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Craft in America
Josephine Shea & Graham Beal on the Diego Rivera mural
Curator Josephine Shea and Director of the Detroit Insitute of Arts Graham Beal on the Diego Rivera mural at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Bonus video from the CELEBRATION episode. PBS premiere December 11, 2015. (check local listings) Archival courtesy of Detroit Institute of Arts Archive, Library of Congress/Detroit Publishing Co., CriticalPast.
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