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	2010 DECEMBER Dec. 31, 2010 Profile of Boise, Idaho-based Poet Karena Youtz Poet Karena Youtz shares her most recent collection of verses,"The Shape is Space," in the latest in a NewsHour series profiling poets around the world.

	Dec. 31, 2010 Photo Essay: Images Show Changes From 2000 to 2010 As 2010 comes to a close, we look at some striking differences and similarities between images captured between the years 2000 and 2010.

	Dec. 31, 2010 Poet Profile: Karena Youtz Poet Karena Youtz reads some of her poems.

	Dec. 31, 2010 Cities Around the Globe Ring in 2011 Sydney, Australia and major cities in Asia were among the first to celebrate the arrival of 2011 with fireworks and festivities.

	Dec. 30, 2010 Remembering the Times and Tunes of Jazz 'Ambassador' Billy Taylor Fans are mourning the passing of longtime jazz pianist, educator and advocate Billy Taylor, who died Tuesday of heart failure. Taylor earned his Ph.D in music education and spread his passion for jazz, lecturing and writing for students and radio and television audiences. Jeffrey Brown looks back on his life.

	Dec. 30, 2010 Thursday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, an influential jazz educator, a special effects artist and a von Trapp family singer all died this week.

	Dec. 29, 2010 Patti Smith Reflects on Power of Words, Rock 'N' Roll Rock legend Patti Smith speaks with Jeffrey Brown about her book "Just Kids," a look at her friendship with the late photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the 1960s and '70s before their careers became part of America's pop culture palette.

	Dec. 29, 2010 From the Himalayans to Appalachia, Mountain Music Strikes Common Chords Geographically worlds apart, there are striking similarities between the traditional music found in both the Appalachian and the Himalayan Mountains.

	Dec. 29, 2010 Wednesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, philosopher of aesthetics Denis Dutton has died at age 66.

	Dec. 28, 2010 Photographer William Albert Allard Helped Change Focus of Nat Geo When William Albert Allard joined the staff of National Geographic in 1964, the magazine's approach to photojournalism began to change. Jeffrey Brown talks to the veteran photographer about his nearly 50 years of work.

	Dec. 28, 2010 Tuesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, the National Film Registry honors 25 new entries.

	Dec. 27, 2010 Weekly Poem: 'Burning the Christmas Greens' Born in Rutherford, N.J., in 1883, William Carlos Williams was as a revolutionary figure in American poetry, an experimenter, an innovator and one of the principal poets of the Imagist movement.

	Dec. 27, 2010 Monday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, the Great White Way may be covered in snow, but the shows are still running.

	Dec. 24, 2010 Hallelujah!: How Handel Orchestrated a Classic Financial Portfolio When 18th century composer George Frideric Handel wrote his timeless "Messiah" oratorio, he not only penned a classic holiday composition, he also established a foundation for a new business approach to opera. Paul Solman reports.

	Dec. 24, 2010 We the Critics: Undersung Favorites from 2010 A compilation of favorite works of literature, film, music and art from our readers and the Art Beat staff.

	Dec. 24, 2010 Friday's Art Notes Merry Christmas from Art Beat!

	Dec. 23, 2010 Gary Trudeau Reflects on 40 Years of Drawing 'Doonesbury' It's been 40 years since Garry Trudeau first drew the popular comic strip "Doonesbury." The Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist speaks with Jeffrey Brown about a new book chronicling his decades of work.

	Dec. 23, 2010 Hallelujah! A Global Mash-up of Handel's 'Messiah' The journalists who bring you The Rundown blog were debating last week what gift we could give you, our loyal readers, for the holidays. One thing sprang to mind that is almost universally enjoyed this time of year: Handel's "Messiah."

	Dec. 23, 2010 Thursday's NewsHour: Garry Trudeau Looks Back on 40 Years of 'Doonesbury' It's been 40 years since Garry Trudeau first started to pen "Doonesbury", a comic strip that has entertained and provoked readers as a chronicle of the baby-boom generation, part sharp political commentary, part very funny comic strip.

	Dec. 23, 2010 Conversation: Best Unsung (Critically, Not Literally) Music of 2010 Jeffrey Brown discusses the best under-appreciated music of 2010 with critic Jim DeRogatis, co-host of WBEZ's Sound Opinions.

	Dec. 23, 2010 Thursday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, "Spider-Man" on Broadway gets checked out by the Labor Department.

	Dec. 22, 2010 Conversation: Best Unsung Films of 2010 Jeffrey Brown talks to Ann Hornaday of the Washington Post about the best under-appreciated films of 2010.

	Dec. 22, 2010 Conversation: Best Unsung Books of 2010 Jeffrey Brown talks to Andrew Altschul, books editor for the Rumpus, about the under-appreciated novels of 2010.

	Dec. 22, 2010 Wednesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, visitors to London galleries who come off the city's snowy streets have been tracking in art-harming salt.

	Dec. 21, 2010 Nutcrackers Around the Nation Display Regional Flair When "The Nutcracker" premiered in America in the 1940s, the holiday show became a perennial favorite and a reliable moneymaker for big and small ballet companies around the country. Since then, Tchaikovsky's ballet has been re-imagined innumerable times, customized to suit local tastes and traditions.

	Dec. 21, 2010 A Seasonal Standby, Re-envisioned to Reflect Local Flare The Nutcracker is the cash cow of ballets, with performances raising between a third to the entire amount of a company's annual budget. Companies big and small put their own spin on their productions to differentiate it from others nearby or connect to the culture of their community.

	Dec. 21, 2010 Tuesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Iranian director Jafar Panahi has been sentenced to six years in jail and banned from filmmaking.

	Dec. 21, 2010 Festival Gives Cubans a Window the World The grand lobby of Havana's historic Hotel Nacional de Cuba was humming with activity earlier this month as documentary filmmakers, directors, actors and producers from around Latin America gathered to pay homage to their craft at the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema.

	Dec. 20, 2010 Weekly Poem: 'The New Intelligence' Timothy Donnelly is the author of "Twenty-seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebenszeit" and "The Cloud Corporation," is a poetry editor for "Boston Review" and a full-time faculty member of the Writing Program at Columbia University's School of the Arts.

	Dec. 20, 2010 Monday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, the musician known as Captain Beefheart has passed away.

	Dec. 20, 2010 'The Calling' Chronicles Lives of New Generation of U.S. Religious Leaders A new Independent Television Lens documentary, "The Calling," follows seven young Americans entering into the ministry in the Muslim, Jewish, Protestant and Catholic faiths. The four-hour film airs in two parts Monday and Tuesday nights on PBS. Read an interview with Director and Executive Producer Danny Alpert.

	Dec. 17, 2010 Conversation: Patti Smith Jeffrey Brown talks to rock legend Patti Smith, whose memoir, "Just Kids," won the National Book Award for nonfiction.

	Dec. 17, 2010 Friday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Blake Edwards, whose decades-long career spanned writing, directing and producing nearly 50 films, died late Wednesday at age 88.

	Dec. 16, 2010 Happy Birthday, Art Beat!...And a Special Request to You Art Beat has turned 2 years old! To mark the occasion and the end of the year, we'd like to hear from you about your favorite books, sounds and sights of the year.

	Dec. 16, 2010 Phylicia Rashad, Marcus Gardley Pay Homage With 'every tongue confess' Mysticism, spirituality, racism and redemption are major themes of "every tongue confess," a new work by playwright Marcus Gardley that saw its world premiere at the Arlene and Robert Kogod Cradle at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C.

	Dec. 16, 2010 Thursday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, the curators who planned the National Portrait Gallery exhibit "Hide/Seek" speak out.

	Dec. 15, 2010 Trey McIntyre Project Finds Dance Partner in Boise Jeffrey Brown profiles how a leading dance company and a small western city are learning to move together through an unexpected partnership.

	Dec. 15, 2010 Extended Interviews: The Trey McIntyre Project More from Jeffrey Brown's profile of choreographer Trey McIntyre.

	Dec. 15, 2010 Wednesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, a person taking a stroll along the beach in Ashkelon, Israel, discovered an ancient Roman statue.

	Dec. 14, 2010 Civil Rights Leader Andrew Young Shares Life Lessons With New Generation Andrew Young, a top aide to Martin Luther King, Jr., and his godson/co-author Kabir Sehgal speak with Judy Woodruff about passing on life lessons and words of advice for a new generation, plus their new book "Walk in My Shoes."

	Dec. 14, 2010 For the Books, Found Footage Is a Blank Page Art Beat talks to the Books backstage at the 9:30 Club about their live performance and about the essential role that found footage plays in their shows.

	Dec. 14, 2010 Tuesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, LA MOCA takes down a mural it commissioned.

	Dec. 13, 2010 Weekly Poem: 'Disrupted Motion' 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.

	Dec. 13, 2010 Monday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, China cracks down on its political writers and artists.

	Dec. 10, 2010 Anthology Traces Rap's Lyrical Journey, Poetic Roots Is rap music a form of lyric poetry? A new anthology, published by Yale University Press, makes the case. Jeffrey Brown reports.

	Dec. 10, 2010 Friday's NewsHour: Rap Reconsidered for New Scholarly Anthology A new work of scholarship, "The Anthology of Rap," recently published by Yale University Press, offers a look at the art form on its own terms: a collection of rap lyrics, offered up like lyric poetry, from the last twenty years.

	Dec. 10, 2010 Conversation: Andrew Jarecki, Director of 'All Good Things' In his latest film director Andrew Jarecki, who says he has always been drawn to true stories, has picked to re-imagine an infamous unsolved mystery involving a wealthy and powerful New York family.

	Dec. 10, 2010 Friday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Jim Morrison received a posthumous pardon from Florida's governor.

	Dec. 9, 2010 Translator Brings Poetry of Nobel Peace Laureate Liu Xiaobo to U.S. Ahead of the Friday ceremony awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to the absent (and imprisoned) Liu Xiaobo, Graywolf Press announces the future publication of a collection of his works, translated into English by Jeffrey Yang.

	Dec. 9, 2010 Thursday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, a lawsuit questions the provenance of a Cezanne at the Met.

	Dec. 8, 2010 Composer Stephen Sondheim's Life, Times and Rhymes Jeffrey Brown talks to Broadway legend Stephen Sondheim about his life, career and the art of writing music, lyrics and rhymes that stand the test of time.

	Dec. 8, 2010 Wednesday's NewsHour: Stephen Sondheim Jeffrey Brown's full interview with musical writer Stephen Sondheim.

	Dec. 8, 2010 The 30th Anniversary of John Lennon's Death On Dec. 8, 1980, John Lennon was shot and killed outside of his New York home. Jeffrey Brown talks to music critic Greil Marcus about the musician's cultural legacy.

	Dec. 8, 2010 Wednesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, the oldest opera singer in the world has died.

	Dec. 7, 2010 Boston's Museum of Fine Arts Makes More Room for Art of the Americas In November, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston opened the doors to a brand new expansion that houses its collection of American Art, in every meaning of the word "American."

	Dec. 7, 2010 Tuesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Susan Philipsz is the winner of this year's Turner Prize.

	Dec. 6, 2010 Choirs Capture Sound, Spirit of Gospel in 'How Sweet the Sound' Contest Jeffrey Brown chronicles the competition in the "How Sweet the Sound" contest to find the best church choir in America.

	Dec. 6, 2010 How Sweet the Sound Performances Performances by Greater Mount Calvary's Men of Valor and Greater Zion Church Family's Voices of Destiny at Verizon's How Sweet the Sound.

	Dec. 6, 2010 Weekly Poem: 'The Nomad Flute' U.S. Poet Laureate W.S. Merwin reads "The Nomad Flute."

	Dec. 6, 2010 Monday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Google launches its latest e-book venture.

	Dec. 2, 2010 Friday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, an Italian shoe tycoon puts up the entire cost of a three year renovation project on the Colosseum.

	Dec. 2, 2010 Minnesota Photographer Soth Finds Beauty in the Unexpected Photographer Alec Soth is preparing to showcase his work in Minneapolis' Walker Art Center, including exhibits entitled "33 Movie Theaters and a Funeral Home" and "Broken Manual." Twin Cities Public Television profiled him, and it's part of our NewsHour Connect series highlighting public media reporting from around the nation.

	Dec. 2, 2010 Conversation: Martin Sullivan, Director of the National Portrait Gallery Jeffrey Brown talks to Martin Sullivan, director of the National Portrait Gallery, about the decision to remove a work of art from the current exhibit "Hide/Seek" after complaints from a Christian organization.

	Dec. 1, 2010 Mark Twain's Autobiography Set for Unveiling, a Century After His Death Mark Twain's autobiography is set to be published for the first time, 100 years after the famous author and humorist's death. Correspondent Spencer Michels reports on the effort to edit and publish his century-old manuscript.

	Dec. 1, 2010 Thursday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Eminem leads the Grammy nominations, and a Washington gallery organizes a protest against the removal of an art video from a Smithsonian exhibit.

	Dec. 1, 2010 Around the Nation Here are some of this week's arts and culture stories from public broadcasting stations around the nation.

	Dec. 1, 2010 Wednesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, the National Portrait Gallery removes a video installation after complaints from a religious organization.



	NOVEMBER Nov. 30, 2010 Preview: Kurtis Blow on 'The Anthology of Rap' Kurtis Blow, a pioneer of rap and hip-hop music, talks to Jeffrey Brown about his role in the history of the art form, as a major new anthology of American rap lyrics is published.

	Nov. 30, 2010 Tuesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Miami breaks ground on an art museum.

	Nov. 29, 2010 Weekly Poem: 'Hammer Is the Prayer' Christian Wiman is the editor of Poetry magazine and the author of three collections of poems: "Every Riven Thing" (2010), "Hard Night" (2005) and "The Long Home" (1998).

	Nov. 29, 2010 Monday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, a French man has revealed a collection of almost 300 undocumented art works by Pablo Picasso.

	Nov. 25, 2010 America's Cornucopia of Recipes Food columnist and cookbook author Molly O'Neill has spent the past decade traveling cross-country in search of America's recipes. Jeffrey Brown talks to O'Neill about the result of her travels: a cookbook.

	Nov. 25, 2010 A Guide to Good Thanksgiving Reads As families and friends gather across the country to celebrate this Thanksgiving, we at the NewsHour have cooked up a small sampling of writings and stories for the holiday.

	Nov. 24, 2010 Around the Nation A special Thanksgiving roundup of public media arts and culture (and cooking) stories.

	Nov. 24, 2010 Wednesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, music helps seniors practice balance and the Royal Shakespeare Company opens its new theater.

	Nov. 23, 2010 Conversation: Poet Nikki Giovanni Nikki Giovanni is the author of several books of poetry, including most recently, "Bicycles: Love Poems." She is a professor at Virginia Tech, where she teaches writing and literature. "The 100 Best African American Poems" was edited by Giovanni and published in November.

	Nov. 23, 2010 Tuesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Yale University agrees to return a collection of Incan artifacts to Peru.

	Nov. 22, 2010 Weekly Poem: 'Fish Head for Katrina' Terrance Hayes, a poet and professor at Carnegie Mellon University, won the 2010 National Book Award. Here, he reads a poem from his award-winning volume, "Lighthead."

	Nov. 22, 2010 Monday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, two major museums face financial woes.

	Nov. 21, 2010 Radiolab Hosts 'Dress Up' As Science Journalists Radiolab is hard to define. The hour-long radio program, co-hosted by Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich and produced by WNYC in New York, draws on philosophy, literature, popular culture, and even religion to explain scientific phenomena.

	Nov. 19, 2010 National Book Award-Winning Poet Hayes Reads From 'Lighthead' Terrance Hayes, a poet and professor at Carnegie Mellon University, won the National Book Award earlier this week. Here, he reads a poem from his award-winning volume called "Lighthead."

	Nov. 19, 2010 Secession in ... Belgium? Imagine if the leaders of the Confederacy had appeared on South Carolina Public Television in late 1860 to lay out plans for seceding from the Union and attacking Fort Sumpter.

	Nov. 19, 2010 Conversation: Filmmaker Lucy Walker Documents An Artist's 'Waste Land' In 2007, New York-based artist Vik Muniz returned to his native country of Brazil to set up shop at the world's largest garbage dump in Rio de Janiero. His story is told in the new documentary "Waste Land" by director Lucy Walker.

	Nov. 19, 2010 Friday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, some Italian sculptures get re-attachable body parts.

	Nov. 18, 2010 Poet Christian Wiman's 'Every Riven Thing' Christian Wiman's new collection of poetry, "Every Riven Thing," is filled with powerfully profound poems, many of which are deeply personal. He had taken a break from writing poetry for a few years, but a recent diagnosis of a rare cancer propelled his pen back to the page.

	Nov. 18, 2010 Thursday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Jasper Johns and Maya Angelou will get presidential honors, and Jim Morrison will get a posthumous pardon.

	Nov. 18, 2010 Patti Smith, Indie-Published Novel are Rock Stars of 2010 National Book Awards Known for her poetry and her rock 'n' roll, music legend Patti Smith has now been honored for her prose with a National Book Award, given out Wednesday night in New York.

	Nov. 17, 2010 Around the Nation Here are some of this week's arts and culture stories from public broadcasting stations around the nation.

	Nov. 17, 2010 Wednesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, flamenco dancing is honored by UNESCO as an essential cultural tradition and an artist agrees to wire a video camera into the back of his head.

	Nov. 16, 2010 War Photographer Tim Hetherington Captures Combat and Downtime in 'Infidel' In 2007 and 2008, British photojournalist and filmmaker Tim Hetherington traveled to the Korengal Valley in northeastern Afghanistan to capture images of American soldiers serving in the war -- not just in combat, but also relaxing, playing, sleeping. His photographs are now collected as a new book titled "Infidel."

	Nov. 16, 2010 Tuesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, visa problems for Lincoln Center and budget problems for the Louisville Orchestra.

	Nov. 15, 2010 Cleopatra Continues to Capture Imaginations, 2,000 Years Later The Egyptian ruler Cleopatra died more than 2,000 years ago, but still has a powerful presence today. Jeffrey Brown has a conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Stacy Schiff about her new book, "Cleopatra: a Life."

	Nov. 15, 2010 Stacy Schiff Reads from Her Book, 'Cleopatra: A Life' Stacy Schiff reads from her book, "Cleopatra: A Life."

	Nov. 15, 2010 Nikon Small World Photography Competition Winners The Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition, an annual contest for photomicrographs, or images taken through a microscope. The subject matter is tiny, but the winning images pack a punch.

	Nov. 15, 2010 Weekly Poem: 'Nikki-Rosa' Nikki Giovanni is the author of several books of poetry, including most recently "Bicycles: Love Poems." "Nikki-Rosa" is taken from "The 100 Best African American Poems," edited by Giovanni and published in November.

	Nov. 15, 2010 Monday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, an American is charged with stealing bird skins from a British museum.

	Nov. 12, 2010 Conversation: Alex Ross' 'Listen to This' New Yorker music critic Alex Ross' new book is "Listen to This." His previous book, "The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the 20th Century," won a National Book Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

	Nov. 12, 2010 Friday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture news, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston celebrates a new addition.

	Nov. 12, 2010 LIFE Releases Never Before Published Photos of John F. Kennedy On the week of the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's election as the nation's 35th president, LIFE released new photos from the 1960 campaign trail.

	Nov. 11, 2010 Will the Real Author (Bill Wyman) Please Stand Up? A (creative nonfiction) review of Keith Richard's new book, supposedly written by Mick Jagger, is mistaken for the real thing

	Nov. 11, 2010 For Birbiglia, Comedy is a Means to an End Mike Birbiglia, a regular on PRI's "This American LIfe", has turned his one-man off-Broadway comedy show into a new book called "Sleepwalk With Me."

	Nov. 11, 2010 Thursday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture news, film producer Dino De Laurentiis has died at age 91.

	Nov. 11, 2010 Life Releases Never Before Published Photos of John F. Kennedy On the week of the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's election as the nation's 35th president, LIFE released new photos from the 1960 campaign trail.

	Nov. 10, 2010 Around the Nation Here are some of this week's arts and culture stories from public broadcasting stations around the nation.

	Nov. 10, 2010 Wednesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture news, the Metropolitan Museum of Art will return 19 artifacts to Egypt.

	Nov. 9, 2010 Art is a Laughing Matter at Baltimore's American Visionary Art Museum "What Makes Us Smile?", an exhibit at Baltimore's American Visionary Art Museum, is a celebration of human joy as seen through an array of funny, happy or goofy drawings, paintings and sculptures, as well as the ever-present, ever-blowing, whoopee cushion bench.

	Nov. 9, 2010 Tuesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Philadelphia Museum of Art breaks ground on a new building expansion.

	Nov. 8, 2010 Weekly Poem: 'She Is Awakened by a Hair' Kim Dower taught poetry for two years at Emerson College, her alma mater, before moving to Los Angeles and founding Kim-from-LA, a literary publicity company that specializes in coaching authors and speakers on how to present themselves to the media.

	Nov. 8, 2010 Monday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture news, the Pope consecrates the Sagrada Familia and Poland finishes a new, immense Christian landmark.

	Nov. 5, 2010 Jason Moran: Jazz Maestro, MacArthur Fellow Jason Moran is a jazz pianist and composer and one of the winners of this year's MacArthur Fellowships. His latest recording is called "Ten," which came out in June.

	Nov. 5, 2010 Friday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, will Hollywood become more conservative?

	Nov. 4, 2010 Betancourt Describes Captivity in Colombian Jungle Margaret Warner talks to Ingrid Betancourt about her new memoir, "Even Silence Has an End," and her years as a hostage in the Colombian jungle.

	Nov. 4, 2010 Former Captive Ingrid Betancourt on the 'Light We Have Inside' Ingrid Betancourt, who was held by Colombian rebels and freed in a daring military rescue, discusses the lessons she learned about how the human spirit functions in adversity.

	Nov. 4, 2010 Questions of Photographic Propriety in 'Framing Innocence' In 1999, Cynthia Stewart, an amateur photographer and school bus driver in Oberlin, Ohio, was arrested on two felony charges for photographs she'd taken of her eight-year-old daughter. The charges were eventually dropped. The in-between is the subject of a new book by poet Lynn Powell called "Framing Innocence."

	Nov. 4, 2010 Economic Theory -- And Jim Lehrer -- in Song Paul Solman answers your questions on business and economic news on "The Business Desk."

	Nov. 3, 2010 Thursday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Peru's president asks for some special help in retrieving ancient artifacts from Yale University.

	Nov. 3, 2010 Andre Kertesz Captured the Art of Reading "On Reading," an exhibition on view at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, collects photos taken by Hungarian photographer Andre Kertesz over a decades' long career of people in private moments reading books, newspapers or magazines.

	Nov. 3, 2010 Wednesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, the Chinese government plans to destroy Ai Weiwei's Shanghai art studio.

	Nov. 2, 2010 The Lighter Side of Politics For many who have been following and covering this campaign season, election day is the culmination of months of campaign ads and political analysis.

	Nov. 2, 2010 Writers' Theatre: Big Ideas on a Small Stage The Writers' Theatre, a small venue housed in the Glencoe (Ill.) Woman's Library Club, has garnered big accolades over the last decade for its varied programs mixing original works with fresh looks at classic stories.

	Nov. 2, 2010 Tuesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Turkey lifts its ban on YouTube.

	Nov. 1, 2010 Weekly Poem: 'By Dark' Poet Laureate W.S. Merwin reads "By Dark."

	Nov. 1, 2010 Monday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, George Hickenlooper, who won an Emmy Award in 1992 for directing "Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse," has died at age 47,



	OCTOBER Oct. 29, 2010 Conversation: Sculptor Elizabeth Turk Elizabeth Turk is a sculptor who can seemingly turn marble into lace. She studied at Scripps College and the Maryland Institute College of Art. Her work has appeared in numerous solo and group exhibitions, and she has been awarded one of this year's Macarthur genius grants.

	Oct. 29, 2010 Sowing the Seeds of Fear at Cox Farms Lucas Cox-Galhotra, director of operations at Cox Farms in northern Virginia, shared tips for putting on a good scare and gave us a tour as employees set up for Fields of Fear.

	Oct. 29, 2010 What Zombies Can Teach Us About Braaain Science Dr. Steven Schlozman, assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a lecturer at the Harvard School of Education, uses the undead to teach the living about the brain.

	Oct. 29, 2010 'Rusty Musicians' Rub Bows With the Pros Hundreds of musicians took part in the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's "Rusty Musicians," a concert in which amateurs had the opportunity to share stands with professionals under the direction of BSO Music Director Marin Alsop.

	Oct. 29, 2010 Friday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Hobbit legislation passes in New Zealand.

	Oct. 28, 2010 Esperanza Spalding Takes on Dual Role in Jazz Jeffrey Brown profiles Esperanza Spalding, the young jazz phenomenon who pulls double duty on stage by playing the bass and singing. The classically trained bassist has appeared at the White House and is currently on a world-wide tour.

	Oct. 28, 2010 Esperanza Spalding Explains Her Song, 'Little Fly' In this extended interview, Jeffrey Brown talks to Esperanza Spalding about the inspiration to her song, "Little Fly."

	Oct. 28, 2010 Thursday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, an American car enthusiast pays $4.1 million at auction to buy James Bond's most famous car and the New York Philharmonic renews its efforts to visit Cuba.

	Oct. 28, 2010 The Morning Line: From 'Yes We Can' to 'Yes We Can, but...' For the White House, the closing days of the midterm campaign is all about turning out key blocks of the Democratic base. Looking to energize younger voters who enthusiastically supported him in 2008, President Obama went on the "Daily Show with Jon Stewart" to give a forceful defense of his first two years in office.

	Oct. 27, 2010 W.S. Merwin on Becoming the New Poet Laureate Jeffrey Brown has a conversation with W.S. Merwin, who was appointed as the 17th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry by The Library of Congress.

	Oct. 27, 2010 W.S. Merwin Reads Four Poems Watch Poet Laureate W.S. Merwin read more of his work.

	Oct. 27, 2010 Wednesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Maya Angelou's personal papers, including letters from Malcolm X and James Baldwin and revisions of the poem she wrote to celebrate President Bill Clinton's inauguration, will be made public by the New York Public Library.

	Oct. 26, 2010 Goodbye, 'Big Bambu' After six months of hoisting, heaving, bending, climbing and tying, Big Bambu at the Met is almost ready to begin its slow dismantling.

	Oct. 26, 2010 Community MusicWorks Performs in D.C. When Sebastian Ruth, founder of the Providence, R.I.-based nonprofit Community MusicWorks, brought his group of music students to Washington, D.C., to accept the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award, he knew they had one important stop to make before heading home.

	Oct. 26, 2010 Tuesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, the end of the Sony Walkman and the passing of television cartoonist Alexander Anderson Jr., creator of Rocky the flying squirrel and Bullwinkle the moose.

	Oct. 25, 2010 A Conversation with Director Judd Apatow Jeffrey Brown talks to producer and director Judd Apatow about what's behind his string of successful movies and his new book, "I Found This Funny." Apatow has been the force behind hit films such as "The 40 Year-Old Virgin" and "Knocked Up."

	Oct. 25, 2010 Extended Interview: Judd Apatow An extended interview with Judd Apatow, whose latest pursuit is a book called "I Found This Funny."

	Oct. 25, 2010 Weekly Poem: 'From the Start' W.S. Merwin is the Library of Congress' 17th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry. He has had a prolific writing career, crafting more than 50 books of verse, translations, memoirs and more.

	Oct. 25, 2010 Monday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, "the biggest legal brawl in the art world" is coming to an abrupt end.

	Oct. 22, 2010 Conversation: Nicole Krauss' 'Great House' Four narrators weave their own stories investigating the effects of loss, loneliness and deep uncertainty in Nicole Krauss' novel, "Great House," which is a finalist for the National Book Award.

	Oct. 22, 2010 Friday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, more than 100 Brillo boxes said to be works by Andy Warhol have been declared "copies."

	Oct. 21, 2010 Edwidge Danticat on the Luxury of Creating Art Haitian-American author Edwidge Danticat speaks with Jeffrey Brown about her earthquake-ravaged homeland, feeling guilty for having the time and security to create art and her new collection of essays, "Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work."

	Oct. 21, 2010 MacArthur Fellow, Community MusicWorks' Sebastian Ruth One of this year's MacArthur Foundation fellows is Sebastian Ruth, founder and artistic director of Community MusicWorks.

	Oct. 21, 2010 Around the Nation Roundup Here are some of this week's arts and culture stories from public broadcasting stations around the nation.

	Oct. 21, 2010 Thursday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, the arts are not escaping historic government spending cuts in Britain as Arts Council England is having its budget cut by almost 30 percent.

	Oct. 20, 2010 Conversation: William Kentridge Premiering nationwide Thursday on PBS is art:21's latest film, "William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible." Kentridge, a South African artist, is well known for his wide dynamic range of works: charcoal drawings, animations, video installations, sculptures and performance pieces.

	Oct. 19, 2010 Former World Bank President Reflects on 'A Global Life' Jeffrey Brown talks to James Wolfensohn about his memoir, "A Global Life," and his 10 years at the helm of the World Bank. Wolfensohn, who grew up in Australia, worked in London and on Wall Street, reflects on the increasing globalization and interconnectedness, both financially and culturally, that he witnessed in his career.

	Oct. 19, 2010 Conversation: Poet Elizabeth Alexander On January 20, 2009, Elizabeth Alexander was vaulted onto a stage few poets ever see when she was asked to compose and read a poem, "Praise Song for the Day," at the inauguration of President Barack Obama. Her latest book was published this month.

	Oct. 19, 2010 Wednesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, "Flight of the Bumblebee" is played in record time.

	Oct. 18, 2010 Weekly Poem: 'The Elders' Elizabeth Alexander was born in Harlem, raised in Washington, D.C., and attended Yale University, where she now teaches African American Studies. She is the author of six books of poems, including most recently, "Crave Radiance: New and Selected Poems 1990-2010."

	Oct. 18, 2010 Monday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, New York's Chelsea Art Museum has lost the deed to its building.

	Oct. 15, 2010 Conversation: Musician Evan Ziporyn, Composer of 'A House in Bali' Based on the memoirs of Colin McPhee, a musicologist who, in the early 20th-century, spent several years in Bali studying traditional music, "A House in Bali" is a blend of western opera and the music of that island.

	Oct. 15, 2010 Friday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture, bed bugs make their (unwelcome) debut at the Metropolitan Opera.

	Oct. 14, 2010 'California Is a Place' Still Reeling From Recession Filmmakers Drea Cooper and Zack Canepari looked at California foreclosures through a different lens by concentrating on the crisis in some off-beat places.

	Oct. 14, 2010 Conversation: Howard Jacobson, Winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize Howard Jacobson is a writer and journalist whose novel, "The Finkler Question", was named winner of the Man Booker Prize in London on Tuesday.

	Oct. 14, 2010 Thursday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, the Rome trial over looted antiquities against former Getty curator Marion True has been dismissed.

	Oct. 13, 2010 New Documentary 'Of Dolls & Murder' Explores Macabre in Miniature Created in the 1930's and 1940's, the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death is a collection of macabre dollhouses, each playing host to a different deathly crime. A new documentary peers into the tiny world of the tiny scenes and their practical use today.

	Oct. 13, 2010 Wednesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Howard Jacobson wins the 2010 Man Booker Prize.

	Oct. 12, 2010 Franzen Explores the Post-9/11 Family in 'Freedom' Jeffrey Brown talks to best-selling novelist Jonathan Franzen about new book '"Freedom."

	Oct. 12, 2010 New Documentary Explores How Music 'Made' Louisville After the Great Depression and a horrendous flood devastated Louisville, the city's mayor and and the conductor of its symphony orchestra hatched a plan to make the city great again.

	Oct. 12, 2010 Tuesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, the Man Booker Prize will be announced late on Tuesday.

	Oct. 11, 2010 Weekly Poem: 'In D.C.' Elizabeth Alexander was born in Harlem, raised in Washington, D.C. and attended Yale University, where she now teaches African American Studies. She is the author of six books of poems, including most recently, "Crave Radiance: New and Selected Poems 1990-2010."

	Oct. 11, 2010 Monday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, soul singer Solomon Burke has died at age 70.

	Oct. 8, 2010 Onetime Teacher, Student Find Success as Composer, Violinist Hilary Hahn and Jennifer Higdon shared a love of 20th century music when Higdon was Hahn's professor at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. Fifteen years later, this student-teacher relationship has transformed into a partnership at the top of its field.

	Oct. 8, 2010 Conversation: Stone Carver Nicholas Benson, 2010 MacArthur Fellow Nicholas Benson is a stone carver from Newport, R.I., a third generation craftsman who runs the John Stevens Shop, a business that's been in operation since 1705. He was named as a 2010 MacArthur Fellow.

	Oct. 8, 2010 Online Extras: Composer Jennifer Higdon and Violinist Hilary Hahn Jeffrey Brown's extended interview with Jennifer Higdon and Hilary Hahn's performance of Bach's Sarabande in D minor.

	Oct. 8, 2010 Coming Soon to PBS, the History of Art Across Time, Continents and Cultures Starting Sunday on PBS, a new 13-part educational series for high school and college students explores some of the most commonly recurring themes that come up again and again across the history (and contemporary practice) of art.

	Oct. 8, 2010 Friday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines,

	Oct. 7, 2010 Conversation: The Life and Work of Nobel Prize Winner Mario Vargas Llosa Jeffrey Brown talks to Efrain Kristal, a UCLA professor of comparative literature and of Spanish and Portuguese, about the life and work of Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa.

	Oct. 7, 2010 Around the Nation Roundup Here are some of this week's arts and culture stories from public broadcasting stations around the nation.

	Oct. 7, 2010 Peruvian Writer Vargas Llosa Wins Nobel Prize in Literature The 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat."

	Oct. 7, 2010 Thursday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa wins the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature.

	Oct. 6, 2010 Conversation: Sound Artist Christopher Janney Makes Music For the Public Arena Christopher Janney, a trained architect and a lifelong musician, creates public works of art that combine his two passions, bringing art to people in the places they make their everyday lives.

	Oct. 6, 2010 Wednesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, flight attendants use the power of pop to keep their passengers' attention.

	Oct. 5, 2010 Conversation: 'Going Back' With Phil Collins Released last week in America, Phil Collins' latest album, "Going Back," is his homage to the music idols of his youth. The collection of Motown and soul hits by the former drummer and lead singer of Genesis reached No. 1 on the U.K. charts last week.

	Oct. 5, 2010 Tuesday's Art Notes Today's arts and culture headlines include two strange robbery stories.

	Oct. 4, 2010 Weekly Poem: 'At the Counters Ball' John Taggart is the author of 14 volumes of poetry. From 1969 to 2001, he taught in the English Department and directed the Interdisciplinary Arts Program at Shippensburg University. Taggart's new book of poems, "Is Music," will be published in October.

	Oct. 4, 2010 Monday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra goes on strike.

	Oct. 1, 2010 Status Update: Facebook-Inspired Film 'The Social Network' Opens Last week, the NewsHour looked at "The Social Network", a film -- opening across the country on Friday -- about Facebook and its founder, Mark Zuckerberg.

	Oct. 1, 2010 Conversation: Chad Troutwine, Producer of 'Freakonomics' First a bestselling book, then a popular blog and soon to be a public radio show, the phenomenon that is "Freakonomics" is the brain child of University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt and journalist Stephen Dubner. Now, "Freakonomics" is a movie.

	Oct. 1, 2010 Both Temps and e-Books Were Hot at the National Book Festival this Year The scorching 93 degree heat on Saturday was not enough to deter throngs of book lovers from coming out for the 10th Annual National Book Festival in Washington, D.C., hosted by the Library of Congress. Art Beat took to the National Mall for some "reader-on-the-street" -style interviews.

	Oct. 1, 2010 Friday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, a Tea Party coloring book and a congressional hold on building a National Women's History Museum.



	SEPTEMBER Sept. 30, 2010 Writers in Danger Offered Safe Haven to Practice Craft in Pittsburgh In Pittsburgh, a special program offers foreign writers whose lives are endangered to get a new start and write freely.

	Sept. 30, 2010 Conversation: Jonathan Franzen The disintegration of a family in a very fractured and unsettled, post-9/11 America is told in "Freedom," the new novel by Jonathan Franzen. His last novel, "The Corrections," won the 2001 National Book Award.

	Sept. 30, 2010 Exclusive Readings From City of Asylum/Pittsburgh 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.

	Sept. 30, 2010 Thursday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, actor Tony Curtis has passed away at age 85.

	Sept. 29, 2010 Update \| Round Two in the Lehman Art Auction The Lehman art auction, part II, took place today at Christie's in London.

	Sept. 29, 2010 Conversation: Director Nicolas Kent Brings Real Drama of Afghanistan Onstage Starting with the 1842 Anglo-Afghan War and running through to the present day conflict in Afghanistan, a new theater production called "The Great Game: Afghanistan" attempts to educate audiences about the history of modern foreign intervention in that region with an entertaining cycle of 12 plays.

	Sept. 29, 2010 Wednesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, film director Arthur Penn has died.

	Sept. 28, 2010 Conversation: Yiyun Li, Fiction Writer and 2010 MacArthur Fellow Born in Beijing, MacArthur Fellow Yiyun Li came to the United States in 1996 to complete a doctoral program in immunology, but decided then to change her career path and instead do something that was more important to her: writing.

	Sept. 28, 2010 MacArthur Foundation Announces 2010 Class of Genius Grant Winners A jazz pianist, an installation artist and a third-generation stone carver are among the recipients of the 2010 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship grants, announced early Tuesday morning.

	Sept. 27, 2010 Poet Benjamin Saenz Considers Uncertainty Along Mexico's Violent Border Latino poet Benjamin Saenz shares his writing from his home near the U.S., Mexico border, a region where violent drug wars have raged in recent years. His latest collection is called "The Book of What Remains."

	Sept. 27, 2010 Lehman Art Auctions Better Than Expected As a follow up to Friday's Lehman Brother's art collection video, we looked at how some of the pieces actually fared on Sotheby's auction block.

	Sept. 27, 2010 Weekly Poem: 'Global Warming' Matthew Zapruder is the author of three collections of poetry: "American Linden," "The Pajamaist" and "Come On All You Ghosts" (Copper Canyon, Fall 2010). He is editor for Wave Books and teaches in the low residency MFA program at UC Riverside-Palm Desert.

	Sept. 27, 2010 Monday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Lehman Brothers auctions their collection of modern and contemporary art.

	Sept. 24, 2010 Art Collection Could Prove Shrewd Investment for Lehman Brothers Two years to the month after the titan of Wall Street declared bankruptcy, Lehman Brothers' extensive and diverse art collection is headed to the titans of the auction block: Sotheby's of New York and Christie's of London.

	Sept. 24, 2010 Art Collection Could Prove Shrewd Investment for Lehman Brothers Paul Solman answers your questions on business and economic news on "The Business Desk."

	Sept. 24, 2010 Art Collection Could Prove Shrewd Investment for Lehman Brothers Lehman Brother's extensive and diverse art collection is being auctioned off to help pay back creditors. Art world dealers suspect when the final bids are accepted for the world-renowned collection, the art could be worth $10 million.

	Sept. 24, 2010 Conversation: Novelist Per Petterson, Author of "I Curse the River of Time" The bestselling Norwegian author Per Petterson became known to American readers over the last couple of years after his 2003 novel "Out Stealing Horses" was translated into English. He now has a new novel, "I Curse the River of Time".

	Sept. 24, 2010 Colbert Stays in Character at Congressional Hearing on Farm Jobs As far as House Judiciary subcommittee hearings on agricultural jobs go, this one had a bit more celebrity shine. Stephen Colbert, the comedian and satirist, knew that, and hoped his presence would vault the hearings up to "CSPAN 1" status.

	Sept. 24, 2010 Friday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, an previously unknown painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder is discovered in Spain.

	Sept. 23, 2010 For Two Filmmakers, 'California Is a Place' You Haven't Really Seen Before In the summer of 2009, with signs of the Great Recession scattered across much of California, filmmaker Drea Cooper and photographer Zackary Canepari decided it was time to work together full time to document what they were witnessing around them.

	Sept. 23, 2010 Thursday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, the Art Institute of Chicago sues the engineering company who helped build its Modern wing.

	Sept. 23, 2010 Denver Company Gives Poor Farmers Tools to Rise Out of Poverty Denver-based International Development Enterprises works with farmers in poor areas to help them obtain irrigation, water sanitation and storage supplies.

	Sept. 22, 2010 Author Shteyngart Envisions Love Amid Ruins of a Collapsed America Author Gary Shteyngart takes a satirical approach to the economic meltdown in America, combined with a love story in a world of tech-crazy savages in his new novel "Super Sad True Love Story." Jeffrey Brown sits down with the author.

	Sept. 22, 2010 Around the Nation Here are some of this week's arts and culture stories from public broadcasting stations around the nation.

	Sept. 22, 2010 'Art of Dirt' and Rural Life An exhibit sponsored by International Development Enterprises in Denver features paintings and photos of rural life in places such as India, Honduras, Ethiopia and Vietnam, along with models of IDE's irrigation and water sanitation equipment for visitors to try.

	Sept. 22, 2010 Wednesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, the KennedyCenter gets a big donation from its chairman.

	Sept. 21, 2010 Conversation: Kendall Messick's Close-Up of 'The Projectionist' Delaware movie projectionist Gordon Brinckle had an extraordinary secret: Over the course of nearly 50 years, he created a miniature movie palace in his basement that he called the Shalimar. Photographer Kendall Messick has published a new book of photographs documenting his theater.

	Sept. 21, 2010 Tuesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, missing Iraqi antiquities turn up at the prime minister's office.

	Sept. 20, 2010 Weekly Poem: 'Pastorelle 15' John Taggart is the author of 14 volumes of poetry. From 1969 to 2001, he taught in the English Department and directed the Interdisciplinary Arts Program at Shippensburg University. Taggart's new book of poems, "Is Music," will be published in October.

	Sept. 20, 2010 Monday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, YouTube and the Guggenheim release a shortlist of the best creative video.

	Sept. 17, 2010 Conversation: Gary Shteyngart, Author of 'Super Sad True Love Story' Jeffrey Brown talks to Gary Shteyngart, author of "Super Sad True Love Story."

	Sept. 17, 2010 Friday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, the movie about Joaquin's downward spiral is a fiction, not a documentary.

	Sept. 16, 2010 Musical Legend Herbie Hancock Fuses Jazz, Global Rhythms Jeffrey Brown catches up with music legend Herbie Hancock, who celebrated his 70th birthday earlier this year and is touring in support of his latest album "The Imagine Project."

	Sept. 16, 2010 Herbie Hancock Performs 'Space Captain' 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.

	Sept. 16, 2010 Thursday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, fears from Britain about loaning the Cyrus Cylinder and a real Museum of Innocence for Orhan Pamuk.

	Sept. 15, 2010 Author Per Petterson Reads from Newly Translated Novel Norwegian author Per Petterson reads from his novel "I Curse this River of Time."

	Sept. 15, 2010 Wednesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, David Foster Wallace's last, unfinished work will be published next year.

	Sept. 14, 2010 Texas Poet Twists Newsprint Into Verse Austin Kleon is a Texas-based poet, writer, cartoonist and designer. He's found a playful way of making poetry from discarded newspapers, as demonstrated in his new book "Newspaper Blackout." Jeffrey Brown reports as part of the NewsHour's poetry series.

	Sept. 14, 2010 Austin Kleon Reads More From 'Newspaper Blackout' Austin Kleon is a Texas-based poet, writer, cartoonist and designer. He's found a playful way of making poetry from the newspaper. His first book, "Newspaper Blackout," was published this summer.

	Sept. 14, 2010 Tuesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, a photographer who made some of the most famous images of the Civil Rights era was also spying on his subjects.

	Sept. 13, 2010 Weekly Poem: 'Antietam' Sandra Beasley is the author of "I Was the Jukebox," winner of the 2009 Barnard Women Poets Prize, and "Theories of Falling," winner of the 2007 New Issues Poetry Prize.

	Sept. 13, 2010 Monday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Sofia Coppola won the Gold Lion at this year's Venice Film Festival, and filmmaker Claude Chabrol died Sunday at age 80.

	Sept. 10, 2010 Conversation: Historian Sean Wilentz, Author of 'Bob Dylan in America' Sean Wilentz grew up in Greenwich Village at the height of its bohemian influence in the 1950s and 60s. He is now the author of a new non-fiction book, "Bob Dylan in America," which combines biography, social history and cultural commentary about the musician.

	Sept. 10, 2010 Friday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, British artists start a campaign to stop culture budget cuts.

	Sept. 9, 2010 'Brion Gysin: Dream Machine' The first U.S. retrospective of the work of late-twentieth century experimental artist Brion Gysin is currently on view at the New Museum in New York City. The exhibition is comprised of over 300 paintings, drawings, films, photo-collages, slide projections, and audio recordings, as well as the Dreamachine, a device that flickers at a rate of eight to thirteen pulses per second.

	Sept. 9, 2010 What You See When You Close Your Eyes: Brion Gysin at the New Museum "Brion Gysin: Dream Machine," the first U.S. retrospective of the artist's work, is currently on view at the New Museum in New York City.

	Sept. 9, 2010 Thursday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Japanese artist Takashi Murakami gets a grand show at the Palace of Versailles.

	Sept. 8, 2010 'Parallel Currents' Entering Ricardo Pau-Llosa's home in Miami, visitors can't help but feel like they’ve stepped into an art museum. From the kitchen to his high-ceilinged study, nearly every inch of his place is covered with works by contemporary of Latin American artists. Pau-Llosa's vast collection is on display at the University of Notre Dame's Snite Museum of Art in “Parallel Currents: Highlights of the Ricardo Pau-Llosa Collection of Latin American Art.”

	Sept. 8, 2010 'Parallel Currents' Showcases a Poet's Collection of Latin American Art Entering Ricardo Pau-Llosa's home in Miami, visitors can't help but feel they've stepped into an art museum. From the kitchen to his high-ceilinged study, nearly every inch of his place is covered with works by contemporary of Latin American artists.

	Sept. 7, 2010 Alvin Ailey Troupe Celebrates Longtime Choreographer's Last Dance After more than 20 years at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, director Judith Jamison is preparing to step down. In a profile by Jeffrey Brown, Jamison discusses how a mantra of "pray, prepare, and proceed" had guided her both on and off the dance floor.

	Sept. 7, 2010 Weekly Poem: 'Watching the Towers Go Down' Peter Balakian is the author of many books, including a new volume of poems, "Ziggurat," just published by University of Chicago Press, and "June-tree: New and Selected Poems, 1974-2000."

	Sept. 7, 2010 Tuesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, the Kennedy Center names its 2010 honorees, and dance comes to the White House.

	Sept. 3, 2010 From Book to Stage to Screen, Lawrence Wright's 'My Trip to Al-Qaeda' Lawrence Wright is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, "The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11." His documentary on the subject, "My Trip to al-Qaeda," premieres on HBO next week.

	Sept. 3, 2010 Friday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, the art of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.

	Sept. 2, 2010 Tap Icon Maurice Hines Takes Second Turn in Duke Ellington Tribute Thirty years after his original turn in the Duke Ellington tribute "Sophisticated Ladies," tap dance icon Maurice Hines returns the show as dancer, choreographer and mentor in the revival at Lincoln Theater. Jeffrey Brown talks to Hines about sharing his work with the next generation.

	Sept. 2, 2010 Andrew Bird Cultivates a 'Sonic Arboretum' A successful multi-instrumentalist and songwriter, Andrew Bird recently joined instrument and acoustic engineer Ian Schneller to create a novel live music experience, something they're calling the "Sonic Arboretum," at the Guggenheim Museum.

	Sept. 2, 2010 Thursday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, a fire at the Phillips Collection and California passes a new law on stolen art.

	Sept. 1, 2010 Pulitzer Winner Natasha Trethewey Looks 'Beyond Katrina' Poet Natasha Trethewey's latest book, "Beyond Katrina," is a personal account of how the people of the Gulf Coast region, including her family, have lived with the threat and consequences of natural disasters for generations.

	Sept. 1, 2010 Wednesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Iraqi artists may participate in next year's Venice Biennale for the first time since 1976.



	AUGUST Aug. 31, 2010 New Orleans' Jazz Scene Still Hurt, Inspired by Katrina Jeffrey Brown has an update on musician Michael White who continues his efforts to keep New Orleans' musical tradition strong, five years after Hurricane Katrina.

	Aug. 31, 2010 Tuesday on the NewsHour: 5 Years Later, Revisiting a New Orleans Musician Five years after Hurricane Katrina, jazz musician Michael White is back in New Orleans, but his old neighborhood is still mostly empty. In the years since Katrina he's experienced a personal and musical "rebirth" -- another New Orleans tradition.

	Aug. 31, 2010 Tuesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, the White House announces the launch of a new dance performance series.

	Aug. 30, 2010 Emmys Highlight Changing Landscape of Television Business Jeffrey Brown gets two perspectives on how the Emmy Awards, television's most prestigious honor, have been signaling a major shift in programming by the major networks and smaller cable channels.

	Aug. 30, 2010 Weekly Poem: 'Watcher' Natasha Trethewey has written three collections of poetry: "Domestic Work," "Bellocq's Ophelia" and "Native Guard," which won the "2007 Pulitzer Prize. Her latest book, "Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast," is a mix of prose and poetry.

	Aug. 30, 2010 Monday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, "Modern Family" and "Mad Men" took home Emmys after Sunday's awards show.

	Aug. 27, 2010 'Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing' Exhibit Puts Apollo Theater in Spotlight An installation chronicling the history of Harlem's famous Apollo Theater is on display at the Smithsonian Museum of African-American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., before moving on to Detroit and New York.

	Aug. 27, 2010 Nicholas Carr's 'The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains' Jeffrey Brown talks to Nicholas Carr, author of "The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains," which looks through the lens of neuroscience to see how the Internet shapes our brains.

	Aug. 27, 2010 Friday's Art Notes After dominating the home video rental business for more than a decade and struggling to survive in recent years against Netflix and Redbox, Blockbuster is preparing to file for bankruptcy next month.

	Aug. 27, 2010 Iraq Dispatch: Saddam's Lion Cubs All Grown Up BAGHDAD \| One symbol of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's extravagances was a zoo the family kept in a palace. The three lions survived coalition bombings and.now they and their offspring are thriving at the Baghdad zoo.

	Aug. 26, 2010 Community Supported Art Harvests Creativity In Minneapolis, two arts organizations have taken a business model created by small, independent farmers and adapted it for the visual arts.

	Aug. 26, 2010 Then and Now: What Replaced the Toppled Saddam Statue? The toppling of a statue of Saddam Hussein, marking the fall of Baghdad to U.S.-led coalition forces, did not escape controversy when a U.S. Marine temporarily draped an American flag over the statue's head. Nonetheless, the image in Baghdad's Firdos Square came to symbolize the freedom of Iraqis from Saddam's regime.

	Aug. 26, 2010 Thursday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, a New York film student is charged with a murder attempt against a Muslim taxi driver and the original Kermit the Frog is donated to the Smithsonian.

	Aug. 25, 2010 Wednesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Wyclef Jean loses his bid to run for office in Haiti.

	Aug. 25, 2010 Richard Misrach's Photographs Speak Volumes about Katrina's Devastation "Destroy This Memory" is a narrative photo series by Richard Misrach comprised of 69 color prints that showcases the graffiti messages scrawled by Katrina victims and rescue workers.

	Aug. 25, 2010 After Katrina, Richard Misrach Captured Writing on the Wall Photographer Richard Misrach went to New Orleans and the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina to capture images of the messages people had left on buildings and cars in graffiti when they didn't have any other way to express themselves. His work is now on display in Houston and New Orleans.

	Aug. 24, 2010 Indianapolis Art Museum Looks Outdoors for a Dose of Whimsy The Indianapolis Museum of Art has turned its attention to a park filled with exhibits -- big and small -- in an attempt to lure more visitors both inside and outside. Jeffrey Brown has more.

	Aug. 24, 2010 Tuesday on the NewsHour: Indianapolis Museum of Art Breaks New Ground Tuesday on the NewsHour, Jeffrey Brown goes to Indiana to talk to the curators, artists and patrons involved in the transformation at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.

	Aug. 24, 2010 Tuesday's Art Notes In today's roundup of arts and culture news, Egypt's culture minister is arrested after the Van Gogh heist, and a songwriter who penned hits for Louis Armstrong and Elvis Presley has died.

	Aug. 23, 2010 Weekly Poem: 'My God' Sandra Beasley is the author of "I Was the Jukebox," winner of the 2009 Barnard Women Poets Prize, and "Theories of Falling," winner of the 2007 New Issues Poetry Prize.

	Aug. 23, 2010 Monday's Art Notes A roundup of the day's art and culture headlines, including a Van Gogh heist in Cairo.

	Aug. 20, 2010 Boy Wonder Photographer Six-year-old Kamar Hashem Mohammed Al-Nomane is an aspiring professional photographer, and he's already off to a good start. Photos by Larisa Epatko

	Aug. 20, 2010 Conversation: Director Yael Hersonski Puts New Lens on 'A Film Unfinished' In 1942, a Nazi crew arrived in Warsaw, Poland to begin filming in the Jewish ghetto, just months before its razing and the deportation of its terrorized inhabitants. In her new movie, "A Film Unfinished," Israeli filmmaker Yael Hersonski attempts to put together a fuller understanding of the film's purpose and production.

	Aug. 20, 2010 Friday's Art Notes In today's roundup of arts and culture news, newcomers to the OED, a drop in on-screen smoking, and remembering the piper who played for troops on the beaches of Normandy.

	Aug. 19, 2010 Satire and Seduction in the Prints of Warrington Colescott Marked by an interest in innovative techniques and bawdy satire, Warrington Colescott's challenging and witty fine art prints have buoyed him to national attention.

	Aug. 19, 2010 Thursday's Art Notes In today's roundup of arts and culture news, a look at the new art works vying for a spot on London's fourth plinth and the aesthetic proclivities of extraterrestrials.

	Aug. 18, 2010 Mom Says the Darndest Things: 10 Questions for @kellyoxford Kelly Oxford started writing an anonymous blog more than seven years ago after spending a lot of time reading sites about child-rearing. What she found were places where fellow mothers could communicate with each other, but they just weren't very entertaining. In lieu of an interview, we had 10 tweeted exchanges with her.

	Aug. 18, 2010 Wednesday's Art Notes In today's daily roundup of arts and culture news, the Metropolitan Opera broke a sales record, archaeologists in Afghanistan find an ancient Buddhist site and a new library honoring Kurt Vonnegut will open in Indianapolis.

	Aug. 17, 2010 Rosanne Cash Lists Influences, Including Famous Father's, in New Memoir Singer Rosanne Cash, daughter of the legendary Johnny Cash, speaks with Jeffrey Brown about her book "Composed" and performs a song.

	Aug. 17, 2010 Extended Interview and Performance: Rosanne Cash Rosanne Cash sings "Seven Year Ache" and "Girl From the North Country."

	Aug. 17, 2010 With Fame Rising, Ray LaMontagne and The Pariah Dogs Release New Album Ray LaMontagne's fourth studio album, "God Willin' & The Creek Don't Rise" comes out today, and he says it's his best yet.

	Aug. 16, 2010 Author Disconnects From Communication Devices to Reconnect With Life In this day and age, much communication is done by e-mail, text messages, Twitter and other forms of digital communication. William Powers, author of "Hamlet's Blackberry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age," explains how disconnecting from our screens may help us reconnect with our lives.

	Aug. 16, 2010 Extended Interview: William Powers Williams Powers' book, "Hamlet's Blackberry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age," looks to what Powers calls the "best place to find sanity": the past.

	Aug. 16, 2010 Weekly Poem: 'Ancestors' Mary Ruefle is the author of, most recently, "Selected Poems" (Wave Books, 2010). She lives in Bennington, Vermont, and teaches in the MFA program at Vermont College.

	Aug. 16, 2010 Monday's Art Notes A roundup of arts and culture headlines.

	Aug. 13, 2010 Preview: Rosanne Cash's Memoir, 'Composed' A preview of Jeffrey Brown's conversation with musician Roseanne Cash about the release of her new memoir, "Composed."

	Aug. 13, 2010 Friday's Art Notes A roundup of arts and culture headlines.

	Aug. 12, 2010 In Next Chapter of Brazilian Music, Seu Jorge Has a New Story to Tell Seu Jorge, one of Brazil's most prominent musical ambassadors, is trying to challenge the stereotypes people have about his country by telling a new story through music.

	Aug. 12, 2010 Thursday's Art Notes A roundup of arts and culture headlines.

	Aug. 11, 2010 Conversation: Ricky Skaggs Ricky Skaggs has sold millions of records and won 14 Grammys, but the most important marker of success for him is a strong spiritual life. His latest album, "Mosaic," focuses in on his spiritual side with a mix of songs that vary in tone and style.

	Aug. 11, 2010 Wednesday's Art Notes A roundup of arts and culture headlines.

	Aug. 10, 2010 Conversation: Lollapalooza 2010 Lollapalooza, one of the biggest summer music festivals in the U.S., wrapped up Sunday. Jeffrey Brown catches up with music critics Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot.

	Aug. 10, 2010 Lollapalooza 2010 Lollapalooza 2010 drew more than 240,000 people from all over the country to Chicago's Grant Park for 156 acts -- including headliners Green Day, Soundgarden and pop sensation Lady Gaga.

	Aug. 10, 2010 Tuesday's Art Notes A roundup of arts and culture headlines.

	Aug. 9, 2010 Weekly Poem: from 'Doppler Elegies' Ben Lerner first book, "The Lichtenberg Figures," won the Hayden Carruth Award from Copper Canyon Press and was named one of 2004's best books of poetry by Library Journal. His second book, "Angle of Yaw," was a finalist for the National Book Award. His latest book is "Mean Free Path."

	Aug. 9, 2010 Monday's Art Notes A roundup of arts and culture headlines.

	Aug. 6, 2010 Heads of State Who Harmonize If Wyclef Jean is elected president of Haiti, he'll join an ensemble of world leaders and politicians with a gift for melody. Here is a list of a few of the most harmonic handshakers.

	Aug. 6, 2010 Preview: In Indianapolis, Moving Art Outdoors Attracts More Museum Visitors In a city that known more for its sports teams than for its art scene, the Indianapolis Museum of Art is making moves to redefine itself as a center for contemporary art with the addition of a new art park.

	Aug. 6, 2010 Friday's Art Notes A roundup of arts and culture headlines.

	Aug. 5, 2010 Rapper Wyclef Jean Files to Run for Haitian Presidency Grammy-winning recording artist and philanthropist Wyclef Jean has confirmed reports that he plans to run for president of his homeland of Haiti.

	Aug. 5, 2010 Thursday's Art Notes A roundup of arts and culture headlines.

	Aug. 4, 2010 Slide Show: Berlin's Tacheles Gallery Hoping to Avoid Extinction Formed as a squat by artists seeking to save the building from demolition in the 1990s, the Tacheles Gallery in Berlin provides space for artists while remaining freely open to the public. The building, which is also a tourist attraction, is threatened by closure because the new owner wants to develop the site.

	Aug. 4, 2010 Berlin's Tacheles Gallery Formed as a squat by artists seeking to save the building from demolition in the 1990s, the Tacheles Gallery in Berlin provides space for artists while remaining freely open to the public. The building, which is also a tourist attraction, is threatened by closure because the new owner wants to develop the site. Photos by Sean Gallup/Getty Images.

	Aug. 4, 2010 Wednesday's Art Notes A roundup of arts and culture headlines.

	Aug. 3, 2010 Flooding Devastates Northwest Pakistan As many as 1,500 people have died and 2 million forced to flee their homes in the worst flooding in Pakistan's history.

	Aug. 3, 2010 Katrina 5 Years Later: Healing and Rebuilding Through Art As part of our look back at Hurricane Katrina five years after the disaster, we examine how art has played a role in the city's ongoing healing and rebuilding process.

	Aug. 3, 2010 Tuesday's Art Notes A roundup of arts and culture headlines.

	Aug. 2, 2010 Weekly Poem: 'The Fight or Flight Response' Sherman Alexie is a Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian born on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Wellpinit, Wash. He is the author of several novels and collections of short fiction and poetry, including "Face" and "War Dances," winner of the 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

	Aug. 2, 2010 Monday's Art Notes A roundup of arts and culture headlines.



	JULY July 30, 2010 Sting Puts New Classical Edge on Original Rock Hits Jeffrey Brown speaks with rock legend Sting, who just added a 45-piece orchestra to his act. The rock star says it's his job to keep his older hits alive with a renewed enthusiasm.

	July 30, 2010 Friday on the NewsHour: Sting Gets Strings For New Orchestral Album International pop star Sting is in the midst of an American and world tour with his 'band'. This summer, that means a 45-piece band made up from members of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, who have been helping him re-create his past hits with a very different sound. He has a new album called "Symphonicities."

	July 30, 2010 Conversation: Exclusive E-Books Deal Stirs Publishing World On July 22, literary agent Andrew Wylie announced an exclusive partnership with retailer Amazon to begin selling digital versions of many classic backlist titles by authors that would be accessible only on Amazon's Kindle e-reader.

	July 30, 2010 Friday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	July 29, 2010 A Birthday Present to the World: A New Dance By Paul Taylor Thursday marks the 80th birthday of Paul Taylor, one of America's most celebrated modern choreographers. Last week, the company visited the Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts, just outside metropolitan Washington, D.C, for a special debut.

	July 29, 2010 Thursday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	July 28, 2010 What Makes WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Tick? While the enigmatic WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been in and out of the press in the past few days in the wake of his site's latest major publication, he is not an easy man to track down.

	July 28, 2010 In Arizona, Posters of Protest Against Immigration Law As soon as Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed Senate Bill 1070 into law in April, grassroots groups started protesting. One of the main organizers is 23-year-old artist and activist Ernesto Yerena, who, growing up, didn't have to look very far to see that art and social issues could intersect.

	July 28, 2010 Wednesday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	July 27, 2010 Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet Levine Reflects on Factory Life in Detroit Jeffrey Brown profiles Philip Levine, a former auto worker who became a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet.

	July 27, 2010 Arizona Dispatch: An Artist's Perspective on SB 1070 Ernesto Yerena, a 23-year-old artist and activist , didn't have to look very far to see that art and social issues could intersect. Yerena was born in El Centro, Calif., a border town 10 miles from Mexico.

	July 27, 2010 Honoring a Modern Chicago Landmark as an 'Urban Vision' When the construction of Chicago's Marina City reached completion in 1964, it was an architectural and social icon for the city -- and beyond.

	July 27, 2010 Tuesday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	July 26, 2010 What New Library of Congress Rules Mean for iPhone Jailbreaking, Mashups People who own iPhones will now be able to crack electronic locks on them, allowing them to install applications that might not have Apple's blessing, according to new rules announced Monday by the U.S. government.

	July 26, 2010 Weekly Poem: Two from 'Newspaper Blackout' For Austin Kleon, an exercise for breaking writer's block developed into a method for creating poetry. Using a marker and a copy of the New York Times, Kleon blacks out words to reveal the ones he likes.

	July 26, 2010 Monday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	July 23, 2010 Shields and Brooks on 'Inception' of Tea Party Caucus, Michael Steele, Movies Hari Sreenivasan chats with columnists Mark Shields and David Brooks about the new Tea Party Caucus, RNC Chairman Michael Steele's latest troubles, plus summer movies including "Cyrus," "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" and Inception.

	July 23, 2010 Friday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	July 23, 2010 Conversation: Lisa Cholodenko, Director of 'The Kids Are Alright' At the center of the new film "The Kids Are Alright" is a loving, average family: two kids and two parents. In fact, two moms, Jules and Nic, played by Julianne Moore and Annette Bening.

	July 22, 2010 Thursday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	July 21, 2010 Around the Nation Roundup Here are some of this week's arts and culture headlines from public broadcasters around the nation.

	July 21, 2010 Wednesday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	July 20, 2010 Weekly Poem: 'July in Washington' Back in March, we were excited to give attention to the Poetry Foundation's DC Poetry Tour, a multimedia tour that reveals our nation's capital through the eyes of its great poets. It seems more appropriate now to highlight the tour again -- and the poem -- now that it's July.

	July 20, 2010 Tuesday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	July 19, 2010 Critic DeRogatis: Pitchfork Stands for 'Local Music Community at Its Best' Compared to past Pitchfork Music Festival, 2010 seemed a little slow to the critics and crowd. We get a few final words from Sound Opinions music critic Jim DeRogatis on Day 3.

	July 19, 2010 Monday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	July 18, 2010 Pitchfork Day 2: 'Yawnfork' I spent day two of Pitchfork dashing from the main stages to the Chicago Public Radio tent to file photos for rock critic Jim DeRogatis (Sound Opinions, formerly of the Chicago Sun-Times). His review - of the jam-packed, hit-or-miss Day 2 of the legendary festival - is below.

	July 17, 2010 Pitchfork Music Festival, From the Windy City & WBEZ We're working with "Sound Opinions" host and Vocalo blogger Jim DeRogatis this weekend to bring you the best (and worst) of the Chicago's Pitchfork Music Festival 2010. Day 1: Robyn, Broken Social Scene, Modest Mouse and more.

	July 16, 2010 Shields and Brooks on Jobs, Palin and Deeper Meaning of Old Spice Ads Even after the Senate's passage of a landmark financial reform bill, Mark Shields and David Brooks tell us about how difficult a sell Democrats and the administration face with voters as the midterm elections draw closer yet unemployment remains high.

	July 16, 2010 Conversation: 'To Kill a Mockingbird' Turns 50 This week marks the 50th anniversary of Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "To Kill a Mockingbird." Lee's classic, read today in classrooms throughout the country, has sold more than 30 million copies and made a lasting impact on many writers through the years.

	July 16, 2010 Lissy Rosemont Writes Songs at My Dining Room Table Front-woman of the Junior League Band, Lissy Rosemont is set to release her third full-length album, "Jelly Roll," this week with a concert at Washington, D.C.'s Rock N Roll Hotel. Lissy is singer, guitarist, pianist, banjo player...and the author's fiancee.

	July 16, 2010 Friday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	July 15, 2010 Celebrating the Marriage of Art and Technology at the Creators Project A partnership between Vice Magazine and Intel, the Creators Project was launched on June 26th in New York, bringing established and emerging artists from around the world together to explore the use of technology in art.

	July 15, 2010 Thursday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	July 14, 2010 Chapin Sisters: Not Your Father's Folk Abigail and Lily Chapin have been singing and performing together since they can remember. Growing up in a family surrounded by musicians, they probably couldn't help it. We met the sisters at a recent tour stop at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C.

	July 14, 2010 Wednesday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	July 13, 2010 Capturing Tiffany's Color and Light The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is exhibiting more than 180 examples of the artist's work in an exhibit called "Tiffany: Color and Light.' The collection shows Tiffany's ability to use layering and a wide breadth of colors to create a sense of movement.

	July 13, 2010 'Tiffany: Color and Light' The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is exhibiting more than 180 examples of Louis Comfort Tiffany's work. Alex Nyerges, director of the museum, describes Tiffany's importance.

	July 12, 2010 Tuesday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	July 12, 2010 Weekly Poem: 'The Picketwire' David Mason, who appeared on the NewsHour in April, was named Poet Laureate of Colorado earlier this month by Gov. Bill Ritter.

	July 12, 2010 Monday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	July 9, 2010 Conversation: Director Amir Bar-Lev Tells 'The Tillman Story' in New Documentary Army Ranger Pat Tillman died in April 2004 in Afghanistan. Initially, the Army said the former NFL star was killed by enemy fire. Five weeks later, it was revealed that Tillman died from friendly fire.

	July 9, 2010 Friday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	July 8, 2010 Dear Ben Greenman, About Your New Book... "What He's Poised To Do" is a new story collection by New Yorker editor Ben Greenman. The stories feature and often take place in the form of letters, and explore our attempts to connect over time.

	July 7, 2010 Mark Twain's Autobiography Set for Unveiling, a Century After His Death Mark Twain's autobiography is set to be published for the first time, 100 years after the famous author and humorist's death. Correspondent Spencer Michels reports on the effort to edit and publish his century-old manuscript.

	July 7, 2010 Exclusive: Newly Published Mark Twain Essay, 'Concerning the Interview' Thanks to the Mark Twain Foundation and its trustees, the PBS NewsHour brings you for the first known time in print an essay by the American literary giant on a topic dear to our hearts -- the journalistic interview.

	July 7, 2010 Unlocking More of Mark Twain's Unpublished Material Mark Twain had a lot to say, and most of it was funny. Reading his novels and essays, it doesn't seem like he pulled his punches; he said what he wanted, and a lot of it was pretty radical for the times. But as it turned out, he restrained himself greatly. Spencer Michels reports on the author's long-awaited autobiography.

	July 7, 2010 Thursday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	July 7, 2010 For Patty Griffin, 'Downtown Church' Opens a Door to Gospel Although she tested the waters with songs like "Heavenly Day" off her 2007 album "Children Running Through," Patty Griffin had never considered recording a full gospel album until an executive at EMI floated the idea.

	July 7, 2010 Wednesday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	July 6, 2010 For Chuck Close, an Evolving Journey Through the Faces of Others Chuck Close is one of the most-recognized artists of our era, best known for his large-scale portraits of friends, fellow artists and often himself. A new biography, "Chuck Close: Life" was recently published. Jeffrey Brown speaks to its author, Christopher Finch, and the subject, Chuck Close.

	July 6, 2010 Remembering Robert C. Byrd, the Fiddler As longtime West Virginia Sen. Robert C. Byrd is laid to rest today today, Art Beat looks back at the statesman's musical side, which shone through in his fiddling prowess.

	July 6, 2010 Tuesday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	July 5, 2010 Reflections on the 4th of July As the United States celebrated Independence Day this past Sunday, poet Gregory Djanikian of the University of Pennsylvania shares some 4th of July reflections.

	July 2, 2010 Conversation: Chuck Close, Christopher Finch Chuck Close is one of the most recognized artists of our era, best known for his large-scale portraits of friends, fellow artists and often himself. An exhibition of Close's printmaking work is opening this weekend at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington.

	July 2, 2010 Friday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	July 1, 2010 Author W.S. Merwin Named U.S. Poet Laureate The Library of Congress has named prominent American poet W.S. Merwin as the country's new poet laureate. Jeffrey Brown spoke with Merwin about his life and work in 2008.

	July 1, 2010 Conversation: Author Jennifer Egan Jennifer Egan's unconventional novel, "A Visit From the Goon Squad," explores the changing music industry, nostalgia, time and much more.

	July 1, 2010 HHS Starts Accepting Applicants for High-Risk Pools for the Uninsured People who have been denied health insurance due to a preexisting condition can begin applying for coverage Thursday in many states, under the first major program of the new health care reform law.

	July 1, 2010 W.S. Merwin Appointed as Next Poet Laureate The Library of Congress has appointed W.S. Merwin as the 17th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2010-2011. Merwin will assume the post in the fall, succeeding Kay Ryan.

	July 1, 2010 Thursday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.



	JUNE June 30, 2010 Poet Profile: Benjamin Alire Saenz Poet Benjamin Alire Saenz reads some of his poems.

	June 30, 2010 Poet Benjamin Saenz Considers Uncertainty Along Mexico's Violent Border Latino poet Benjamin Saenz shares his writing from his home near the U.S., Mexico border, a region where violent drug wars have raged in recent years. His latest collection is called "The Book of What Remains."

	June 30, 2010 'Bhutto' Examines Life of Charismatic, Complicated Leader A new documentary film about the life and death of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto -- the first woman head of an Islamic country who was assassinated in 2007 -- may attract as much interest for its political content as for its artistic or journalistic value.

	June 30, 2010 Wednesday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	June 29, 2010 Conversation: The State of American Libraries This week, librarians from around the country have gathered in Washington for the annual meeting of the American Library Association to meet with authors, share experiences and discuss topics ranging from budget cuts, branch closings and staff reductions, to technology upgrades and innovations.

	June 29, 2010 Tuesday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	June 29, 2010 Countries Strive to Return Holocaust-Era Property More than 40 nations met a year ago in Prague to discuss restitution for Holocaust victims' stolen property. A year later, the countries met again and signed guidelines on how to return the looted assets.

	June 28, 2010 Justice Department: Russian Intelligence Officers Served as Illegal Agents The Justice Department announced the arrest of 10 Russian intelligence officers for allegedly carrying out long-term, deep cover assignments as illegal agents in the United States. Jeffrey Brown talks with two experts for more.

	June 28, 2010 Weekly Poem: 'Meditation on Living in the Desert No. 11' Benjamin Alire Saenz is a Chicano poet, novelist, professor and painter who lives near El Paso, Texas, just across the border from the Mexican town of Juarez. Much of his work addresses the land and people of the area.

	June 28, 2010 Monday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	June 25, 2010 Conversation: Archive Offers Revealing Look at John Updike Harvard University's Houghton Library, a rare book and manuscript depository, has inherited nearly 170 boxes of John Updike's papers, including rejected short stories, personal letters and revised and rewritten drafts.

	June 25, 2010 Conversation: The State of Ballet in America, Part 2 Ballet in America was once dominated by a few major companies and concentrated in New York and a handful of other cities. But today there are more than 65 professional, million-dollar-budget ballet companies all around the country.

	June 25, 2010 Friday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	June 25, 2010 Gwen's Take: McChrystal and the Gift of 20/20 Hindsight Several of us had a debate going on Wednesday morning. Would the president fire Stan McChrystal? Would he leave him in charge because change would be too risky? Or would he kick the can down the road and replace him at some future point? Hindsight is a marvelous thing at moments like these.

	June 24, 2010 Paul Solman: Viewers Respond to Chicken Chase Scene We received a very sobering set of viewer responses to the opening sequence of our credit crunch story from Springfield, Mo.

	June 24, 2010 Conversation: The State of Ballet in America, Part 1 Ballet in America was once dominated by a few major companies and concentrated in New York and a handful of other cities. But today there are more than 65 professional, million-dollar-budget ballet companies all around the country.

	June 24, 2010 Thursday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	June 23, 2010 Nashville Looks to Stage Comeback After Floods Six weeks after record floods devastated Nashville, the city is making a comeback. Jeffrey Brown examines the rebuilding efforts of its citizens and its vibrant music industry.

	June 23, 2010 No Longer Second Fiddle, Dave Rawlings Changes His Tune Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings have been singing harmony and picking guitars together for over a decade, but almost always under the marquee of her Bluegrass star power.

	June 23, 2010 Wednesday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	June 22, 2010 Preview: Poet Benjamin Alire Saenz Benjamin Alire Sáenz is a Chicano poet, novelist, professor and painter who lives near El Paso, Texas, just across the border from the Mexican town of Juarez. Much of his work addresses the land and people of the area.

	June 22, 2010 Tuesday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	June 21, 2010 Filmmaker Explores Intense Situations Faced by Doctors Without Borders Nearly 40 years ago, a group of French doctors and journalists began a humanitarian organization to bring medical aid to those who were most vulnerable. Doctors Without Borders (M�decins Sans Fronti�res) now dispatches nearly 27,000 medical professionals to nations suffering from humanitarian and political crises.

	June 21, 2010 Weekly Poem: 'The Man in the Wilderness' Natalie Merchant's two-disc album, "Leave Your Sleep," is a collection of 26 traditional poems set to original music. The project began shortly after the birth of her daughter six years ago.

	June 21, 2010 Monday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	June 18, 2010 Conversation: A Look at Summer's Movies Summer is usually the season for sure box office bets -- action blockbusters, sequels to big-name hits and new remakes of well-loved classics. But early signs suggest movie tickets for the usual fare may be a harder sell than usual for Hollywood.

	June 18, 2010 Friday's Art Notes A roundup of arts notes.

	June 17, 2010 Philip Schultz Finding Success After 'Failure' The accolades came later in life for New York-based poet Philip Schultz. He was 63 when he won the Pulitzer, already the author of five published books of poems, which never broke into the mainstream.

	June 17, 2010 Thursday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	June 16, 2010 Tap Icon Maurice Hines Takes Second Turn in Duke Ellington Tribute Thirty years after his original turn in the Duke Ellington tribute "Sophisticated Ladies," tap dance icon Maurice Hines returns the show as dancer, choreographer and mentor in the revival at Lincoln Theater. Jeffrey Brown talks to Hines about sharing his work with the next generation.

	June 16, 2010 Extended Interview: Maurice Hines An extended interview with Maurice Hines, clips of dancers John and Leo Manzari and an excerpt from "Sophisticated Ladies."

	June 16, 2010 Wednesday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	June 15, 2010 The Hipster in the Age of Online Ridicule Through several decades of commercial and Internet indoctrination, it's much easier these days to embody the external qualities of hip. Hip isn't only attainable: it's accessible, searchable and for sale.

	June 15, 2010 Tuesday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	June 14, 2010 Fishburne Brings 'Raconteur' Justice Marshall's Legacy to Life on Stage As the Senate prepares to vet another Supreme Court nominee, Jeffrey Brown reports on a one-man show, starring actor Laurence Fishburne, about the life and legacy of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.

	June 14, 2010 Extended Interview: Laurence Fishburne Jeffrey Brown talks to actor Laurence Fishburne about playing Thurgood Marshall in a play now at the Kennedy Center.

	June 14, 2010 As North Korea Returns to World Cup, Filmmaker Recounts 'Underdog' 1966 Team North Korea's national soccer team is something British filmmaker Daniel Gordon knows a lot about -- it took him four years to be granted access to make his first film, "The Game of Their Lives," a profile of North Korea's 1966 World Cup team.

	June 14, 2010 Weekly Poem: 'Sick' Philip Schultz won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 2008 for his book of poems, "Failure." He is the founder and director of the Writers Studio in New York. Schultz's latest book, "The God of Loneliness: Selected and New Poems," came out in April.

	June 14, 2010 Monday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	June 11, 2010 Conversation: Jean-Michel Cousteau Jean-Michel Cousteau recently went to the Gulf of Mexico with a team of divers to examine the damage being caused by the BP oil spill disaster. He's the son of the late Jacques Cousteau and the author of a new book about him titled "My Father, the Captain."

	June 11, 2010 Friday's Art Notes A roundup of art notes.

	June 10, 2010 Author Junger Portrays Soldiers' Reliance on Each Other in 'War' Jeffrey Brown talks with author and journalist Sebastian Junger about his latest book, "War," which tells the stories of an isolated platoon of soldiers on the front lines in Afghanistan.

	June 10, 2010 Thursday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	June 9, 2010 Garden Roots of Emily Dickinson's Poetry Paul Solman reports on a new show in New York that attempts to recreate the green spaces that inspired the writings of famously-reclusive poet Emily Dickinson.

	June 9, 2010 World Cup Song by Shakira Stirs Controversy This year's World Cup song, "Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)," has stirred sentiment among South Africans, many of whom were outraged because FIFA selected a non-African, Colombian pop star Shakira, to write the song and perform lead vocals.

	June 9, 2010 Wednesday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	June 8, 2010 Conversation: Spoleto Festival USA Making 34th Appearance in Charleston For 17 days and nights every spring in Charleston, South Carolina, theaters, churches and outdoor spaces are home to opera, theater, dance, and chamber, symphonic, choral and jazz music.

	June 8, 2010 Tuesday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	June 7, 2010 Weekly Poem: 'Attention' Philip Schultz won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 2008 for his book of poems, "Failure." He is the founder and director of the Writers Studio in New York. Schultz's latest book, "The God of Loneliness: Selected and New Poems," came out in April.

	June 7, 2010 Monday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	June 4, 2010 Conversation: Adventures of Art Critic Barbara Pollack in 'The Wild, Wild East' The first time art critic Barbara Pollack went to China in 2004, she says the art scene reminded her of the wild, wild west. In the short years since then, the Chinese art scene -- like the Chinese economy -- has exploded.

	June 4, 2010 Friday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	June 3, 2010 Paul McCartney's White House Serenade President Barack Obama presented former Beatle Paul McCartney with the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, on behalf of the Library of Congress. Jim Lehrer has a look at McCartney's serenade to the president and first lady at the White House.

	June 3, 2010 Pakistani Women Make Community, Income Through Art n 2003, Sumeena Nazir founded the Potohar Organization for Development Advocacy, a women's development agency, in her hometown of Chakwal to provide rural women an opportunity to form support networks in their own neighborhoods.

	June 3, 2010 Pew Study: More Americans Watching, Sharing Online Video Much like you're likely about to do, more Americans are watching online video, a new survey from the Pew Internet & American Life Project has found.

	June 3, 2010 Thursday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	June 2, 2010 Married Authors Explore Politics, Philosophy Behind Happiness Jeffrey Brown talks to authors and spouses Derek and Sissela Bok, married to each other for 55 years, about their new books exploring the politics and the philosophy of happiness.

	June 2, 2010 Artists Team Up to Create World Cup 'Posters' Capturing the frenzy, anticipation and pride behind the first World Cup in Africa required the work of contemporary artists, inspiration from six continents and 17 posters.

	June 2, 2010 2010 World Cup Art Posters FIFA sanctioned the German art marketing agency Brands United to pull together a series of official posters for soccer’s biggest event. Images courtesy of David Krut Publishing.

	June 2, 2010 Wednesday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	June 1, 2010 In Tourist Town, Memorial Day Travel Kicks Off Test of Summer Economy Memorial Day, the unofficial kickoff of summer, means something more than just warmer temperatures the coming end of the school year in some places.

	June 1, 2010 Conversation: The Life, Work and Legacy of Louise Bourgeois, 1911-2010 Jeffrey Brown talks to Nancy Spector, Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the Guggenheim Museum, about the life and work of Louise Bourgeois.

	June 1, 2010 Louise Bourgeois, 1911-2010 Louise Bourgeois, the French-born American artist whose sculptures explored women's issues and were highly influential on younger artists over a long career, died on Monday in New York. She was 98.

	June 1, 2010 Tuesday's Art Notes A roundup of arts notes.



	MAY May 31, 2010 Looking Back at the Vietnam War with Author, Veteran Tim O'Brien Thirty five years after the conclusion of the Vietnam War, Tim O'Brien's collection of stories about an American platoon, "The Things They Carried," is being reissued as it celebrates its own 20th anniversary. Jeffrey Brown talks to the author about the experiences that led him to write the book.

	May 31, 2010 Weekly Poem: 'The Returning Dead' Wyatt Prunty, who served in the Navy during Vietnam, responds to the NewsHour's broadcast of photos of American soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

	May 31, 2010 Monday's Art Notes A roundup of arts notes.

	May 28, 2010 Conversation: Debra Granik, Director of Sundance Favorite 'Winter's Bone' In the film "Winter's Bone," 17-year-old Ree Dolly must find her troubled father who has disappeared just as he put up the family's house as bail. Now the head of the family, Ree bravely starts a dangerous search in order to keep her younger siblings and mother from being turned out into the cold.

	May 28, 2010 '17th Century Recycling' Made into Art In his backyard in Denver, Ray Tomasso calls paper making 17th-century-style recycling. His workshop is filled with boxes of old cotton rags, blue jeans, rag board and scraps of paper -- the perfect material for his art.

	May 28, 2010 Paper Artist Ray Tomasso Ray Tomasso, a paper maker and paper artist, lives in Denver. His work recycles material around him using centuries-old methods to make sculptures out of handmade paper.

	May 28, 2010 Friday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	May 27, 2010 Publishers, Writers Assess the Digital Frontier of the Written Word From podcasts to digital tablets, technology is reshaping the way Americans read. As the 2010 Book Expo wraps up in New York, Jeffrey Brown takes a look at emerging technologies and the future of the book.

	May 27, 2010 Conversation: Jonathan Galassi, President of Farrar, Straus & Giroux On Tuesday, a panel of publishers, literary agents, authors and booksellers kicked off Book Expo America 2010 by asking a fundamental, but newly challenging question confronting the changing industry: What is the value of a book? Jonathan Galassi, president of publishing house Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, moderated that panel.

	May 27, 2010 Ginsberg Saw the Best Minds of His Generation, and Captured Them on Film Though Allen Ginsberg will forever be remembered as an influential poet, he also documented his life through photos. The exhibit, "Beat Memories: The Photos of Allen Ginsberg," showcases more than 80 photos captured through his camera.

	May 27, 2010 Publishers Say, 'Lights! Camera! Action!' Publishers -- big houses and small independents alike - have lately turned to video to generate buzz and advertise their new releases. Over the past few years, book trailers have been gaining in popularity as publishers hope to cash in on the ubiquity of YouTube and the payoffs of viral marketing.

	May 27, 2010 Thursday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	May 26, 2010 The Beautiful Game, Rendered in Art 2010 Fine Art, a Cape Town, South Africa-based company has commissioned more than 100 artists from around the globe to paint, whittle and sculpt works inspired by the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

	May 26, 2010 Lots to See, But More Importantly Do, at Maker Faire More than 80,000 people descended on San Mateo in California's Silicon Valley this weekend for the fifth annual Maker Faire, the world's largest DIY -- or Do-It-Yourself -- festival.

	May 26, 2010 Maker Faire 2010 Images from the 2010 Maker Faire in San Mateo, where artists, innovators and DYI-ers commune to show off their latest inventions and art works. Audio credit: KQED

	May 26, 2010 '2010 Fine Art' 2010 Fine Art, a Cape Town-based company, commissioned more than 100 artists from around the globe to create works inspired by the 2010 FIFA World Cup. General Manager Rob Spaull describes the project. All images courtesy of 2010 Fine Art.

	May 26, 2010 Wednesday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	May 25, 2010 'Moving Millions' Author Probes Capitalism, Immigration Connection Jeffrey Brown talks with author Jeffrey Kaye about his new book on immigration and about how the pursuit of cheap labor to power the world's economy perpetuates global migration.

	May 25, 2010 Conversation: 'The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest' Arrives in U.S. Bookstores "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest," the third novel in Stieg Larsson's bestselling "Millennium" trilogy, hit U.S. bookstores Tuesday. The novels, published originally in Sweden, center around investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist and Lisabeth Salander, a tattooed and pierced computer hacker with a photographic memory.

	May 25, 2010 Tuesday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	May 24, 2010 Allende Examines the Caribbean's Chaotic History Through New Novel Jeffrey Brown speaks with best-selling author Isabelle Allende about colonialism and slavery in the 19th century Caribbean, and the links between New Orleans and Haiti.

	May 24, 2010 Conversation: Paul Muldoon on Dylan Thomas New Directions has just put out "Dylan Thomas: The Collected Poems." It's a republication of the original edition, as selected by the poet himself, and the introduction is by Paul Muldoon, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and professor at Princeton University.

	May 24, 2010 Weekly Poem: 'Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night' Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" is included in the recently republished "Dylan Thomas: Collected Poems" by New Directions, with a new introduction by poet Paul Muldoon. Jeffrey Brown talked to Muldoon last week about Thomas and the collection.

	May 24, 2010 Monday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	May 21, 2010 Art Theft Expert: '90% Chance' Stolen Paintings Will Surface After the theft of five valuable paintings from a Paris museum, Jeffrey Brown talks to art security and recovery consultant Robert Wittman about the black market for stolen art and security measures that could help protect valuable artifacts.

	May 21, 2010 Parisian Officials Appeal to Thieves for Return of Stolen Paintings The Paris Museum of Modern Art remained closed, following the theft of five paintings, valued at more than $110 million. Jeffrey Brown has the latest on the daring art heist.

	May 21, 2010 Conversation: Isabel Allende "Island Beneath the Sea," by author Isabel Allende, is set in the early 19th-century, amid colonial powers and slavery, and a chaotic period in Caribbean history. It also involves two places very much in the news in our own time: Haiti and New Orleans.

	May 21, 2010 Friday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	May 20, 2010 'Knuffle Bunny,' a Favorite Kids' Picture Book, Comes To Life Onstage In "Knuffle Bunny: a Cautionary Tale," a simple trip to the laundromat gone awry provides plenty of dramatic and comedic material for a 31-page picture book. But is it enough to support a 45-minute musical?

	May 20, 2010 Thursday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	May 19, 2010 Soccer Cinema's Goal: Bring Game to Rural South Africans Distance and money will prevent millions of South Africans from getting to see the FIFA World Cup while it takes place in their own country next month. That's why filmmaker Don Edkins created Soccer Cinema, a traveling theater that has been screening soccer-themed films in small communities all over the country since April.

	May 19, 2010 Wednesday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	May 18, 2010 Photojournalism Pioneer Captured the 20th Century With Lens Jeffrey Brown takes a look back at the life and career of the late French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, the father of modern photojournalism. An exhibit of his photos is currently at New York's Museum of Modern Art.

	May 18, 2010 Tuesday on the NewsHour: The Picture Perfection of Henri Cartier-Bresson French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson traveled the world for decades capturing people, places and history as a journalist, and in the process, helped define photography as an art form. His legacy is now on display in an exhibit of 300 photographic works at New York's Museum of Modern Art.

	May 18, 2010 For Some Soldiers Returning From War, Catharsis Is Found in Creative Expression In Colorado Springs, Colorado, the Pikes Peak Behavioral Health Group runs an 11-week art therapy program for Fort Carson soldiers with physical and psychological trauma.

	May 18, 2010 Wounded Warriors The 'Wounded Warrior' art therapy program at Pikes Peak Behavioral Health Group helps soldiers at Fort Carson work through physical and psychological trauma after they return from combat. Their artwork is currently on display at the Fine Arts Center in Colorado Springs, CO.

	May 18, 2010 Henri Cartier-Bresson at MoMA "Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York is the first major U.S. retrospective in more than 30 years of one of photography's most original and influential masters.

	May 18, 2010 Tuesday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	May 17, 2010 Poet Behbahani Writes for Peace Amid Iran's Political Turmoil English translator Farzaneh Milani examines the writings of Simin Behbahani, one of Iran's most renowned and prolific female poets, amid the recent political turmoil that has affected her own life.

	May 17, 2010 Weekly Poem: 'Necklace' Farzaneh Milani is also one of the translators of Simin Behbahani, Iran's foremost living poet. Behbahani has published 19 books of poems, two collections of short stories, a memoir of her late husband and numerous literary articles, essays and interviews.

	May 17, 2010 Monday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	May 14, 2010 Director Alex Gibney on 'Casino Jack and the United States of Money' It involves casinos, the murder of a Greek tycoon, intrigue in Washington and much more. But the film, "Casino Jack and the United States of Money" is a documentary unwinding the trail of super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff -- once a powerful player in the nation's capital, now a convicted felon serving time in prison.

	May 14, 2010 Conversation: Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves...and Screen The legend of Robin Hood can trace its origins as far back as medieval poet Geoffrey Chaucer. On Friday, the latest version of one of history's favorite vigilantes arrives in theaters with director Ridley Scott's film, starring Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett.

	May 14, 2010 Friday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	May 13, 2010 For Josh Ritter, Mummies and Shakespeare Are the Stuff of Music The works of Flannery O'Connor, Philip Roth and Stephen King are probably not the first influences that come to mind for a songwriter. But after hearing Josh Ritter sing, it quickly becomes apparent why authors are important to the Moscow, Idaho, native.

	May 13, 2010 Thursday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	May 12, 2010 Author Wes Moore's Book Explores His Own Alternate Reality Judy Woodruff talks to Baltimore native Wes Moore about his new book, 'The Other Wes Moore' which explores the stories of two inner-city young men who share the same name, but lead very different lives.

	May 12, 2010 Going to the World Cup? Do the Diski As if soccer fans need help getting excited about the FIFA World Cup in South Africa, the nation's tourism office has created the Diski -- a dance to commemorate the tournament, the first ever on the continent.

	May 12, 2010 OK Go's Damian Kulash Lends Us a Hand Early on during Jeffrey Brown's interview with OK Go lead singer Damian Kulash, a light went out. Kulash, having spent months working on a video featuring a giant Rube Goldberg machine, applied some percussive maintenance on it and fixed the problem.

	May 12, 2010 Wednesday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	May 11, 2010 Trying to Strike a Chord with Fans, One Recycling Bin at a Time On Earth Day, Art Beat profiled two companies who are almost as devoted to environmentalism as they are to producing and playing music. Here are two more groups who have changed their operations to be more green while encouraging others to follow suit.

	May 11, 2010 Shanghai World Expo: Serious Business with a Side of Campy Fun World's fairs are fun. Traditional music and native dress. Buildings that attempt to boil down the essence of a country's identity into a striking, but affordable structure. Parades and international cuisine, corporate sponsors showing off their visions of the future, and all at family prices.

	May 11, 2010 Tuesday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	May 10, 2010 Remembering Groundbreaking Jazz Icon, Actress Lena Horne Legendary jazz singer and actress Lena Horne, who broke racial barriers in the entertainment industry, died Sunday in New York at age 92. Jeffrey Brown takes a look back at her career.

	May 10, 2010 Weekly Poem: 'Light' C.K. Williams has published many books of poetry, including "Repair," which won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize, "The Singing ," which won the 2003 National Book Award, and "Flesh and Blood," winner of the National Book Critics Circle Prize in 1987.

	May 10, 2010 Lena Horne Dies at Age 92 Groundbreaking singer, performer and film star Lena Horne died Sunday night in New York at the age of 92. Horne, the first African American to sign a long-term contract with a major film studio, broke down racial barriers, most memorably with "Stormy Weather."

	May 10, 2010 Monday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	May 10, 2010 Obama's Second Supreme Court Nominee: Who is Elena Kagan? President Obama has nominated U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan to become the 112th justice on the Supreme Court. During an East Room ceremony on Monday, President Obama described Kagan "as one of the nation's foremost legal minds," and called on the Senate to move swiftly to confirm her.

	May 10, 2010 Jim Lehrer on the Road: Dispatch from Austin, Texas The end is near.

	May 7, 2010 OK Go Goes Out on Its Own Chances are you've seen one of Ok Go's music videos. The quirky productions, shot on the cheap, have been viewed tens of millions of times on YouTube and launched the band into popularity.

	May 7, 2010 Friday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	May 6, 2010 Musical Tribute to Corporate Enron Scandal Collapses on Broadway A Broadway musical about the fall of the disgraced Enron Corporation is closing after just 15 performances, following a hugely successful London run. Jeffrey Brown reports on the tepid reaction to the play from U.S. critics and audiences.

	May 6, 2010 Conversation: C.K. Williams This year, C.K. Williams is out with two volumes: "Wait," a collection of new poems, and "On Whitman," an exploration of the work and genius of that great American poet.

	May 6, 2010 Picasso Price Helps Paint a Prettier Picture for the Art Market This week, the art market continued to show strong signs of recovery as leading auction houses Sotheby's and Christie's held their Impressionist and Modern art sales, setting records and at least tripling the total brought in by the same auctions last May.

	May 6, 2010 Thursday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	May 5, 2010 Photo Pioneer Muybridge Froze Time During an Era of Change Many of the technical and artistic conquests made in photography can be traced back to the 19th century photographer Eadweard Muybridge, who spent his lifetime capturing the American spirit, first in the landscapes of the Western frontier, and later in his visualizations of movement that seemed to conquer speed with technology.

	May 5, 2010 Conversation: Rebecca Solnit, Biographer of Eadweard Muybridge Rebecca Solnit is the author of "River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West," which won the 2003 National Book Award for Criticism, and a contributor to the exhibition catalog for the current Muybridge exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art.

	May 5, 2010 Wednesday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	May 4, 2010 Jim Lehrer: Fielding Questions on Shields and Brooks As his road trip across the country continues, Jim Lehrer checked in with us from Albuquerque and discussed how often people like to ask him about a popular topic: Do Mark Shields and David Brooks actually like each other?

	May 4, 2010 Tuesday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines: Finalists have been announced for the Turner Prize, Britain's big art award, and London's Tate Modern marks its 10th birthday.

	May 3, 2010 Weekly Poem: 'Reading Stephen Crane's 'War Is Kind' to My Husband' Jehanne Dubrow is the author of three poetry collections: "The Hardship Post," "From the Fever-World" and most recently "Stateside," which is an exploration of the long history of military wives waiting for their husbands to return from war.

	May 3, 2010 Monday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.



	APRIL April 30, 2010 A Downbeat Derby Weekend: Writer Trots Out Horse Racing's Money Woes This annual running of the Kentucky Derby -- this weekend marks the 136th running -- is meant to mark a joyous time of the year, with its frilly hats, mint juleps, betting slips, and of course, the horses.

	April 30, 2010 Conversation: Peter Berg, Creator of 'Friday Night Lights' NBC's television drama "Friday Night Lights," shows football as the raison d'etre for the small, fictional community of Dillon, Texas, but its residents also learn that life is about much more than touchdowns.

	April 30, 2010 Jim Lehrer on the Road: A Dispatch From Kansas City All of those great lines from the musical "Oklahoma" leapt into -- and remained -- in my mind the whole time I was in Kansas City.

	April 30, 2010 Friday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	April 29, 2010 Conversation: Winner of the 2010 Poetry Out Loud National Recitation Contest Earlier this week, 53 students from around the nation gathered in Washington for the 2010 Poetry Out Loud National Recitation Contest, an annual event that encourages the love of spoken word among young people.

	April 29, 2010 Thursday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	April 28, 2010 Looking Back at the Vietnam War with Author, Veteran Tim O'Brien Thirty five years after the conclusion of the Vietnam War, Tim O'Brien's collection of stories about an American platoon, "The Things They Carried," is being reissued as it celebrates its own 20th anniversary. Jeffrey Brown talks to the author about the experiences that led him to write the book.

	April 28, 2010 Conversation: Sir Patrick Stewart Stars in 'Hamlet' Tonight on PBS Tonight on PBS, Great Performances presents the television adaptation of the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2009 production of "Hamlet." David Tennant stars as Hamlet to Sir Patrick Stewart's ambitious but flawed Claudius.

	April 28, 2010 Extended Interview, Reading with Tim O'Brien Thursday on the NewsHour, a book about war that has stood the test of time. Jeffrey Brown talks to Tim O'Brien about his landmark work, "The Things They Carried," a piece of fiction based on the author's experience serving in the Vietnam War.

	April 28, 2010 Wednesday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	April 27, 2010 35 Years After Vietnam War: The Path Back Home NewsHour special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro recently reported from Vietnam on the stories of several Vietnamese-Americans, who returned to their country of birth, and what they found once they got there.

	April 27, 2010 Jim Lehrer On the Road: Dispatch From Chicago An update from Chicago: This was the kind of day that always breathes the life and spirit of public broadcasting into me.

	April 27, 2010 Your Guide to the Debt Commission The bipartisan debt commission meets for the first time Tuesday. Here, a guide to the U.S. debt problem, the commission's members, and what solutions might be proposed.

	April 27, 2010 Tuesday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	April 26, 2010 Classic Poems Turn Lyrical on Natalie Merchant's New Album Singer and songwriter Natalie Merchant sets poetry to music in her newest studio album, looking at childhood through the works of poets such as E.E. Cummings, Robert Graves and even Mother Goose. Jeffrey Brown reports on the unusual melding of art forms on her new album, "Leave Your Sleep."

	April 26, 2010 Extended Interview, Performances with Natalie Merchant On Monday's NewsHour Jeffrey Brown profiles singer-songwriter Natalie Merchant, who after a seven-year hiatus has just released a two-disc album titled "Leave Your Sleep," a collection of 26 traditional poems set to original music.

	April 26, 2010 Monday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	April 23, 2010 Pulitzer-Winner Fiore Puts Modern Mark on Political Cartooning Correspondent Spencer Michels has the story of political cartoonist Mark Fiore, the first Internet animator to win the Pulitzer Prize for political cartooning, and the occasional controversy sparked by his stinging political wit.

	April 23, 2010 Jim Lehrer 'Refreshed' Meeting News Consumers on Cross-Country Trip Within the matter of a week, we've seen Jim Lehrer e-mail us pictures from his phone, write his first blog post and use Skype to file dispatches from his voyage across the country in support of his new novel.

	April 23, 2010 PBS President Paula Kerger Making a Push for More Arts Programming The Public Broadcasting Service -- our home -- has a long tradition of showcasing the arts. But it's also true that programs featuring performances and exhibitions are not as pervasive and prominent on the nightly schedule as in the past.

	April 23, 2010 Extended Interview: Mark Fiore, Pulitzer Prize-winning Editorial Cartoonist Mark Fiore is the first internet animator to win a Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning. His work appears only online -- on his own website, plus that of the San Francisco Chronicle, National Public Radio and other outlets.

	April 23, 2010 A Love Letter to San Francisco's 'La Mission' When Peter and Benjamin Bratt grew up in San Francisco's Mission district in the 1970's, it was a neighborhood of Native American and Latino activists, low rider cars, Peruvian flute players, and vibrant murals that related the local history.

	April 23, 2010 Friday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	April 22, 2010 NBA's Shaq Sizes Up Art World, With Works Large and Small The NBA's larger-than-life Shaquille O'Neal is making his mark on the art world with a new exhibit of art both large and small. Jeffrey Brown takes a look at the "Size Does Matter" exhibit that the basketball star helped curate.

	April 22, 2010 Two Companies Make It Easy Being Green For Earth Day, we take a look at two companies in the music industry that have made environmentally-friendly practices a priority.

	April 22, 2010 Thursday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	April 21, 2010 Jim Lehrer on the Road: Update From New York City Jim Lehrer files another update from the start of his book tour with a stop in New York City for a party with old friends and a number of interviews.

	April 21, 2010 Conversation: Tribeca Film Festival Opens Amid Changing Industry Wednesday marks the premiere of the ninth annual Tribeca Film Festival. Over the next 12 days, the festival will screen 496 films, out of the 5,050 features and shorts that were submitted, from 38 different countries -- the most submissions in the festival's history.

	April 21, 2010 New $100 Bill Gets a Facelift In the appropriately named Cash Room of the Department of the Treasury, Treasurer of the United States Rosie Rios, along with Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner, unveiled a new design of the $100 bill Wednesday morning.

	April 21, 2010 Wednesday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	April 20, 2010 Preview: Singer Natalie Merchant Is Well-Versed on Her New Album After a seven year hiatus, singer and songwriter Natalie Merchant has just released a two-disc album titled "Leave Your Sleep," a collection of 26 traditional poems set to original music. The project began when she wanted to find a way to introduce her child to both poetry and music.

	April 20, 2010 There's No Place Like Dome in Peter Bognanni's 'The House of Tomorrow' Buckminster Fuller's designs provide the inspiration for the setting of "The House of Tomorrow," a first novel by Peter Bognanni that charts the life of an adolescent growing up inside -- and venturing out of -- a geodesic dome.

	April 20, 2010 Tuesday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	April 19, 2010 Conversation: Pulitzer Prize Winner in Poetry, Rae Armantrout This year's winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry is Rae Armantrout for her book, "Versed."

	April 19, 2010 Monday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	April 16, 2010 Jim Lehrer's 'Super' Office Tour I remember walking into Jim Lehrer's office for the first time last summer for my job interview and no amount of preparation could have readied me for the enormous collection of intriguing and distracting bus memorabilia in there.

	April 16, 2010 Conversation: Pulitzer Prize Winner in Fiction, Paul Harding This year's Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction was not a bestseller or a blockbuster. Its author was not a big name, and its publisher, too -- a small imprint called Bellevue Literary Press, run out of the NYU Medical School -- was basically unknown.

	April 16, 2010 'Doctor Who' Regenerates for a New Season On Saturday, a new era begins for the BBC's beloved science-fiction series, "Doctor Who," the quirky and mysterious hero who time travels in a spaceship disguised as a blue police box, exploring strange worlds and occasionally saving the universe.

	April 16, 2010 Paul Solman Takes a Trip Down RAM Memory Lane On Thursday's NewsHour, Paul Solman spoke to Dan Pink, author of a new book "Drive," about what motivates behavior and innovation in the modern workplace.

	April 16, 2010 Friday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	April 15, 2010 Conversation: Pulitzer Prize Winner in Music, Jennifer Higdon Composer Jennifer Higdon is the recipient of this year's Pulitzer Prize in Music.

	April 15, 2010 Thursday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	April 14, 2010 Pulitzer Prize Winners in Drama, Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey of 'Next to Normal' Bipolar disorder and the emotional toll mental illness takes on a family are not standard fare for Broadway musicals, let alone Broadway hits. But that is the subject of "Next to Normal" which was named winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, making it just the eighth musical in history to receive that award.

	April 14, 2010 Wednesday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	April 12, 2010 Tuesday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines

	April 12, 2010 2010 Pulitzer Prizes in Letters, Drama, Music The 2010 Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday afternoon. The winners in the Letters, Drama and Music categories are...

	April 12, 2010 Weekly Poem: 'Against War Movies' Jehanne Dubrow is the author of three poetry collections: "The Hardship Post," "From the Fever-World" and most recently "Stateside," which is an exploration of the long history of military wives waiting for their husbands to return from war.

	April 12, 2010 Monday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	April 9, 2010 Conversation: Musician Brad Mehldau On his latest album, pianist Brad Mehldau takes listeners on a journey where each track is like a stop on a road trip. A mix of jazz, classical and pop, the double-disc release, "Highway Rider," is Mehldau's first album compiled entirely of his own compositions.

	April 9, 2010 Gwen's Take: Looking Anew at the Rise of President Obama When The Washington Post asked me to review David Remnick's new book "The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama," I quickly said yes.

	April 9, 2010 Friday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	April 8, 2010 Around the Nation Roundup Here's a bouquet of arts and culture stories from our partners in public broadcasting.

	April 7, 2010 Thursday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	April 7, 2010 Shearer's 'Silent Echo Chamber' Embraces TV's Awkward Silences Awkwardness is the essence of "The Silent Echo Chamber," a multi-screen video installation on display at the New Orleans Contemporary Art Center. The work is part of an ongoing project called "Nontalking Heads" by Harry Shearer.

	April 7, 2010 Wednesday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	April 6, 2010 In Austin, 'Cathedral of Junk' Might Be Headed for the Trash Heap The "Cathedral of Junk" is, by nearly every measure, irregular. It's equal parts art work and urban jungle gym; improvised wedding chapel and theater venue; an Austin, Tex., landmark and the life's work of a man named Vincent Hannemann.

	April 6, 2010 Tuesday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	April 5, 2010 Weekly Poem: 'Nonessential Equipment' Jehanne Dubrow is the author of three poetry collections: "The Hardship Post," "From the Fever-World" and most recently "Stateside," which is an exploration of the long history of military wives waiting for their husbands to return from war.

	April 5, 2010 Monday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	April 2, 2010 Conversation: Alfred Molina Plays Painter Mark Rothko in 'Red' In "Red," a new drama by John Logan, painter Mark Rothko speaks his mind about art and life and battles with a young assistant as the two prepare a commission of blood-colored murals. Veteran actor Alfred Molina plays the famous but violent-tempered artist.

	April 2, 2010 Friday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	April 1, 2010 A Violent Moment in American Labor History, Captured in Verse Colorado poet David Mason shares a look at a dramatic moment in American labor history through his poem about a 1913 mine strike that ended in violence.

	April 1, 2010 Poet Profile: David Mason Poet David Mason reads some of his poems.

	April 1, 2010 New Translation Is a Song to the Psalms To help combat depression, Pamela Greenberg flipped through the Book of Psalms in Hebrew, taking time to translate the ones that spoke out to her on any given day. Over time, Greenberg found she had translated so many, she decided to do them all.

	April 1, 2010 Thursday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.



	MARCH March 31, 2010 Tonight on PBS, I.M. Pei Finds Life Reflection in Return to China Tonight on PBS, American Masters follows architect I.M. Pei back to the hometown he left as a young man, to design a new, modern museum for the city of Suzhou, China.

	March 31, 2010 Wednesday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	March 30, 2010 A Pilgrimage to the World's 'Sacred Waters' In 2009, photographer John Stanmeyer journeyed to 12 nations to document how different cultures make use of water on a spiritual level.

	March 30, 2010 Tuesday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	March 29, 2010 Weekly Poem: From 'Ludlow' David Mason is a poet, essayist, critic and professor. His most recent collection, "Ludlow," is a novel in verse that tells the story of a handful of immigrants in southern Colorado. He teaches English and creative writing at Colorado College.

	March 29, 2010 Monday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	March 26, 2010 Open Letter Finds a Ready Audience With Works in Translation Open Letter Books, a small press operating out of the University of Rochester in New York, is trying to offer those readers a head start. Unlike some large publishing houses that occasionally release translated works, Open Letter only publishes works in translation.

	March 26, 2010 Friday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	March 25, 2010 'Sweetgrass' Documents a Dying Tradition Through Patient, Quiet Observation 'Sweetgrass,' a film by Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Ilisa Barbash (a husband-wife team of visual anthropologists currently working at Harvard), documents one of the last of these journeys with lush, yet unsentimental intimacy.

	March 25, 2010 Thursday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	March 24, 2010 Michael Lewis Tackles the Mortgage Crisis in 'The Big Short' Jeffrey Brown takes a look inside the doomsday machine of the subprime lending crisis with author Michael Lewis in a conversation about his new book, "The Big Short."

	March 24, 2010 Smithsonian Fine Tunes a New Collection of Appalachian Blues The migration of the blues from the Mississippi Delta to Chicago has been well-documented by historians and musicologists, but there is also a rich tradition in and around the Appalachian mountains that has received scant attention. "Classic Appalachian Blues" by Smithsonian Folkways helps to set the record straight.

	March 24, 2010 Wednesday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	March 23, 2010 Coming Soon to Hollywood: Movie Derivatives Moviegoers will soon be able to decide which films to see based not on stars or tomatoes, but on how well they're being traded by investors. Two investment firms are working to develop a futures market for movie derivatives that will let investors wager on box office performance.

	March 23, 2010 Tuesday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	March 22, 2010 Weekly Poem: 'Achilles' British Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy wrote "Achilles" after English soccer player David Beckham suffered a season-ending injury last week. Beckham, 34, was headed for what would have likely been his last World Cup this summer.

	March 22, 2010 Monday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	March 19, 2010 Still Unsolved, Gardner Heist Remains Largest Art Theft in History Twenty years ago this week, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston was the site of the biggest art heist in history. Jeffrey Brown talks to Ulrich Boser, author of "The Gardner Heist" and who has been following recent developments in the case, to see if authorities are any closer to catching the thieves.

	March 19, 2010 Around the Nation Roundup Here's a selection of art and culture reports from local public broadcasting stations and national producers.

	March 19, 2010 Friday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	March 19, 2010 Jay Rosen on SXSW, Future of News Context, Prophecy of 'Max Headroom' It didn't take long to figure out that one topic that seemed to pick up a good deal of traction was called "The Future of Context." It is a topic fairly important to the future of how we do what we do here at the PBS Newshour and beyond.

	March 18, 2010 For Musician Erin McKeown, the Sweet Sound of Independence Erin McKeown is ten years into her career as a solo singer/songwriter. She's one of many impacted by the changing music industry. As fans buy fewer CDs and download more files, independent artists -- musicians who don't depend on major record companies to promote their work -- are feeling the impact.

	March 18, 2010 Thursday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	March 17, 2010 An Unseen Modern China, Now On-Screen at the MoMA Inside China, the country at the heart of our new, global economy, one director is projecting a very different view of what modernization looks like in real human terms.

	March 17, 2010 NPR's Deborah Amos on Fallout of Iraq's Middle Class Exodus NPR foreign correspondent Deborah Amos joined us on the Rundown to talk about her new book, "Eclipse of the Sunnis," which chronicles the reasons behind the exodus of so many middle-class Iraqis who should be helping to rebuild the war-torn nation as the U.S. looks to draw down its troop level.

	March 17, 2010 Wednesday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	March 16, 2010 Charles Moore's Photographs Helped Spur Fight Against Racial Injustice Charles Moore, a photographer whose images helped to enlighten the nation to the civil rights struggles of the 1950s and '60s, died at the age of 79. According to his daughter, he died from natural causes in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., on Thursday, March 11.

	March 16, 2010 Tuesday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	March 15, 2010 Should U.S. Talk to Its Enemies in Middle East? Authors Offer 2 Views With Vice President Joe Biden visiting the Middle East recently in hopes of reviving the peace process, we decided to speak with a pair of authors whose latest books on the region made it onto our radar screen here at The Rundown.

	March 15, 2010 Weekly Poem: 'July in Washington' "July in Washington" is from Robert Lowell "Collected Poems" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003). Lowell, who died in 1977, is best known for his volume "Life Studies," "but his true greatness as an American poet lies in the astonishing variety of his work."

	March 15, 2010 Actor Peter Graves Dies at Age 83 Peter Graves, who starred in the hit television series "Mission: Impossible" as well as the "Airplane" films, died Sunday of a heart attack at his home in Pacific Palisades, Calif. He was 83.

	March 15, 2010 Monday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	March 12, 2010 Perspective on Google Books from Authors Guild Member James Gleick In 2005, the Authors Guild brought a lawsuit against Google for digitally scanning books without permission of the books' authors. In November 2009, a court approved an amended settlement between the Guild and Google that gives authors the option of opting out.

	March 12, 2010 Friday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	March 12, 2010 Black: The Best Econ Books I've Read Recently Paul Solman answers your questions on business and economic news on "The Business Desk."

	March 11, 2010 Letters Reveal Public Grief for JFK's Death In the months after President John F. Kennedy's assassination, the public flooded the White House mailbox with 1.5 million condolence letters to then First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy.

	March 11, 2010 Lo: The Best Econ Book I've Read Recently Paul Solman answers your questions on business and economic news on "The Business Desk."

	March 11, 2010 Shaq Attacks Art World in 'Size DOES Matter' NBA basketball player Shaquille O'Neal curates an art exhibition called "Size DOES Matter."

	March 11, 2010 Thursday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	March 10, 2010 Around the Nation Roundup Here's a selection of art and culture reports from local public broadcasting stations and national producers.

	March 10, 2010 Baker: The Best Econ Books I've Read Recently Paul Solman answers your questions on business and economic news on "The Business Desk."

	March 10, 2010 Wednesday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	March 9, 2010 First Lady Obama's Gown Joins Smithsonian Collection Dozens of outfits donned by first lady Michelle Obama have been analyzed by fashion critics and the public -- her bold color choices, her support of up-and-coming designers and her penchant for mixing bargain pieces into her wardrobe.

	March 9, 2010 On Radio Free Afghanistan, Time for Letters A selection letters sent to Radio Free Afghanistan -- complaints of corruption, suggestions for rural development, song requests, poetry, tips for the president -- as well as photos and artifacts are at the Library of Congress in "Voices from Afghanistan."

	March 9, 2010 Tuesday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	March 8, 2010 Director of 'The Cove,' Named Best Documentary, Puts Oscar in Perspective A wave of new attention is likely to fall on a remote fishing village in Japan after director Louie Psihoyos won the best feature documentary prize for "The Cove" at the 82nd Academy Awards on Sunday.

	March 8, 2010 Weekly Poem: 'bound isaac' D.A. Powell is the author of "Chronic" (Graywolf Press), which won the 2010 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. The award, which comes with a $100,000 prize, is given annually by Claremont Graduate University to honor work by a mid-career poet.

	March 8, 2010 The Best Economics Book I've Read Recently Paul Solman answers your questions on business and economic news on "The Business Desk."

	March 8, 2010 Monday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	March 5, 2010 With 'Avatar' in Oscar Contention, What's the Future for 3-D Films? Movies like this year's 3-D blockbuster "Avatar" feature high-tech effects. Are these new techniques the next phase in film production or just gimmicks? Jeffrey Brown reports on the future of film.

	March 5, 2010 Spending Big for an Oscar The Oscar race this year, like most years - recession or not, has a lot to do with money: big-budget films up against small independent releases, and deep-pocketed studios ready to spend big to win Oscars, hoping awards will give movies a box-office bump or spike in DVD sales.

	March 5, 2010 Oscars Conversation With David Thomson The 82nd Academy Awards takes place this Sunday, and in an effort to lift sagging ratings and reach a wider audience, there are 10 movies nominated for best picture.

	March 5, 2010 Friday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	March 4, 2010 'Hurt Locker' Takes Flack from Iraq Vets Amid Critical Praise The Academy Award-nominated film "The Hurt Locker" has been lauded for its portrayal of the war in Iraq, but some veterans say it paints an unfair picture of life on the ground for troops. Jeffrey Brown talks to a film critic and a veterans advocate.

	March 4, 2010 At the Oscars, Documentarians Hope Films Inspire Change The Best Documentary Feature category for the 82nd Annual Academy Awards is crowded with films that hope to make the world a little brighter.

	March 4, 2010 Thursday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	March 3, 2010 Around the Nation Roundup: May-the-Best- Artist-Win Edition Here's a selection of art and culture reports from local public broadcasting stations and national producers.

	March 3, 2010 Wednesday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	March 2, 2010 Artists Shake Up Elvis Presley's Image "Echoes of Elvis" showcases works by artists created only after 1977, the year Presley died. But the show was organized with a very special anniversary in mind: Jan. 8, 2010, what would have been his 75th birthday.

	March 2, 2010 Tuesday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	March 1, 2010 Weekly Poem: 'scenes from the trip we didn't take to the antarctic' D.A. Powell is the author of "Chronic" (Graywolf Press), which won the 2010 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. The award, which comes with a $100,000 prize, is given annually by Claremont Graduate University to honor work by a mid-career poet.

	March 1, 2010 Monday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.



	FEBRUARY Feb. 26, 2010 Conversation: Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk Jeffrey Brown talks to Orhan Pamuk, the 2006 Nobel Laureate in Literature and the author of the novel "The Museum of Innocence," which was published late last year.

	Feb. 26, 2010 Friday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	Feb. 25, 2010 'Families of Abraham' Gather in Exhibition 'Families of Abraham," a photography exhibit, captures families of Christian, Muslim and Jewish faiths in their daily lives.

	Feb. 25, 2010 Thursday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	Feb. 24, 2010 Over the Olympics, Art Lights Vancouver's Nights Artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer is shining another kind of spotlight on Olympic Vancouver. Internet participants can help program 10 different 10,000-watt searchlights as part of the installation called "Vectorial Elevation."

	Feb. 24, 2010 Joseph Pulitzer: Biography Tracks Rise of Media Empire Jeffrey Brown talks to biographer James McGrath Morris about his new biography on Joseph Pulitzer, the media baron who helped shape the news business.

	Feb. 24, 2010 Ethan Hawke on Directing Shepard's 'A Lie of the Mind' Actor Ethan Hawke is best known for his work in film, including early successes like "Reality Bites" and "Before Sunrise." Hawke's latest project is directing a major off-Broadway revival of Sam Shepard's 1985 play, "A Lie of the Mind."

	Feb. 24, 2010 Wednesday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	Feb. 23, 2010 'Making Toast' Author Mixes Grief, Family Over Breakfast Jeffrey Brown talks to author Roger Rosenblatt about coping and caring for grandchildren after the death of his daughter. Rosenblatt's new memoir on grief and family is called "Making Toast."

	Feb. 23, 2010 Roger Rosenblatt Reads from 'Making Toast' Roger Rosenblatt's "Making Toast" chronicles how after the sudden death of his 38-year-old daughter, he and his wife Ginny moved in with their son-in-law to help raise their three young grandchildren.

	Feb. 23, 2010 Tuesday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	Feb. 22, 2010 Weekly Poem: 'Hole' "Hole" is from Naomi Ayala's "This Side of Early" (Curbstone Press, 2008). Her first collection, "Wild Animals on the Moon," was published in 1997, and a third is forthcoming. She lives in Washington, D.C., and works as an education consultant, translator and teacher.

	Feb. 22, 2010 Monday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	Feb. 19, 2010 Alberto Manguel Jeffrey Brown talks Alberto Manguel, author of "The Library at Night," a series of essays on the "idea" of the library through time and place, from ancient Alexandria to cyberspace, with stops along the way at his personal library of some 30,000 books.

	Feb. 19, 2010 Rodarte Makes a 'Quick' Move From Runway to Museum In the big tents in Bryant Park this past week, some of the biggest fashion designers in the world were getting their New York minute, including Laura and Kate Mulleavy, who were also the focus of another kind of show -- a new exhibit called "Quicktake: Rodarte" at the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.

	Feb. 19, 2010 Friday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	Feb. 18, 2010 After Losing Its Bookstore, Laredo Tries to Write the Next Chapter The last bookstore in Laredo, Texas, closed its doors for good one month ago this week. This bilingual and bicultural border town, long challenged by high illiteracy rates, is now adjusting to its new reality.

	Feb. 18, 2010 New Biography Looks at the Man Behind the Pulitzer Legacy Most of us have heard of the Pulitzer Prize, the annual awards honoring excellence in journalism.

	Feb. 17, 2010 Thursday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	Feb. 17, 2010 Already in the Global Spotlight, Vancouver's Skies Deliver Additional Delight A week before the torch arrived in the Olympic city, Vancouver's skies were already illuminated, ready to greet the world with a warm welcome. Light artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and his team had installed 10 searchlights on both sides of English Bay for an interactive work he calls "Vectorial Elevation."

	Feb. 16, 2010 Wednesday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	Feb. 16, 2010 Links to Faulkner's Works Found in Diary A little literary sleuthing has uncovered a link between an unpublished antebellum diary and the well-known work of William Faulkner.

	Feb. 16, 2010 Tuesday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	Feb. 15, 2010 Poet Lucille Clifton Dies After Cancer Battle Former Maryland poet laureate and National Book Award winner Lucille Clifton died Saturday at age 73 after a long battle with cancer.

	Feb. 15, 2010 Poet Lucille Clifton Dies at Age 73 Lucille Clifton, a National Book Award-winning poet and Pulitzer Prize finalist, died Saturday after a long fight with cancer. She was 73.

	Feb. 15, 2010 Monday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	Feb. 12, 2010 Conversation: Ursula Le Guin Ursula Le Guin has been writing and publishing novels, children's books, poetry and drama for more than four decades. In December, she withdrew her membership from the Author's Guild because she disagreed with the organization's stance on the author settlement offered by Google in its plan to digitize millions of books.

	Feb. 12, 2010 Friday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	Feb. 11, 2010 White House Celebrates Civil Rights Movement Through Music The civil rights era produced some of the most memorable songs in American music history. In an excerpt from the PBS program "In Performance at the White House," President and Mrs. Obama toast Black History Month with a celebration of the era's music.

	Feb. 11, 2010 'Facebook' for the Parlor Crowd? Cartomania and Photocollage in the Victorian Era The occupation of young women of leisure was primarily to prove themselves worthy wives, which included accomplishment at the (approved) fine arts. But hold the judgement.

	Feb. 11, 2010 The Fashionable Life of Alexander McQueen Alexander McQueen, one of the top fashion designers in the world, was found dead at his London home on Thursday after an apparent suicide. He was 40.

	Feb. 11, 2010 Thursday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	Feb. 10, 2010 Musician Ruben Blades Blends Activism with Afro-Cuban Rhythm Panamanian salsa musician and actor Ruben Blades has been known to blend social issues like poverty and corruption into his music, but he also mixes art and advocacy in his work as a lawyer and public official. Jeffrey Brown reports.

	Feb. 10, 2010 Ruben Blades: Extended Interview and Performances An extended interview and performances with salsa star Ruben Blades.

	Feb. 10, 2010 Wednesday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	Feb. 9, 2010 Tuesday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	Feb. 8, 2010 Weekly Poem: 'Those Winter Sundays' Robert Hayden was the first black poet to be chosen as consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress.

	Feb. 8, 2010 Monday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	Feb. 5, 2010 Understanding Haiti's Disaster Through a Poet's Eyes Michele Voltaire Marcelin, an artist, poet, spoken word performer and teacher, was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Since the earthquake struck that country last month, she has been struggling to make sense of the destruction.

	Feb. 5, 2010 Poet Profile: Michele Voltaire Marcelin Poet Michele Voltaire Marcelin reads some of her poems.

	Feb. 5, 2010 Conversation: Ralph Ellison's Unfinished Novel Gets Some Visibility Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man", his first novel, is widely-considered one of the great works of modern literature. After it came out in 1952, Ellison wrote and wrote, and readers waited and waited, but a second novel never came. When he died in 1994, Ellison left thousands of pages of material.

	Feb. 5, 2010 Friday on the NewsHour: 'A Rift in the Land' Michele Voltaire Marcelin, an artist, poet, spoken word performer and teacher, was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Since the earthquake struck that country last month, she has been struggling to make sense of the destruction.

	Feb. 5, 2010 Friday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.

	Feb. 4, 2010 Karl Case's (Poetic) Reflections on the Housing Market We've been interviewing Wellesley economics professor Karl 'Chip' Case since the last housing crash here in Boston in the late '80s, and as recently as a few weeks ago with his well-known collaborator Bob Shiller.

	Feb. 4, 2010 Winter Forecast: Art to Blanket Region When it comes to photography, a Wilson Bentley image can be described much like his favorite subject, the snowflake: Each is one of a kind. After all, the Vermont farmer was the first to ever photograph one.

	Feb. 4, 2010 Thursday's Art Notes A roundup of arts headlines.