Khrista Rypl

Khrista Rypl appears in the following:

Aha Moment: Whoopi Goldberg

Friday, June 01, 2012

WNYC listener Julie Bayley grew up watching daytime talk shows to catch comics like Rodney Dangerfield. But there weren’t any comedians like her: female and black. Then Bayley saw W...

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Taryn Simon: Chapters of Invisible Lives

Tuesday, May 08, 2012

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Taryn Simon's photographs are crisp to the point of being stark, stripped of all but the most essential elements. She documents places and things that are normally kept far from view: items detained at customs, radioactive capsules at a nuclear waste storage facility, the art collection of the CIA. ...

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Listener Challenge: Odes to Idols

Friday, May 04, 2012

Inspired by Tracy K. Smith’s collection Life on Mars, we want your poem about the star who captured your imagination — as a teenager or now. This week, we feature an entry in tribute ...

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Passing Stranger: Poetry in NYC's East Village

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

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New York City's East Village was once a vigorous and diverse community of poets, including Allen Ginsberg, Frank O'Hara, Ted Berrigan, and Anne Waldman. A new audio tour of the neighb...
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Aha Moment: Kiss Alive!

Friday, April 06, 2012

Sergio Muñoz was only seven years old when he became a devotee of the band Kiss. He discovered the Alive! album in Tower Records and was mesmerized by the cover. Isolated and lonely, ...

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Kehinde Wiley on the World Stage

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

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Kehinde Wiley paints contemporary kings. The World Stage: Israel, a new exhibition of Wiley's paintings, is now on view at The Jewish Museum ...
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