May 11, 2012  |   A profile of poet Natalie Diaz and her language preservation work will air on the NewsHour soon, but here below is sneak peek of our interview with the 33-year-old writer, conducted along the banks of the Colorado River.

April 24, 2012  |   More with Chicago artist Nick Cave and his Soundsuits.

April 6, 2012  |   More from Jeffrey Brown's profile of blues legend Buddy Guy.

March 28, 2012  |   "Yves Saint Laurent: The Retrospective" opened recently at the Denver Art Museum. Art Museum Director Christoph Heinrich and exhibit curator Florence Muller gave Art Beat a tour of the show, which will remain at the museum through July 8.

March 26, 2012  |   An extended interview with Albany Park Theatre Project founder David Feiner.

March 22, 2012  |   In 1899, three bored -- and slightly drunk -- newspaper reporters decide to concoct a story that the Great Wall of China is being torn down. The story takes off, and suddenly the reporters find themselves at the center of the swirling controversy. That's the premise for "Great Wall Story," a new play produced by the Denver Center for the Performing Arts and which is based on actual events.

February 13, 2012  |   Rita Dove served as the U.S Poet Laureate from 1993-1995 and for the past two decades she has taught at the University of Virginia.

December 16, 2011  |   An extended interview and reading with poet Rita Dove.

November 17, 2011  |   He may be the biggest name in American art history that you've never heard of, but a new museum in Denver is hoping to change that. Clyfford Still was one of the country's leading abstract expressionists of the 20th century, along with Jackson Pollock, Willem De Kooning and Mark Rothko.

October 14, 2011  |   Jeffrey Brown speaks to Moshe Safdie, architect of the Kauffman Center in Kansas, about the moral purpose of architecture and the need for a building to reflect the cultural essence of its location.

September 28, 2011  |   Just a few blocks from the rubble of last year's tornado, a bright new mural has been painted, depicting life in Joplin both before and after the storm.

April 7, 2011  |   More of Jeffrey Brown's report on the Iowa Writers' Workshop, which celebrates its 75th anniversary this year.

December 15, 2010  |   More from Jeffrey Brown's profile of choreographer Trey McIntyre.

December 13, 2010  |   Karena Youtz is a poet who lives and writes in Boise, Idaho. She also writes lyrics for her husband Doug Martsch, lead singer for the Boise-based indie rock band Built to Spill. Early next year, a collection called "Transfer Tree" will be published by 1913 Press.

October 25, 2010  |   An extended interview with Judd Apatow, whose latest pursuit is a book called "I Found This Funny."

September 30, 2010  |   City of Asylum/Pittsburgh is a six-year-old program that provides shelter to foreign literary writers who have encountered dangers in their homeland. Watch online exclusive videos of the writers reading their work.

September 16, 2010  |   Herbie Hancock recently performed with several of the musicians from his album, "The Imagine Project," at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. Here's an excerpt of the song "Space Captain" performed with Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks.

February 10, 2010  |   On Wednesday's PBS NewsHour, we profile international salsa star Ruben Blades, who after spending five years as a cabinet minister in Panama, has made a return to music. At 61, Blades is now back living in New York with his...

January 12, 2010  |   An exhibition of photographs by Andrew Moore is on display at the Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York that captures the lost world of Detroit -- abandoned auto plants taken over by plants, burned out high schools frozen in time.