Paula Zahn Explores The Global Africa Project at the Museum of Arts & Design On Thirteen

SundayArts co-host Paula Zahn visits The Global Africa Project at the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), an exhibition which opens November 17. Thirteen's SundayArts primetime special airs Thursday, November 18 at 8 p.m., ET.

The Global Africa Project is an unprecedented exhibition exploring the broad spectrum of contemporary African art, design and craft worldwide, and features the work of more than 100 artists working in Africa, Europe, Asia, the United States, and the Caribbean. Also on view are MAD's concurrent exhibits: Eat Drink Art Design: Tableware in the MAD Collection; Think Again: New Latin American Jewelry; and Patrick Jouin: Design and Gesture.

In this program's feature profile, SundayArts correspondent Melissa Chiu interviews Iranian-born visual artist and filmmaker Shrin Neshat. Her first feature film, Women Without Men, won the best director award at the Venice Film Festival. The film continues to tour the United States and Europe and could be a contender for some major awards in the months ahead. The DVD is currently out in the UK and will be available in the United States in February. In Iran, the film has been distributed underground in the black market.

The SundayArts "Choice" will focus on the exhibition "Modern Life: Edward Hopper and His Time" on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Here we see Hopper's work alongside those of his distinguished contemporaries. With their strong brushwork, attention to detail, and quiet stillness, Hopper's paintings capture snapshots of life, reflecting transformations in urban and rural life.

Correspondent Christina Ha will look at other exciting events about town, including Broadway's latest musical hit, "The Scottsboro Boys"; the "Abstract Expressionist New York" exhibit at MoMA; "American People, Black Light: Faith Ringgold's Paintings of the 1960's" at the Neuberger Museum of Art at Purchase College; and "Mark Twain: A Skeptic's Progress" at the Morgan Library & Museum.

SundayArts provides the tri-state audience with a unique overview of New York City's unparalleled cultural offerings, encompassing not only the performing arts, but the visual arts as well. Each broadcast includes news, profiles, and magazine-style segments covering New York City's vast array of museums, artists, gallery exhibitions, and live performances, all in tandem with an extensive web site (www.thirteen.org/sundayarts).

Executive Producer is David Horn. Joan Hershey is Editorial Director. Supervising Producer is Mitch Owgang and Senior Producer is Bob Morris. Segment producers for this program are Maria Stoian, Julie Leonard, and Elizabeth Dwyer.

SundayArts, with co-hosts Philippe de Montebello and Paula Zahn, regularly airs Sundays at noon on Thirteen and Thirteen HD, and encores each Sunday at 3 pm on WLIW21.

SundayArts is a production of THIRTEEN in association with WNET.ORG, one of America's most prolific and respected public media providers.

SundayArts is made possible in part by First Republic Bank. Funding for SundayArts is also made possible by Rosalind P. Walter, the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation, the Paul & Irma Milstein Foundation, the Philip and Janice Levin Foundation, Elise Jaffe and Jeffrey Brown, Jody and John Arnhold, and The Lemberg Foundation. This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Additional funding provided by The Alice Tully Foundation, Joan K. Davidson, The J.M. Kaplan Fund, and by members of Thirteen.

Visit the SundayArts Web site at www.thirteen.org/sundayarts for additional information.

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