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Mosaic of children's drawings

Description: This tape includes a short piece documenting a celebration at the Grand Concourse in South Station. Students and city officials celebrate the unveiling of a mural created by Sidewalk Sam and Boston elementary-school students. The mural is made up of personal drawings by students and it celebrates ethnic diversity and racial harmony in Boston. A choir of students performs in South Station. A city official congratulates the students. Sidewalk Sam leads students in a cheer. This tape includes additional footage of the celebration at South Station. Ray Flynn looks on as a student choir performs. Additional footage includes shots of the mural
1:00:30: Visual: Shot of a man conducting a children's choir. The children begin to sing. Shot of a sign reading, "Boston youth celebrate ethnic diversity and harmony." Shots of students in the choir. Footage of a city official speaking from a podium. The official says that the children are promoting racial harmony and peace. Footage of students singing in the choir. Shots of a large mural created by elementary-school students in the Boston Public School System. Shots of students waving at the camera. Shots of a section of the mural, hanging in the Grand Concourse of South Station in Boston. Shots of students in the choir. Shot of Robert Guillemin (artist), also known as "Sidewalk Sam" leading the students in a cheer. Shots of the mural; of the individual drawings making up the mural.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/15/1990

Murals in Cambridge

Description: Saginaw Avenue on Cambridge Somerville line near Elm Street behind Porter Square shopping center. Mural on back of Star Market on Davenport Street. Mural on brick side of Inman Square fire station. Entrance to The Proposition improvisation theater with silhouettes mural. Mural of horse-drawn wagon. Rowboat mural in Central Square. Colorful totem-like painted bricks. Cartoonish musicians painted on brick wall. Large stylized mural of Victorian house near Orson Welles Cinema. Interview with woman at Cambridge Arts Council about placement of public murals and environmental art installations; how they match artists' proposals with community interests.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/23/1979

NAM JUNE PAIK

Description: INTERVIEW WITH NAM JUNE PAIK, VIDEO ART PIONEER. EXAMPLES OF HIS WORK. Charlotte Moorman, John Cage, Laurie Anderson.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/07/1984

Nicholas Nixon's AIDS portraits

Description: Photographer Nicholas Nixon made monthly portraits of people with AIDS, including Robert Sappenfield, showing deterioration from the disease.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/03/1989

Paul Laffoley

Description: Bromfield Street storefronts and pedestrians. John Dean Coin Co., J.J. Teaparty Coins, Bromfield Pen Center. Inside studio of artist Paul Laffoley at 36 Bromfield. Bright paints in plastic cups. Sign for “The Boston Visionary Cell,” Lafolley's think tank. The artist works on an intricate geometric painting involving Klein Bottle, aliens, complex polygons, and his idiosyncratic theories about space, dimensions and energy. His abstract pieces hang on gallery walls. Close-ups on paint bottles and brushes.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/10/1978

Performance artist Karen Finley

Description: Conversation with performance artist Karen Finley. Clips from her stage event and painting a poetry mural.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/06/1990

Prominent Black Bostonians

Description: Marcus Jones reports on an exhibit at the Boston Athenaeum celebrating Black History Month. Jones notes that the exhibit features photographs of prominent people in Boston's African American community. Jones interviews Marie Cosindas (photographer) about the photographs. Jones' report includes shots of the photographs. Jones reports that the exhibit also includes documents, books and artworks representing the African American artistic, cultural and political traditions. Jones interviews Marilyn Richardson (exhibit advisor and MIT professor) about the exhibit. Richardson talks about a display of census documents and artworks by Edmonia Lewis (sculptor) and Allan Crite (artist). Jones' report includes footage of artworks in the exhibit.
1:00:07: Visual: Shots of color photographs of African Americans in Boston. Shot of a group photograph of Ruth Batson (community activist) and three others. Shot of a photograph of Hugh Morgan Hill (storyteller), also known as Brother Blue. The photographs are displayed at the Boston Athenaeum. Footage of Marie Cosindas (photographer) talking about the photographs. Cosindas says that the photographs were made with commercial cameras and Polaroid film. Marcus Jones reports that Cosindas made portraits of prominent African Americans in Boston; that her photographs are part of a Black History Month exhibit at the Boston Athenaeum. V: Shots of the portraits, including portraits of Elma Lewis (Roxbury community leader); of Mel King (community activist) and Joyce King (wife of Mel King); of Byron Rushing (State Representative). Shot of a portrait of Tanya Hart (WBZ television personality), Philip Hart (professor, University of Massachusetts), and a young woman. Footage of Cosindas saying that she is glad to have had the opportunity to meet these people; that she was able to learn about each person's character and personality. Shot of a portrait of Bruce Bolling (Boston City Council), Royal Bolling, Sr. (state senator), and Royal Bolling, Jr. (former state representative). Footage of Marilyn Richardson (exhibit advisor and MIT professor) talking to Jones about the exhibit. Richardson says that the exhibit includes one of the earliest census documents of the city of Boston; that the 1765 census includes blacks and Indians. Shot of the census document. Jones reports that Richardson helped to organize the 118-piece exhibit about African Americans in Boston. V: Shots of a display of books; of a painting; of a piece of sculpture. Footage of Richardson talking about a bust of Robert Gould Shaw. Richardson says that Shaw was the white captain of the Massachusetts 54th regiments, which was comprised of African American soldiers. Shot of a painting depicting the Massachusetts 54th regiment in battle. Footage of Richardson saying that the sculpure of Shaw was made by Edmonia Lewis (nineteenth-century sculptor); that Lewis was the first African American to gain an international reputation as a sculptor. Shots of photographs of Lewis; of an 1930s ink drawing. Footage of Richardson talking about the india ink drawings from the 1930s. Richardson says that Allan Crite (artist) portrayed black angels, black saints and a black Christ in his work from the 1930s. Shots of religious drawings by Crite; of a group of sculptures. Shots of a display of books. Footage of Richardson saying that the exhibit organizers have tried to gather rare and unusual documents to demonstrate the complexity and strength of the African American artistic and political traditions. Shots of a museum-goer looking at the exhibit; of a display of books; of paintings included in the exhibit. Jones reports that the exhibit will be on display until April.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/29/1988

Renoir

Description: Interview with art historian Barbara Ehrlich White commenting on the evolution in the portraiture and life of Renoir,highlighting the contrast between his joyful art and his difficult life, on the occasion of a major exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts. Footage of the paintings from the exhibit and photographs of Renoir.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/03/1986

Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs

Description: Interview with ICA director David Ross, discussing the late photographer Robert Mapplethorpe whose work is controversial for its erotic and gay subject matter. Discussion of his self-portraiture. Discussion of some members of Congress' attempts to censor the rotating exhibit. Ross argues for freedom of speech.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/16/1989

Robert Motherwell

Description: Artist Robert Motherwell. Exhibit of his work at Athenaeum. Varujan Boghosian acts as docent.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/30/1987