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JAN 2017 KQED Perks Member Magazine JAN 2017 KQED Perks 2-for-1 Tickets to PHOTOFAIRS Experience cutting-edge, contemporary artworks by emerging and internationally photography on a global scale. Don’t miss recognized artists working with still and the inaugural launch of PHOTOFAIRS moving images. For more information, visit San Francisco, January 27–29, at Fort photofairs.org. Mason’s Festival Pavilion. The new boutique fair, presenting prominent galleries from For special 2-for-1 ticket offer, enter around the world, is the West Coast’s leading promo code KQED: fortmason.org/ destination for discovering and collecting event/photofairs-san-francisco Free Admission to the de Young See Frank Stella: A Retrospective © 2016 Frank Stella / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. 1967. Polymer and fluorescent polymer paint on canvas, 120 x 240 in (308.4 609.6 cm). 1967. Polymer and fluorescent Harran II, Frank Stella, Since bursting into the New York art world On Friday, January 20, and Saturday, in 1959, Frank Stella has challenged and January 21, admission to the de Young expanded the definitions of painting and museum is free to KQED members who sculpture. Frank Stella: A Retrospective includes present a current KQED MemberCard 50 major works that span the artist’s career, and valid ID (up to two tickets per from his legendary early Black paintings through MemberCard). Tickets must be picked up his groundbreaking shaped canvases and relief on-site and are subject to availability. For constructions to recent sculptural works created hours, information about the exhibition and with cutting-edge digital technologies. On view more, visit deyoung.famsf.org. through February 26 at the de Young. Photos: (top to bottom) Carsten Ingemann; Irving Blum, 1982. Gift, Mr. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York On Q January 2017 KQED Public Radio Jenna Coleman as Queen Victoria (ITV Plc); Jenna Coleman with Rufus Sewell as Melbourne (ITV Plc/MASTERPIECE). KQED Public Television The image of Queen Victoria seared into popular culture is Her enemies plot to claim she’s insane. She bests them. one of an older, dour woman, swathed in black, looking as Victoria may be quaking internally, but she does not blink, if she never cracked a smile. those giant blue eyes focus on whoever threatens her. So when Jenna Coleman portrays her as joyful, it’s In this case, her Uncle Leopold orders her to marry so jolting. At 18 — still known as Alexandrina and playing the husband can advise her. with dolls — she’s awakened one morning and informed “I think you forget I am of a royal line that stretches Get magazine online: kqed.org/OnQ she is now queen of England. back a thousand years,” she tells him. “Whereas you are Writer Daisy Goodwin didn’t need to fictionalize the king of Belgium, which did not exist a decade ago.” much about Victoria’s 63-year reign. As Goodwin notes, Victoria marries his son — not because Leopold women were “the legal property of their husbands, so that mandates, but because she loves Albert (Tom Hughes). makes it even all the more extraordinary that this 18-year- Though Albert initially balks at being the queen’s consort, old girl is the most powerful person in the country.” he finds his way. Of course ,Victoria proved up to the challenge, despite When they decide to marry, he says, “For me this is being surrounded by relatives with the worst intentions. not a marriage of convenience.” To which Victoria replies, She musters the calm dignity of a true leader. “No, I think it will be a marriage of inconvenience.” “I know I am young, and some would say my sex puts me at a disadvantage,” Victoria says, facing her critics. “But Victoria, a seven-part series about the I assure you, I am ready for the great responsibility that lies most powerful woman the world has ever before me.” known, begins Sunday, January 15, at 9pm on KQED 9. KQED.org Victoria recognizes she knows precious little, relying heavily on Lord Melbourne (Rufus Sewell) as her tutor, confidante and protector. Local broadcast of Victoria is made possible by Xfinity, Oakland International Airport and Gump’s San Francisco. 3 Arts A conversation series in search of a finer point. The gap between being inspired and my dream,” says Corrigan. “Hosting entertained just got smaller. Take Exactly is the most fun I’m capable the brainy topics of a TED Talk, the of having.” informative wit of The Daily Show In the first nine-episode season, and the insightful questioning of Corrigan invites Nicholas Kristof, Anne Terry Gross, sprinkle in a rapt studio Lamott, BJ Novak, Jason Segel and audience, and you have Exactly. others to dig into such big-time ideas Hosted by three-time New York as “Is knowing more always better?” Times bestselling author Kelly Corrigan, and “What’s the deal with humor and Exactly is a new KQED podcast and a the dark side?” Laced with humor, radio series featuring some of the most Corrigan’s conversational style and easy creative writers and entertainers of connection with her audience bring out our time. “Leading conversations with the best in her guests. smart, funny thinkers is pretty much The Exactly podcast will be available January 8. Download at kqed.org/exactly. Kelly Corrigan speaks with actor and writer BJ Novack (top) and columnist Nicolas Kristof (above). (Drew Altizer) Select episodes of Exactly air on KQED 88.5 FM in January. Listen Sundays at 6pm or Thursdays at 8pm. Funding for Exactly is provided by the John Templeton Foundation. 4 On Q January 2017 KQED Public Radio KQED Public Television Artists Priced Out of Silicon Valley With each passing year, artists find it “Why Palo Alto Subsidizes Studio Erica Atreya’s Home Is Where You Hang Your Heart. After 18 years in San harder to live and work in Silicon Valley. Rents for Priced-Out Artists” Jose, Erica and her husband moved The overheated real estate market is Palo Alto offers subsidized studio space to Folsom so they could buy a house. And in the last couple of years, at pricing out individuals and nonprofits to keep creative artists in an least five of Erica’s artist friends also alike. “Any privately owned space is increasingly expensive region. have been priced out of the Bay Area. going to be extremely tenuous for an artist — or for anything that serves the “When a Shipping Container Becomes social good,” says Barbara Goldstein, a a Mecca for Glass Blowing” regional expert on the public art scene. The Bay Area Glass Institute is making Priced Out, do in a clutch of shipping containers an online series from Get magazine online: kqed.org/OnQ KQED Arts, explores the crisis, its in San Jose while sizing up a nearby impact on the community, and what warehouse as a future home. cities like San Jose and Palo Alto are doing to stem the out-migration of the “Priced-Out Artist Moves to Folsom, creative people who make the region Leaves Heart in San Jose” an attractive place to live for everyone. Rising real estate prices are pushing Stories from the series include: artists out of Silicon Valley to places like Stockton, Folsom and Sacramento. But building a creative community beyond the Bay isn’t easy. kqed.org/arts KQED.org Funding for KQED Arts is provided by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Yogen and Peggy Dalal, Diane B. Wilsey, the Kenneth Rainin Foundation, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Helen Sarah Steyer, the William and Gretchen Kimball Fund, Campaign 21 and the members of KQED. 5 Science Snowbound: Animals of Winter Nature travels to the coldest, snowiest places on Earth to meet the animal survivors of winter. The climate of the Arctic Circle and Antarctica poses a lynx, weasel, polar bear, penguin, Weddell seal and woolly challenge to anyone visiting, but what about the animals who bear caterpillar — explaining how they adapt to their live there year-round? How do they cope for months surroundings and employ clever tactics to survive. on end in frozen wonderlands where temperatures can Whether they undergo a physical adaptation, use plummet to as low as minus 50 degrees? super senses or are just built for frigid conditions, these In a new Nature special, wildlife cameraman Gordon animals of winter not only subsist, but thrive. © Steven Kazlowski, naturepl.com; Buchanan takes you on a journey to meet the animal Nature’s “Snowbound: Animals of Winter” premieres survivors of winter — Arctic fox, bison, reindeer, Wednesday, January 11, at 8pm on KQED 9. © Fred Olivier, naturepl.com. © Fred Olivier, Antarctica. Antarctica. Support the shows you love coast, Alaska. Arctic Beaufort Sea, off on public television and radio. (Aptenodytes forsteri), (Ursus maritimus), Become a Sustaining Member for as little as 50¢ a day! Curious young polar bear kqed.org/donate Photos: penguins colony of adult Emperor 6 Favorites in 2016 On Q January 2017 What you watched, heard, clicked and shared Most Popular TV Programs on KQED 9 1. Downton Abbey on Masterpiece KQED Public Radio 2. Presidential convention, debate, and election coverage 3. Manners of Downton Abbey 4. BAFTA Celebrates Downton Abbey 5. The White House: Inside Story 6. Mercy Street 7. Call the Midwife 8. Finding Your Roots KQED Public Television 9. Midsomer Murders 10. Grantchester on Masterpiece Most Popular TV Programs Most Popular Programs on Top Five Facebook Posts on KQED Plus KQED Public Radio 1. Midsomer Murders 1. Morning Edition 1. Choir Sings to People at Last Threshold 2. Downton Abbey on Masterpiece 2. All Things Considered of Life (video) 3. Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries 3.
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