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
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
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
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
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
Description: Old Glory Condom Corp. introduces its flag-design product at a political art exhibit at MIT.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/09/1989
Description: EXTERIORS AND INTERIORS OF PORTER SQUARE T STATION, OUTDOOR MOBILE SCULPTURE
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/04/1985
Description: VISUALS OF OLD US PAPER MONEY, PORTRAITS, STATUES
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/30/1983
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
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