Art Histories

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Brice Marden talks about how his abstract paintings have evolved over the past 40 years. Then, we hear the true story of a chateau near Marseille that served as a safe house for intellectuals fleeing Nazis during WWII. Plus: Holocaust survivor Martin Gray joins us. And a new novel imagines the challenges a political dissident from China faces when he takes up a year-long artist’s residency in Los Angeles.

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