British Memorial Garden
While debate continues over what will be built at Ground Zero, work has started this week on the construction of a new Memorial park the size of a city block in the historic Wall St neighborhood. It is...
View ArticleActress Anne Bancroft Dies at 73
Most remembered as Mrs. Robinson, film and stage actress Anne Bancroft has died.She won both a Tony and an Oscar for her role as Annie Sullivan, Helen Keller's teacher, in The Miracle Worker but she's...
View ArticleDancing in Bollywood Movies
Art house movie hits like Monsoon Wedding and Bride and Prejudice,, were intended for Western audiences. They featured some of the high energy music and dance numbers that you’d find in a pure...
View ArticleJudith and Artemisia
The Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi depicted the biblical story of Judith cutting off the head of Holofernes like no other artist. She painted it many times, in fact, almost obsessively. Judith...
View ArticleSilver Surfer
Spiderman, Superman ... do we really need another comic book action flick? Fans say the Silver Surfer isn’t your average superhero - he’s shinier. No one’s more excited about Fantastic Four: Rise of...
View ArticleMermaids
Surrealist painter Paul Delvaux painted his own beach fantasy in 1942 -- “The Village of the Mermaids.” The foreground tells one story, and in the distance there’s a surprise. Judith Kampfner went into...
View ArticleStill Life Sells
Home furnishings catalogs have evolved over the past couple of decades into glossy, sumptuous celebrations of domestic life (minus the mess). They're a far cry from the fuzzy line drawings of a Sears...
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Holocaust Remembrance Day
It is April 19th, 1944. Thousands of mourners silently march from a service at the Warsaw synagogue on Rivington Street to City Hall. A few carry signs: "Save Those Jews in Poland Who Can Yet Be...
View ArticleIn Wartime '40s, America's First Taste of Rationing
During World War II, rationing became not only accepted, but a symbol of patriotism for most Americans. Listen to Oscar Brand in this never-broadcast documentary on how the government —and WNYC— helped...
View ArticleThe Village of the Mermaids
In 1942, the Surrealist painter Paul Delvaux painted a seaside fantasy scene called The Village of the Mermaids. The foreground shows several women sitting soberly along a small village street; in the...
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The day they dropped an A-bomb on the Bronx
We celebrate the end of the Cold War 25 years ago this year with Oscar Brand giving us a taste of 1950s civilian defense.This show, which never aired, was originally produced in the 2000s, using...
View ArticleDance Theater of Harlem
Black History Month in Britain began in 1987 - many years after it was launched in America in 1926 and though it is was inspired by the American model is has it's own character. When the Dance Theater...
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