'Rwanda/After, Darfur/Now': Photos for Change May 30, 2006 • Given the scale of the crisis in Darfur, it's hard to believe that one individual can make a difference -- but photographer Michal Ronnen Safdie is a believer in the power of images to spark change for the better. 'Rwanda/After, Darfur/Now': Photos for Change Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5438409/5438426" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Culture David Douglas Duncan's Images of War Fresh Air May 29, 2006 • Life magazine has called David Douglas Duncan perhaps the best war photographer since Matthew Brady. In 1999, Duncan received a lifetime achievement award for excellence and bravery from the Marine Corps. We rebroadcast an interview with Duncan from July 2, 1990. David Douglas Duncan's Images of War Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5437344/5437345" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
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Music News 'Harlem of the West': Memories of S.F. Jazz May 25, 2006 • San Francisco's Fillmore District is known for its namesake rock venue, but once it was home to legendary jazz clubs. A new photo book preserves the record of a neighborhood that fell victim to "urban renewal." 'Harlem of the West': Memories of S.F. Jazz Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5430278/5430295" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Charles Sheeler's Still Life: Paintings from Photos May 23, 2006 • Charles Sheeler tried to explore the path between photos and paintings. Much admired for his meticulous, carefully composed photography, he put down his camera and picked up paintbrushes instead. His works are on exhibit in Washington, D.C. Charles Sheeler's Still Life: Paintings from Photos Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5410362/5423324" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Culture A Trove of Stolen Treasure May 17, 2006 • Looters in Italy dig up ancient treasures and sell them to the highest bidder. Some pieces make their way to the world's biggest museums. Author Peter Watson examines the network behind the trade. A Trove of Stolen Treasure Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5411644/5411645" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Barnes Foundation Readies to Move Famous Paintings May 15, 2006 • One of the world's greatest private art collections is expected to get a big funding boost this week. The Barnes Foundation is receiving more than $100 million to help move its collection of masterworks from the suburbs to downtown Philadelphia. Barnes Foundation Readies to Move Famous Paintings Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5404241/5404242" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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'Black Admiral' Painting Found to Be a Fraud May 11, 2006 • A portrait of a dashing young sea captain often called the "Black Admiral" was supposed to be a centerpiece for an exhibition of art from the Revolutionary War era about black patriots and loyalists -- but there's a white man underneath a layer of black paint. 'Black Admiral' Painting Found to Be a Fraud Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5398530/5398547" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Foster Children Make 'Passion Art' May 10, 2006 • Farai Chideya talks with actress Victoria Rowell about an art exhibit produced by children in foster care. The exhibit is called "The Passion Art Tour." Foster Children Make 'Passion Art' Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5396292/5396293" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Pop Culture Warhol-Signed Soup Can: Art or Memento? May 9, 2006 • A Campbell's Soup can scribbled on by Andy Warhol surfaces three decades after it was hidden away in a coat closet. Must be worth a bundle, right? A reporter takes a journey through the art world to find out. Warhol-Signed Soup Can: Art or Memento? Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5391527/5391839" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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National The Wee Fairy Doors of Ann Arbor, Mich. May 9, 2006 • "Fairy doors" are popping up in the downtown area of Ann Arbor, Mich. The miniature openings into imagined fairy homes are an unsponsored, unauthorized public art that's captured the imagination of the city. The Wee Fairy Doors of Ann Arbor, Mich. Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5393277/5393280" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Science Freud's Drawings, from Brain to Mind May 5, 2006 • Sigmund Freud, father of psychoanalysis, started his career as a scientist, studying basic brain biology. Saturday is the 150th anniversary of Freud's birth. In honor of the occasion, the New York Academy of Medicine opens a new exhibit of Freud's scientific drawings. Freud's Drawings, from Brain to Mind Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5386444/5386445" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Remembering Photographer William Gottlieb Fresh Air April 28, 2006 • William Gottlieb died of a stroke last Sunday at the age of 89. In the '40s, Gottlieb learned photography and took hundreds of shots of the jazz greats of the time. Many of those shots are now well known through album covers, books, and posters. 200 of those photos appear in Gottlieb's book, The Golden Age of Jazz. Remembering Photographer William Gottlieb Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5369169/5369170" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
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Cartoonist Luckovich Welcomes Second Pulitzer Fresh Air April 19, 2006 • Judges for the Pulitzer Prize Monday cited The Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Mike Luckovich "for his powerful cartoons on an array of issues, drawn with a simple but piercing style." It's a second prize for Luckovich, who was also honored in 1995. Cartoonist Luckovich Welcomes Second Pulitzer Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5351008/5351009" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
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100 Years After the San Francisco Quake San Francisco's Great Quake, Recalled in Jello April 18, 2006 • Artists are commemorating the 1906 earthquake in a variety of ways, some traditional -- poetry, prose -- and some not-so, including a Jello model of the city by the bay. San Francisco's Great Quake, Recalled in Jello Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5348944/5348945" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Renoir's 'Boating Party' Returns to the Potomac April 14, 2006 • In a town full of museums, the Phillips Collection has always been Washington, D.C.'s most intimate, personal home for paintings. Now some 60 of its European masterworks are back after a four-year absence. Renoir's 'Boating Party' Returns to the Potomac Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5341220/5341231" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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