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Wednesday, February 24, 2010 at 11:00 am

Twenty years after a half-billion dollar art heist at the Gardner Museum, nobody’s cracked the case. We’ll ask where stolen art goes.

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Monday, November 2, 2009 at 11:00 am

Maya Lin’s Vietnam Memorial changed how we remember war. We’ll talk with her about her latest and, she says, last public memorial — a monument to vanishing species.

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Friday, August 7, 2009 at 11:00 am

It’s been called “the biggest art fraud of the 20th century.” We’ll talk with the artist behind it, and the reporter who tells his story.

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Thursday, June 25, 2009 at 10:00 am

Does Athens’ big, new, ultra-modern Acropolis Museum give Greece a fresh claim on the Elgin Marbles, spirited away by a British lord two centuries ago? We’ll step into the fray.

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Thursday, March 5, 2009 at 11:00 am

Philosopher and author Denis Dutton on why the human love of art is at the heart of our survival as a species.

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Monday, October 27, 2008 at 11:00 am

Filmmaker Wayne Wang, director of “The Joy Luck Club,” on Chinese- American life now and his new film, “The Princess of Nebraska.”

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Wednesday, February 27, 2008 at 11:00 am

America is in the middle of a tattoo craze. Forty percent of Americans aged 26 to 40 have been tattooed. More than a third of Americans 18 to 25 have already been inked somewhere — sometimes in ways shocking to their elders.
But the U.S. tattoo culture is nothing compared to some of the world’s body [...]

 
Thursday, December 6, 2007 at 11:00 am

More than any other artist, Picasso left his mark on the 20th century. In his long life — 92 years of it — he enjoyed gargantuan fame, glittering friends, and a lavish lifestyle. And he created an immense output of art, which he described as his “diary.”
Now Picasso’s biographer, John Richardson, is out with the [...]

 
Monday, December 3, 2007 at 11:00 am

Ever read a passage in a book, or hear a bit of music, and think, “how did they do that? How did the author or composer get inside my head?”
Well, science writer Jonah Lehrer says that artists have a pretty good track record understanding the subtleties of our minds — often well ahead of scientists.
Whitman, [...]

 
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On Point Blog
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