美国国家公共电台 NPR Even In 'The War To End All Wars,' There Was Art Coming From The Trenches

AILSA CHANG, HOST: A hundred years ago, this country entered the first global war, World War I. That ugly, dirty, agonizing conflict cost millions of lives and changed the world. The Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum is observing the centen

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Hank And Jim' Highlights The Long Friendship Of 2 Hollywood Legends

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Henry Fonda and James Stewart were two of the greatest stars of Hollywood's golden years. A new biography describes their 50-year friendship and dedication to their craft. Each was an actor before he became a star, their biograph

美国国家公共电台 NPR Behold: Susan Stamberg's Special Recipe For Caviar Pie

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Now it's time for the last in our series of holiday recipes from our colleagues here at NPR. We've heard about Christmas breads and Turkey tacos and mofongo and also to you, but the person who started it all joins us now. Susan Sta

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Breaking News' Artists Use Mass Media As Their Medium

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The images that often come from breaking news can be dramatic or brutal or upsetting. And that has provided inspiration for art. In Los Angeles, an exhibit at the Getty Center looks at artists' reactions to mass media, what they

美国国家公共电台 NPR With Chemistry And Care, Conservators Keep Masterpieces Looking Their Best

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: That painting you see on the wall of an art museum is the product of the artist and the times in which he or she lived. It is also the result of today, no matter how old it is, a major museum's conservator's work to keep the art

美国国家公共电台 NPR Meet Frédéric Bazille, The Impressionist Painter Who Could Have Been

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: A little known 19th century French painter is having a big show at Washington D.C.'s National Gallery of Art right now. And the reason he's not well known is a sad one. NPR special correspondent Susan Stamberg brings us the story

美国国家公共电台 NPR We Are What We Wear: Exhibition Examines Clothing That Changed The World

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: All right. What do a baseball cap, a sari and a little black dress designed by Chanel have in common? They are all on display in a new exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art. MOMA calls them garments that change the world.

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'He's Not A Leading Man': A Casting Director On Rembrandt's Self-Portraits

'He's Not A Leading Man': A Casting Director On Rembrandt's Self-Portraits DAVID GREENE, HOST: Los Angeles is pretty star struck these weeks before the Oscars, as usual. But over in nearby Pasadena, a crowd of art lovers is visiting this 400-plus-yea

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Architecture Of An Asylum' Tracks History Of U.S. Treatment Of Mental Illness

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Ezra Pound, a major American poet, and John Hinckley Jr., the man who shot President Reagan - both men had something in common - St. Elizabeths Hospital, where those with mental illness were housed. NPR special correspondent Susa

美国国家公共电台 NPR No Kitten Around: Museum Exhibit Celebrates 'Divine Felines'

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: All right. I'm going to fess up. I am not a cat person. But NPR's Susan Stamberg is, which is why she leapt at the opportunity to check out a new exhibition at the Smithsonian's Sackler Gallery of Asian art. The exhibition is cal

美国国家公共电台 NPR The Flag Still Flies For Jasper Johns

DAVID GREENE, HOST: All right. I want you to consider these objects - an American flag, a target and a number. Would you ever think to make paintings of them? Well, the American artist Jasper Johns did that. And now six decades of his work are on vie

美国国家公共电台 NPR 3 Photographers Who Captured The Undersides Of Life

NOEL KING, HOST: Photographs taken over the course of 50 years are on view in Los Angeles. Three different photographers captured stunning and shocking and provocative images. And then a curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art found connections amo

美国国家公共电台 NPR What's It Like To Pose For David Hockney? We Asked The People In His Portraits

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: At the age of 80, the artist David Hockney has put on a show in Los Angeles called 82 Portraits And 1 Still-life, which got NPR's Susan Stamberg thinking about the people who posed for him. SUSAN STAMBERG, BYLINE: The youngest is

美国国家公共电台 NPR Matisse And Diebenkorn 'Meet' At Last, At The Baltimore Museum Of Art

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Mama Stamberg's Relish Faces Its Toughest Critics: NPR Staffers

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Behind This Exuberant Dance Number? Planning, Precision And Practice

DAVID GREENE, HOST: The news here in California happens to be the Oscars, Rachel. They are Sunday. The film to beat is Hollywood's love letter to itself, La La Land, which has 14 nominations. RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Yeah, it is a musical for the 21st ce

美国国家公共电台 NPR After 75 Years, Here's Looking At You, 'Casablanca'

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Here in Southern California, Oscars night is almost here. And a beloved, Oscar-winning classic nears 75 years since its premiere. Casablanca, the World War II romance about the fight for love and glory, brought glory to Warner Bro

美国国家公共电台 NPR Painter Romaine Brooks Challenged Conventions In Shades Of Gray

Painter Romaine Brooks Challenged Conventions In Shades Of Gray DAVID GREENE, HOST: And let's turn from gender in sports to gender in art. The Smithsonian is showing works of a 20th-century female artist who toyed with gender roles. She wore manly cl

美国国家公共电台 NPR Gallery Gives Movie Star Marlene Dietrich The Big-Picture Treatment

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: One of the most glamorous creatures ever to grace the silver screen is back in pictures at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. There are dozens of photographs of the seductive, German-born movie star Marlene Dietric

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Eye To I' Exhibition Celebrates Over A Century Of Self-Portraiture

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: At some point in their lives, many artists spend time painting themselves - self-portraits that express who they are at a particular moment. Washington's National Portrait Gallery is showing over 70 such works. Edward Hopper, at