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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
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. 1967. Polymer and fluorescent polymer paint on canvas, 120 x 240 in (308.4 609.6 cm). Photos: (top to bottom) Carsten Ingemann; Frank Stella, Harran II, 1967. Polymer and fluorescent Irving Blum, 1982. © 2016 Frank Stella / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Gift, Mr. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York On Q January 2017 KQED Public Radio KQED Public Television Get magazine online: kqed.org/OnQ KQED.org 3
Jenna Coleman as Queen Victoria Jenna Coleman as Queen Sewell (ITV Plc); Jenna Coleman with Rufus as Melbourne (ITV Plc/MASTERPIECE). a seven-part series about the “I think you forget I am of a royal line that stretches forget I am of a royal “I think you marries his son — not because LeopoldVictoria me this is he says, “For When they decide to marry, Her enemies plot to claim she’s insane. She bests them. insane. She enemies plot to claim she’s Her is made possible by Xfinity, of Victoria is made possible by Xfinity, Local broadcast San Francisco. Oakland International Airport and Gump’s In this case, her Uncle Leopold orders her to marry Leopold orders so this case, her Uncle In the husband can advise her. she tells him. “Whereas are you back a thousand years,” which did not exist a decade ago.” the king of Belgium, Hughes). Albert (Tom mandates, but because she loves consort, Though Albert balks at being the queen’s initially he finds his way. whichVictoria To replies,not a marriage of convenience.” be a marriage of inconvenience.” I think it will “No, Victoria, on KQED 9. but she does not blink, may be quaking internally, Victoria her. threatens focus on whoever those giant blue eyes most powerful woman the world has ever January 15, at 9pm known, begins Sunday, So when Jenna Coleman portrays her as joyful, it’s it’s Coleman portrays her as joyful, when Jenna So need to fictionalize didn’t Goodwin Daisy Writer up to the challenge, despite proved course ,Victoria Of and some would say my sex puts I am young, “I know little, relying precious she knows recognizes Victoria jolting. At 18 — still known as Alexandrina and playing 18 — still known jolting. At and informed awakened one morning with dolls — she’s queen of England. she is now notes, As Goodwin reign. 63-year Victoria’s much about legal property of their husbands, so that “the women were extraordinary that this 18-year- all the more makes it even person in the country.” old girl is the most powerful intentions. with the worst relatives by being surrounded musters the calm dignity of a true leader. She facing her critics. “But says, Victoria me at a disadvantage,” that lies responsibility for the great I am ready you, I assure me.” before as her tutor, Sewell) (Rufus Melbourne heavily on Lord confidante and protector. The image of Queen Victoria seared into popular culture is into popular culture Victoria seared Queen The image of dour woman, swathed in black, looking as one of an older, cracked a smile. if she never 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 Get magazine online: kqed.org/OnQ KQED.org 5 Home Is Where You Home Is Where You Erica Atreya’s Heart. After 18 years in San Hang Your Jose, Erica and her husband moved to Folsom so they could buy a house. And in the last couple of years, at artist friends also least five of Erica’s have been priced out of the Bay Area. kqed.org/arts “Why Palo Alto Subsidizes Studio Studio Alto Subsidizes “Why Palo Artists” for Priced-Out Rents space studio Alto offers subsidized Palo artists in an to keep creative region. expensive increasingly “When Container Becomes a Shipping Blowing” for Glass a Mecca Institute is making Glass Bay Area The do in a clutch of shipping containers while sizing up a nearby Jose in San home. as a future warehouse to Folsom, Artist Moves “Priced-Out Jose” San in Heart Leaves pushing estate prices are Rising real to places like Valley artists out of Silicon But and Sacramento. Folsom Stockton, community beyond building a creative easy. isn’t the Bay
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Valley of Silicon Artists The overheated real estate market is real estate market overheated The pricing out individuals and nonprofits is space owned privately alike. “Any tenuous for an going to be extremely artist — or for anything that serves the a Goldstein, says Barbara social good,” expert on the public artregional scene. the crisis, its Arts, explores KQED and what impact on the community, Alto are and Palo Jose cities like San doing to stem the out-migration of the people who make the region creative for everyone. place to live an attractive the series include: from Stories With each passing year, artists find it each passing year, With Valley. in Silicon and work to live harder Funding for KQED Arts is provided by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Yogen and by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Yogen Funding for KQED Arts is provided the Kenneth Rainin Foundation, the John S. and James L. Knight Peggy Dalal, Diane B. Wilsey, Campaign 21 and the Kimball Fund, the William and Gretchen Foundation, Helen Sarah Steyer, members of KQED. 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. 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.