Around the Nation

*Here are four arts and culture videos from public broadcasting partners around the nation.* PBS' ["Idea Channel,"](http://www.pbs.org/arts/exhibit/idea-channel-s1e1-super-mario-surrealism/) a biweekly web series that examines the relationship between modern technology and art, asks, "Super Mario as Surrealist Art?"

Watch Idea Channel: Super Mario Brothers as Surrealist Art? on PBS. See more from Idea Channel.

WTTW's ["Chicago Tonight"](http://chicagotonight.wttw.com/2012/03/15/flag-and-seal-revisited) has a story about artists re-imagining the flag of Chicago, plus rock posters and other examples of the city's rich printmaking history:
[NYC-ARTS](http://www.nyc-arts.org/) speaks to some of Jim Henson's former colleagues as well as the curators of the exhibit "Jim Henson's Fantastic World," at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, N.Y.:

Watch Jim Henson's Fantastic World on PBS. See more from NYC-ARTS.

Premiering March 25 on PBS: the 10-part series ["Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr."](http://www.pbs.org/wnet/finding-your-roots/) In this preview clip, gates talks to NEA Jazz Master and Grammy Award-winning saxophonist Branford Marsalis:

Watch Musical Royalty on PBS. See more from Finding Your Roots.