July 9, 2024 - Art prescriptions, Shark Week, and Pedro Alonzo

What is a  prescription for anxiety or isolation that doesn't need FDA approval and won’t get churned through big pharma to drive up prices?  Art and culture.Known as “social prescriptions,”  there is a growing movement of physicians writing out prescriptions for dance classes, nature walks or a trip to the museum as a way to help treat mental and behavioral health concerns.Now Massachusetts is the first in the nation to have a statewide program. Michael J. Bobbitt, Executive director  of the Massachusetts Cultural Council and  Dr. Priscilla Wang, Associate Medical Director  of Primary Care Health Equity at Mass General Brigham join The Culture Show to talk about this new initiative.From there, It’s still “Shark Week” on the Discovery Channel, which means it’s still “Jump the Shark Week” on The Culture Show, where we look at what in the zeitgeist has gone the way of the Fonz on water skis. Today   Culture Show co-host James Bennett II joins us for his list of things that have gone too far.Finally independent curator  and Culture Show Curator  Pedro Alozno  joins us to talk about the latest exhibition he’s curated, “The Objects We Choose,” at the Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in New York.