Clockwise from top left: Igor Stravinsky; Suffragettes photographed in 1913; "Bicycle Wheel" by Marcel Duchamp; Detail from "Woman with Pails: Dynamic Arrangement" by Kazimir Malevich
(Malevich c/o MoMA; Duchamp © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris / Estate of Marcel Duchamp; Stravinsky and Suffragette photo courtesey of Wikimedia Commons)
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Culture Shock 1913 - PODCAST - Ethan Iverson
Friday, December 28, 2012
Ethan Iverson and his band The Bad Plus re-interpreted Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring nearly 100 years after its premiere. We talked to Iverson about the piece for our special program "Culture Shock 1913," and our conversation turned into its own podcast!
Culture Shock 1913
Wednesday, December 05, 2012
What a year was 1913! In an exhibition in a New York Armory, Cubism and abstraction were revealed to the American public for the first time. In Vienna, audience members at a concert of atonal music by Schoenberg and others broke out into a near-riot. And in Paris, Stravinsky and Nijinsky’s new ballet The Rite of Spring burst on stage with famously inflammatory results.
Culture Shock 1913 - PODCAST - The Ascent of Poetry
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
CULTURE SHOCK 1913, our radio special on the landmark year 1913, starts airing December 6th, with other dates to follow. Our related four-part podcast series continues today with its third installment: "The Ascent of Poetry." 1913 marked a moment when a new type of verse emerged and set off a poetry fad in the United States.
VIDEO - Culture Shock 1913 - Touring MoMA for Masterpieces from 1913
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
WNYC's Sara Fishko gets a private tour of some of the paintings and sculptures from 1913 in MoMA's collection, some on display and others unearthed from a storage closet. Her guide is Ann Temkin, the Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art.
Culture Shock 1913 - PODCAST - Milton Brown
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
CULTURE SHOCK 1913, our radio special on the landmark year 1913, starts airing December 6th, with other dates to follow. Our related four-part podcast series continues today with its second installment, featuring a rare archival interview with Armory Show expert Milton Brown.
VIDEO - Culture Shock 1913 - A Brief Tour of the Davies' Collection
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Niles Davies is the last living descendant of Arthur B. Davies, one of three artists who were largely responsible for conceiving and producing the notorious Armory Show of 1913 that introduced Cubism to America for the first time. Sara Fishko visits Niles Davies' farmhouse and gets a tour of his unique art collection scattered around his home.
Culture Shock 1913: Program Information
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
“1913 is the moment where Modernism really comes into the open. This is where it all bubbles to the surface, and the great public adventure of 20th century music and art really begins.” – Alex Ross, New Yorker music critic
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Culture Shock 1913 - PODCAST - The Zipper
Wednesday, November 07, 2012
CULTURE SHOCK 1913, our radio special on the landmark year 1913 starts airing December 6th, with other dates to follow. Our related four-part podcast series begins today with this installment about one of the ingenious inventions of that year.
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Wonderful program, and what a great idea for a documentary as well. What a great time capsule!
Thank you for this program. Came at a perfect time for me when I think our current world is going ...
Beautifully done - balanced, focused, historically anchored but not pedantic, very well edited, hits the high points, which is all ...
This was a FABULOUS show!!! Kudos to Sara Fishko for putting together something so interesting, cohesive, compelling, and surprising. LOTS ...