In this episode of Radio Art Center, which aired on Saturday, October 3, 2015, the Des Moines Art Center's Director of Marketing and Public Relations Christine Doolittle sits down with Amy N. Worthen, curator of prints and drawings, to discuss the recently opened exhibition, East and Beyond: Helen Frankenthaler and Her Contemporaries.
In celebration of the acquisition of Helen Frankenthaler's breakthrough color woodblock print, East and Beyond, 1973, the Art Center presents an exhibition contextualizing Frankenthaler's print. The exhibition includes four works on paper by Frankenthaler, as well as 23 works on paper and ceramics by American and Japanese artists who were active during the 1950s to 1980s.