Gray Matters
Gray Matters is about highly accomplished older people discussing their current work, their plans, and the wisdom they have gained through long, colorful, and often celebrated careers.
“These masters are people who don’t retire. They reign.”
- Lewis Lapham
These masters continue to work in their studios, with their cameras, on their computers, and with their instruments. They have seen extraordinary changes and lived through epic events. They draw wisdom from vivid experiences while still making music, art, books, poetry, and waves. This is not a series of reminiscing or lamenting the loss of the golden days when everything was purportedly better. Our guests are making the world more humane, beautiful, interesting, and easier to understand. This series explores their observations of life -- be it in business, the arts, community life, or politics.
Jac Holzman
Founder, Elektra Records
R.O. Belchman
Author, Illustrator
Iris Apfel
Designer
The Gray Matters Project will be six 30-minute episodes, a podcast, a radio program, and a book.
Gray Matters TV Show & Podcast
- R.O. Blechman Episodes
R. O. Blechman (born October 1, 1930) is an American animator, illustrator, children’s-book author, graphic novelist and editorial cartoonist whose work has been the subject of retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art and other institutions. He was inducted into the Art Directors Hall of Fame in 1999.
Blechman's best-known works include the book The Juggler of Our Lady (1953), television commercials for Alka-Seltzer (1967) and other products, the animated PBS special Great Performances: The Soldiers Tale; a minute-long CBS Christmas greeting (1966); and numerous covers for The New Yorker magazine.
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