Soul legends from the archives of “American Bandstand” and “Where The Action Is.” bring back memories from Sunday nights, after school weekdays and Saturday afternoons and the hits you know and love.
Soul legends from the archives of “American Bandstand” and “Where The Action Is.” bring back memories from Sunday nights, after school weekdays and Saturday afternoons and the hits you know and love.
Artists Ai Weiwei, El Anatsui and Catherine Opie bear witness, through their work, to transformation — cultural, material, and aesthetic — and actively engage communities as collaborators and subjects.
ART IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, the only primetime national television series to focus exclusively on contemporary art and artists, returns to PBS for a sixth season. Through in-depth profiles and interviews, the series reveals the inspiration, vision and techniques behind the creative works of some of the most accomplished contemporary artists.
Watch Friday, April 13, 2012 at 9pm.
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The artists in this episode, Rackstraw Downes, Robert Mangold and Sarah Sze, create ordered and precise works that explore the gap between art and existence, challenge the distinction between seeing and knowing, and demonstrate that the pursuit of harmony can be a radical proposition.
“Art in the Twenty-First Century” Season Six includes 13 profiles of artists from five continents gathered into four, one-hour thematic episodes: Change, Balance, History and Boundaries. Spanning the globe from Nigeria to New York City, from Beijing to Brazil, the programs reveal the artists at work and speaking in their own words as they demonstrate the power of art to alter perception, challenge convention, and change how we see the world around us.
Watch Art in the Twenty-First Century Friday, May 4, 2012 at 9pm.
Figurative or abstract, organic or geometric, miniature or massive— sculpture has the power to move us in unexpected ways. Curator Jan Schall and Julián discuss how we experience 3D art and why the museum’s sculpture collection is world renowned.
Thursday, October 11, 2012, 6 pm.
Jean and Lionel fell in love during the early 1950s, but when army officer Lionel was sent to Korea they lost touch after a letter he sent her never arrived.
Both assumed the other had lost interest, but 38 years later their paths cross again, when Lionel returns to England to write his memoirs of life in the army and as a coffee-planter in Kenya (imaginatively titled ‘My Life in Kenya’).
Seeking an agency temp to handle the typing, he is sent a young secretary in the form of Judith Pargetter and after hitting it off they agree to meet for dinner. That evening, though, Lionel also chances upon meeting her mother and his long-lost sweetheart: Jean. But could their love be rekindled after so long?
The new specials pick up some time after the original series left off and reveal Jean Pargetter’s (Dame Judi Dench) great anticipation for grandchildren much to husband Lionel’s (Geoffrey Palmer) dismay. With son-in-law Alistair and daughter Judy having problems things don’t look too promising. But will Jean’s dream of becoming a grandmother come true when Sandy and her husband Harry return from Canada
