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Vintage recording details an eyewitness account of Lexington, Concord battles
In the 1950 recording, preserved by GBH Archives, a Waltham doctor recalled his great-grandmother’s childhood account of the chaos on the first day of the Revolutionary War.
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November 12, 2024 - National Museum of Women in the Arts, JustBook-ish, and Jim Donahue
When it comes to art by women that museums acquire or exhibit, it’s still a fraction of the focus on male artists. The National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington D.C. has long been trying to change that. Founded in 1987, it’s always been dedicated to the creativity and work of women. Now it’s celebrating a milestone renovation and expanded collection. Museum Director Susan Fisher Sterling joins me.From there things in Dorchester are getting more bookish. Boston’s Poet Laureate is one of the founders of the neighborhood’s only independent bookstore.We get a preview ahead of their grand opening.And, we enter a winter wonderland. Jim Donahue of Newport Mansions, AKA the guru of glamor, shares his holiday decorating pro tips. Be warned, if you’ve visited the mansions, you know his is a more is more approach. -
November 11, 2024 - Charles Coe and Ken Field, Vinny Deponto's "Mindplay", and BoriCorridor
Charles Coe’s Cricket Symphony is a new collection of poetry and music based on the poetry of award-winning African American writer and musician Charles Coe, with music including original compositions by Ken Field. They’ll perform tomorrow night at Arts at the Armory in Somerville. Charles Coe and Ken Field join The Culture Show with a preview and in studio performance. To keep abreast of upcoming Revolutionary Snake Ensemble performances, which includes one on November 23rd at Peabody Hall, Parish of All Saints, go here. And to read the latest from Charles Coe, check out his new book “Charles Coe: New And Selected Works”From there mentalist Vinny DePonto discusses his show “Mindplay.” Presented by The Huntington Theatre, “Mindplay” invites audiences to participate in an experience infused with intrigue and mystery. Vinny DePonto guides participants on a jaw-dropping, interactive journey as he reads minds while revealing his own. Mindplay is onstage November 13th through December 1st. Finally, Elsa Mosquera Sterenberg joins The Culture Show to discuss the arts organization she co-founded, Agora Cultural Architects, which has created BoriCorridor, a cultural corridor that connects Puerto Rican artists from the island with the mainland. Borricorrdor 2024 is wrapping up its tour with the production of the play “Quintuples,” onstage at the Emerson Paramount on November 14th, -
November 8, 2024 - Week-in-Review: Quincy Jones, celebrity endorsements and Hello Kitty at 50
Today on The Culture Show co-hosts Callie Crossley, Jared Bowen and Edgar B. Herwick III go over the latest headlines on our arts and culture week-in-review.First up: Remembering Quincy Jones. He influenced popular music for half a century, producing the best selling album of all time: “Thriller.” He scored movie soundtracks, he produced television, launching Will Smith’s acting career with “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” and he facilitated the greatest night in pop: producing “We Are the World. “ From bebop to hip hop Quincy Jones did it all. From there it’s the one piece of music Quincy Jones didn’t produce–what has been dubbed “The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet”–well thanks to some cyber sleuths: mystery solvedFinally, Hello Kitty, says hello to the AARP. The feline phenom turned fifty,. -
November 7, 2024 - Ken Burns and Sarah Burns, Graffiti artist Sobek, Manet at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
The latest documentary film by Ken Burns, his daughter Sarah Burns and her husband David McMahon is a portrait of an artist as a Renaissance man: Leonardo da Vinci. As the documentary, Leonardo da Vinci, illustrates, he was a man with infinite curiosity about the world and how it works. His passions and obsessions prompted him to study all manner of the world: from the human heart to the complexity of water; flying machines to weaponry. Through his paintings, drawings and writings, this documentary explores one of humankind’s most curious and innovative minds. Ken Burns and Sarah Burns join The Culture Show to discuss. “Leonardo da Vinci” airs on PBS November 18th and 19th.From there graffiti artist Jeremy “Sobek” Harrison joins The Culture Show to talk about his latest mural "Return to Nature" in Dudley Square. “Return to Nature” is Sobek’s mixed medium eco-installation that creates an organic interaction between nature and humans. It’s located at The Food Project’s West Cottage Farm and Langdon Street Farms, 42 Langdon Street in Roxbury.Finally, we get an overview of the new exhibition at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, “Manet: A Model Family.” Nearly 150 years since his passing, this is the first exhibition to explore Manet through the lens of the complex familial relationships between and amongst the artist and his sitters, shedding new light on the life and masterpieces of the “father of modernism.” The exhibition’s curator, Diana Seave Greenwald joins The Culture Show to talk about conceptualizing this show. “Manet: A Model Family,” is on view through January 20th. -
November 6, 2024 - Susan Glisson and Tracy K. Smith
Historian Susan Glisson helps people reckon with the country's fraught racial history who sees the past not necessarily as an anchor but rather a buoy, as a navigational tool to point us toward a better way. She joins The Culture Show for her thoughts, and guidance on how to navigate the world post Election Day.She is the founder and president of the Glisson Group, a healing and equity consulting firm and founder and executive director of the Welcome Table Collaborative. She is a 2024 Advance Leadership Initiative fellow at Harvard University.From there we are joined by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and former U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith. She joins us to talk about her latest book, which is now out in paperback, “To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul.” It is part manifesto, part memoir–and all parts mesmerizing.
