How the Public Library Became an American Civic Institution
Free For All: The Public Library tells the story of the quiet revolutionaries who made a simple idea happen. From the pioneering women behind the “Free Library Movement” to today's…
How Los Angeles’ “Little Tokyo” is fighting for survival
Los Angeles' "Little Tokyo" is filled with displaced shops and closed family restaurants as a new wave of development threatens the Japanese cultural hub. It's not the first time the…
Grave New World
Richard Beck charts how 9/11 shapes the way we live now
We’re Leaving
Starting out working on Noah Baumbach’s comedy-drama Frances Ha, it was Zachary Treitz’s Sundance-nominated 2011 short film, We’re Leaving, that saw the young director cut his filmmaking teeth. The offbeat short tells…
Internet Vs Ocean: the essential wires we never think about
Did you know that the internet is held together by a network of undersea cables? And did you also know that these cables can trace their origin back to 1850s?…
How Walton Ford’s Large-Scale Watercolors Satirize the History of Colonialism | Art21
Art21 proudly presents an artist segment, featuring Walton Ford, from the "Humor" episode in Season 2 of the "Art in the Twenty-First Century" series. "Humor" premiered in October 2003 on…
Rug-of-War
For nearly thirty years, Afghani weavers have incorporated images of war into hand-woven rugs
Laylah Ali in “Power” – Season 3 – “Art in the Twenty-First Century” | Art21
Art21 proudly presents an artist segment, featuring Laylah Ali, from the "Power" episode in Season 3 of the "Art in the Twenty-First Century" series. "Power" premiered in September 2005 on…
Secrets of the Planet of the Apes, with Josh Friedman
The Planet of the Apes franchise spans decades and formats: it started as a French novel in 1963, and then jumped the Atlantic to become a long-running series of movies,…
Mona Lisa Smile
Mona Lisa Smile is a 2003 American drama film produced by Revolution Studios and Columbia Pictures in association with Red Om Films Productions, directed by Mike Newell, written by Lawrence…