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“Is She Country Enough?” 2016

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Luke Cage was one of the first black superheroes to appear in the pages of Marvel Comics, back in the 1970s.

Put in prison for a crime he didn’t commit, he eventually gets put into a machine where he gains powers like super-strength and bulletproof skin. And, like many good Marvel characters, he’s now on TV — in the new show Marvel’s Luke Cage.

Actor Mike Colter — who plays Cage — tells NPR’s Kelly McEvers that he didn’t know a whole lot about the character when he initially took the role. “It was one of those things where I had heard some things through the grapevine,” he says. “I had family members and friends who would reach out and go, you know, I think this is a character you could play, and they kept sending me pictures of him … and I’m like, that is just silly. Guys, I have an agent. You’re not casting directors. Calm down.”

Luke Cage, Marvel’s Reluctant Hero In A Hoodie

Photo: Myles Aronowitz/Netflix

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Follow the Yellow Fabric Road at Christo’s ‘Floating Piers’

To see more images of Christo’s installation at Lake Iseo, check out the location page @The Floating Piers on Instagram.

(This interview was conducted in Italian.)

Lake Iseo, near Brescia, Italy, is glowing gold. “The Floating Piers,” a project from Bulgarian-American artist Christo Vladimirov Javacheff (known as Christo), opened one week ago. Marco Giovannelli (@marcogio59) was one of the first of 350,000 visitors to experience the yellow fabric road. “It’s a unique experience that allows people to travel a route that didn’t exist before,” Marco says. “There isn’t quite anything like it.”

The two-mile-long pathway was conceived by Christo and his late wife, Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon, in 1970. The original plan fell through and the project was set aside, until it became possible for Christo to build the Piers and honor the love and partnership he had with Jeanne-Claude.

The artist Christo joined us on yesterday’s show to talk about his latest project, “The Floating Piers.” The project is open to the public for just 16 days, from June 18 to July 3, then it will be dismantled and recycled.

Christo told Here & Now’s Jeremy Hobson that, as is the case with all of his pieces, “The Floating Piers” are designed to be temporary, and fit in with the seasons.

“All the journey is the work of art. And the most beautiful part of the floating pier is to see the entire project is about the people walking nowhere. About the feeling of the surface of the land or the water. And your feet actually, many people walk barefoot. And they walk, they walk. It’s not like going to shop, not going to see your friends. It’s going really nowhere.”

Have you ever seen one of Christo’s projects in person? If so, where, when and what was it like? Let us know here, or listen to the full segment and join the conversation at hereandnow.org.

-JM/Digital Producer

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