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- Through conversations with artists, scholars, and other great creative thinkers, the complex world is explored through a lens of arts, culture, and science.
- Articulate with Jim Cotter is a weekly public television magazine show that explores how creative thinkers help shape our understanding of the world.
- Articulate's 4th season premieres with David Sedaris, Priscilla Renea, and Jeffrey Gibson
- Olivia Laing's writing explores the aspects of life that are most difficult to put into words. Bill Fontana finds musical potential in everything. Merrill Garbus of Tune-Yards has managed to quiet the destructive voices in her head.
- 2015–TV EpisodeGoth, in all its forms, appeals to the dark side of the human spirit. Humanity's greatest fear is not the unknown, it is the certainty of our own mortality. H.P. Lovecraft's intergenerational legacy of horror.
- Anthony Roth Costanzo, Kory Stamper, Robert Lang.
- Tracy K. Smith, David Lang, Open Mike Eagle.
- Delving into the poem that's survived re-reading longer than the Bible and Shakespeare. Music has always been the quickest route to Kaki King's soul. Thi Bui on how writing about her family's journey from war-torn Vietnam helped to heal.
- Shawn Colvin has dedicated her life to music. Masatoshi Izumi's family's relationship with stone goes back hundreds of years. Erika Sanchez writes for teens who are complex and confused like she was at their age.
- Taylor Mac, Holly Black, Vieux Farka Touré.
- 2015–TV EpisodeMarc Bamuthi Joseph, in concert and conversation with Jim Cotter.
- Yannick Nézet-Séguin is one-of-a-kind in the world of conducting. Type designer Tobias Frere-Jones disagrees with your 1st-grade teacher. Singer, songwriter, actor, and director Hayley Kiyoko.
- Balkrishna Doshi, Amy Seiwert, Josh Radnor, Ben Lee.
- Don't be fooled by the "lighthearted" music of They Might Be Giants. Sylvia Plath should be remembered as more than a poster girl for despair. An artist falls in love with an engineer. Perspectives shift.
- For Hélène Grimaud, music has been both a profession and salvation. Sarah Williams Goldhagen is on a crusade to fix architecture, now. Scott McCloud understands comics.
- 2015–TV EpisodeDavid Finckel, in concert and conversation with Jim Cotter.
- A Valentine's Day special.
- Mira Nakashima is continuing the artistic legacy of her father who was a master craftsman in wood. Two artists are helping to reinvigorate the conversation about climate change. Brandon Ballengée's artistic practice aims to generate understanding and awareness of endangered species.
- Articulate's 5th season premieres with Jeff Tweedy and Frank Lloyd Wright.
- Milton Glaser, Camille Brown, Julia Wolfe.
- Martin and Eliza Carthy, Oded Hirsch, Dessa.
- Daniel Barenboim, Tift Merritt, Vivek Shraya.
- Daniel Libeskind, Missy Mazzoli, Elliott Erwitt.
- Ani Liu, Howard Jacobson, Edgar Meyer.
- For the last 20 years, talent has allowed Andrew Bird to mostly write his own ticket. Now, he's coming up with some of his finest work yet. Join us for a full-length episode of Articulate featuring new music by Andrew Bird and personal insights into his life...so far.
- Arthur Yorinks, Karen Russell, Jason deCaires Taylor.
- Gregory Pardlo, Sonya Tayeh.
- Bill T. Jones, Lily Allen, Michael Bierut.
- Thomas Heatherwick, Alice McDermott, Dean Friedman.
- Sarah Ruhl, Michelle Dorrance, Ralph Steadman.
- On this Articulate, we explore the life and art of Patricia Racette- a supremely talented singer and storyteller. Racette has been a celebrated opera leading lady for more than three decades, both on America's premier stages and in great opera houses around the world. But one thing that has set her apart as a performer is her love of a good yarn.
- Marina Benjamin writes to parse the questions that loom largest in her life. It's a self-examination, yes. But never self-obsession. Stefan Sagmeister has spent the past 40-odd years demonstrating how graphic design can make even the most abstract ideas tangible. And he does it with his own unique style-his own idiom. Donald Nally, conductor of the groundbreaking chamber choir, The Crossing, doesn't just want audiences to listen-he wants them to think about real-world issues and events.
- Stephanie Blythe was one of the fastest rising stars in opera when an anxiety disorder threatened to take her down. But she refused to let it be her undoing. The story of Gradiva, a sculpture that came to life, captured public imagination at the start of the 20th century. Today, the artist Diana Al-Hadid has resurrected her. As a young singer-songwriter, Nick Lowe was preoccupied with looking cool and getting famous. But, as Tori Marchiony reports, he didn't REALLY find his groove until he dropped the act.
- The Scottish singer-songwriter KT Tunstall realized she was becoming a pop music cliché: on top, but unhappy. Tori Marchiony reports that it was then she decided it was time to change. Pam Tanowitz is among the finest choreographers in modern dance. But she refuses to put her feet up. Natasha Trethewey coped with the tragedies of her young life by turning them into exceptional poetry. But those wounds will never fully heal.
- Caroline Shaw is one of the most original new voices in contemporary music. Yet her latest project sees her turning her ears to, of all things, cover versions.
- Aaron Sorkin is best known for his award-winning screenwriting: A Few Good Men, The West Wing, Moneyball, The Newsroom. But his first love is the theater. Singer, instrumentalist, and folk historian Rhiannon Giddens is on a musical mission: to remind us of what we all share, regardless of who we are or where we're from.
- John Darnielle has excelled as a front-man, songwriter, and author by overcoming an innately self-destructive personality. As a grownup, Elizabeth Acevedo realized that the books she needed as a child still didn't exist. So she wrote them herself. Meg Saligman's large-scale murals are difficult to grasp close-up. But the stories they tell are in the details.
- The best-selling author Jonathan Safran Foer writes to interrogate his own past and all of our futures. Today, the superstar graphic novelist Nate Powell is known for beautifully rendered comics with a strong moral core. But, as Tori Marchiony reports, for more than a decade he was dedicated to serving those with developmental disabilities. The Venezuelan-born conductor Gustavo Dudamel is on a mission to sow harmony, in the concert hall and beyond.
- Tori Marchiony profiles former U.K. Poet Laureate Sir Andrew Motion. He's five decades in and still finding room to grow. Among the most highly regarded jazz pianists of his time, Vijay Iyer has made his instrument of choice an instrument of discovery. Susan Choi's books reflect her skepticism of authority. As Tori Marchiony reports, the National Book Award-winning author even questions the credibility of the characters she creates.
- Billy Collins is one of the best-selling poets alive. Perhaps because his works effortlessly magnify the small details that make life worth living. The conductor Gemma New has followed opportunity around the world. As Tori Marchiony reports, a decade in, she's finally arrived. The award-winning writer Ming Peiffer forges works for stage and screen that deconstruct her own observations and experiences of life today. Sometimes that means embracing an unhappy ending.
- The highly distinguished musician, Esperanza Spalding does more than just make music-she's trying to change the world. Lee Child left his former life behind to author an unlikely hero: Jack Reacher, a vagrant vigilante who reaps justice for the underdog. Over the course of the past two decades, Child and Reacher have sold millions of books worldwide. The award-winning tenor, Nicholas Phan explores the world in song, merging cultures while uncovering immense value in all of our differences.
- World-renowned architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien are united in vision and practice-in their lives together and in their work-a strong foundation for their partnership and buildings. Carmen Maria Machado is self-assured and outspoken, turning a mirror not only on herself but on society's unchallenged biases to create immersive fiction.
- Before she was a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Elizabeth Strout spent decades finessing her unique narratives, often using her own upbringing as a touchstone. The celebrated violinist Pamela Frank was at the height of her career when she suffered a life-altering injury. After nearly a decade, she's playing again, with newfound purpose. Rennie Harris and street dance grew up together. Today, he's celebrated as the pioneer of hip-hop dance theater, but it took a while before he ever got paid.
- Internationally renowned Scottish violinist Nicola Benedetti was cast into the spotlight at age 16. Forced to grow up in the public eye, she often struggled. Now in her 30s, she looks back on those years with wry humor. The award-winning author Maaza Mengiste writes of an Ethiopian home she left behind, dismantling preconceptions and bringing to light some of that country's rich past. Once a wanderer pursuing creative endeavors, Dick Boak followed his instincts and created a role in the evolution of the Martin Guitar company, all the while becoming an ever more skillful artisan himself.
- Dan Harmon is the creator of seminal television shows Rick and Morty and Community. He's found success on his own terms, but now, as he approaches middle age, he's reflecting on how he's gotten here. Liz Lerman creates dance with purpose that fosters engagement; but, like many great creative thinkers, doubt has always been part of the process.
- Ellen Reid has a lot to say. The music of this softly spoken Pulitzer Prize-winning composer speaks volumes, even when it means confronting her own worst experiences. Vikram Paralkar would appear to be a mass of contradictions: a novelist whose work confronts mortality, a cancer physician who constantly helps others deal with death, an atheist who is married to a minister. Yet his joy for life is.
- Gish Jen has spent a lifetime navigating internal cultural conflicts, yet the best-selling novelist has found peace with a personal East/West divide that could serve as a model for all. Thomas Newman is among the most highly respected and successful film composers. Though part of a Hollywood musical dynasty, he has created a unique musical voice.
- Being declared stateless at just six months old did not predict greatness for the celebrated musician Daniel Hope, but the course of his life was changed when his mother began working for the legendary violinist Yehudi Menuhin.
- Jason Robert Brown lives and breathes musical theater. From his early days as a fledgling composer through multiple Tony awards, he's had to do it his way or not at all. Fate almost conspired to take music away from Angel Blue. But she refused to surrender to such a dark destiny and came out on the other side a better woman and a singer on some of the world's biggest stages.
- Poetry, as a literary form, is a relatively recent idea, yet weaving stories and thoughts in a concise structure that uses rhythm and sometimes rhyme is as old as time. Today spoken word is a popular, more democratic way for poets to get their work and words out. When the pandemic put a halt to groups performing together, dancers from American Ballet Theatre's teen training program found a way.