Whether for his critics, his friends (...?), or his canvases, the Victorian-era, Gilded-age Aesthetic ex-pat painter James Abbott McNeill Whistler had one motto: float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
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Music Used:
Django Reinhardt, “Django’s Tiger”
The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"
The Blue Dot Sessions, ... Show More
Sep 14
Ep. 72 - Joe Rosenthal's "Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima" (1945)
“While the men prepared to replace the first flag, I was able to position myself for a picture, the elements of which were composed by the men themselves, and the wind, weather, midday lighting, and the luck of timing.” - Joe Rosenthal, Associated Press At the end of the war in W ... Show More
40m 50s
Apr 2025
Ep. 69 - Yee Sookyung's "Translated Vase" (2011)
“It is not about fixing or mending, but about celebrating the vulnerability of the object and ultimately myself.” - Yee Sookyung
Shattered porcelain is impossible to repair. As impossible as fully, and accurately, reconstructing the past. But who needs that pressure? What if, ins ... Show More
23m 40s
Mar 2012
British Composers
Music By Edward Elgar, Ralph Vaughan Williams, George Butterworth, John Ireland, Arthur Sullivan, Fredrick Delius and William Walton. Works include: Nimrod, Spitfire, Sea Fever, The Wasps Overture and The Wand Of Youth.
59m 16s