From W-H-Y-Y in Philadelphia, I'm Terry Gross with Fresh Air Weekend.

Today we talk with documentary filmmaker Laura Poitres and artist Nan Golden.

Poitres has Oscar-nominated documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,

is about Golden's life and work and the protests she led at museums that accepted funding from the Sackler family.

Their company Perdue Pharma manufactured and unscrupulously marketed OxyContin.

Also Brad Meldow, one of the most acclaimed and influential jazz pianists of his generation,

joins us at the piano for music and conversation.

Meldow has often covered Beatles songs, but his new album is all about the Beatles.

It's called Your Mother Should Know.

Brad Meldow plays the Beatles.

And Marine Cargain reviews, Up With The Sun, Thomas Mallon's new historical novel about showbiz drivers in New York and Hollywood.

That's coming up on Fresh Air Weekend.

This is Fresh Air Weekend. I'm Terry Gross.

When my guest Nan Golden started taking her photographs to galleries back in the late 1970s,

the photos were considered too transgressive, too raw, too weird,

but they were photos of her friends, people who were considered social outcasts,

like drag queens and other queer people and people in the underground art and music scene.

She took pictures of them at parties, at home, alone in bed, or having sacks.

She captured intimacy and despair.

Over time, her work was acknowledged as groundbreaking and was added to the permanent collections of major museums,

including the Guggenheim and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Those were some of the museums she targeted when she led a campaign to get art institutions

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