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Beverly Sills

Description: Interview with Beverly Sills on experiencing prejudice as woman directing an opera company and how the world is changing to allow women more opportunities. She comments on opera as expensive art form and how she tried to make quality opera that all people could afford, and that if specific opera communities are catering to the elite, she thinks the consumer can "make a lot of noise" and help to change that. She also mentions censorship in the arts and Robert Mapplethorpe. Clips of Sills singing.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/17/1991

Controversial arts funding

Description: Critics of the film "Poison" call for firing John Frohnmayer, chair of NEA, which gave a grant to Todd Haynes, director of the film. Film clip. Renovated Brattle Theater entrance.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/09/1991

Minor White exhibit

Description: MFA exhibit of photographer Minor White shows his juxtaposition of natural and human forms, abstract images in landscapes, and Christian symbolism.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/01/1991

Nazi propaganda film

Description: At Mass. College of Art, junior high students view exhibit of Nazi propaganda, including film, which belies the Holocaust, and from which they learn about ethnic prejudice and hatred.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/03/1991

Vose art dealers

Description: Family owned Vose Galleries has survived 150 years on Newbury Street as dealers of art of past generations. Martha Washington portrait.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/19/1991