Jan 29 How a sharecropper’s son with a third-grade education changed the definition of the word ‘artist’ By Corinne Segal Thornton Dial, a self-taught artist whose works with everyday materials spoke to the difficulty of black life in the South, challenged stereotypes in the art world. Continue reading
Dec 07 Watch How Art Basel helped transform Miami’s art scene By PBS News Hour Now in its 14th year, Art Basel Miami Beach is a huge gathering of artists, dealers, collectors and galleries. The show has helped expand Miami’s art scene, spawning satellite fairs across the city, and bringing in millions of dollars for… Continue watching
Sep 18 Watch 6:59 An art collector with Broad influence opens his own museum By PBS News Hour Billionaire Eli Broad began his fortune building tract homes in the Detroit suburbs, and over the decades he and his wife also built an impressive art collection. Now the brand new Broad Museum is set to open in Los Angeles,… Continue watching
May 26 Watch 8:10 When the world started to see Vietnam’s contemporary art By PBS News Hour Suzanne Lecht moved to Hanoi after she read about a group of Vietnamese modern artists, making it her mission to find and help them emerge from the shadows of censorship and the American embargo. Since then she has opened a… Continue watching