February 20, 2024

I’m Jared Bowen, this is The Culture Show. In Gish Jen’s latest book, “Thank You Mr. Nixon,” Jen writes about US-China Relations. Today she joins us from Shanghai, using her recent cultural experiences as a window into East-West relations, from the Broadway hit, “Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812,” to a blockbuster of a show featuring Leonardo da Vinci. From there we talk to two renowned Boston artists: Stephen Hamilton and Napoleon Jones-Henderson. They’ve been orbiting each other for years, including showing their work in the same museum exhibition, but now they are finally converging, collaborating on an art installation commissioned by Roxbury Community College on the occasion of its 50th anniversary. We’ll talk to them about what it means to create together. Finally, we head to Gloucester to visit the nation’s oldest art colony with an overview of their annual members show.