For over 20 years, Thistle Farms has lit a pathway of healing and hope for women survivors of trafficking, prostitution, and addiction. In the film Thistle we are introduced to several of these resilient women, and hear their stories of overcoming trauma and finding hope in community. The film also…
At 86 years of age, eminent cultural historian Thomas Berry, in an extended video interview, shared his primary concerns for the well being of our planet at this critical moment. Thomas Berry is the author of Dream of the Earth, The Great Work, Evening Thoughts, and The Universe Story with Brian Swimme.…
A portrait of the American painter, Thomas Eakins featuring Kevin Conway as the famous 19th century artist who was little recognized during his lifetime. The program includes rare interviews with people who posed for him.
Thomas Hirschhorn is a Swiss artist renowned for his series of ephemeral "monuments" dedicated to major writers and thinkers. After The Netherlands, France and Germany, he created the Gramsci Monument at Forest Houses, a housing in the tenuous surburb of Bronx. The Gramsci Monument building…
Der Künstler lädt ins Atelier und gibt Einblicke in sein Schaffen: Die Kraft der Farben, der Malprozess und der innere Fundus von Themen und Bildern. Wissenschaft und Kunst: zwei Wege, die Welt zu beschreiben.
Thomas Ruff counts as one of the most influential contemporary photo artists who studied photography at the Duesseldorf Art Academy with Hilla and Bernd Becher. He became intenationally famous in the late 1980s through his large-format portraits. With series such as 'jpegs', 'nudes',…
Thomas Sankara, a charismatic army captain, came to power in Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta) in 1983 at the age of 33, in a popularly supported coup. He immediately launched the most ambitious program for social and economic change ever attempted on the African continent. Among the initiatives…
THOMAS STRUTH New German Photography Director's Cut by Ralph Goertz The German artist Thomas Struth studied first painting with Gerhard Richter and switched into the class of Bernd Becher at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf. Nowadays he is renowned for his practice of creating singular images,…
Landmarks in 21st Century American Architecture Series The Pritzker-prize winning architect Thom Mayne has been identified with muscular, bold, steel-and-glass design since the founding of his firm, Morphosis, in 1971. With the Federal Office Building in San Francisco, Mayne proves that innovative…
In the fall of 2010, the murder of Matthew Chew - committed by six teenagers - sowed anger, division and fear in New London. While residents argued how to respond to the tragedy, a group came together to stage a talent show at the Garde Arts Center. Over the next ten years, the annual New London Talent…
It is the deliberately unintentional looking that allows for chance. Across Europe and around the Mediterranean, Ruth Beckermann creates a web of travel and flight movements and asks whether the difference between going and staying is not solely a question of time. Nigerian asylum seekers in Sicily,…
During the Second World War, thousands of Jewish refugees who had fled Nazi oppression were imprisoned in the United Kingdom and sent to work in prison camps in Canada. Using a large archive of never-released audio interviews, Those Who Heard & Those Who Saw tells the story of these prisoners and…
