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Caption: Latasha Lee
A musical Rip Van Winkle tale from Denton: the unexpected return of the Baptist Generals. Also, R&B sensation Latasha Lee's remarkable bounce-back...

  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 57:02
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This year’s ACL festival lineup is out, and at least one major national music blog is calling it the best major festival of the year. We’ll explor...

  • Added: May 16, 2013
  • Length: 54:01
Caption: The Harlan Twins, Credit: Chaz Mottinger
The music of Pittsburgh's own rockers, The Harlan Twins, rings true, "I can't be blue in Bloomfield."

  • Added: May 09, 2013
  • Length: 07:33
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Austin orchestral rock innovators Mother Falcon come of age with a new album. Also, Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top talks about the re-birth of his psyche...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2013
  • Length: 56:49
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Conversations with artists of all kinds doing work in and about the real world. Hour long, magazine format episode of Word of Mouth.

  • Added: Apr 16, 2013
  • Length: 51:30
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On the next edition of Texas Music Matters: Mojo Hand—the legend of Lightnin’ Hopkins, reconsidered. Also, with Austin Psychfest on the horizon, a...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
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In the spring of 1972, an event took place in a field west of Austin. It would not only give birth to Willie Nelson's now-famous 4th-of-July picnic...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Mar 29, 2013
  • Length: 54:09
  • Purchases: 1
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Mitch Skinner looks at a new food-art exhibit at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and finds out about banqueting in Shakespeare's day.

Bought by Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 06, 2013
  • Length: 05:10
  • Purchases: 1
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Mitch Skinner looks at the history of Record Store Day. He also finds out what's in store for 2012.

  • Added: Mar 05, 2013
  • Length: 05:29
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Twenty-five masterpiece drawings by Renaissance artist Michelangelo are now on a rare, two-stop tour in America. Kelley Libby attended the first le...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2013
  • Length: 02:28
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Twenty-five masterpiece drawings by Renaissance artist Michelangelo are now on a rare, two-stop tour in America. Producer Kelley Libby attended the...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2013
  • Length: 05:05
Caption: Paola Gueli is one of a dwindling number of tailors in Italy, a country renowned for its tailoring tradition. , Credit: Luigi Fraboni
Skilled tailoring is a dying art. Many of the best tailors hail from Italy where the tradition is unraveling due to a lack of training opportuniti...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WAMC


  • Added: Feb 25, 2013
  • Length: 08:20
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Italian Negar Azhar Azari makes a ring by hand in the centuries-old Florentine tradition.  , Credit: Maurizio Rufino
Italian artisans craft exquisite objects with their hands, particularly in Florence. Yet aging artisans crippled by Italy’s bureaucracy aren’t abl...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 25, 2013
  • Length: 07:37
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Artist Michael Sistig and Anti Ark
Michael Sistig Creates the Anti Ark at El Segundo Beach. The open air art installation consists of shipping containers, an emaciated polar bear and...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2013
  • Length: 07:48
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A group of artists is occupying a city-owned theater, called the Sala Alberdi. They offer free performances and art workshops to the public, but ar...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2013
  • Length: 03:22
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In this episode, we take an in-depth look at political cartoonist, Thomas Nast.

  • Added: Jan 28, 2013
  • Length: 09:42
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If you’ve already visited a haunted house or plan to do so on Halloween, chances are you’ll see something designed to scare you that’s been created...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2012
  • Length: 05:53
Caption: Church Bell, Ward, Colorado, Credit: Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation Abiquiu New Mexico
A story about the Summer artist Georgia O'Keeffe spent in the Colorado mountain town of Ward.

  • Added: Sep 13, 2012
  • Length: 05:00
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For the second week of June (6/15): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a venue with a small name that had a big impact on ...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:41
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The 2008 passage of Minnesota’s Clean Water, Land, and Legacy Amendment has had a profound effect upon communities all over the state, and Explore ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 18, 2012
  • Length: 29:43
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The Music Box art and sound installation
This radio documentary is about the Music Box art and sound installation located in the Bywater Neighborhood of New Orleans. It blends the sounds o...

Bought by KLCC


  • Added: Jun 06, 2012
  • Length: 07:28
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: May Day General Strike 2012, Credit: Molly Crabapple and John Leavitt
In celebration of May Day, The Artsy Fartsy Show covered art in immigrant communities, activism and the artistic influences within the Occupy Wall ...

  • Added: May 31, 2012
  • Length: 52:11
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Youth producers at Kealing Middle School investigate a type of graffiti art that merges the old with the new. Produced for Stories From Deep in the...

  • Added: May 22, 2012
  • Length: 04:37
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Artsy Fartsy Show's annual Spring light show – finding humor in the bizarre and scary, stand-up comedy and much more with guests: Harrison Greenbau...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2012
  • Length: 54:30
Caption: Geoffrey Fletcher with The Script for the Imagination Series
Academy Award Winner, Geoffrey Fletcher sits down with Artsy Fartsy Show's Barika Taheer Edwards to chat about screenwriting and the his launch of ...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2012
  • Length: 17:06