Already a WHYY member? You may have an unactivated WHYY Passport member benefit. Check to see.
Clip: Season 2 | 7m 28s
Jennifer Higdon is among the most performed living composers in the world today—but don’t get her started on those old dead guys.
Aired: 10/31/17
Video has closed captioning.
Jennifer Higdon: Carefully Composed
The Havana Lyceum Orchestra is proof of classical music’s resonance in Cuba.
Floriography: Saying It With Flowers
In the Victorian era, the language of flowers was boundless.
Elizabeth Turk: The Edge of Gravity
Elizabeth Turk's sculptures test the limits of her medium's fragility.
The Staying Power of Peter Shire
Shire is an alumnus of the Italian avant-garde movement, The Memphis School.
The Care and Feeding of Michelle Cuevas
The characters in Michelle Cuevas’s children’s books leap off the page.
Joan Shelley: Not Over By Half
The anthropological perspective of singer-songwriter Joan Shelley.
Mason Bates: Classical Disrupter
Mason Bates challenges existing notions of what belongs in the concert hall.
Kenny Scharf’s exuberant cartoons infuse daily life with a dose of whimsy.
Buffy Sainte-Marie's Indefatigable Spirit
Buffy Sainte-Marie's 1960s protest songs made her the subject of FBI attention.
Allora & Calzadilla: Displacement and Defamiliarization
Allora & Calzadilla are one of the art world’s most dynamic power couples.
Cuban Orchestra, Peter Shire, Floriography, Elizabeth Turk
Rum, Cigars, and Mozart. Artist Peter Shire. Floriography. Sculptor Elizabeth Turk.
Michelle Cuevas/Mason Bates/Antonio Martorell/Joan Shelley
Michelle Cuevas, Mason Bates, Antonio Martorell, Joan Shelley
Kenny Scharf, Buffy Sainte-Marie, The Last Refuge?
Cartoonist Kenny Scharf. Buffy Sainte-Marie. Patriotism in art.
Allora & Calzadilla, Balliett, Stevens, Levitin
Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, Doug Balliett, Veruschka Stevens, Daniel Levitin
Christian Scott Adjuah, Tommy Pico, Ron Nagle, Sidney Hutter
Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, Tommy Pico, Ron Nagle, Sidney Hutter
Kyle Abraham, Maggie Nelson, Ruth Slenczynska, Saya Woofalk
Kyle Abraham, Maggie Nelson, Ruth Slenczynska, Saya Woofalk
Mark Mothersbaugh, Liz Casella, Greg Dunn
Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo. Textile designer Liz Casella. Greg Dunn thinks about thinking.
Reuben Margolin, Jennifer Higdon, Chemi Rosado, Sara Rahbar
Reuben Margolin, Jennifer Higdon, Chemi Rosado-Seijo, Sara Rahbar.
Gene Yang, Luke Spiller, RIP Romance
Gene Yang: Drawing on Knowledge. Luke Spiller Struts. RIP Romance.
Ian Brennan, Nina Berman, Leroy Johnson
Producer Ian Brennan, photographer Nina Berman, artist Leroy Johnson.
Janet Echelman, Arturo Rios, Death, Justin Bettman
Sculptor Janet Echelman, milliner Arturo Rios, death in art, photographer Justin Bettman.
Daniel Handler, Lisa Hannigan, Nina Chanel
Author Daniel Handler, singer-songwriter Lisa Hannigan, artist Nina Chanel.
