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March 2009
World's Fair 1939
Friday, March 27, 2009
Seventy years ago, in the spring of 1939, New Yorkers - as well as visitors from all over the globe - were treated to a spectacular World’s Fair. As WNYC’s Sara Fishko tell us, it was happening at one of the most perilous moments in history. Here is the next Fishko Files...
For photo essays, original audio and assorted memorabilia and text from the time, visit the Art.Cult blog.
From the Archives: Concert Halls (originally aired 11/12/04)
Friday, March 20, 2009
You can listen to music in your car...or your kitchen...or in one of the great concert halls of the world. WHERE you listen, as Sara Fishko tells us, can have as much impact as WHAT you listen to. What does a building have to do with a piece of music? Here is the next archival edition of the Fishko Files.
From the Archives: Film Noir (originally aired 11/24/04)
Friday, March 13, 2009
It’s been more than half a century since a wave of crime dramas burst onto American movie screens, providing film-goers and film-makers with a whole new vocabulary of dark shadows and saucy dialogue. In this archival episode of the Fishko Files, Sara Fishko explores the advent of the form we now know as 'Film Noir.'
From the Archives: Family of Man (originally aired 12/17/04)
Friday, March 06, 2009
In the 1950’s, Edward Steichen of the Museum of Modern Art wanted to say something about the world. He said it, as Sara Fishko tells us, with a photo exhibit that made history. In this encore edition of the Fishko Files, a look back, 50 years later, at "Family of Man"...
