Most people press flowers between the pages of books. Artist Mark Dion prefers seaweed, and as you can see in this exclusive Art21 video, the effect can be stunning.
“‘The Forgetting: A Portrait of Alzheimer’s” weaves together the history and biology of the disease, the intense real-world experiences of Alzheimer’s patients and caregivers, and the race to find a cure. It won a primetime Emmy in 2004, and is watchable in it’s entirety online, or on the air tonight, Wed. 8/6 at 8pm. The 2008 follow-up program ‘The Future of Alzheimer’s’, hosted by David Hyde Pierce, is also watchable online.
On August 6, 1945, the Enola Gay, a U.S. B-29 bomber, drops the first atomic bomb used on people over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Between the blast and the …
The women driving Asia’s economy
LA’s gangs in El Salvador
In Iraq, Women given a 25% job quota
(originally aired August 2, 2008)
Andy Warhol would have been 80 today; he was born on August 6, 1928. This episode of “USA Arts”, from 1966, an NET production, profiles pop art pioneer Warhol (and Roy Lichtenstein, in part I), as he ascends in status in the art world and in popular culture. His interviews are mesmerizingly detached and hilarious, and the footage is stunning. Watch now.
Just days before the Olympic games begin, a haze still stretches across Beijing. The air pollution in China is a powerful reminder of the consequences of China’s recent rapid economic …
A Civil War enthusiast owns an antique photograph that depicts about 20 older white men in full dress uniform, standing shoulder-to-shoulder with two black men. History Detectives investigates the first national social group to challenge the color barrier. Originally aired: Season 5, Episode 3. Watch a related video on Civil War photography.
August 5th at 10pm, P.O.V. will air the little-seen documentary “Johnny Cash: The Man, His World, His Music” on Thirteen. This footage, of Johnny and June singing “Jackson”, is …
A new survey conducted by the Wildlife Conservation Society has found hundreds of thousands of western lowland gorillas inhabiting the vast forests and swamps of the Congo Republic.
Phoenix Mars Lander: NASA’s latest bot
Brain Trauma: prevention and treatment
Mammoth Skeletons found locked together
Profile: Judah Folkman, cancer researcher
