NaN/100 votesLoading...#1 - On Winding Paths
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 5/4/2017
After her father George died, Mira Nakashima inherited his shop and set to work continuing the artistic legacy of a master craftsman in wood. Despite only occasional glimpses of the mainstream, tap dance remains an iconic American art form. With custom-composed pieces employing a staggering range of vocal styles, Roomful of Teeth makes music that can be difficult to define.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#2 - Thinking Allowed
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/12/2017
Performance anxiety is common even among the most accomplished professionals. Moe Brooker is rightly regarded as one of the greats of American abstract painting. By melding art and science, Brandon Ballengée promotes awareness of endangered species.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#3 - Envisioning the Possible
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/18/2017
The ceramics of Roberto Lugo pay homage to their classical past but are firmly rooted in the realities of his inner city upbringing. Zaria Forman & Nick Pedersen are using art to reframe the climate change conversation. Composer Gerald Busby could not have guessed that after surviving heartbreak, HIV and drug addiction, he would experience an artistic rebirth in his twilight years.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#4 - Burgeon and Bloom
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 4/27/2017
For Sugar Tongue Slim, wordplay is a way of life; hip-hop lines his pockets, poetry feeds his soul. Fine art jeweler Bruce Metcalf refuses to use traditional metals and gems in his work. For generations, 20th century American writer H.P. Lovecraft has been terrifying readers.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#5 - Seeing Clearly
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 5/4/2017
20 years on, Kevin Barnes is as much an enigma to those close to him as he is to his fans. Long before selfies, commissioned portraits provided a way to shape one's public image. Designer Walé Oyéjidé is on a mission to help all men unleash their inner fashionisto.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#6 - Finding Place
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 5/9/2017
Conducting opera may be classical music's toughest job. Fabio Luisi does it with grace. Scholarly translations are a battle between literal accuracy and literary interpretation. Elizabeth Streb may well be the most fervently anti-dance choreographer you’ve ever met.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#7 - Unique Visions
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 5/16/2017
Spoken word poet-turned-rapper Watsky pulled no punches in his first collection of essays. If life is itself a performance, what can theatre teach us about how to be ourselves? Dindga McCannon helped pioneer art quilting, a fresh approach to a traditional medium.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#8 - Objective Expressions
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 5/23/2017
For more than thirty years, Judith Schaechter has been applying avant-garde sensibilities to a once traditional art form; stained glass. In the past century or so, tattoos have gone from being a mark of the outsider to a more socially accepted expression of self. With a voice and stage presence as big as his personality, Eric Owens is among the most celebrated bass-baritones in the opera world.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#9 - Self Collaborations
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 5/30/2017
Tango is a complex improvised form that’s danced the world over. Jesse Krimes describes his six years in federal prison as a kind of “artist residency.” Celebrated opera tenor Stephen Costello has been both blessed and betrayed by his voice.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#10 - Willing Suspensions
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 6/5/2017
Bach’s Goldberg Variations continue to challenge pianists and fascinate audiences. Kevin Cornell’s illustrations tend to evoke childlike emotion, even in adults. Sculptor Michael Murphy’s installations are perceptual puzzles.
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#11 - Further and Farther
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 6/13/2017
Though she's a successful visual artist, Ellen Harvey remains obsessed with failure. Bharatanatyam survived colonial oppression to embody Indian identity at home and abroad. Xenia Rubinos’ complex music is infused with simple messages about big ideas.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#12 - Living in Color
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 6/21/2017
Carsie Blanton uses an old musical form to help change the way women are perceived today. From a very young age, life has been a dance for choreographer Matthew Neenan. Amedeo Modigliani died a broken man, but his art has endured. Cuban-American artist Luis Cruz Azaceta reflects on modern society’s great tragedies.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#13 - Fortune's Favors
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 10/3/2017
The Very Fortunate Daniel Handler, Lisa Hannigan: Stalking the Muse, Nina Chanel is Selling Out (In a Good Way)
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#14 - To the Skies
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/10/2017
Janet Echelman's giant sculptures are the net result of technology, engineering, and civic engagement. Arturo Rios discovered his true passion while working in a hat maker’s mail room. Since time immemorial, we’ve been using art to cope with our inevitable fate. Justin Bettman uses found materials to create public “sets” for his portraits.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#15 - Outside In
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/17/2017
Producer Ian Brennan truly believes in the democratic power of music. Nina Berman blurs the line between fine art and editorial photography. Leroy Johnson has lived on the edges of the art world for all his 80+ years.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#16 - Testing Boundaries
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/24/2017
Teacher-turned-cartoonist Gene Yang believes in the educational power of comics. If you feel like you missed out on 1970s glam rock, The Struts are here to help. Believe it or not, romance is alive and well…and living in your phone.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#17 - Grace in Air
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/31/2017
Reuben Margolin attempts to evoke the natural world with his kinetic sculptures. Composer Jennifer Higdon makes classical music, but still loves Beyonce. The art of skater/painter Chemi Rosado-Seijo is founded in community activism. Rahbar has found the antidote to her existential angst in her work.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#18 - All in Their Heads
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/7/2017
Mark Mothersbaugh’s sustained a life in art far removed from his band, Devo. Much of haute couture feeds off Liz Casella’s creativity. In illustrating the human brain’s complexity, Greg Dunn creates great beauty.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#19 - Walks on the Wide Side
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/14/2017
The works of choreographer Kyle Abraham feel like a memoir. Nelson is one of her generation’s most celebrated writers and critical thinkers. Nelson is one of her generation’s most celebrated writers and critical thinkers. Woolfalk’s imaginary world is populated by mutants, governed by utopian values.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#20 - Transparents
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/21/2017
Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah is leading the charge into jazz's next chapter. Tommy Pico designed his epic poetry for a thoroughly modern medium. Ron Nagle’s hit songs and ceramics are born of dedication to harmony and craft. Sidney Hutter’s plate glass creations have pushed the boundaries of his medium.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#21 - Mapping the Unexplored
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/28/2017
Allora & Calzadilla are one of the art world’s most dynamic power couples. Doug Balliett has created a career as diverse as his own musical talents. Veruschka Stevens uses polymer clay to create joyful statement jewelry. Levitin’s lifelong love of music has served him in recordings and on the page.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#22 - Tomes of the Brave
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 12/5/2017
Kenny Scharf’s exuberant cartoons infuse daily life with a dose of whimsy. Buffy Sainte-Marie's 1960s protest songs made her the subject of FBI attention. Artists find unconventional ways to express patriotism.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#23 - Splendid Vistas
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/12/2017
The characters in Michelle Cuevas’s children’s books leap off the page. Mason Bates challenges existing notions of what belongs in the concert hall. Antonio Martorell has been at the forefront of Puerto Rican art for over half a century. The anthropological perspective of singer-songwriter Joan Shelley.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#24 - Seeking the Trove
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 4/3/2018
Wealth, insecurity, and...partying? Articulate’s season 3 premieres with Andrew W.K. and Lauren Greenfield.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#25 - Break all the Rules
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 4/10/2018
Knowing the rules, then breaking them is common to all Articulate’s subjects this week: Caroline Shaw, Lizzo, and Robert Janz.
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The Best Episodes of Articulate
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Articulate connects audiences to the human stories behind art, offering a trustworthy, visually stimulating, never ordinary take on classical, contemporary, and popular art forms. From...
Genre:Documentary
Network:PBS
Best Episodes Summary
"On Winding Paths" is the best rated episode of "Articulate". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 5/4/2017. This episode scored NaN points higher than the second highest rated, "Thinking Allowed".