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April 26, 2024: Museums, Halls of Fame, and Johnny Cash
Today on The Culture Show, it's our arts and culture week in review. First up, the culture of Hollywood shifted in the years following the downfall of Harvey Weinstein and the launch of the #MeToo movement. So what will the reverberations throughout the industry be now that his New York rape conviction has been overturned?From there, Jerry Seinfeld says that Hollywood is a has been, declaring that movies are no longer a cultural superpower.And, the climate activist group Extinction Rebellion says that if we don’t act now, humanity could become an exhibit in the American Museum of Natural History–an institution they recently protested.Finally, can Cher believe in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame after deriding it? The pop star, along with Mary J Blige and Ozzy Ozborne, is among the 2024 inductees. -
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April 23, 2024 - 25 Years of Mission Hill, Michael Threets, and Florence Price
The Culture Show Podcast April 23, 2024. -
April 22, 2024 - John Lam, Octavio González, and Pedro Alonzo
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April 19, 2024 - Week in Review: the Biennale, Faith Ringgold, and Billy Joel
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April 18, 2024 - Leslie Odom Jr, Chad Smith, and the legacy of the Drop Nineteens
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April 17, 2024 - Gordon Clapp, Alison Bechdel, and Janie Barnett
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April 16, 2024 - Imari Paris Jeffries, the Boston Public Quartet, and Children of Ukraine
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April 15, 2024 - Ruth Carter and Michael Cunningham
In 2019 costume designer Ruth E. Carter won her first Academy Award for her work in the 2018 film, “Black Panther,” where she created the Afrofuturist aesthetic of Wakanda. Super-heroism clearly runs in the family. Only four years later, Ruth E. Carter became a superhero in her own right, earning her second Oscar for her work in “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.” She made history with this win, not only as the first Black woman to receive two Academy Awards, but as the first person to win for both the original and the sequel of a movie. From the superheroes of “Black Panther” to the real-life heroes in films such as “Selma,” Ruth Carter has been creating visual universes on film and TV for thirty years. Her truly colorful career is the focus of her new book, “The Art of Ruth E. Carter: Costuming Black History and the Afrofuture from Do the Right Thing to Black Panther”.From there, we'll sit down with author Michael Cunningham. In 1999, Cunningham won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel “The Hours, ” which follows three women, in three different decades, through one day in their lives. By carefully observing that single day, Cunningham finds large emotional truths in the quiet, ordinary moments of the everyday—that in totality, seem rather epic by the final page. In his latest novel, Cunningham returns to the framework of the single day to wade around in the vagaries of human nature. Titled “Day,” the book unfolds in three acts, each set on a single day in April over three sequential years: 2019 through 2021.
