Fall newsletter of the radio & podcast show State of the Arts NYC that can be heard on WBAI FM, WBAI livestream and tunein.com. Sharing new partners, events and upcoming guests.

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WBAI-State of the Arts NYC Newsletter
FALL EDITION 2016
We are happy to announce new partnerships with
SHIM and the China Institute!

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Art Around Town
ART IN A TIME OF CHAOS: MASTERWORKS FROM SIX
DYNASTIES CHINA, 3RD
TO 6TH
CENTURIES
China Institute Gallery I September 30, 2016- March 19, 2017
It all started in 1926, according to the Chien Chung Pei, Chair of the Board of
Trustees at the China Institute. Fifty years ago the China Gallery began with a
fifteen person government-appointed board of trustees and $75,000. The
Institute goes back further to the 19th
century at the time of the Boxer Rebellion. It
was a violent anti-foreign uprising that took place between 1899 and 1901 when
US –China relations were arguably at their lowest point.
In a gesture for mutual understanding, reparations funds were used to create the
China Institute in America. Over the past 90 years, the Institute has embraced its
mandate to increase better understanding between the two countries. Early on,
art was deemed vital to this mandate and important to share with American
audiences.

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SPECIAL WBAI PROGRAMMING
STATE OF THE ARTS NYC AND THE CHINA INSTITUTE has created a special
package for listener supporters. On October 27tth,
a private tour of rare artifacts
will be offered with an introduction to Chinese and following a lecture on Chinese
literature by Ben Wang, Senior Lecturer of Language and Humanity of the
Institute, offers a special course on literature of the Six Dynasties Period. Lives
and works by representative poets of the period as well as the quintessential
spirit of famed texts A New Account of Tales of the World and Zhaoming’s
Collection of Literary Works will be discussed.
The Six Dynasties Period (220-589) marks as one of the most significant and
influential periods in the history of Chinese literature, namely poetry, in that
pentasyllabic and heptasyllabic quatrains emerged. These new poetic styles
would flourish and dominate the poetic scene in the later Tang Dynasty (618-
907). Another unique linguistic happening of this period was the start of the
formal tonal system (the four tones) of the Chinese language, which led to an
ideal musicality in poetry.
One of the two most important collections of literature from the period
is Zhaoming’s Collection of Literary Works by Crown Prince Zhaoming (501-531)
of the Liang Dynasty (502-557), the first and a stupendous collection of literary
and poetic works published before the untimely death of the young prince. The
other is A New Account of Tales of the World, an amusing book, the first of its
kind, on the romantic anecdotes and sayings of the witty men of letters of the
time, which was compiled and edited by Liu Yiqing (403-444) of the Song
Dynasty (420-581) of the Six Dynasties.
This lecture will be conducted in English. No previous knowledge of the Chinese
language is required.
China Institute Address: 100 Washington Street (Entrance: 40 Rector Street, 2nd
floor)
Sign up on October 7th
during the broadcast of State of the Arts NYC at 5
pm on WBAI and live stream on wbai.org.

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More Around Town
STATE OF THE ARTS NYC is pleased to support the ADFF Film Festival
beginning September 28th
, 2016 at Cinepolis Chelsea Cinemas - 260 West 23rd
Street.
The Architecture & Design Film Festival, celebrates the unique creative spirit
that drives architecture and design. With a curated selection of films, events and
panel discussions, ADFF creates an opportunity to entertain, engage and
educate all types of people who are excited about architecture and design. With
well-attended screenings, legendary panelists, vibrant discussions and events in
New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, it has grown into the nation’s largest film
festival devoted to the subject. The ADFF also programs for international film
festivals as well as cultural institutions and private venues.

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Select Films
Amare Gio Ponti A Journey Around the Moon
Pioneer | Stephen Talasnik Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw the Future

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ART COVERAGE
STATE OF THE ARTS NYC will cover Gay Gotham at the Museum of the City of
NYC and supported by SHIM. Our museum contributor will give us another
fabulous review. We will interview the curator Jens Hoffman who has organized
Take Me (I’m Yours) at the Jewish Museum. Fashion designer K Rashe will give
us more on fashion and we celebrate Cuban artist Carmen Herrara at the
Whitney Musuem.

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SPECIAL PRESIDENTIAL BROADCAST
This year marks the 100th
anniversary of National Parks Service and STATE OF
THE ARTS NYC will host a special broadcast to honor the presidents who helped
create and sustain federal national parks across this country. On October 14th
,
we will have the historian Barbara Applebaum from National Park Service,
Manhattan Sites talking about the re-opening of Teddy Roosevelt’s birthplace
and the recent addition of Stonewall. We will also have representatives from the
Woodrow Wilson and Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library.

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OUR SUPPORTER