My show on KWBU-FM this week looks at–and listens to–some of the work of American composer Charles Ives, in particular his amazing Second Symphony.  It’s well worth a serious listen.

https://www.kwbu.org/post/david-and-art-most-american-music

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Tomorrow (Wednesday the 6th), this 1969 David Hockney painting comes up for sale at Christie’s auction house in London.  It’s one of Hockney’s best works and it portrays one of the most important figures in the art world in the second half of the 20th century.

My show this week on KWBU-FM looks at the artist, the painting, and the subject.  

There was once a time when the Marx Brothers and Verdi could occupy the same cultural terrain.  My piece from last week on KWBU-FM.

http://www.kwbu.org/post/david-and-art-high-and-low

Last week I talked about the possibility of French museums returning pieces of art to African countries from which they came.  This week along the same lines I look at an even older controversy:  pieces of the Parthenon in Athens that have been in the British Museum in London since an English nobleman made off with them in the early 19th century.

http://www.kwbu.org/post/david-and-art-returning-art