Continue
ART:21
How do artists respond to a world in flux? In what ways do artists act as agents of change, and what kinds of aesthetic choices do they make to express it? This episode features artists who bear witness, through their work, to transformation--cultural, material, and aesthetic--and actively engage communities as collaborators and subjects. Continue
Antiques Roadshow
Had Zelda Sayre been born a few decades later, she would have found the world more welcoming to independent and creative women Continue
Antiques Roadshow
An 1863 Ulysses S. Grant letter; a circa 1950 Charles Shulz Li'l Folks original cartoon; and two paintings - one by Victor Higgins, the other by Spencer - purchased together for $5, but valued considerably higher. 5/21/2012 Continue
PBS NewsHour
The National Mall in Washington, D.C., is indeed a national treasure, but it's one that is in some disrepair. The Trust for the National Mall has just held a competition to design three new sections in oft-neglected areas on the Mall. The winners were announced Thursday. Continue
ART:21
View the works and techniques of artists Rackstraw Downes, Robert Mangold and Sarah Sze. 5/4/2012 Continue
ART:21
Glenn Ligon’s paintings and sculptures examine cultural and social identity through found sources—literature, Afrocentric coloring books, photographs—to reveal the ways in which the history of slavery, the civil rights movement, and sexual politics inform our understanding of American society. Ligon threads his own image and autobiography into symbols that speak to collective experiences. Continue
ART:21
This episode features artists who synthesize disparate aesthetic traditions, present taboo subject matter, discover innovative uses of media, and explore the shape-shifting potential of the human figure. Featuring artists David Altmejd, Tabaimo, assume vivd astro focus, and Lynda Benglis. Continue
ART:21
View the works and techiniques of artists David Altmejd, assume vivid astro focus, Tabaimo and Lynda Benglis. 4/20/2012 Continue
Masterpiece
Watch the opening sequence of Mystery! (video only; no audio) featuring the work of Edward Gorey. The 2012 season of Masterpiece Mystery premieres May 6, 2012. Continue
ART:21
View the works and techniques of artists Ai Weiwei, El Anatsui and Catherine Opie. 4/13/2012 Continue
Antiques Roadshow
Two guests appeared at the summer 2011 El Paso ROADSHOW with works by Andy Warhol. Learn more about how the appraisers authenticated them. Continue
Antiques Roadshow
A 19th-century Fiji split whale's tooth necklace; Andy Warhol's 1966 artist's proof of a print of Jacqueline Kennedy; and a 1937 first edition copy of The Hobbit, with original dust jacket and author J.R.R. Tolkien's signature. 3/26/2012 Continue
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1. American Horizons: The Photographs of Art Sinsabaugh DVD
Art Sinsabaugh made his artistic breakthrough in the early 1960s with panoramic landscapes of the midwest that were unprecedented in both form and subject matter.
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- 2. Art & Copy DVD
- 3. Art 21: Art in the Twenty-First Century: Seasons 1 & 2 - DVD 2PK
- 4. Art 21: Art in the Twenty-First Century: Season 3 - DVD
- 5. The Art of Quilting DVD
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