Artist

Opinion: A New Spirit Joins The Panthéon

8:49am August 28, 2021

by Scott Simon

Josephine Baker will be reinterred at the Panthéon in Paris 46 years after her death. The famed entertainer will be the first Black woman to receive the honor. Scott Simon reflects on her legacy.

Artist Ekene Ijeoma on the set of "Deconstructed Anthems" at Houston's Day For Night Festival in 2017.

Arts

This Audio Portrait Of The 2020 Census Asks: Whose Voices Really Count?

5:38am August 06, 2020

by Neda Ulaby

Nigerian American artist Ekene Ijeoma is an MIT professor who draws on sound and data to explore representations of social justice. He's working on a "voice portrait" of the census called A Counting.

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Angela Haseltine Pozzi founded Washed Ashore in 2010. The nonprofit turns plastics taken from Oregon's beaches into eye-opening sculptures of threatened marine life.

On The Oregon Coast, Turning Pollution Into Art With A Purpose

11:58am December 04, 2019

by Kirk Siegler

A local artist is turning the mountains of plastic garbage that wash up on beaches into dramatic sculptures of the very marine life threatened by the deluge of plastics.

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Patsy and Winfred Rembert in Hamden, Conn., at their StoryCorps interview in 2017.

National

He Survived A Near-Lynching. 50 Years Later, He's Still Healing

1:41pm November 15, 2019

As a young, black man living in Georgia's Jim Crow era, Winfred Rembert experienced an unforgettable trauma. "I still wake up screaming and reliving things that happened to me," he told StoryCorps.

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Business

High Point Non-Profits, Businesses Work Together To 'Bring The Lizard To Life'

6:56am June 04, 2018

by Keri Brown

Several High Point area nonprofits are partnering with a local business to enhance the city's landscape through public art. The plan features a large mural that depicts an eye-catching reptile.

French artist Abraham Poincheval sits over real chicken eggs until they hatch at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris.

An Artist Incubating Chicken Eggs Is No Joke. But Is It Art?

7:39am April 01, 2017

by Scott Simon

Artist Abraham Poincheval is roosting over eggs in a Paris museum, hoping to hatch them like a mother hen. NPR'S Scott Simon says it's an attempt at performance art that doesn't quite make the grade.

In 1973, Salvador Dali immortalized some of the surreal dinners he hosted in a cookbook called Les Diners de Gala, which he also illustrated.

Decades Later, Salvador Dalí's Decadent Dream Dishes Are Awakened

3:06pm November 17, 2016

by Tove Danovich

Food and surrealism make bizarre bedfellows in Les Diners de Gala, first published in 1973. Now, you can get a reprint of those recipes and illustrations — and a peek into his legendary banquets.

Four different artists created four different interpretations of Gliese 1214b, a planet 40 light years from Earth that is believed to have a watery atmosphere.

Out Of This World: How Artists Imagine Planets Yet Unseen

2:31pm October 24, 2016

by Nell Greenfieldboyce

When astronomers spot a new planet that's too far away to be seen in detail, they work with artists to depict it. Space artists say they have a lot of freedom, but have to be careful, too.

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Arts

Sue Boggs Describes the Joy in Creating and Teaching Art

1:38pm August 05, 2013

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