May 18, 2026 - Stephen Moyer and Jack Davenport, Jill Medvedow on "Things that Disappear," and Pedro Alonzo

A sweeping  drama on MASTERPIECE brings one of Britain’s most famous literary families back to the screen. In “The Forsytes,” actors Stephen Moyer and Jack Davenport play brothers Jolyon and James Forsyte, members of a wealthy Victorian dynasty whose fortunes can’t shield them from rivalry, ambition, and betrayal. To learn more go here.Jill Medvedow, Director Emerita of the Institute of Contemporary Art, returns for “Read on Arrival,” our series on short books with long afterlives. Her latest pick is Jenny Erpenbeck’s Things That Disappear, a 96-page collection of autobiographical essays.Independent curator and Culture Show contributor Pedro Alonzo joins us with dispatches from Buffalo and Mexico City, where Latino and Chicano artists are getting major museum attention. We discuss Let Us Gather in a Flourishing Way at the Buffalo AKG and Aztlán, túnel del tiempo at Mexico City’s Palacio de Bellas Artes.