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.
Description: “Remembrances of the Near East,” is an exhibit of photographs from 1867-1907 by the Bonfils family at the Harvard Semitic Museum. Archaeologist Carney Gavin describes the significance of the pictures.
Description: Sculptor Varujan Bugsy Boghosian makes constructions of found objects - toys, antiques, junk, blocks, instruments. Array of objects and works in his studio at Dartmouth College.
Description: Interview with Boston artist Conger Metcalf. Meltcalf teaches a master drawing class at the Boston Athenaeum. Discussion of his individual works, his life, his career, his influences, and his techniques. Tour of his apartment: living room, studio.
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.