The 71st annual Peabody Awards were announced today, and while you can make the case that all media forms are art, there’s a pathetic lack of the fine arts in this year’s awards. Out of 38 awards, only one has anything to do with what we consider the arts:
American Masters: Charles and Ray Eames – The Architect and the Painter (PBS)Quest Productions, Bread and Butter Films in association with Thirteen’s American Masters for WNET
This fascinating and visually inventive biography demonstrates that the mid-century “modern” furniture for which the Eamses are best remembered represents merely a fraction of their ingenious and influential design work.
Does this mean nobody else is producing any worthy media in the arts?
Sad, sad, sad.
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