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With six independent curators, we explore a growing trend in the field of contemporary art. We discover that the covid epidemic and a global econom...

  • Added: Dec 08, 2022
  • Length: 17:52
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This segment of our Puerto Rico Rising series revolves around creative resistance to foreign fantasies of ‘paradise.’ The conversation exposes a fe...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2022
  • Length: 18:12
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
One man has given away over 60 thousand bicycles to kids and others in need.

  • Added: Feb 27, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
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Tackling the challenges of overfishing, while also working towards stalling the effects of climate change.

  • Added: Jan 18, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
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Mishy Harman talks to Liron Lavi Turkenich, a type and graphic designer from Haifa, who invented a hybrid Hebrew-Arabic script.

  • Added: Jan 29, 2020
  • Length: 09:01
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Norwegian artist Jana Winderen records sounds above and below the surface of our blue planet to compose site-specific sonic environments. For four ...

  • Added: Nov 29, 2019
  • Length: 23:27
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In November 2019, Houston-based artist Trenton Doyle Hancock brings his mythological “Moundverse” to Miami. Locust Projects gives over the entire s...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2019
  • Length: 18:03
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In 2018, Puerto Rico based actor, composer and filmmaker Juan Botta left job security behind to center on his creative life. That’s when he launche...

  • Added: Oct 29, 2019
  • Length: 12:52
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Today, we take you back to the month of April, in the year 2012. That’s when we set out on a road trip from Austin, Texas. We’re aiming to find out...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio and Morton College Radio


  • Added: Aug 12, 2019
  • Length: 01:03:29
  • Purchases: 2
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Checkers Barker has obsessed over drums and drumming for more than 50 years. In one year – 1979 – he founded a music shop, joined a successful cove...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2019
  • Length: 03:17
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Art with a Sense of Place considers creative projects that respond to a physical space and those that react to or embrace a historic moment, a cult...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2019
  • Length: 58:47
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In 2018, Fresh Art International broadens engagement in the Caribbean, traveling to the Dominican Republic for Tilting Axis 4, the fourth annual me...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2018
  • Length: 50:04
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Today, we invite artists, curators, a media specialist, and an invigilator to share some of the stories behind challenging new work. They reveal ho...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2018
  • Length: 01:00:39
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We meet Los Angeles based artist Mark Bradford—known for connecting art with the real world—when he represents the United States in the 57th Venice...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2018
  • Length: 09:01
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What does it mean to be Black in 21st century America? The expression of Blackness in art has a history of intricate connections to civil rights an...

Bought by Interlochen Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 14, 2018
  • Length: 56:29
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Celebrities pose for the mannequin challenge at the People's Choice Awards 2017 nominations press conference (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP), Credit: Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP
Social media trends like the mannequin challenge fulfill desire to belong, help connect people

  • Added: Dec 09, 2016
  • Length: 03:56
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Segment 1: Carlotta Walls Lanier Segment 2: Dr. Patton Segment 3: Roman Krznaric Segment 4: Margaret Klaw Segment 5: Melanie Wagner

  • Added: Aug 09, 2015
  • Length: 52:26
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Is further description really needed?

  • Added: Jul 15, 2015
  • Length: 01:03
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Teenager Max Gay interviews his classmates about their version of the American Dream. Turns out the new generation doesn't want a white picket fenc...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2015
  • Length: 05:05
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An underground--literally--DIY video game tournament in New York City's Chinatown.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WABE


  • Added: Mar 25, 2015
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 2
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What do square dancing and the AIDS crisis have in common?

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 03:30
Caption: Michael Boothman - Touch 12" Vinyl, Credit: Invisible City Editions
Music genres come and go, but it seems that the reports of disco’s death have been greatly exaggerated. That is at least according to a couple of e...

Bought by Delta College Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 30, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 2
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Thao Nguyen grew up in Northern Virginia, and started playing music at age 12. Since then she has released three critically acclaimed albums, and s...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2014
  • Length: 08:13
Caption: Edible Flower Salad, Credit: LexnGer/Flickr
Charlie profiles edible flowers. There are many varieties to choose from that are good for salads, drinks, stir fries, soups and desserts. Charlie...

Bought by WMNR and WMNR


  • Added: Jul 27, 2011
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Nautilus
Designers, engineers and corporations around the world have begun seriously to study Evolution's most successful problem-solving strategies in natu...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 21, 2011
  • Length: 06:25
  • Purchases: 3