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Caption: Tania Bruguera reading Hannah Arendt in Havana, Credit: Enrique de la Osa, via PRI
Recorded in Havana, this Fresh Talk episode features controversial Cuban artist Tania Bruguera and her recent launch of a new initiative: the Hanna...

  • Added: Jun 18, 2015
  • Length: 09:31
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Somali artist Aziz Osman left home for Florence, Italy, as a young man to pursue his dream of becoming a painter, sculptor and architect. Extensiv...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2015
  • Length: 05:05
Caption: Giant Robot at OCMA
It used to be that the terms “nerdy” and “cool” were at opposite ends of a spectrum. Collecting comics was for losers, listening to punk rock was f...

  • Added: May 20, 2014
  • Length: 08:42
Caption: Paola Gueli is one of a dwindling number of tailors in Italy, a country renowned for its tailoring tradition. , Credit: Luigi Fraboni
Skilled tailoring is a dying art. Many of the best tailors hail from Italy where the tradition is unraveling due to a lack of training opportuniti...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 25, 2013
  • Length: 08:20
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Italian Negar Azhar Azari makes a ring by hand in the centuries-old Florentine tradition.  , Credit: Maurizio Rufino
Italian artisans craft exquisite objects with their hands, particularly in Florence. Yet aging artisans crippled by Italy’s bureaucracy aren’t abl...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 25, 2013
  • Length: 07:37
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Sgt Brandon Benton sent this to his wife Emily Benton, who waited for him at home near Fort Hood, Texas, when he got word of a return date., Credit: graffitiofwar.com
War News Radio talks with the founder of the Graffiti of War Project, which collects service members’ art left on the walls and buildings in the ba...

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Jul 05, 2011
  • Length: 06:38
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Hidden Histories
From 1908 to 1917, Hine took thousands of pictures for the National Child Labor Committee, exposing the dangerous conditions that children endured ...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: May 17, 2009
  • Length: 02:01
  • Purchases: 1