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Artist: David Wojnarovicz : A Fire in My Belly Picture from SMART Museum of Art The University of Chicago 下載聲音檔請點我 Gay Art From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Guy Raz. ROBERT SIEGEL, host: And I'm Robert Siegel. The Smithsonian Institution is under fire 遭到抨擊 . At issue is what is being touted 稱之為 as the first major exhibition to focus on sexual difference in the making of modern American portraiture. The show is called "Hide/Seek," and NPR's Elizabeth Blair reports on why it's turning some heads. 引發關注 ELIZABETH BLAIR: There are some very famous artists represented in the show " Hide/Seek " 躲貓貓 : Andy Warhol, Walt Whitman, Jasper Johns, among many others. But the work that so far has been the most controversial is a provocative 挑釁 video by the late artist David Wojnarowicz. Ms. DIAMANDA GALAS (Singer/Songwriter): When any man hath an issue out of his flesh. 肉體 .. BLAIR: The work is called "A Fire In My Be...

The Bathers By Herni Matisse 下載聲音檔請點我 FROM　NPR At MoMA, A Look At A Pivotal Moment For Matisse by Lloyd Schwartz French artist Henri Matisse 馬諦斯 is probably best-known for 最為人所熟知的 his decorative 裝飾性 and colorful paintings, especially nudes 裸女 and still lifes 靜物畫 . But a current show at the Museum of Modern Art called "Matisse: Radical Invention," focuses on a period in his life from 1913 to 1917, when he was experimenting with different styles. Our critic Lloyd Schwartz has a review. LLOYD SCHWARTZ: In 2003, the Museum of Modern Art 紐約現代美術館 put on an important show comparing Pablo Picasso 畢卡索 and Henri Matisse, maybe the two greatest European painters of the 20th century. They were friends and rivals 競爭者 . They influenced and even collected each other's work. Now a marvelous new show 令人激賞的展覽 at MoMA - "Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913 to 1917" - suggests a central way Matisse was very different from Picasso. The Spa...

下載聲音檔請點我 Miami Invaded By Giant, House-Eating Snails GUY RAZ, host: In the state of Florida this week, in southwest Miami, to be precise, a small subdivision 一小部分 has been invaded by 入侵 - by what, Richard Gaskalla? RICHARD GASKALLA: By the giant African snail. It's a very large land snail that is an invasive species 入侵物種 that is not native to the United States 非美國原生物種 . RAZ: Wow. Ten inches long, apparently, 4 inches wide. Thousands of them are overtaking 侵襲 that neighborhood in Miami, apparently, the most damaging land snails in the world. And Richard Gaskalla is the man trying to eliminate 剷除 them. He's the director of plant industry at the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. So Richard, the most damaging land snails in the world? I mean, maybe it's a dumb question - how much damage can a land snail actually do? GASKALLA: Well, that's a good question. As you mentioned, these snails get very large and they're omnivores 雜食性的 ...

下載聲音檔請點我 Nearly 1 in 5 young adults has high blood pressure Here's a worrisome trend : 令人憂心的趨勢 high blood pressure among young adults. The findings 調查結果 , by researchers at the University of North Carolina, appear online in the journal Epidemiology 流行病學期刊 . As NPR's Patty Neighmond reports, this is the first, large, long-term study 美國首度出現的大規模長期研究 to find such high rates of hypertension 高血壓 among such young people. PATTY NEIGHMOND: Sociologist Kathleen Mullan Harris is analyzing 分析 a number of health surveys 健康調查 that were mandated by 受委託 Congress 受美國國會委託調查研究 in the mid-'90s. The idea was to examine the health and habits of teenagers, those teens are now young adults between 24 and 32, and many of them don't even know they have high blood pressure. Professor KATHLEEN MULLAN HARRIS (Sociology, University of North Carolina): It's asymptomatic. You know, there aren't really any outward symptoms 外顯性的徵兆 . People don't feel any differe...