nicholas brown and susan vita are here with more on the movie night and special performances that will be part of the special series. welcome to both of you. thanks for joining us. so susan, start telling us a little bit more about the movies thatwere selec for this series this summer. >> we picked the movies, because they're onhe nationalre gister. and there are six of them, they're upbeat, things that you can bring your family to. it's really a very, very fun and exciting way to spend a thursday evening. >> for sure. so besides "a league of their r n" are therehe >> oh, yes esmoviou we start with "mary poppins" and then "beauty and the beast" and "league of their own" and then we get into the scary ones. >> oh. >> "e.t." is not scary and "engine "jurassic park". >> celebriexcellent choices. >> i think this has all been a brainstorm or brainchild of carla haden, the newish librarian of congress who really believes in opening up the library and briing peop in and so that we can show what we have in the collection. >> indeed. >> and so it was, you know, a group of people thinking that w

how to handle these different situations.ha >> brown: moretwo-thirds of the participating artists also signed on to a callgnor kanders reion, including nicholas galanin, an alaskan of ceingit and unangax descent. >> this is a refero that noise in conversation towards cultural communities, which is our histories, our stories, our voices. >> brown: but his work in the exhibition, including a large tapestry called "white noise: erican prayer rug," rais different questions for art museums and the larger society, about what he terms "agency for indigenous people," including artists. >> if we look at numbers and statistics, who is represented in these spaces often? it's been a slow overturn. in the world of art history, in the world of art history that's taught, the idea of craft versus fine a. those are all real conversations and those are frameworks that get placed onto us. >> brown: do you see that changing, especially in institutions like this? >> slowly. it's not fast enough. >> brown: this biennial is unusually diverse-- more than a half its artis women. additionally, more than half are artists of color. it also skews young. three-quarters ar