Programming Archive

With global warming a hot news topic, for the first time it is really hitting home: Extreme climate change, a growing list of endangered species and an astonishingly flippant attitude
about recycling.
Our world will soon be in the hands of our children. Are they educated enough about the growing environmental problems in order to not only be interested in them, but also to take action in solving them?
Perry Williams' goal is to start a whole new movement addressing this task of getting children to care about our planet. With kindness and caring for the environment, our younger generation can begin to make positive changes for their future.
Perry Williams attended San Diego State University for a degree in drama with minors in art and music. While there, he wrote, directed and acted.
Upon graduation, he appeared on several sitcoms, including “Happy Days”, “Bosom Buddies”, “Laverne and Shirley” and “MASH”, in addition to writing one of the “Laverne and Shirley” episodes. 
A certified personal trainer with twenty-five years experience, Perry Williams maintains that he keeps it “all natural, no steroids” for himself and his celebrity clients.

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. My guest tonight ANDREI CONDRESCU, is a writer, Professor of English at Lousiana State University and a National Public Radio commentator. Professor Condrescu has written: “today, almost everything you’re wearing or thinking that gives you the slightest bit of subversive pleasure comes from a dead Dadaist.” Tonight on Inquiry, Professor Condrescu explains DaDa, talks about DaDa’s Romanian roots, and gives blow by blow details of when DaDaist Tristan Tzara played chess with Communist Party founder Lenin in Zurich in 1916. Andrei Condrescu’s entertaining and supremely DaDaist manifesto is titled THE POSTHUMAN DADA GUIDE: TZARA AND LENIN PLAY CHESS.

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? How complex a process is it to site a work in the out of doors? What work of art looks best under a blanket of snow? It is all in a days work for Nick who is the curator for this unique exhibition space where trees and grass grow among the art and children can run as much as they want.  To get a taste of the Decordova Sculpture Park, you will find a complete site guide by going to:

http://www.decordova.org/decordova/sculp_park/sculp_park.html

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. Irwin Klein’s photographs documented the lives of the people of New York City, Minnesota and most dramatically of the communes of New Mexico in the late 1960s. His work was both very personal and deeply aesthetic. His career ended far too soon with his suicide at age 41.  Today his amazing photography is only known to a few photography historians mainly thanks to the efforts of Alan to keep his work before the public.  Irwin Klein has yet to be the subject of the major museum retrospective he so richly deserves. Tune in tonight and discover one of the great “lost” artists of our time. To see some examples of his work, go to: http://homepage.mac.com/pardass/IRWINKLEIN/INDEX.html

Or:

http://www.domeischelgallery.com/photoexhibit_klein_show.html