Applause is an Emmy award-winning locally produced TV show that celebrates artists and cultural groups around Cleveland and Northeast Ohio. Each week this on-air arts magazine broadcasts a fresh half-hour of features, performances, on-location reports, and interviews from the studios of WVIZ/PBS ideastream. Special thanks to the Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College for the use of their Steinway Piano on Around Noon/Applause.

Thursday, November 1, 2007

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Through newsreel footage and photographs, the horrific pictures of World War II concentration camps have become well-documented. What may not be so familiar, though, are images that hint at how those camps were run on a daily basis -- how they were part of a chilling bureaucracy. Those images are on view in a new exhibit, Questionable Issue: Currency of the Holocaust at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.

The old adage, "art is everywhere," is even more true these days thanks to the internet. Just imagine the millions and millions of pictures, poetry, short films, and music that are e-mailed and downloaded every single day. Chances are that you've seen or even shared art over the internet, maybe without even realizing it! We'll have an example of just that from one of our colleagues at ideastream, Mark Rosenberger.

It's not unusual to walk into a book store or library these days and find those popular yellow and black "For Dummies" books that cover a wide variety of topics. Of course, they're not "for dummies," but for people who are looking for reference books that make even the most complex subjects fun and easy to digest. One of the latest chapters in the For Dummies series is Art History For Dummies, authored by Ohio native and Art Critic Jesse Bryant Wilder. ideastream's Bobby Jackson caught up with Wilder in a Middle School classroom in Bay Village. He began by asking Wilder the most basic "For Dummies" question of all: what is art?

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