Artist Ken Aptekar toys with historical paintings by using the history of art as his playground. He time-travels works from the past into the present by his repainting joined to his own texts. Here’s the idea: Paintings are nothing on their own, they start meaning something only when you start talking back to them.
PBS Books sits down with Lisa Selin Davis to discuss her book "Housewife: Why Women Still Do It All and What to Do Instead".
PBS Books sits down with author-illustrator Tracy Subisak to discuss her book "Sorry, Snail".
Description: The week of March 11-15 is Civic Literacy Week in America. The concept of civics in the United States embraces disagreements and encourages a search for compromise. In recent years, that concept seems to have been forgotten, as the nation struggles with difficult issues that have spawned deep political division. Recently, two Governors who are calling on Americans to “Disagree Better” spokes at the Economic Club of Washington. Governor Spencer Cox of Utah is a Republican and the current chair of the National Governors Association, where he leads a civility initiative called "Disagree Better." Governor West Moore [...]
PBS Books sits down and speaks with bestselling author ReShonda Tate to discuss her book "The Queen of Sugar Hill".
This speaker event was recorded live on Thursday, March 7, 2024 at 5:30 pm at the Michigan Theater, Ann Arbor, MI. Artemio Rodríguez is a Mexican artist who was born in Tacámbaro, Michoacán. He began his career as a printer’s apprentice with Juan Pascoe at his renowned letterpress studio Taller Martin Pescador (Kingfisher Workshop) in Tacámbaro, Michoacán. At the age of 21, Rodríguez immigrated to Los Angeles and became a printmaker at Self Help Graphics. He co-founded La Mano Press in 2002 in Los Angeles before relocating to Michoacán in 2008, where he co-founded La Mano Gráfica, a gallery and craft store. Rodríguez directs the Library of Illustrated Books (Biblioteca [...]
Visions of America Home Episodes Program Description: In this episode of VISIONS OF AMERICA: All Stories, All People, All Places, trailblazing women leading museums and libraries are highlighted. These are the women who have advocated for, founded, and inspired many of our nation's most treasured institutions, and the women today, who are carrying on that legacy. Members of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) leadership, Laura Huerta Migus and Teri DeVoe, join PBS Books Heather-Marie Montilla to explore the lesser-known stories of the women, who have been instrumental to contributing to our country’s [...]
Readers Club Home Episodes Episode Description: Join the PBS Books Readers Club as we chat with New York Times bestselling author Allison Pataki about her latest book “Finding Margaret Fuller.” In this virtual discussion we’ll dive into this fascinating historical fiction read about the adventures of Margaret Fuller, a renowned writer, journalist, and trailblazing women’s rights advocate whose story has too often gone untold. This work is a book-lovers dream, telling the story of Fuller’s thrilling adventures and relationships with notable literary figures like Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thorough, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Edgar Allen Poe. [...]
This speaker event was recorded live on Thursday, March 21, 2024 at 5:30 pm at the Michigan Theater, Ann Arbor, MI. CW&T is the recipient of the 2022 National Design Award for Product Design from Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. CW&T started as and remains the two-person design practice of Che-Wei Wang and Taylor Levy. With backgrounds in Architecture, Film and Computer Science, the duo met at NYU ITP where they began their scale- and medium-agnostic approach to design. Since 2009, CW&T’s work has spanned from interactive software to human-scaled tools that enhance their relationships to work, life, and time. Their practice centers around an iterative process of sketching, [...]
Program Description: Join PBS Books as we offer a special evening with best-selling author, Kara Swisher, and General Motors Chair and CEO Mary Barra, which is being presented by the University of Michigan’s Wallace House Center for Journalists and the Gerald R. Ford of Public Policy, as part of the university’s continuing series: “Democracy in Crisis: Views from the Press.” Award-winning journalist, author, and podcaster, Kara Swisher has interviewed nearly every consequential innovator and tech entrepreneur working today. Her new memoir, Burn Book: A Tech Love Story, is an insider’s tale of success, failure, hubris, and optimism. As the electric vehicle revolution becomes a predominate topic in this [...]
Program Description: As part of its Wright Conversations series, the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History presents Nikki Giovanni, one of this country’s most widely read poets and one of America’s most renowned poets worldwide. Her poem, “Knoxville, Tennessee,” is arguably the single literary work most often associated with that city. Giovanni has received numerous awards in the course of her career, including seven Image Awards from the N.A.A.C.P., more than two-dozen honorary degrees, the first Rosa Parks Woman of Courage Award, the Langston Hughes Medal for Poetry, and the Carl Sandburg Literary Award; additionally, Oprah Winfrey [...]
This speaker event was recorded live on Thursday, March 28, 2024 at 5:30 pm at the Michigan Theater, Ann Arbor, MI.As part of the 62nd Ann Arbor Film Festival, this special program will showcase a curated selection of Lynn Hershman Leeson’s short films, followed by a conversation. Filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson will join remotely, and curator Julia Yezbick will interview her from the Michigan Theater’s stage.Lynn Hershman Leeson’s work cannot be contained by any one medium. Her practice is voracious; consuming both traditional artistic media (installation, painting, and video) as well as interactive LaserDiscs and synthetic DNA. Responding to the social and scientific technologies of the [...]
