WNPR arts reporter, Ray Hardman, caught up with director Michael Maglaras this week to talk about his new film “America Rising: The Arts of the Gilded Age.”

“Those are the 45 years in which the American arts movement came into his own — great paintings, sculpture, literature,” said Maglaras, “but as we try to say in the film, that’s the period where the American artistic presence in the world really is first felt.”

Listen to the full interview at this link.