Women of the 1960s counterculture were often portrayed in the mainstream press as drug-addled hapless victims of Manson-type male gurus. Even in the hippie rock posters and comics of the time, women were either sexy Aquarian goddesses or earth mother icons.
Jul 20, 2009
Jul 14, 2009
In Zurich, Switzerland in 1915 a crazy group of artists and performers began the uproarious Cabaret Voltaire and thus launched the beginning of DaDa, the penultimate anti-art movement.
Jul 10, 2009
Inquiry welcomes WICN’s own RICHARD E. NOBLE, perhaps better known as “Nick” Noble, host of “Folk Revival” (Thursday evenings from 7PM to 11PM).
Jul 10, 2009
Tonight on Inquiry we welcome back Senior Curator at the DECORDOVA SCULPTURE PARK AND MUSEUM, NICK CAPASSO to talk about the justifiably famous sculpture park of the museum. How do you conserve works of art that are going to suffer the extremes of a New England year?
Jul 10, 2009
When we envision Native Americans they are typically dressed in feathers. How did indigenous peoples of North American look at birds? Were birds used simply as food, as decorations or as something more symbolic and spiritual?
Jul 10, 2009
Tonight on Inquiry we have a down to earth and intimate conversation with life-long artist and poet ALAN KLEIN about his brother, the legendary photographer IRWIN KLEIN.
Jul 7, 2009
TUXEDOMOON is a band and a performance collective whose unique music has many references. They have been described as everything from the “missing link between Joy Division and Radiohead” to “the Samuel Beckett of electropunk”.
Jun 30, 2009
The concept of “the balance of Nature” is at least as old as the Ancient Greeks and is used in many sources today when talking about the environment and ecology. But it is an utterly wrong-headed idea.
Jun 26, 2009
How does American history and culture look through the lens of contemporary art? Tune in to Inquiry tonight as we have a very lively and wide ranging panel discussion on this subject.
Jun 24, 2009
When does lust become sexual obsession? When do these obsessions become untenable and illegal? Can love and obsession ever co-exist? Tonight on Inquiry, these difficult questions about sex and longing are discussed when we talk with DANIEL BERGNER, staff writer for the New York Times Magazine.
Jun 18, 2009
In the early years of the 19th Century there was a Second Scientific Revolution that occurred in Britain and Europe.
Jun 17, 2009
Inquiry welcome’s back author, artist (and now producer), JARRETT J. KROSOCZKA.
Jun 11, 2009
If writing comedy is hard, authors who write comedy for young audiences must have very special and unique talents. Tonight on Inquiry we speak with the world’s most respected writer on children’s literature LEONARD MARCUS.
Jun 11, 2009
Frank Gehry is world’s most famous living architect. His extraordinary designs for the Bilbao, Spain Guggenheim Museum, the Disney Concert Hall in L.A. and the Weisman Art Museum in Minnesota are admired for their unique and wildly curved forms and original use of materials.
Jun 9, 2009
World-renowned author and Professor Emeritus at the University of Vermont, BERND HEINRICH returns to Inquiry to talk about his new book SUMMER WORLD: A SEASON OF BOUNTY.
Jun 6, 2009
In the America of the 1920s, a culture war raged about which arts were “highbrow” and which were “lowbrow”.
Jun 3, 2009
Tonight on Inquiry we speak with author and film critic for the New Yorker DAVID DENBY about what he calls “snark”. “The platonic ideal of snark is something like this: Two girls are sitting in a high school cafeteria putting down a third, who’s sitting on the other side of the room.
Jun 3, 2009
In Britain during the 1920s, a flamboyant group of youth threw never-ending scandalous parties and acted like dancers stepping ever closer to a precipice’s edge. This glittering group of the wild and carefree included such luminaries as Cecil Beaton and Evelyn Waugh.
May 31, 2009
Do you have a set of clothes, a pair of shoes, an outfit or some accessory that makes you feel powerful? That is what TWO GIRLS WORKING decided to explore in interviews and photographs of women of all ages across the country.
May 31, 2009
What do crossword puzzles, waffles, maps, double-entry ledgers, musical notation and Excel all have in common? GRIDS! The grid has been an organizing principle in human societies from the ancient Babylonians through Modern Art.
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