Culture Child Artists' Tools Include Mixed Media, Maggots March 29, 2007 • Letting kids dip maggots into paint may sound merely disgusting — but there's an entomologist from U.C.-Davis who calls it art. Rebecca O'Flaherty is using the maggot art to teach respect for a larva most people associate with road-kill. Under her guidance, students dip maggots in water-based paint. Child Artists' Tools Include Mixed Media, Maggots Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/9213715/9213717" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Pritzker Winner Designs to Serve the Public March 28, 2007 • Richard Rogers, who has won architecture's top prize, designs buildings that flaunt their infrastructure — like Centre Pompidou in Paris. But he also has an interest in city planning, and pushes for walkable, welcoming cities. One of his new buildings is part of the World Trade Center site. Pritzker Winner Designs to Serve the Public Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/9185563/9188624" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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World A War Photographer's View of Iraq March 26, 2007 • Chris Hondros has done nine tours in Iraq as a photographer. He talks about memorable images, including that of a little girl — splattered with her dead parents's blood — crouched in darkness near a U.S. soldier. A War Photographer's View of Iraq Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/9118474/9118526" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Culture Artist Turns Trash into Tiny Globes of Treasure March 25, 2007 • Up the the street from NPR's Washington office is Warehouse, a neighborhood cafe and art space, where Christopher Goodwin is showing his latest project. He packs tiny found objects into plastic spheres that are sold out of a dispenser for 25 cents apiece. Artist Turns Trash into Tiny Globes of Treasure Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/9128923/9128924" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Photographer Given Rare Access to North Korea March 24, 2007 • Photographer Mark Edward Harris traveled to North Korea for the mass gymnastic games and gathered vivid snapshots throughout the country. His photographs are collected in a new book, Inside North Korea. Photographer Given Rare Access to North Korea Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/9102449/9110628" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Culture Afghans Struggle to Rebuild National Museum March 23, 2007 • Efforts to restore the National Museum in Kabul are not unlike the struggle to rebuild Afghanistan itself. Two and a half years after reopening, the three-story building at the edge of Kabul has more scaffolding than exhibits. Afghans Struggle to Rebuild National Museum Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/9047872/9096433" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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National Smithsonian Leadership, Management Questioned March 22, 2007 • A study identifies major problems with the way the Smithsonian Institution is being run. Now one lawmaker on Capitol Hill wants to freeze increases to the Smithsonian's budget. Smithsonian Leadership, Management Questioned Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/9072281/9072282" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Michigan Cuts Arts Funding, and Trouble Begins March 20, 2007 • In Michigan, state lawmakers have cut funding for the popular Ann Arbor Film Festival, claiming it showed material they considered pornographic. But the ACLU says the lawmakers may have overstepped their bounds. Michigan Cuts Arts Funding, and Trouble Begins Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/9015524/9015525" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Performing Arts Artist Takes Inspiration from Amputation March 19, 2007 • Lisa Bufano lost her legs and her fingers from a staph infection when she was 21. The award-winning artist recently premiered a modern dance piece, Five Open Mouths, about coming to terms with her body as it is. Artist Takes Inspiration from Amputation Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/7728628/8993393" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Culture New Residents Vow to Restore D.C. Neighborhood March 18, 2007 • A swanky art gallery opened this year in the Anacostia neighborhood of Washington D.C. Some residents were shocked to see a gallery in a neighborhood that's better known for homicides than cheese cubes and champagne. Is an art gallery really what Anacostia needs? New Residents Vow to Restore D.C. Neighborhood Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/8986187/8986188" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Russian Exhibit Looks at Belief After Communism March 13, 2007 • The collapse of the Soviet Union left most artists to fend for themselves. Now Russia's new wealth is helping fund new galleries and fuel hopes that Moscow will once again become a major part of the global art world. Russian Exhibit Looks at Belief After Communism Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/7761582/7773092" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Ancient Love Stars at Rome's Eros Exhibit March 13, 2007 • An exhibit about Eros at Rome's Colosseum seeks to illustrate the huge gap between contemporary attitudes of erotic love and how the subject was treated in antiquity. Ancient Love Stars at Rome's Eros Exhibit Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/7863408/7863477" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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World Iconic French Museum Opening Branch in Middle East March 12, 2007 • France's Louvre is opening a branch in the Middle East. In a deal worth hundreds of millions of dollars, one of the United Arab Emirates will get to use exhibits from, and the name of, the Louvre. But critics say the deal is nothing more than crass commercialism. Iconic French Museum Opening Branch in Middle East Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/7849306/7849307" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Review Culture The Spartans and the Persians Battle in '300' Fresh Air March 9, 2007 • The new movie 300 is adapted from a graphic novel by Frank Miller and Lynn Varley. The movie centers on an ancient battle between the Spartans and the Persians. The Spartans and the Persians Battle in '300' Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/7798729/7798732" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
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Pop Culture Marvel Comics Kills Off Captain America March 8, 2007 • Captain America, who began his superhero career fighting Nazis in 1941, has been gunned down by assassins on the steps of the federal courthouse in New York City. So says Marvel Comics, which is ending the run of one of its longest-lived characters. Marvel Comics Kills Off Captain America Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/7770294/7770295" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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