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	2011 DECEMBER Dec. 30, 2011 The Daily Frame Gurungs in traditional attire play music as they take part in a New Year's celebration ceremony called Tamu Lhosar in Kathmandu. The Gurung people are an ethnic group who live in Nepal's mountainous valleys.

	Dec. 29, 2011 The Daily Frame Dancers of the Compagnie des Ballets de Monte-Carlo perform during a rehearsal of "Lac," a ballet choreographed by Jean-Christophe Maillot. In "Lac," which runs until Saturday, Maillot offers his personal vision of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake."

	Dec. 28, 2011 Book Critic Ron Charles Discusses Year's Best Works of Fiction Jeffrey Brown talks with book critic Ron Charles of The Washington Post about the best works of fiction in 2011 and the shape of the industry.

	Dec. 28, 2011 'Being Elmo': The Man Behind the Muppet Chances are you've heard Kevin Clash many, many times and don't even realize it. He is everywhere. You've heard his voice on TV, and if you have children you've heard it coming from one of their toys, one of the most popular ever, over and over and over again. You've tickled him. Clash is Elmo.

	Dec. 28, 2011 The Daily Frame A visitor takes a picture on an iPad of a statue of late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs at Graphisoft Park in Budapest, Hungary. The six-and-a-half foot bronze statue by Erno Toth depicts Jobs with his trademark turtleneck shirt, jeans, sneakers and round glasses.

	Dec. 27, 2011 Ondaatje Crafts Semi-Autobiographical Tale of Ocean Voyage in 'The Cat's Table' Michael Ondaatje's new novel "The Cat's Table" is a shipboard story about a boy's travel's from Ceylon to England. Jeffrey Brown and Ondaatje, author of "The English Patient," discuss the coming-of-age tale based in part on the writer's own past.

	Dec. 27, 2011 Around the Nation 2011 was a great year for music. Here's a look at the top studio sessions, performances and recordings assembled by four public broadcasting stations around the nation.

	Dec. 27, 2011 The Daily Frame A woman dresses in cosplay during the 10th Asia Game Show 2011 in Hong Kong, which ended Monday. In cosplay, short for "costume play," participants wear costumes to represent a specific character or idea, often drawn from popular fiction in Japan.

	Dec. 26, 2011 Weekly Poem: 'Rime Riche' Monica Ferrell is the author of the collection of poems "Beasts for the Chase" (2008, Sarabande Books) and the novel, "The Answer Is Always Yes" (2008, Dial Press).

	Dec. 26, 2011 The Daily Frame A new stencil and spray paint piece by graffiti artist Banksy appears on a vacant building in the Mayfair area of London.

	Dec. 23, 2011 Conversation: The Year in Film As 2011 draws to an end, Jeffrey Brown talks to the New York Times' A.O. Scott about the year in movies.

	Dec. 23, 2011 The Daily Frame A woman shows a Nativity scene displayed in a walnut in Luceram, France. In this southeastern village, handmade manger scenes of all types and sizes are displayed during the Christmas season.

	Dec. 22, 2011 Conversation: The Year in Music As 2011 draws to a close, we take a look at the the year in pop music and the big changes in the industry, including new cloud services like Spotify. Jeffrey Brown talks with Los Angeles Times critic Randall Roberts.

	Dec. 22, 2011 The Daily Frame A statue on top of the concert in Berlin's Gendarmenmarkt is seen through Christmas lights.

	Dec. 21, 2011 Poet Mark Doty Reflects on Community Bonds Forged by Handel's 'Messiah' Poet Mark Doty, winner of the National Book Award, reflects on one of the great traditions of the holiday season: Handel's "Messiah."

	Dec. 21, 2011 Mark Doty Reads 'A Display of Mackerel' On Wednesday's NewsHour, Mark Doty read his poem, "Messiah (Christmas Portions)." We'll post that poem here later this evening. He shared another of poems with us, below, called "A Display of Mackerel."

	Dec. 21, 2011 Conversation: The Year in Fiction What was 2011 like for fiction? And what was it like for books themselves? I recently talked with Washington Post book critic Ron Charles about the novels and authors who stood out from the others and about the business of publishing in a big year for e-readers like the Kindle.

	Dec. 21, 2011 The Daily Frame Inmates at the Santa Monica Women's Prison stage a performance Tuesday in Lima, Peru. The inmates put on a Christmas show for the Peruvian first lady, Nadine Heredia.

	Dec. 20, 2011 Film Tells Story of Warlord-Turned-Evangelist Known as General Butt Naked The film "The Redemption of General Butt Naked" follows a brutal African warlord who has renounced his violent past and reinvented himself as a Christian evangelist. This excerpt is part of The Economist Film Project series of independently produced films aired in partnership between The Economist and the NewsHour.

	Dec. 20, 2011 Around the Nation Here are four arts and culture videos from public broadcasting partners around the nation.

	Dec. 20, 2011 The Daily Frame A dancer from the Scottish Ballet sews on her pointe shoe straps before performing in a dress rehearsal "Sleeping Beauty" at the Theatre Royal in Glasgow.

	Dec. 19, 2011 A Warlord Seeks Forgiveness in 'The Redemption of General Butt Naked' A new documentary follows Joshua Milton Blahyi, also known as General Butt Naked, an African warlord who renounced his violent past and reinvented himself as a Christian evangelist who now seeks uncertain forgiveness from his former victims. Filmmakers Eric Strauss and Daniele Anastasion talk to NewsHour about making the film.

	Dec. 19, 2011 Weekly Poem: '4th Grade Logic' P.F. Potvin is the author of "The Attention Lesson" (2006, No Tell Books). He serves on the staff of the online literary journal Drunken Boat. and has been a visiting writer at Emory University and the University of Michigan-Dearborn.

	Dec. 19, 2011 The Daily Frame Mourners light candles to mark the death of former Czech President Vaclav Havel, gathering at a statue of Saint Wenceslaus in Prague. Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images.

	Dec. 16, 2011 In Anthology, Rita Dove Connects American Poets' Intergenerational Conversations Former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove was recently given what may be the biggest honor -- and challenge -- of her career: sorting through poems from the last 100 years to create "The Penguin Anthology of 20th Century American Poetry." Jeffrey Brown and Dove discuss the task that took more than four years.

	Dec. 16, 2011 Conversation: Michael Ondaatje The fictional voyage in Michael Ondaatje's new novel, "The Cat's Table," is like one that he took long before becoming the much honored writer of such works as "The English Patient" and "Anil's Ghost" and "Divisadero." Jeffrey Brown talks with Ondaatje.

	Dec. 16, 2011 Extended Interview, Reading With Poet Rita Dove An extended interview and reading with poet Rita Dove.

	Dec. 16, 2011 The Daily Frame Bangladeshis hold up caricatures of war criminals during a rally Friday to mark the country's 40th Victory Day in Dhaka.

	Dec. 15, 2011 Book Tells How Iconic Civil Rights Era Photo Changed Lives of 2 Women The story of how one iconic civil rights era photograph changed the lives of two women is the subject of David Margolick's new book, "Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock." Ray Suarez and the Vanity Fair editor discuss the not-yet-finished story.

	Dec. 15, 2011 Culture Canvas A roundup of the week's arts and culture headlines.

	Dec. 15, 2011 The Daily Frame Visitors to the New Museum in New York City sit on swings at the "Carsten Holler: Experience" exhibition. The show includes a 102-foot slide from the fourth floor to the second, an installation of flashing lights that is supposed to make you hallucinate and a sensory-deprivation tank that is meant to resemble the Dead Sea.

	Dec. 14, 2011 After Success, Romance of 'Once,' Irglova Sings a New Beginning You probably recognize Marketa Irglova her role as "Girl" in the 2007 hit film, "Once." The classically trained Czech singer and pianist released her first solo record in October, called "Anar."

	Dec. 14, 2011 The Daily Frame A worker at the "European Organization for Nuclear Research walks past a mural representation of the ATLAS Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland.

	Dec. 13, 2011 Around the Nation Here are four arts and culture videos from public broadcasting partners around the nation.

	Dec. 13, 2011 The Daily Frame Visitors looks at French tapestries at the newly opened exhibition, "The Manufacture des Gobelins: Four Centuries of Art," at the Romanian National Arts Museum in Bucharest. Fifty-five tapestries created by the famous Manufacture des Gobelins and by contemporary French artists are on display.

	Dec. 12, 2011 Weekly Poem: 'Crossings' Ravi Shankar is founding editor of the online journal of the arts Drunken Boat. He teaches at Central Connecticut State College where he is poet-in-residence and in the MFA program at City University of Hong Kong.

	Dec. 12, 2011 The Daily Frame Nobel Peace Prize laureates -- Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian rights campaigner Leymah Gbowee and Yemini activist Tawakkol Karman -- sing with Norwegian vocalist Bernhoft, singer Janelle Monae of the United States and Beninoise singer Angelique Kidjo during the Nobel Peace Prize concert in Oslo on Sunday.

	Dec. 9, 2011 Take a Look Behind the Scenes at St. Paul's Storied Penumbra Theatre In Minnesota, St. Paul's Penumbra Theatre Company is putting on a production of "I Wish You Love," on the life and times of Nat King Cole. Twin Cities Public Television takes a look behind the scenes of the production and the company's history of fighting marginalization and producing productions to raise social consciousness.

	Dec. 9, 2011 Conversation: Why Do Americans Protest Art? Art can soothe, it can inspire, but it also at times stirs heated passions and outright protest. Why does that happen and why in some cases but not others? That's the subject of the new book, "Not Here, Not Now, Not That!"

	Dec. 9, 2011 The Daily Frame Actors perform during the annual "Myths and Legends Parade" on Wednesday in Medellin, Colombia.

	Dec. 8, 2011 In 'Crime Unseen,' Violence Is All Around Us Crime has long fascinated the imagination, from Sherlock Holmes to film portrayals of Al Capone and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid to TV shows such as "Law and Order" and "Dexter." The Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College in Chicago examines the attraction in the exhibit, "Crime Unseen."

	Dec. 8, 2011 'Crime Unseen' at the Museum of Contemporary Photography In "Crime Unseen" at the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College, artists look at crime and violence through the lens of a camera.

	Dec. 8, 2011 Culture Canvas A roundup of the week's arts and culture headlines.

	Dec. 8, 2011 The Daily Frame Kosho Sudo, a Buddhist sculpture master craftsman from Kyoto, Japan, and students carve a statue of Buddha. The Buddha is made of pine from Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, which was hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. About 5,000 people have contributed to the carving of the nearly nine-foot-tall, six-foot-deep statue.

	Dec. 7, 2011 All That Jazz and More: Trombone Shorty's 'Supafunkrock' The New Orleans musical tradition, as storied and varied as it is, can add another name to its impressive list of native sons and musical styles: Trombone Shorty and his "Supafunkrock."

	Dec. 7, 2011 The Daily Frame Pedestrians walk past a billboard with the image of a U.S. $100,000 bill in New York City on Tuesday.

	Dec. 6, 2011 Around the Nation Here are some of this week's arts and culture stories from public broadcasters around the nation.

	Dec. 6, 2011 The Daily Frame Dresses once worn by Elizabeth Taylor at "The Collection Of Elizabeth Taylor" auction press preview at Christie's in New York City.

	Dec. 5, 2011 Weekly Poem: 'Prayer for the Hanoi Man Who Waits for Breakdowns on His Block' Jennifer Richter is author of the collection, "Threshold," winner of the 2009 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition.

	Dec. 5, 2011 The Daily Frame A man takes in a performance during Friday's Dia do Samba celebrations in Salvador, Brazil.

	Dec. 2, 2011 Conversation: 'Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane' Michelangelo Caravaggio was one of the great painters in the history of Western art. He also remains one of the most mysterious and elusive of artistic geniuses. A new biography wrestles with the man, his times and his work. "Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane" is by Andrew Graham-Dixon.

	Dec. 2, 2011 Culture Canvas A roundup of the week's arts and culture headlines.

	Dec. 2, 2011 The Daily Frame Members of the dance company Momix perform during a rehearsal in Madrid.

	Dec. 1, 2011 'Harry Callahan at 100' at the National Gallery of Art Harry Callahan was one of the most innovative and influential photographers of the 20th century. On the centennial of his birth, an exhibition of his work at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., explores his work.

	Dec. 1, 2011 Photographer Harry Callahan at 100 His photographs don't enjoy nearly the same popular and iconic appeal as those of his one-time mentor Ansel Adams. But a new exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., is paying homage the under-appreciated yet innovative work of American photographer Harry Callahan.

	Dec. 1, 2011 The Daily Frame The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performs at its opening night gala Wednesday at New York City Center. The dance company's five-week New York season will be the first led by new Artistic Director Robert Battle, who replaced Judith Jamison, the longtime face of the company, dancer and choreographer.



	NOVEMBER Nov. 30, 2011 The Roots Get Conceptual on 'undun' After 25 years, a dozen records and multiple awards, the Roots are trying something new -- a full-length concept album.

	Nov. 30, 2011 The Daily Frame Mexican demonstrators, their faces painted like skulls, protest against violence in the country during a march in Mexico City this Sunday.

	Nov. 29, 2011 Legendary Saxophonist Sonny Rollins on His Enduring Love for Jazz On Saturday, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., will bestow its Kennedy Center Honors on five of the nation's leading artists. One is legendary jazz saxophonist and composer Sonny Rollins, who is still performing at age 81. Jeffrey Brown sits down with Rollins to discuss his life's work.

	Nov. 29, 2011 Extended Interview: Sonny Rollins Jeffrey Brown recently sat down with Rollins when he was in Washington to perform at the Kennedy Center to talk about his life as a saxophonist and composer. In this excerpt of their conversation, Rollins talks about what other jazz greats have meant to him.

	Nov. 29, 2011 Around the Nation Here are four arts and culture videos from public broadcasting partners around the nation.

	Nov. 29, 2011 The Daily Frame A man views paintings in the Ramsay Room at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery on Monday. The gallery will re-open Thursday after a $27.5 million restoration project, the first major refurbishment in its 120-year-old history.

	Nov. 28, 2011 Weekly Poem: 'The Radioactive Dating Game' Mala Radhakrishnan is an assistant professor at Wellesley College and is the author of a book of poems about chemistry called "Atomic Romances, Molecular Dances." Her aim is to use poetry, but also easy-to-understand analogies to teach such subjects as thermodynamics, kinetics and molecular reactions.

	Nov. 28, 2011 The Daily Frame A woman looks at a painting by Philippe Pasqua on Friday's opening day of the 'ST-ART' European contemporary art fair in Strasbourg, France.

	Nov. 24, 2011 Author Takes Fresh Look at Shaping of U.S. Cultural, Political Landscape In his new book, author and historian Colin Woodard explores how America was shaped by settlement patterns dating back to the time of the first Thanksgiving. Margaret Warner talks with Woodard about "American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America."

	Nov. 23, 2011 MOMA Pays Homage to Experimental Filmmaker Jack Smith A retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York features 11 newly-preserved prints of Jack Smith's work, which were recently acquired by MoMA as part of its film preservation festival, "To Save and Project." The films are shown as originally intended: on celluloid and in a movie theater.

	Nov. 23, 2011 Culture Canvas A roundup of the week's arts and culture headlines.

	Nov. 23, 2011 The Daily Frame Inside the Macy's Parade Studio on Nov. 15 in Moonachie, NJ.

	Nov. 22, 2011 Around the Nation Here are some of this week's arts and culture stories from public broadcasters around the nation.

	Nov. 22, 2011 The Daily Frame Fans of German-born, North Carolina-raised hip-hop artist J. Cole( attend a concert last week at Shepherds Bush Empire in London.

	Nov. 21, 2011 Weekly Poem: 'Radio Crackling, Radio Gone' Lisa Olstein is the author of the collections, "Radio Crackling, Radio Gone" (Copper Canyon Press, 2006), winner of the Hayden Carruth Award, and "Lost Alphabet" (Copper Canyon Press, 2009). She is associate director of MFA Program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

	Nov. 21, 2011 The Daily Frame An Egyptian protester paints graffiti reading, "Down with the military rule," on Friday, as tens of thousands rallied in Cairo's Tahrir Square.

	Nov. 18, 2011 Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art opened Nov. 11 in Bentonville, Ark. The collection was amassed by Alice Walton of the Wal-Mart fortune and includes Asher Durand's landscape "Kindred Spirits," and iconic images, such as Norman Rockwell's "Rosie the Riveter" and an Andy Warhol portrait of Dolly Parton.

	Nov. 18, 2011 Allen Gets 'Masters' Treatment on PBS A new film not by but about Woody Allen is coming to the PBS series, "American Masters." It's called "Woody Allen: A Documentary." It comes in two parts and airs on Nov. 20 and 21.

	Nov. 18, 2011 Crystal Bridges: a New Home to American Art The Crystal Bridges Museum opened last week in Bentonville, Ark. The building was designed by Moshe Safdie, and the collection was amassed by Alice Walton of the Wal-Mart fortune.

	Nov. 18, 2011 The Daily Frame Artists perform during a body paint festival in Caracas, Venezuela, on Friday. Neon lights, extravagant costumes, fluorescent paint and video transform the human body during the festival, which opened last night. Fifty artists from 18 countries will present works.

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

	Nov. 17, 2011 'Waste Land' Explores Artist's Use of Garbage to Transform Lives in Brazil The film "Waste Land" follows artist Vik Muniz as he creates portraits of a band of self-designated pickers of recyclable materials in Brazil, using the trash that surrounds them. This excerpt is part of The Economist Film Project series of independently produced films aired in partnership between The Economist and the NewsHour.

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

	Nov. 17, 2011 Culture Canvas A roundup of the week's arts and culture headlines.

	Nov. 17, 2011 The Daily Frame A woman walks past a sculpture by Stefano Pierotti titled "Berluscrotto," representing the face of former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, in Pietrasanta, Italy.

	Nov. 17, 2011 Trash in 'Waste Land' Becomes Catalyst for Transformation On Thursday's NewsHour, we'll feature an excerpt of the film "Waste Land," which follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys back to his native Brazil to the world's largest garbage dump on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro to photograph an eclectic band of catadores -- self-designated pickers of recyclable materials.

	Nov. 16, 2011 Ward, Finney Are Among 2011 National Book Award Winners Jesmyn Ward's "Salvage the Bones," a novel about a community and family devastated by Hurricane Katrina, won the National Book Award for fiction. The poetry prize went to Nikky Finney for "Head Off & Split," which explores African-American history.

	Nov. 16, 2011 Leon Keeping Busy With Two Broadway Plays Kenny Leon is directing two Broadway plays this season: "The Mountain Top," starring Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Basset, and the Alicia Keys-produced "Stick Fly," starring Dule Hill and Tracie Thoms.

	Nov. 16, 2011 The Daily Frame An exhibitor adjusts a painting at the 21st Winter Fine Art and Antiques Fair in London on Monday.

	Nov. 15, 2011 'Midnight Rising' Takes a New Look at Life, Legend of John Brown Author Tony Horwitz tells the story of John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry in his new book, "Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War." Jeffrey Brown and Horwitz discuss the life and evolving legend of Brown.

	Nov. 15, 2011 Tuesday on the NewsHour: 'Midnight Rising' Tony Horwitz reads from his book, "Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid that Sparked the Civil War."

	Nov. 15, 2011 Around the Nation Here are some of this week's arts and culture stories from public broadcasters around the nation.

	Nov. 15, 2011 The Daily Frame Visitors walk through the recently inaugurated sculpture, "Tiger & Turtle - Magic Mountain," by German artists Heike Mutter and Ulrich Genth. The sculpture, in Duisburg, is 59 feet tall and alludes to the form of a roller coaster.

	Nov. 14, 2011 Harry Belafonte Reflects on Life as a Singer, Actor and Activist Harry Belafonte is not only a musical icon, but also a lifelong political and social activist. Gwen Ifill talks with Belafonte about his life as a singer, actor and civil rights activist.

	Nov. 14, 2011 Weekly Poem: 'Leaf at the End' Lily Brown is the author of "Rust or Go Home" (Cleveland State University, 2010).

	Nov. 14, 2011 The Daily Frame Artist Kaya Mar puts the finishing touches on a painting of the Occupy London Stock protest camp outside St. Paul's Cathedral in London.

	Nov. 11, 2011 Conversation: Stephen Mitchell's New Translation of Homer's 'The Iliad' Stephen Mitchell is a poet and one of the preeminent translators and interpreters of ancient and modern classics. His works include "Gilgamesh," "Tao Te Ching," "The Book of Job," "The Gospel According to Jesus" and "The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke."

	Nov. 11, 2011 The Daily Frame Four Muslim couples in Indonesia pose for pictures during their wedding ceremonies, which took place at 11 a.m. on Nov. 11, 2011.

	Nov. 10, 2011 'We Still Live Here' Details Effort to Restore Wampanoag Language The film "We Still Live Here," tells the story of the return of the Wampanoag Indian language, the first time a language with no native speakers has been revived in this country. It's part of our series, in partnership with The Economist magazine, showcasing the art of filmmaking.

	Nov. 10, 2011 'Where Soldiers Come From' Tracks Close-Knit Unit In "Where Soldiers Come From," a documentary airing Thursday night on POV, filmmaker Heather Courtney follows a Michigan National Guard over a four-year span that include a deployment to Afghanistan, where they spend their days searching for IEDs.

	Nov. 10, 2011 Culture Canvas A roundup of the week's arts and culture headlines.

	Nov. 10, 2011 The Daily Frame Local artist Michael Pilato paints over the image of former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky that was in his "Inspiration" mural in University Park, Pa. Sandusky was replaced with a chair and blue ribbon.

	Nov. 9, 2011 Dancers, Visual Artists Share the Stage at ICA The Institute of Contemporary Arts/Boston is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year. To help mark the occasion, the museum opened a centerpiece exhibition called "Dance/Draw," which explores "the dynamic exchange taking place between visual art and dance today."

	Nov. 9, 2011 The Daily Frame A ballet dancer performs during the premiere of "Tamara" by Russian composer Mily Balakirev at the National Academic Opera and Ballet Theater in Minsk, Belarus.

	Nov. 8, 2011 Conversation: Julian Barnes, Winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize The Man Booker Prize is given annually to a novel by an author in Britain, Ireland or one of the Commonwealth nations. It is highly prestigious, as well as often highly contentious and controversial. This year was no exception. This year's prize went to one of Britain's leading writers, winning for his first time, Julian Barnes.

	Nov. 8, 2011 Around the Nation Here are four arts and culture videos from public broadcasting partners around the nation.

	Nov. 8, 2011 The Daily Frame Curatorial assistant Francesca Sidhu stands beside Leonardo da Vinci's painting, "Portrait of Cecilia Gallerani" ("The Lady with an Ermine"), which forms part of the "Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan" exhibition at the National Gallery in London.

	Nov. 7, 2011 The Story of Humanity Told Through '100 Objects' In "A History of the World in 100 Objects," British Museum director Neil MacGregor recounts the history of civilization, told through 100 treasures from the museum. Jeffrey Brown and MacGregor discuss his book.

	Nov. 7, 2011 Extended Interview: 'A History of the World in 100 Objects' In this extended conversation, Jeffrey Brown talks to Neil MacGregor, director of the British Museum and author of "A History of the World in 100 Objects," about the 16th century double-headed, serpent turquoise mosaic and what it's like to run a museum.

	Nov. 7, 2011 Weekly Poem: 'Olives' "Olives" is the title poem of A.E. Stallings' forthcoming collection, which comes out in the spring. A poet and translator, Stallings was one of this year's MacArthur Award winners.

	Nov. 7, 2011 The Daily Frame Mae Chee Sansanee Sthirasuta looks at a Buddha statue during ongoing flooding in Bangkok.

	Nov. 5, 2011 From 'A History of the World in 100 Objects' Originally presented as a BBC radio series and now a book published in America, "A History of the World in 100 Objects" tells the story of humanity using artifacts selected from the British Museum.

	Nov. 4, 2011 Omar Offendum, Hip-Hop and the Arab Spring Born in Saudi Arabia to Syrian parents and raised in America, hip-hop artist Omar Offendum uses his lyrical talents to bridge his Middle Eastern roots to his Western upbringing.

	Nov. 4, 2011 The Daily Frame Cirque du Soleil members perform at a media presentation Thursday in Boulogne-Billancourt, France.

	Nov. 3, 2011 Culture Canvas A roundup of the week's art headlines.

	Nov. 3, 2011 The Daily Frame Australian artist Simon McGrath's fiberglass sculpture, "Who Left The Tap Running," is part of the 15th annual Sculpture by the Sea exhibition in Sydney. Works by more than 100 artists from around the world are on display along the Pacific coast until Nov. 20.

	Nov. 2, 2011 'Pulphead' Tours the Geography of American Culture John Jeremiah Sullivan's new collection of essays, "Pulphead," forms a patchwork image of Americana.

	Nov. 2, 2011 The Daily Frame A model showcases a design on the catwalk during China Fashion Week.

	Nov. 1, 2011 NPR's Inskeep Explores Megacity Karachi's Vibrancy, Violence Margaret Warner gets Steve Inskeep's take on one of the world's fastest growing cities, Karachi, Pakistan, by way of his new book "Instant City."

	Nov. 1, 2011 Conversation: Doris Duke Charitable Foundation to Grant $50 Million to Artists Last month, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation announced a major new program to assist artists. The Doris Duke Performing Artists Initiative will provide $50 million in grants to 200 artists in jazz, theater and contemporary dance -- the largest allocation of cash grants ever given to individuals in these fields.

	Nov. 1, 2011 Around the Nation Here are four arts and culture videos from public broadcasting partners around the nation.

	Nov. 1, 2011 The Daily Frame Young students of the Bolshoi Ballet Academy attends a class in their school in Moscow. Some of the academy students took part in the opening of the main stage of the world famous ballet theater on Oct. 28.



	OCTOBER Oct. 31, 2011 'Wall of Martyrs' Depicts Egypt's Fallen in Graffiti Art A graffiti wall in Alexandria, Egypt depicts the faces of Egyptians who died in the country's recent revolution, for which many Egyptians consider them martyrs.

	Oct. 31, 2011 Weekly Poem: 'Half-Finished Bridge' Jim Tilley is the author of the poetry collection, "In Confidence." His poems have appeared in numerous literary journals and have won several awards. Here, he reads "Half-Finished Bridge."

	Oct. 31, 2011 The Daily Frame A man admires "Forever Bicycles," a piece by Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei, at the Taipei Fine Art Museum. "Ai Weiwei Absent" opened last weekend and features installations, photography, sculptures and videos.

	Oct. 28, 2011 San Francisco Symphony Orchestra Turns 100 The San Francisco Symphony turned 100 this year. With a busy touring schedule and listeners around the world, the symphony has won some of the most prestigious awards in music. Jeffrey Brown talks to its musical director of 17 years, Michael Tilson Thomas.

	Oct. 28, 2011 Steve Jobs Biography Examines How Rule-Breaker Tied 'Artistry to Engineering' Author Walter Isaacson tells the story of Apple's late co-founder in a new biography simply titled "Steve Jobs." Jeffrey Brown and Isaacson discuss Jobs' personality, legacy and how his love of the arts shaped his views on innovation.

	Oct. 28, 2011 The Daily Frame Pumpkin lanterns light up a street in Shenyang, China.

	Oct. 27, 2011 While Netflix Stumbles, Competitors See New Opportunity Major changes to the Netflix rental system sent its stock plummeting Tuesday after losing 800,000 customers between June and September. Margret Warner discusses Netflix's recent business troubles with StreamingMedia.com's Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen and The Washington Post's Cecilia Kang.

	Oct. 27, 2011 Gibson Guitars Under Investigation An unlikely culprit has stirred up controversy in the music community: The Lacey Act, legislation aimed to curb illegal logging. Based on suspicions that the Gibson Guitar Corporation violated the act by importing illegal wood, federal agents raided the company's facilities in Tennessee in August.

	Oct. 27, 2011 Culture Canvas A roundup of the week's art headlines.

	Oct. 27, 2011 The Daily Frame Dancers Lana Jones, left, and Amber Scott of the Australian Ballet pose at the Lincoln Center fountain in New York on Wednesday. The ballet company will perform "Swan Lake" at the Lincoln Center in June 2012.

	Oct. 26, 2011 Waiting for a Revelation in 'A Bright New Boise' There's no shortage of man-made and natural disasters, political upheavals, economic collapse and nationwide pessimism dominating the current state of affairs. This bleak societal backdrop sets the stage for the religious fervor and search for deliverance at the heart of Samuel D. Hunter's play, "A Bright New Boise."

	Oct. 26, 2011 The Daily Frame Protesters in Stratford-upon-Avon, England covered signs and statues featuring Shakespeare to protest over the film "Anonymous."

	Oct. 25, 2011 Olivetti Hit Keys for Success: Good Design "Olivetti: Innovation & Identity," a small exhibit at the Denver Art Museum tied to a larger show about modern design, examines how an Italian company making typewriters and calculators forged its reputation on the idea that the customer's aesthetic experience matters.

	Oct. 25, 2011 Around the Nation Here are four arts and culture videos from public broadcasting partners around the nation.

	Oct. 25, 2011 The Daily Frame Visitors walk around a sculpture titled "BigFoot" by Israeli artist Idan Zareski during Bogota's International Art Fair (ArtBo) in Colombia. Galleries from 14 countries from Europe and Latin America, collectors, curators and critics are participating in the seventh edition of ArtBo.

	Oct. 24, 2011 In 'Human Chain,' Nobel-Winning Poet Seamus Heaney Digs Into the Past In his native Ireland, he's known as "Famous Seamus," and indeed, Seamus Heaney -- winner of the Nobel Prize in 1995 -- is a world-famous poet. Now 72, his new collection, "Human Chain," contains poems that are, as always for him, grounded in the physical world but also take a look back.

	Oct. 24, 2011 Weekly Poem: 'Death of a Naturalist' Nobel winning poet Seamus Heaney reads "Death of a Naturalist."

	Oct. 24, 2011 The Daily Frame A woman looks at work by Syrian artist Khaled Takreti during the Modern and Contemporary Arab, Iranian and Turkish Art exhibition at Christie's in Dubai.

	Oct. 21, 2011 'Margin Call': Calm Before the Storm of 2008 Financial Crisis The 2008 financial collapse is a complex phenomenon to fathom. It's an even harder phenomenon to recreate in a cinematic narrative. "Margin Call" takes on that challenge and offers a fictional account of the first 24 hours inside a Wall Street financial firm as it discovers that it's over-run with toxic assets.

	Oct. 21, 2011 The Daily Frame Actors Paola di Meglio, Paola Gassman and Ugo Pagliai perform during a dress rehearsal of "Wordstar(s)" at Teatro Goldoni on October 20 in Venice, Italy.

	Oct. 20, 2011 In 'The Death-Ray,' the Powers of a Teenage Superhero You may not yet recognize artist, writer and cartoonist Daniel Clowes by name, but there's a growing chance that you've been exposed to his work. His latest work to be published into hardcover form is "The Death-Ray," a very different take on the superhero genre.

	Oct. 20, 2011 Culture Canvas Julian Barnes has won the Man Booker prize for his short novel, "The Sense of an Ending." The prize, which was announced Tuesday, comes with an $80,000 prize. It was Barnes' fourth time on the shortlist. The novel, only 150 pages long, is about memory and tells the story of a middle-aged man exploring his past.

	Oct. 20, 2011 The Daily Frame A woman stands next to "More of the Day" by artist Karla Black at the Turner Prize 2011 exhibition at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, England. Four artists -- Black, Martin Boyce, Hilary Lloyd and George Shaw -- have been nominated for this year's prestigious Turner Prize, which will be awarded on Dec. 5.

	Oct. 19, 2011 The Daily Frame An installation by Spanish artist Pilar Albarracin on the opening day of the International Contemporary Art Fair at the Grand Palais in Paris.

	Oct. 18, 2011 Around the Nation Here are some of this week's arts and culture stories from public broadcasters around the nation.

	Oct. 18, 2011 The Daily Frame A woman walks past a painting by American artist George Condo titled "Pink and Orange Abstraction," in the Mental States exhibition of his work at The Hayward Gallery on Oct. 17 in London.

	Oct. 17, 2011 The Daily Frame A young laborer dips earthen lamps into paint Monday in Amritsar, India, ahead of the Hindu festival of Diwali.

	Oct. 17, 2011 Weekly Poem: 'See You Tomorrow Night' Terri Witek is the Art & Melissa Sullivan Chair in Creative Writing at Stetson University. She is the author of "The Shipwreck Dress," (2008, Florida Book Award Winner), "Carnal World" (2006), "Fools and Crows" (2003), and "Courting Couples" (2000 Center for Book Arts Prize).

	Oct. 14, 2011 Architect Safdie Makes Sure Everything Stays up to Date in Kansas City Jeffrey Brown speaks with Moshe Safdie, architect of the brand-new $326 million Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in Kansas City, about the moral purpose of architecture and the need for a building to reflect the cultural essence of its location while remaining timeless.

	Oct. 14, 2011 Architect Moshe Safdie Uplifts the Skyline and Spirit of Kansas City Jeffrey Brown speaks to Moshe Safdie, architect of the Kauffman Center in Kansas, about the moral purpose of architecture and the need for a building to reflect the cultural essence of its location and on opening night, the Canadian Brass performed a fanfare composed specifically for the event.

	Oct. 14, 2011 The Daily Frame The Radio City Rockettes rehearse in New York October for this year's production of the Radio City Christmas Spectacular.

	Oct. 13, 2011 Ancient Paint Studio Unearthed Researchers have unearthed two abalone shells from a South African cave that they believe were used to produce and store a mixture of pigmented paint, and that possibly represent the first known use of containers.

	Oct. 13, 2011 Culture Canvas A roundup of the week's art headlines.

	Oct. 13, 2011 The Daily Frame Traditional Chham dancers in Bhutan perform during a dress rehearsal for the royal wedding of King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck and his fiancee Jetsun Pema.

	Oct. 12, 2011 Novelist Alaa Al Aswany on Surprising Changes in the Egyptian People Egyptian novelist and dentist Alaa al Aswany speaks with Margret Warner about the surprising changes in political behavior of his countrymen amid the revolution earlier this year, and how the new Egypt is taking shape.

	Oct. 12, 2011 Negotiating Asian-American Identity Through Portraiture The work of seven visual artists in the recent exhibit, Portraiture Now: Asian American Portraits of Encounter, highlights the unique and diverse experiences of Asian American identity.

	Oct. 12, 2011 Negotiating Asian-American Identity Through Portraiture The work of seven visual artists in the recent exhibit, Portraiture Now: Asian American Portraits of Encounter, highlights the unique and diverse experiences of Asian-American identity.

	Oct. 12, 2011 The Daily Frame A picture of a face with Japan's flag painted on it is cast on a giant, plaster face on Tuesday night in Berlin's Potsdamer Platz.

	Oct. 11, 2011 Around the Nation Here are some of this week's arts and culture stories from public broadcasters around the nation.

	Oct. 11, 2011 The Daily Frame A troupe performs a traditional dragon dance Monday in front of Taiwan's Presidential Office in Taipei. The performance was part of a celebration marking the centennial of the uprising that ended imperial rule in China. Taiwan and China -- which split amid civil war in 1949 -- both celebrate the anniversary.

	Oct. 10, 2011 Anita Hill Reflects on 20 Years Since Clarence Thomas Hearings Twenty years ago, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' Senate confirmation process sparked a national debate about sexual harassment when Anita Hill, his former special assistant, accused him of inappropriate behavior. Gwen Ifill and Hill discuss her new book, "Reimagining Equality: Stories of Gender, Race and Finding Home."

	Oct. 10, 2011 In Pursuit of the Great White Whale, via Paintbrush In August 2009 Matt Kish, a librarian by trade and artist by night, decided to draw one image for every page of of his long-time favorite novel - "Moby-Dick". Kish spent the next 543 days in pursuit of his own white whale - the illustration of his book's 552 pages.

	Oct. 10, 2011 Weekly Poem: 'Fiat Lux' Traci Brimhall is the author of "Our Lady of the Ruins" (forthcoming from W.W. Norton), winner of the 2011 Barnard Women Poets Prize, and "Rookery" (Southern Illinois University Press, 2010), winner of the 2009 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award.

	Oct. 10, 2011 The Daily Frame A new public sculpture, "Search For Enlightenment," was installed yesterday in London, England. Photo by Ian Gavan/ Getty Images for Halcyon Gallery.

	Oct. 7, 2011 Al-Bassam Theatre Takes Inspiration From Shakespeare and the Arab Spring Kuwaiti playwright and theater director Sulayman al-Bassam adapts Shakespearean plays to the modern Arab context to explore issues of religion and society in the contemporary Gulf. Art Beat spoke with al-Bassam on the phone from Brooklyn about the effect of the Arab Spring on his play and on art across the Arab world.

	Oct. 7, 2011 Whitney Exhibit Walks the Line Between Real and Surreal A new exhibit at the Whitney Museum in New York aims to highlight intersections between representation and fantasy. The exhibit, "Real/Surreal," which opened this week, showcases art from the museum's permanent collection that blurs the lines between the two artistic styles.

	Oct. 7, 2011 The Daily Frame Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu studies a portrait of himself. The painting was presented to him Thursday in Cape Town, South Africa, upon the launch of his biography, "Tutu: The Authorised Portrait." Friday marks his 80th birthday. Tutu rose to worldwide attention for his opposition to apartheid and won the Nobel Peace Prize.

	Oct. 6, 2011 Culture Canvas In this week's roundup of art headlines, Motown guitarist and songwriter Marv Tarplin is dead at 70 and the White House has named October as National Arts and Humanities Month.

	Oct. 6, 2011 The Old Man and the Boat: Hemingway's Quest for Peace Paul Hendrickson, the author of "Hemingway's Boat, Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961," is the latest biographer to delve into Ernest Hemingway, and he does so by narrowing his narrative focus on the famous writer's 38-foot motorized fishing vessel, Pilar.

	Oct. 6, 2011 Transtromer, Swedish Poet With 'Tinge of Modernism, Surrealism,' Wins Nobel The 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature has gone to Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer, the first poet to win the award since 1996. Judges selected Transtromer because, they wrote, "through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality."

	Oct. 6, 2011 'Hemingway's Boat': How Pilar Weathered the Storms of Fame, Ruin It's been 50 years since Ernest Hemingway was found next to his shotgun in Ketchum, Idaho. Yet the life and times of the iconic American author remains an open book for scholars and historians to meticulously pore over.

	Oct. 6, 2011 The Daily Frame A visitor looks at a painting by 15th century artist Filippino Lippi at the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome. A retrospective of Lippi's work opened there Wednesday.

	Oct. 5, 2011 Poet Philip Schultz Details Life-Long Struggle in New Memoir 'My Dyslexia' Poet Philip Schultz details his life-long struggle to overcome dyslexia in his new memoir. Jeffrey Brown profiles the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet's latest work, "My Dyslexia."

	Oct. 5, 2011 Poet Philip Schultz Shares His Work Philip Schultz is a poet, fiction writer and educator. He has been teaching creative writing for nearly 30 years. In 1987, he founded the Writers Studio in New York. He won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for "Failure."

	Oct. 5, 2011 Poet Donald Hall Reflects on Love, Death and New Hampshire "Love, death and New Hampshire," Donald Hall once said when asked what he writes about. It remains true in the former U.S. Poet Laureate's newly published book of poems, "The Back Chamber."

	Oct. 5, 2011 The Daily Frame Dancers from Garth Fagan Dance perform a scene from the world premiere of "Madiba" during a dress rehearsal.

	Oct. 4, 2011 The Daily Frame An Andy Warhol limited edition signed print from the Cowboys and Indians series is on display at an auction preview of items owned by film star John Wayne.

	Oct. 4, 2011 Around the Nation A round-up of recent arts and culture videos from public broadcasters around the nation.

	Oct. 3, 2011 The Daily Frame Cast and crew celebrate on stage Sunday night during the 25th anniversary performance of Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Phantom Of The Opera" at the Royal Albert Hall in London.

	Oct. 3, 2011 Weekly Poem: Remembering Taha Muhammad Ali Poet Taha Muhammad Ali was born in 1931 in the Galilee village of Saffuriya. After fleeing to Lebanon during the Arab-Israeli war of 1948, he and his family settled in Nazareth where they have lived since. Ali died Sunday. Watch an excerpt of a 2007 conversation with Jeffrey Brown.



	SEPTEMBER Sept. 30, 2011 Rita Moreno Acts Out Own Career in 'Life Without Makeup' Actress Rita Moreno, 80, now has a solo show about her life as a star of stage and screen called "Life Without Makeup." In a joint production with KQED San Francisco, correspondent Spencer Michels reports on the performer's transformation from a "utilitarian ethnic" actress to becoming a "show business animal."

	Sept. 30, 2011 Conversation: A.E. Stallings, Poet and Translator Inspired by the Classics The MacArthur Awards were recently announced, and one of the winners this year was the poet and translator A.E. Stallings.

	Sept. 30, 2011 The Daily Frame An Indian idol-maker draws eyes onto a clay statue of the Hindu goddess Durga. Photo by Diptendu Dutta/ AFP/ Getty Images.

	Sept. 29, 2011 Vieux Farka Toure Follows His Father's Footsteps But Breaks New Path On his third studio album, "The Secret," Toure blends American and African blues, soul and funk, producing a unique hybrid of melodies.

	Sept. 29, 2011 Culture Canvas In this week's arts and culture headlines, Sean Penn assists in the release of two American hikers jailed in Iran.

	Sept. 29, 2011 The Daily Frame Actors perform Kunqu, one of the oldest forms of Chinese Opera, on the subway this week in Nanjing, China. Photo by ChinaFotoPress /Getty Images.

	Sept. 28, 2011 Novelist Banks Explores Sex Crime Outcasts' Social, Psychological Issues In the novel "Lost Memory of Skin," author Russell Banks delves into deep issues of American life rarely raised or seen by most people. Jeffrey Brown and Banks discuss the book that explores a fictional group of convicted sex offenders.

	Sept. 28, 2011 Extended Interview: Russell Banks on 'Lost Memory of Skin' A squalid encampment under a causeway in an American city is the unusual and charged setting for a new novel, "Lost Memory of Skin," which explores some deep issues of American life rarely raised and rarely seen by most of us.

	Sept. 28, 2011 Seven Notable Banned Books The last week of September marks National Banned Books Week. Here are seven books both modern and classic that have been banned or challenged in the past decade. Each book has also been featured on the NewsHour broadcast or website.

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

	Sept. 28, 2011 The Daily Frame Technicians install a sculpture by German artist Georg Baselitz at the Paris Museum of Modern Art. Photo by Jacques Demarthon/ AFP/ Getty Images.

	Sept. 27, 2011 Jill Scott Finds 'Sun' in the Studio and Fun on Tour This summer, singer Jill Scott has been busy promoting her fourth studio album, "The Light of the Sun," and wrapping up a critically acclaimed summer tour.

	Sept. 27, 2011 Around the Nation Here are some of this week's arts and culture stories from public broadcasters around the nation.

	Sept. 27, 2011 The Daily Frame Gallery manager Anna Burdon-Cooper poses with an Ivorian Dan Gere African tribal mask, part of the 'Tribal Perspectives' exhibition at London's Gallery in Cork Street.

	Sept. 26, 2011 New 'Porgy and Bess' Interpretation Provokes as Opera Continues to Resonate Reinterpreting a classic work is always a sensitive undertaking, but when that classic is "Porgy and Bess," the singular American opera, it can get downright controversial. WGBH-Boston's Jared Bowen reports.

	Sept. 26, 2011 Weekly Poem: 'The Field Has a Girl' Laurel Snyder is the author of two books of poems, "Daphne & Jim: a choose-your-own-adventure biography in verse" (Burnside Review Press, 2005) and "The Myth of the Simple Machines" (No Tell Books, 2007);

	Sept. 26, 2011 The Daily Frame Students in Sri Lanka take part in a painting competition yesterday. Photo credit: Ishara S. Kodikara /AFP /Getty Images.

	Sept. 23, 2011 Conversation: Francisco Nunez, Choral Conductor for Kids Nunez is the artistic director of the Young People's Chorus of New York City, which he also founded in 1988.

	Sept. 23, 2011 The Daily Frame An Indian folk dancer from the Zanzar Performing Arts poses with her troupe during a rehearsal for the upcoming Navratri festival in Ahmedabad.

	Sept. 22, 2011 Floods, Fires, Storms Are Fodder for Centuries of Poems In a year of floods, fires and storms making headlines around the world, poet and editor Jeffrey Yang chronicles how writers have grappled with the power of nature over the centuries in his new book. Jeffrey Brown and Yang discuss the poetic perspective of the beauty and power of nature.

	Sept. 22, 2011 'Last Train Home' Traces Travels of China's Migrant Workers In "Last Train Home" filmmaker Lixin Fan documents the migration of millions of Chinese workers during the Chinese New Year -- the largest human migration in the world -- through the prism of one family. This documentary is part of a series of independently produced films aired in partnership between The Economist and NewsHour.

	Sept. 22, 2011 R.E.M. Breaks Up (Everybody Cries) After 31 years as a band, R.E.M. announced Wednesday that they're calling it quits. Jeffrey Brown talks to Anthony DeCurtis, a longtime contributing editor for Rolling Stone magazine, about the band from Athens, Ga., that shaped much of the alternative music of the era.

	Sept. 22, 2011 Culture Canvas In this week's arts and culture headlines, some arts groups have voiced concern about what may happen to charitable giving if tax breaks for wealthy Americans are limited.

	Sept. 22, 2011 The Daily Frame An ink and wash illustration shows defense attorney Caleb Sidney Carlton, left, and defense witness Carolyn Bryant during the trial of her husband, Roy Bryant, and J.W. Milam in the Tallahatchie County courthouse in Sumner, Miss., on Sept. 22, 1955.

	Sept. 21, 2011 'Last Train Home' Goes on Journey With Chinese Migrant Workers This week on the NewsHour, "Last Train Home," a documentary that looks at the annual migration of millions of factory workers, will be airing as part of our partnership with The Economist Film Project. Jeffrey Brown talks to director Lixin Fan.

	Sept. 21, 2011 The Daily Frame An art installation entitled "REDDRESS" by South Korean artist Aamu Song sprawls across the floor at London's York Hall.

	Sept. 20, 2011 'Heart of a Soldier' Opera Chronicles Heroism, Love Amid Tragedy of 9/11 Rick Rescorla saved lives during the Vietnam War, and again on 9/11, but he lost his life as a result. His story, told in the book "Heart of a Soldier" by James Stewart, has been recast as an opera in San Francisco. Spencer Michels reports.

	Sept. 20, 2011 Must-Read List: Understanding the Netflix Split Netflix's announcement that it will split its video service into two separate operations -- with a renamed DVD-by-mail service that will now be called Qwikster and an online-streaming service that will remain known as Netflix -- seems to be crash-landing with a big thud among many customers.

	Sept. 20, 2011 Musicians, Poets, Silversmith Among 2011 MacArthur Fellows Early Tuesday, the latest class of MacArthur Fellows was announced, an honor that awards $500,000 to leading scholars, thinkers and creatives in the United States. Seven of the fellows are directly involved in the arts.

	Sept. 20, 2011 Around the Nation A round-up of recent arts and culture videos from public broadcasters around the nation.

	Sept. 20, 2011 The Daily Frame A model displays a creation by British designer Giles Deacon on Monday, the fourth day of London Fashion Week.

	Sept. 20, 2011 Musicians, Poets, Silversmith Among 2011 MacArthur Fellows Seven of this year's MacArthur grant recipients are artists, musicians, writers or designers.

	Sept. 19, 2011 Weekly Poem: 'Crossword' Sally Bliumis-Dunn is the author of "Second Skin" (Wind Publications, 2010) and "Talking Underwater" (Wind Publications, 2007)". She teaches teaches modern poetry and creative writing at Manhattanville College.

	Sept. 19, 2011 The Daily Frame Visitors take photos in front of a portrait of the Soviet Union's founding father, Vladimir Lenin, at Bulgaria's first museum of state-sponsored, propaganda art from its Communist regime.

	Sept. 16, 2011 Calls for 'Freedom', Words of Support Dominate Tahrir Square Graffiti Much like the Egyptian music scene, street art has gained new meaning and is thriving in post-revolutionary Egypt.

	Sept. 16, 2011 Conversation: Tom Piazza, Author of 'Devil Sent the Rain' Tom Piazza's works of fiction include the novel, "City of Refuge" and those of non-fiction include "Why New Orleans Matters." His new book is a collection of essays on a wide array of topics, titled "Devil Sent the Rain."

	Sept. 16, 2011 Even Where Times are Relatively Good, Worries Persist There are a lot of towns in America that would trade places with this city, which sits just over the Massachusetts border. The unemployment rate is an unusually low 5.4 percent and people, on the whole, earn a good living, with a median family income of $61,000.

	Sept. 15, 2011 N.Y. Photographer Captures 9/11 Tributes in Unexpected Places New York-based photographer Jonathan Hyman knew that the 9/11 attacks would alter the lives of Americans everywhere and it was his intention to capture the nation's vernacular response.

	Sept. 15, 2011 Art Notes In this week's roundup of arts and culture headlines, the inventor of the e-book and the "father" of pop art have died.

	Sept. 15, 2011 At 75, Godfather of Go-go Chuck Brown Is Still 'Bustin' Loose' After 49 years in the music industry, native Washingtonian Chuck Brown wanted to spend his recently celebrated 75th birthday doing what he's become legendary for in his hometown: performing to a sold-out crowd and jamming to his signature musical genre, go-go.

	Sept. 14, 2011 'Just My Type' Is a Love Letter to Letters Passion and fonts -- love for them, conviction about their usage, and the dedication of their designers -- are the chief actors in Simon Garfield's 'Just My Type,' released first in the U.K. and now in the U.S. this month.

	Sept. 13, 2011 'Tension City' Reflects on Jim Lehrer's Decades Moderating Presidential Debates In his new book, "Tension City: Inside the Presidential Debates, from Kennedy-Nixon to Obama-McCain," NewsHour Executive Editor Jim Lehrer looks back at more than 40 years of televised political debates in America. Jeffrey Brown and Lehrer discuss his unique front-row seat to history as a 10-time presidential debate moderator.

	Sept. 13, 2011 Jim Lehrer on 'Tension' of Candidates, Moderators in Presidential Debates In his new book out Tuesday, NewsHour Executive Editor Jim Lehrer, known as "the dean of moderators," looks at more than 40 years of televised political debates in America and draws on his own presidential moderating experience since 1988.

	Sept. 13, 2011 Around the Nation A round-up of recent arts and culture videos from public broadcasters around the nation.

	Sept. 12, 2011 Weekly Poem: 'Duration' Valerie Nieman is the author of the poetry collection, "Wake Wake Wake"; three novels, "Blood Clay," "Survivors" and "Neena Gathering"; and a collection of short fiction, "Fidelities."She teaches at North Carolina A&T State University.

	Sept. 11, 2011 Poet Billy Collins Reflects on 9/11 Victims in 'The Names' Billy Collins was the U.S. poet laureate at the time of the 9/11 attacks. A year later, he wrote "The Names" in honor of the victims. He read the poem before a special joint session of Congress held in New York City in 2002, and reads it again now.

	Sept. 11, 2011 New Yorker, Poet Nancy Mercado Reads 'Going to Work' After the attacks of September 11th, New Yorker and poet, Nany Mercado, felt compelled to write about what she lost when the World Trade Center Towers came down. Mercado reads her poem, "Going to Work." It was included in "Poetry After 9/11: An Anthology of New York Poets."

	Sept. 11, 2011 9/11 in Art: Photographer Captures Tributes in Murals, Tattoos, Graffiti New York-based photographer Jonathan Hyman knew that the attacks would alter the lives of Americans everywhere and it was his intention to capture the nation's vernacular response.

	Sept. 9, 2011 Conversation: 'Rebirth' Tells Stories of Healing After Attacks From 2002 to 2009, director Jim Whitaker and a film crew chronicled the lives of five people who were directly impacted by the attack on the Twin Towers on 9/11 for a new documentary, "Rebirth."

	Sept. 9, 2011 San Francisco Opera Sets 9/11 to Music The San Francisco Opera is presenting "Heart of a Soldier," based on James B. Stewart's book about 9/11 hero, Rick Rescorla.

	Sept. 8, 2011 'The Submission' Imagines 9/11 Memorial With an Alternate History What if a jury selected a design for the new 9/11 memorial and then discovered that its architect was a Muslim? A new novel, "The Submission," by Amy Waldman, explores that imagined scenario. Jeffrey Brown and the author discuss her debut novel.

	Sept. 8, 2011 'America Remembers 9/11': Reading by Poets Billy Collins, Nancy Mercado For our "America Remembers 9/11" special program, we invited two poets -- Billy Collins and Nancy Mercado -- to each read a poem to mark the anniversary.

	Sept. 8, 2011 Joel Meyerowitz Documented Ground Zero 'Aftermath' Photographer Joel Meyerowitz spent months at Ground Zero, amassing roughly 8,000 images of the destruction and the heroic recovery efforts.

	Sept. 8, 2011 Around the Nation: Reflecting on 9/11 In a special edition of our Around the Nation feature, we share some of this week's arts and culture stories about 9/11 from public broadcasting stations around the nation.

	Sept. 8, 2011 Thursday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, a Rodin sculpture is vandalized in Buenos Aires.

	Sept. 7, 2011 'Aftermath': Photos of Ground Zero by Joel Meyerowitz In first days after 9/11, one photographer was allowed into Ground Zero in New York. Joel Meyerowitz spent months amassing roughly 8,000 images of the destruction and the heroic efforts at the site of the World Trade Center.

	Sept. 7, 2011 Conversation: Amy Waldman, Author of 'The Submission' What if a jury selected a design for the new 9/11 memorial and then discovered that its architect was a Muslim? Ten years after the terrorist attack, the actual memorial is just about to open. But an alternative history is imagined in the new novel, "The Submission."

	Sept. 7, 2011 Wednesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Iran bans another filmmaker from leaving the country.

	Sept. 6, 2011 Moby Reflects on 9/11 In the days that followed 9/11, musician and DJ Moby wrote about the experience of living just a mile from Ground Zero on his blog, which was one of the first by a musician at the time. It was an intimate and unique account, as well as one that got him into a little trouble and some bad press.

	Sept. 6, 2011 Tuesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, archaeologists discover a pristine, ancient Chinese tomb.

	Sept. 2, 2011 The Art of Saif al-Islam Gadhafi As we speak, Saif al-Islam Gadhafi, the son and would-be heir to Moammar Gadhafi, is on the run and still vowing not to surrender to the rebels in Libya. Under very different circumstances in 2002, he staged an exhibition of his art in London.

	Sept. 2, 2011 The Artwork of Saif al-Islam Gadhafi Saif al-Islam Gadhafi, the son of Moammar Gadhafi and would-be heir to Libya, is vowing not to surrender to the Libyan rebels. As recently as 2010, under very different circumstances, the perception of Saif al-Islam Gadhafi was much different as an exhibition of his art traveled around the world.

	Sept. 2, 2011 From New York State to Nagaland, Art, Film and Hospitality Are Common Bonds Spurred by curiosity, Heather Layton and Brian Bailey set off from Rochester, NY., last December to visit Nagaland, a place around the world about which they knew almost nothing.

	Sept. 2, 2011 Friday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, a protest disrupted a London concert by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.

	Sept. 1, 2011 Around the Nation Here are four arts and culture videos from public broadcasting that you may have missed.

	Sept. 1, 2011 Thursday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, art works are still missing after the terrorist attack in Oslo in July.



	AUGUST Aug. 31, 2011 Asia Society Exhibit Explores Pakistan's Buddhist Past 'The Buddhist Heritage of Pakistan: Art of Gandhara,' a new exhibit at the Asia Society in New York, is the first American show in decades to examine works from this chapter of Pakistani history.

	Aug. 31, 2011 Wednesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, poet Maya Angelou wants a change made to the newly opened Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial.

	Aug. 30, 2011 Poet, Activist Ernesto Cardenal Explores Cosmos, Humanity in Verse Ernesto Cardenal, one of Latin America's most renowned, but also controversial, poets and political activists, has shifted his recent work to reflect on humanity's connection to nature and relationship to the universe. Ray Suarez speaks with the poet about his life and writing.

	Aug. 30, 2011 Real-Life Thriller Explores al-Qaida Triple Agent's CIA Infiltration, Bombing In the real-life thriller, "The Triple Agent: The al-Qaeda Mole Who Infiltrated the CIA," author Joby Warrick examines the unlikely story of an operative who infiltrated the CIA and detonated a suicide bomb at a U.S. base in Afghanistan. Margaret Warner discusses the spy story with Warrick.

	Aug. 30, 2011 Bon Iver Showcases Bold New Sound Since its origin as a solo project in a cabin in the Wisconsin woods four years ago, the band Bon Iver and its critically acclaimed albums have grown in number, scope and sound.

	Aug. 30, 2011 Tuesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Delta Blues singer David Honeyboy Edwards has died.

	Aug. 29, 2011 Weekly Poem: 'All I Know About Love' Lynnell Edwards is the author of two collections of poetry, both from Red Hen Press: "The Highwayman's Wife" (2007) and "The Farmer's Daughter" (2003). She teaches at the University of Louisville.

	Aug. 29, 2011 Monday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Hurricane Irene wreaked havoc on east coast box offices.

	Aug. 26, 2011 In 'Salvage the Bones,' Jesmyn Ward Tells Personal Story of Hurricane Katrina "Salvage the Bones," a new novel by Jesmyn Ward, tells the story of a Mississippi Gulf Coast family in the days leading up to Hurricane Katrina, which made landfall in the U.S. now six years ago this week.

	Aug. 26, 2011 Friday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, NASA teams up with a publishing company to make science fiction more scientific.

	Aug. 25, 2011 Dave Stewart Gets the Blues for 'Blackbird Diaries' Dave Stewart has a new solo album called Blackbird Diaries. His first solo album in nearly 13 years was recorded in Nashville and is heavily influenced by the Blues and Americana music.

	Aug. 25, 2011 Thursday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Ali Ferzat, Syria's best-known political cartoonist, was severely beaten.

	Aug. 24, 2011 'Conquistadora' Paints Epic Tale of Love, Adventure in Puerto Rico The new novel "Conquistadora" paints a picture of love and adventure as a young women travels from Spain to Puerto Rico where her husband has inherited a sugar plantation. Jeffrey Brown speaks with author Esmeralda Santiago about the epic story and her own tale of teaching herself to read and write again after a stroke.

	Aug. 24, 2011 Around the Nation Here are three arts or performance videos you may have missed from public broadcasters around the nation.

	Aug. 24, 2011 Wednesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, an earthquake Tuesday caused some damage to D.C. landmarks.

	Aug. 23, 2011 President Obama's Shelf Awareness Like many Americans, presidents often turn to a good book to ease a troubled mind, and dissecting their summer reading lists has become a bit of an annual tradition.

	Aug. 23, 2011 Tuesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, two great American pop songwriters have died.

	Aug. 22, 2011 Weekly Poem: 'Something Touched My Heart' Travis Nichols is an editor at the Poetry Foundation and the author of the collection of poems, "See Me Improving" (2010, Copper Canyon Press).

	Aug. 22, 2011 Monday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, the national monument to Martin Luther King Jr. has opened to the public.

	Aug. 19, 2011 Philip Glass Composes New Arts Festival The Days and Nights Festival of the Arts, led by composer Philip Glass, begins its inaugural season this weekend.

	Aug. 19, 2011 Friday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, five people are dead after the stage collapses at an outdoor music festival.

	Aug. 18, 2011 In a Station of the Metro, an Apparition of Color From Sam Gilliam Sam Gilliam's studio has the airy feel of a warehouse, but it boasts densities of colors and shapes. Sculptural paintings hang like scarves over the walls, and slabs of plywood are thick with hardened acrylics.

	Aug. 18, 2011 Thursday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Venice considers how to handle a disintegrating landmark.

	Aug. 17, 2011 Wednesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, a legal battle over an iconic 1970s hit may set an important precedent for copyright law.

	Aug. 17, 2011 Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings: Two Voices, 10 Kinds of Sad The first duet recording in a decade from Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings stands out as some of the best of what they have to offer: tight harmonies, haunting lyrics and effortless melodies.

	Aug. 17, 2011 Drawing The White Whale In August 2009 Matt Kish, a librarian by trade and artist by night, decided to draw one image for every page of of his long-time favorite novel - "Moby-Dick". Kish spent the next 543 days in pursuit of his own white whale - the illustration of his book's 552 pages.

	Aug. 16, 2011 Gertrude Stein's 'Four Saints in Three Acts' Achieves a Good Afterlife Besides being featured in two major art shows, where works collected by Gertrude Stein and her family in Paris during the early days of the 20th century are on display, an avant garde opera written by Stein and composer Virgil Thompson is set to open on Thursday at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

	Aug. 16, 2011 Tuesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, prominent Bangladeshi filmmaker Tareque Masud died in a car crash.

	Aug. 15, 2011 Cate Blanchett on Reviving Theater Classic 'Uncle Vanya' for Modern Stage Australian actors Cate Blanchett and Richard Roxburgh have brought the Anton Chekhov classic "Uncle Vanya" back to the stage, playing now at Washington's Kennedy Center. Jeffrey Brown speaks with the actors about the challenges of staging the play for a modern audience and why so many Australians seem to be acting these days.

	Aug. 15, 2011 Monday on the NewsHour: Cate Blanchett and Richard Roxburgh Actress Cate Blanchett came from the theater, and to the theater she's returned. Now artistic director of the Sydney Theatre Company, she and her husband Andrew Upton have brought a new production of 'Uncle Vanya' to Washington.

	Aug. 15, 2011 Weekly Poem: 'Observation' Jenn 's work has appeared in several literary journals. She teaches English at Pikes Peak Community College in Colorado Springs.

	Aug. 15, 2011 Monday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, a Rembrandt got swiped from an L.A. hotel.

	Aug. 12, 2011 Conversation: Esmeralda Santiago, Author of 'Conquistadora' Set in the 1800's, Esmeralda Santiago's epic novel, "Conquistadora," tells two coming-of-age stories: one of its heroine, Ana Cubillas, the daughter of Spanish aristocrats who becomes head of a plantation in the new world, and the other of Puerto Rico itself.

	Aug. 12, 2011 Friday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, the Met will not make a loan to Russia's Kremlin museum.

	Aug. 11, 2011 Around the Nation A round-up of great arts and culture videos from public broadcasters around the nation.

	Aug. 11, 2011 Thursday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, an update on the construction of the new Barnes Foundation building.

	Aug. 10, 2011 Working-Class Poet Levine Named Nation's Next Laureate Philip Levine, a former auto worker who became a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, was named Wednesday as the next poet laureate of the United States. Jeffrey Brown profiled Levine last year.

	Aug. 10, 2011 Levine Named Next U.S. Poet Laureate The Library of Congress announced Wednesday that Philip Levine will be the 18th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2011-2012. Levine, 83, succeeds W.S. Merwin.

	Aug. 10, 2011 Wednesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, an artist who wanted to paint infinity has died.

	Aug. 9, 2011 Exhibit Unravels Mysteries of Ancient Chinese Temples Through History, Science An art exhibit at the Smithsonian in Washington is bringing together art, history and science to solve the mysteries of Chinese temples that date back to the 6th century. Jeffery Brown reports.

	Aug. 9, 2011 Tuesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, the stock of more than 150 independent record labels was destroyed Monday night after rioters in London set fire to a warehouse.

	Aug. 8, 2011 Weekly Poem: 'Elegy VII (Last Moment)' Jason Schneiderman is the author of "Striking Surface," winner of the Richard Snyder prize from Ashland Poetry Press, and "Sublimation Point" (Four Way Books). He directs the Writing Center at the Borough of Manhattan Community College.

	Aug. 8, 2011 Monday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Congress and Kennedy Center officials are being blamed for extensive budget and staff cuts to VSA, the nation's leading arts education organization for the disabled.

	Aug. 5, 2011 Pulitzer-winning 'Clybourne Park' Returns to Woolly Mammoth Jeffrey Brown talks to Howard Shalwitz, artistic director and co-founder of the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, about Bruce Norris' Pulitzer Prize-winning play, "Clybourne Park."

	Aug. 5, 2011 Corcoran Recalls Influence of Washington Color School An exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, "Washington Color and Light," examines the methodology and breadth of the Washington Color School.

	Aug. 5, 2011 Friday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, a nine-ton statue of a pharaoh is en route to New York's Met via ship from Germany.

	Aug. 4, 2011 Q&A: Norwegian Poet Cathrine Grondahl Art Beat talk to Norwegian poet Cathrine Grondahl, the author of four books of poetry, about the July 22 attacks.

	Aug. 4, 2011 Thursday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, comedian Jerry Lewis is no longer serving as national chairman of the Muscular Dystrophy Association and won't be appearing on this year's Labor Day telethon.

	Aug. 3, 2011 From Netflix to Hulu, Streaming Video Businesses Gaining Ground What have you been watching on your computer lately? More and more Americans are checking out movies and television program online. Hari Sreenivasan discusses the recent push toward more streaming content with GershonMedia's Bernard Gershon.

	Aug. 3, 2011 Around the Nation Here are some of this week's arts and culture stories from public broadcasting stations around the nation.

	Aug. 3, 2011 Wednesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation's BMW Guggenheim Lab opens in New York.

	Aug. 2, 2011 Parton Brings Her Charm, Rags-to-Riches Story on New Tour Dolly Parton is famous for being many things: movie star, business mogul, master musician, queen of country. They were all on display Sunday, as she showed off her skills on the guitar, banjo, dulcimer, recorder and even saxophone with ease, not to mention her best and most famous instrument: that singular voice.

	Aug. 2, 2011 Tuesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, attorneys in Philadelphia have mounted last-ditch legal effort to block the controversial move of the Barnes collection.

	Aug. 1, 2011 Weekly Poem by K. Silem Mohammad K. Silem Mohammad is the author of "Breathalyzer" (Edge Books, 2008), "A Thousand Devils" (Combo Books, 2004) and "Deer Head Nation" (Tougher Disguises, 2003). He is also editor of the magazine Abraham Lincoln.

	Aug. 1, 2011 Monday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, shrinking state budgets also means shrinking funding of the arts. In Kansas, that support now equals $0.



	JULY July 29, 2011 'The President Is a Sick Man' Details Secret Surgery of President Cleveland When President Grover Cleveland underwent secret cancer surgery in 1893 the public was kept in the dark for weeks while he recuperated and for decades to follow. Ray Suarez discusses the history with author, Matthew Algeo, who details the happenings in his new book, "The President is a Sick Man."

	July 29, 2011 Conversation: Norwegian Author Anne Holt on the Lessons of Oslo Jeffrey Brown talks to crime writer Anne Holt about the situation in Norway in the aftermath of the July 22 attacks by Anders Behring Breivik. Holt is one of Scandinavia's most successful crime writers, but she's also had quite a career before that.

	July 29, 2011 On Stage, Interactive 'Omnivore's Dilemma' Offers Food and Thought In the first-ever stage adaptation of Michael Pollan's nonfiction bestseller about American food production, 'The Omnivore's Dilemma,' the audience isn't allowed to stay in their seats for long.

	July 29, 2011 Friday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, documentary photographer Jerome Liebling has died.

	July 28, 2011 Amid Quake Recovery, Can Haiti Build a Different Port-au-Prince? Eighteen months after the massive and devastating earthquake, Haiti is still reeling from the wreckage and a cholera epidemic. Ray Suarez and Dr. Paul Farmer discuss his new book, "Haiti After the Earthquake."

	July 28, 2011 Conversation: Michael Rapaport, Director of 'Beats, Rhymes & Life' 'Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest,' is a documentary film about one of the most creative, influential and innovative musical groups in hip-hop history.

	July 28, 2011 Thursday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, the book world prepares for a mysterious release.

	July 27, 2011 Around the Nation Here are some of this week's arts and culture stories from public broadcasting stations around the nation.

	July 27, 2011 Wednesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, scientists start a search for Cervantes.

	July 26, 2011 Reggae Artists Team Up to Spread Famine Awareness Through Song To spread awareness of the famine in the Horn of Africa, the World Food Program recruited reggae artists Duane Stephenson and the legendary band The Wailers to write an anthem.

	July 26, 2011 Tuesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, a Los Angeles architectural landmark may face demolition.

	July 25, 2011 Conversation: Amy Winehouse, 1983-2011 Amy Winehouse, the young British performer who was known for her big, soulful voice and her contribution to the revival of the 1960s sound in pop music as much for her battle with substance abuse, died Saturday at age 27 in her hometown of London.

	July 25, 2011 Weekly Poem: (Interior Life of Tumbler: Julie Sheehan is the author of three poetry collections: "Thaw" (2001); "Orient Point" (2006), which won the Barnard Women Poets Prize; and "Bar Book: Poems and Otherwise" (2010). She teaches in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton.

	July 25, 2011 Monday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, fans and friends mourn the death at 27 of British singer Amy Winehouse.

	July 22, 2011 Conversation: Martin Gayford, Friend and Model to Lucian Freud, Remembers Artist The artist Lucian Freud died Wednesday night in London at age 88. Critic Martin Gayford, author of a book about sitting as a model for Freud, discusses the life and work of his friend.

	July 22, 2011 Conversation: Imagination in Education This week, the Lincoln Center Institute in New York is holding what it bills as the "first national conference focused on making imagination an integral part of American education."

	July 22, 2011 Friday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, a heat wave calls for extra precautions for performers in the Washington area.

	July 21, 2011 'Rock the Casbah' Author: Hip-Hop Has Been the Rhythm of Arab Spring Journalist Robin Wright chronicles the cultural and social forces behind this year's Arab revolt in her new book, "Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion Across the Islamic World.' Margaret Warner and Wright discuss her book and the new wave of empowerment in the Arab world.

	July 21, 2011 Borders Closes the Book as Decisions Come Back to Haunt Chain On Thursday, representatives of the Borders bookstore chain were in court with a plan to liquidate its remaining 399 locations as early as Friday. Jeffrey Brown discusses what's next for bookstores, the publishing industry and bookworms with Slate's Annie Lowrey.

	July 21, 2011 Lucian Freud, Innovative Painter of the Intimate, Dead at 88 Lucian Freud, the British painter who helped redefine modern portraiture and figurative painting, died Wednesday night at the age of 88 at his home in London.

	July 21, 2011 It's the End for Borders, but How Are Independent Book Sellers Faring? When Borders established itself as a major chain in the 1990s, it became a main competitor of small, independent bookstores around the country. Today, having outlived Borders, small stores are facing some old challenges (the recession) as well as some new challenges (like eBooks).

	July 21, 2011 Thursday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, authorities recover a war criminal and a stolen painting in one blow.

	July 20, 2011 Around the Nation Here are some recent arts and culture stories from public broadcasting stations around the nation.

	July 20, 2011 Wednesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, the Philadelphia Orchestra is trying to negotiate a cheaper rent.

	July 19, 2011 Floods, Fires, Storms Are Fodder for Centuries of Poems In a year of floods, fires and storms making headlines around the world, poet and editor Jeffrey Yang chronicles how writers have grappled with the power of nature over the centuries in his new book. Jeffrey Brown and Yang discuss the poetic perspective of the beauty and power of nature.

	July 19, 2011 New Exhibit Proves Pen Is Mighty Beautiful Now at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Md., an exhibit called "Art of the Writing Instrument from Paris to Persia" looks at the pretty pens and other tools that stood as status symbols for their owners or helped turn the act of writing into a gracious art.

	July 19, 2011 Tuesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Egypt struggles to find a new antiquities chief.

	July 18, 2011 Piano Virtuoso Fleisher on Overcoming Disability That Nearly Silenced Career In the 1960s, piano virtuoso Leon Fleisher lost the use of his right hand due to a condition called focal dystonia, but he focused on teaching and continued to play pieces designed for one-handed pianists. Jeffrey Brown and Fleisher discuss how he overcame the disability that nearly ended his playing days.

	July 18, 2011 Weekly Poem: 'Morning, and as sun is born' Joan Houlihan has published three books, including "The Us" (2009, Tupelo Press). In 2004, she founded the Concord Poetry Center, and in 2006 she established the Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference for advanced writers. She teaches at Lesley University's low-residency M.F.A. in Creative Writing program.

	July 18, 2011 Monday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, a vandal at London's National Gallery did not "adore" two paintings by Poussin.

	July 15, 2011 Conversation: So Long, Harry Potter J.K. Rowling's incredibly popular seven-book fantasy series about a young wizard named Harry Potter spawned eight films that have grossed at least $6.4 billion globally. The final film, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II," was released Friday.

	July 15, 2011 Friday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Chicago gets a 26 foot tall statue of Marilyn Monroe.

	July 14, 2011 McCullough's 'The Greater Journey' Tracks French Influence on U.S. Author and historian David McCullough has explored the French influence on American life throughout his career. Jeffrey Brown and McCullough discuss the 19th century artists and thinkers who brought lessons home to the U.S. after living in Paris.

	July 14, 2011 Preview: Conductor, Pianist Leon Fleisher More of Jeffrey Brown's conversation with conductor and pianist Leon Fleisher.

	July 14, 2011 'Good Fortune' Looks at Pitfalls, Possibility of Development in Kenya On Thursday's NewsHour, we're looking at the film "Good Fortune," a documentary about international development projects in Kenya that are resisted by the community members they intend to help. It's part of our partnership with The Economist magazine that showcases independent filmmaking.

	July 14, 2011 Thursday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Ai Weiwei accepts a teaching position in Berlin, but doesn't know when he'll actually be able to leave China.

	July 13, 2011 Around the Nation Here are some recent arts and culture stories from public broadcasting stations around the nation.

	July 13, 2011 Wednesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, robust ticket sales to the new National September 11th Memorial crashed its server.

	July 12, 2011 Tuesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, multiple rhino heads have been stolen from Belgium museums in the last few months.

	July 11, 2011 Exhibit Unravels Mysteries of Ancient Chinese Temples Through History, Science An art exhibit at the Smithsonian in Washington is bringing together art, history and science to solve the mysteries of Chinese temples that date back to the 6th century. Jeffery Brown reports.

	July 11, 2011 Monday on the NewsHour: A Digital Visit to the Cave Temples of Xiangtangshan Digital artist Jason Salavon has designed a way to let U.S. museum-goers experience the feeling of being in an ancient Chinese Buddhist temple without actually visiting one.

	July 11, 2011 Weekly Poem: 'Excuse Me, Where Is Varick Street?' Joy Katz is the author of two poetry collections, "The Garden Room" (2006, Tupelo Press) and "Fabulae" (2002, Southern Illinois University Press). She teaches in the graduate writing program at the University of Pittsburgh and is an editor-at-large for Pleiades.

	July 11, 2011 Monday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Argentine folk singer Facundo Cabral was murdered over the weekend.

	July 8, 2011 Historian David McCullough's 'The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris' Jeffrey Brown talks to historian David McCullough, author of "The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris."

	July 8, 2011 Friday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, internet companies try a new practice for cracking down on media piracy.

	July 8, 2011 Essence Music Festival 2011 Usher, Trey Songz, New Edition, Mary J. Blige and Jill Scott were among the performers at this year's Essence Music Festival in New Orleans.

	July 7, 2011 U.S. Orchestras Get Away for the Summer For decades, several of America's top symphony orchestras have offered a series of concerts from their 'summer homes' -- venues designed to showcase the ensembles' lighter fare and attract new audiences.

	July 7, 2011 Thursday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, a Boston theater landmark will go dark this weekend.

	July 6, 2011 Sarah Jaffe Adds Electricity to Eclectic Folk Texan singer-songwriter Sarah Jaffe's musical roots are definitely folk. But 25-year-old Jaffe is already feeling a little restless.

	July 6, 2011 Wednesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, a Picasso gets pilfered in San Francisco.

	July 5, 2011 American Painter Cy Twombly Dies at 83 Cy Twombly, the celebrated American painter, died Tuesday in Rome at the age of 83. Although a major figure in art, his large-scale paintings of scribbles, graffiti and unusual objects never quite fit the bounds of the major movements of the late 20th century like abstract expressionism or minimalism.

	July 5, 2011 American Painter Cy Twombly Dies at 83 Celebrated American painter Cy Twombly, whose paintings featured scribbles, graffiti and unusual materials and who invigorated American post-War art alongside Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, has died. He was 83.

	July 5, 2011 Weekly Poem: From 'Severance Songs' Joshua Corey is the author of "Severance Songs" (Tupelo Press, 2011), "Fourier Series" (Spineless Books, 2005) "Selah" (Barrow Street, 2003) and two chapbooks. He teaches at Lake Forest College in Illinois.

	July 5, 2011 Tuesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, the opening of the Joffrey Ballet's coming season could be canceled because of a contract dispute between the ballet company.

	July 4, 2011 Behind the Scenes of D.C.'s 'Capitol Fourth' Fireworks Display Fireworks will be illuminating the skies in cities across the country on this Fourth of July holiday. Among the classic destinations is the fireworks show at the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

	July 4, 2011 From Josh Ritter, a Song That Became a Debut Novel "Bright's Passage," the debut novel by singer-songwriter Josh Ritter, details a young man's return home from World War I. Jeffrey Brown and the musician-turned-novelist discuss his first work of fiction.

	July 4, 2011 Josh Ritter Reads From His Novel, 'Bright's Passage' Josh Ritter reads from his novel, "Bright's Passage," and performs his song, "Girl in the War."

	July 4, 2011 A Fireworks Show for the Nation Fireworks will be illuminating the skies in cities across the country on this July 4 holiday. Among the classic destinations for Independence Day displays is the fireworks show on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

	July 4, 2011 One Can Still 'Rock' Out to 'Fireworks,' 35 Years Later Fireworks have become synonymous with Fourth of July celebrations, from large explosions of colors that light up the night sky over your town to small sparklers that can be enjoyed from your own yard. Songwriter Lynn Ahrens discovered in 1976 that fireworks could also be a tool for education.

	July 1, 2011 'Life on Mars' Author Explores Humans' Relationship With Universe Through Poetry "Life on Mars," Tracy K. Smith's third book, explores the cosmos through words. The Princeton creative writing professor and poet reflects on the relationship between our lives and the universe at her Brooklyn home.

	July 1, 2011 Conversation: Eleanor Henderson, Author of 'Ten Thousand Saints' Jeffrey Brown talks to Eleanor Henderson, author of "Ten Thousand Saints," a novel that's garnering strong reviews for its treatment of teens, an underground youth culture and troubled family relationships.

	July 1, 2011 Friday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Brandeis University promises not to sell the Rose Art collection.



	JUNE June 30, 2011 Conversation: What Next for Ai Weiwei? Internationally known Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was released from prison last week after a three month detention. Jeffrey Brown gets an update on Ai's situation from Alison Klayman, who has been working on a documentary about him, "Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry."

	June 30, 2011 Colbert on Campaign Finance: 'I Am a Super PAC and So Can You' The Federal Election Commission told comedian Stephen Colbert Thursday that he can use his television program's resources to support his political action committee -- known as a Super PAC -- but some major expenses must be disclosed.

	June 30, 2011 Artist Ai Weiwei's Clashes with the Chinese Government Outspoken Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was arrested in early April and held for nearly three months. Accused of tax evasion, he was released on June 22 and ordered to pay nearly $2 million. Here are images of the artist detailing his run-ins with the government, as well as some of his supporters, across the past year.

	June 30, 2011 Thursday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, the South Carolina Arts Commission escapes elimination.

	June 29, 2011 Ever Been Rejected by Poetry Magazine? You're in Very Good Company The Poetry Foundation opened its new home in Chicago last weekend, and as it celebrates this achievement, we decided it would be fun to ask for people's stories about being rejected from the foundation's time-honored literary journal, Poetry magazine. If you're a writer and you've sent out work to journals, you know the feeling.

	June 29, 2011 Wednesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture notes, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's design firm is appealing the $1.85 million tax bill delivered by government authorities shortly after Ai was released from nearly three months in detention.

	June 28, 2011 Weekly Poem: 'Georgi Borrisov in Paris' John Balaban is the author of 12 books of poetry and prose, including four volumes which together have won the Academy of American Poets' Lamont prize, a National Poetry Series Selection and two nominations for the National Book Award. He is poet-in-residence and professor of English at North Carolina State University.

	June 28, 2011 Tuesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture notes, the Supreme Court overturns a ban on selling violent video games to children.

	June 24, 2011 'Just One More Thing': Remembering Peter Falk, TV's 'Columbo' Actor Peter Falk died Thursday in Beverly Hills, Calif. He was best known for playing the rumpled TV detective, Columbo, for 30 years. Jim Lehrer reports.

	June 24, 2011 Author Oscar Hijuelos Tackles His Toughest Subject: Himself In "Thoughts Without Cigarettes: A Memoir," author Oscar Hijuelos paints a self-portrait of an artist as a "very uptight young man." Ray Suarez talks to the Pulitzer Prize winner about how early success changed his life.

	June 24, 2011 Brooke Gladstone's Graphic Commentary of Media's 'Influencing Machine' Brooke Gladstone is the long time co-host and managing director of WNYC's On The Media. Her new book about media in society is "The Influencing Machine," a comic book illustrated by Josh Neufeld.

	June 24, 2011 Friday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, "Harry Potter" series author J.K. Rowling's new interactive website, Pottermore.com, has upset traditional bookstores.

	June 23, 2011 Rock Legend Paul Simon: 'I Wouldn't Change Anything, Even the Mistakes' Musical legend Paul Simon recently went on tour with his latest album, "So Beautiful or So What," plus his classic hits. Jeffrey Brown caught up with the singer-songwriter to discuss his new album, the art of songwriting and his outlook on life and music just ahead of his 70th birthday.

	June 23, 2011 Around the Nation Here are some recent arts and culture stories from public broadcasting stations around the nation.

	June 23, 2011 Thursday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, a stagehand for "How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" died backstage on Wednesday.

	June 22, 2011 Weekly Poem: From 'The Last Usable Hour' Deborah Landau is the author of "Orchidelirium," which won the Anhinga Prize for Poetry, and "The Last Usable Hour" (2011, Copper Canyon Press). She is the director of the NYU Creative Writing Program.

	June 22, 2011 Wednesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Ai Weiwei was reportedly freed from prison.

	June 21, 2011 Director Robin Hessman Explores Last Soviet Generation in 'My Perestroika' This week on the NewsHour, 'My Perestroika,' a documentary that looks at the last Soviet generation, will be airing as part of our partnership with the Economist Film Project. Jeffrey Brown talks to director Robin Hessman.

	June 21, 2011 Tuesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Katherine G. Farley, chairwoman of Lincoln Center, is involved in developing two projects in China.

	June 21, 2011 What You Might Have Missed As we said earlier, while Art Beat may have been down for the last three weeks, we were still producing stories. Here they are, in case you missed them.

	June 20, 2011 Photos from 'My Perestroika,' Then and Now "My Perestroika," a documentary by Robin Hessman, follows five ordinary Russians who lived through extraordinary times. Borya, Olga, Andrei, Ruslan, and Lyuba reflect on their Soviet childhoods and navigate today's ever-changing post-Soviet Russia.

	June 17, 2011 'Unlikely Brothers' Chronicles Forging of a Unique Bond for 2 Men Siblings don't always have to share a mother or a father to forge a lasting bond. Human rights activist John Prendergast and "little brother" Michael Mattocks speak with Gwen Ifill about the highs and lows of their unlikely "brotherhood" and their new book.

	June 17, 2011 'Chasing Aphrodite' Explains How Looted Antiquities Landed in Museums An expanded detective story based on a series of reports from the Los Angeles Times, 'Chasing Aphrodite' looks at the relationship between museums and looted treasures.

	June 17, 2011 Raphael Saadiq Revives Soul Sounds for New Album Music man Raphael Saadiq has gone from church choir to the R&B pop charts in the 1980s, and now back to his retro roots with new music that reflects the classic sounds of his youth.

	June 15, 2011 For 'Chambergrass' Group Crooked Still, Everything Old is New Again Music group Crooked Still goes back to old source material to create modern takes on traditional tunes by reworking instrumentation and lyrics.

	June 14, 2011 Broadway Holds Its Breath as 'Spider-Man' Musical Officially Debuts One of the biggest financial bets in the history of theater, a musical about a comic book hero, was set to officially open Tuesday on Broadway after many high-profile problems in early production. Jeffrey Brown discusses "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" with The New York Times' Patrick Healy.

	June 14, 2011 Rock Band Hot Tuna Returns to Recording For 'Steady As She Goes' Hot Tuna, the blues-rock band formed by members of Jefferson Airplane in the late '60s, has just released a new album for the first time in 20 years.

	June 13, 2011 Weekly Poem: 'Doctor Frankenstein on Love' Jeanne Wagner is the author of "In the Body of Our Lives" (2011, Sixteen Rivers Press). She has four previous collections of poetry, including "The Zen Piano-Mover," winner of the 2004 Stevens Manuscript Award.

	June 10, 2011 The Real Life Drama of Being a Playwright Gary Garrison of the Dramatists Guild of America and David Dower of Arena Stage talk about the challenges of being a working playwright.

	June 9, 2011 U.S. Athletes Are Part of the Art at Venice Biennale This year's Venice Biennale features installations by artists Allora and Calzadilla, who recruited U.S. Olympic athletes to become part of the exhibit.

	June 8, 2011 The David Wax Museum's 'Mexo-Americana' Show Musical duo The David Wax Museum combine traditional Mexican music and instruments with bluegrass roots.

	June 7, 2011 'The Tiger's Wife' Mixes Realism, Fantasy in Larger-Than-Life Tale From Balkans In her first novel, Tea Obreht mixes realism and fantasy in a larger-than-life story about her native Balkans. Jeffrey Brown sits down with the author to discuss her debut book, "The Tiger's Wife."

	June 6, 2011 Weekly Poem: 'Home Brew' Tony Barnstone is a professor of English at Whittier College. He is the author of several books, including "Tongue of War: From Pearl Harbor to Nagasaki," which won the John Ciardi Prize.

	June 1, 2011 Wynton Marsalis Pays Homage to Jazz's Past by Investing in Its Future This year's Essentially Ellington Jazz Competition -- part-contest and part-celebration -- drew entries from 110 high school bands, but just 15 were selected as finalists. Jeffrey Brown sits down with the man behind the competition: jazz great Wynton Marsalis.

	June 1, 2011 Wednesday on the NewsHour: Wynton Marsalis On Wednesday's NewsHour, Jeffrey Brown sits down with jazz great Wynton Marsalis. The musician, educator and author was leading the 16th annual Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition and Festival in New York.

	June 1, 2011 NASA Celebrates 50 Years of Space Art The Smithsonian Air and Space Museum opened an exhibit of space art this week. We take you on a behind-the-scenes tour of the artwork.



	MAY May 31, 2011 San Francisco Exhibit Reunites Gertrude Stein's Remarkable Art Collection During her time in Paris, American writer Gertrude Stein and her family amassed an amazing assemblage of groundbreaking art, including works from Picasso, Matisse and other notable artists. Spencer Michels reports.

	May 31, 2011 Gertrude Stein Collected More Than Roses Spencer Michels reports on the art collection of Gertrude Stein and her family, on display now at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

	May 30, 2011 Poet Honors American Service Personnel Killed in War Wyatt Prunty's poem, "The Returning Dead," is a response to the NewsHour's Honor Roll of service personnel killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. The poem first aired in 2006.

	May 30, 2011 Memorial Day Reads If you need something to read or watch you're in luck: Reporter Molly Finnegan whipped up a list of some of our great Memorial Day related stories.

	May 27, 2011 Conversation: Summer Movies Washington Post film critic Ann Hornaday joined us by phone to discuss the strong roster of films at this year's Cannes Film Festival, and, as we kick off the season this holiday weekend, what we can expect and look forward to in theaters this summer.

	May 27, 2011 Friday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, the last original Surrealist artist has died.

	May 26, 2011 'Kimjongilia' Charts Tales of Escape From North Korea We're looking at a new film Thursday as part of our partnership with the Economist magazine that showcases the art of filmmaking.

	May 26, 2011 Around the Nation Here are some recent arts and culture stories from public broadcasting stations around the nation.

	May 26, 2011 Thursday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, the national trade show for publishers looks ahead to a more e-reading future.

	May 25, 2011 Blind Boys of Alabama Go Country for New Album, 'Take the High Road' With more than fifty gospel and blues albums to their name since 1948, the Blind Boys of Alabama have recently have something new to sing about: a country music album.

	May 25, 2011 Wednesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Oprah ends her run as a daytime television host.

	May 24, 2011 Conversation: Bob Dylan Turns 70 Jeffrey Brown talks to David Hajdu, author of "Positively 4th Street," about the career and influence of Bob Dylan, who on Tuesday turned 70.

	May 24, 2011 Tuesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, "The Book of Mormon" and "Anything Goes" were the big winners at the Drama Desk Awards.

	May 23, 2011 Weekly Poem: 'To Television' Former poet laureate Robert Pinsky reads "To Television" from his "Selected Poems."

	May 23, 2011 Monday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, a federal program that grants military families free museum admission has grown to more than 1,300 museums nationwide.

	May 20, 2011 Former Poet Laureate Pinsky: Poetry 'Too Fundamental, Large' to Need Advocate Much of former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky's writing has focused on American life. He takes a look back at his career with Jeffrey Brown.

	May 20, 2011 Conversation: Geena Davis Hopes to Shift Gender Balance in Film Geena Davis has some experience with strong and complex female characters. She's played a meek-housewife-turned-bold-woman-on-the-run, a baseball star, a secret agent and an American president. She says it was her experience playing Thelma in "Thelma and Louise" that first piqued her interest in the cause.

	May 20, 2011 Friday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Arnold Schwarzenegger will delay his return to acting in order to deal with a personal scandal.

	May 19, 2011 Now on View, the View From Jane Freilicher's Window Jane Freilicher has been well known in the art world for decades, but unlike many of her friends and contemporaries, she's never quite become familiar outside of that circle.

	May 19, 2011 Thursday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, director Lars von Trier is expelled from the Cannes Film Festival.

	May 18, 2011 Los Angeles Artist Finds Inspiration in Everyday Places, Things Michael McMillen finds inspiration for his work in an intriguing collection of everyday places and things. Spencer Michels has a look back at the unusual 40-year career of this Los Angeles artist.

	May 18, 2011 From the Movies to the Museum, Michael McMillen Fabricates Artistic Tableaus Micheal McMillen uses just about anything he can find or that he's collected over the years to shape his art work -- work that ranges from small objects like a moth pulling a brick to giant installations that viewers can walk into and feel part of.

	May 18, 2011 Around the Nation Antiquities trafficking, a Mexican footwear fad and Betty White are some of the recent culture stories from other public broadcasters around the nation.

	May 18, 2011 Wednesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, the viability of artist Christo's Colorado project is partially dependent on the welfare of the state's sheep.

	May 17, 2011 Author James Gleick Traces Information's Evolution in New Book Author James Gleick's new book, "The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood," chronicles the evolution of information. Jeffrey Brown and the science and technology author discuss how our era of information overload evolved from pre-digital times.

	May 17, 2011 As Photographer, Moby Captures His Unique Vision of Normal Life For most people in the world, the experience of standing on a stage surrounded by thousands of cheering fans would make for a fairly extraordinary day. For Moby, a musician and DJ who has sold more than 20 million records worldwide, it's normal.

	May 17, 2011 Tuesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, a painting goes on sale that marked another major Mississippi flood.

	May 16, 2011 'Life on Mars' Author Explores Humans' Relationship With Universe Through Poetry "Life on Mars," Tracy K. Smith's third book, explores the cosmos through words. The Princeton creative writing professor and poet reflects on the relationship between our lives and the universe at her Brooklyn home.

	May 16, 2011 'Freedom Riders' Film Revisits Those Who Risked Lives for Civil Rights "Freedom Riders," a documentary that will air Monday on PBS' American Experience, revisits a group of young men and women who boarded commercial buses headed for the Deep South during the civil rights movement. Judy Woodruff discusses the risks and rewards with Rep. John Lewis and a young man who participated in a reenactment.

	May 16, 2011 Weekly Poem: From 'My God, It's Full of Stars' Tracy K. Smith is the author of three collections of poetry: "Life on Mars" (Graywolf Press, 2011); "Duende" (Graywolf, 2007), winner of the 2006 James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets; and "The Body's Question" (Graywolf, 2003), winner of the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize.

	May 16, 2011 Monday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Ai Weiwei was allowed to see his wife while remaining in detention by the Chinese government.

	May 13, 2011 Wild Fashion and 'Savage Beauty' of Alexander McQueen A new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute In New York shows off the visionary and romantic work of the late fashion designer Alexander McQueen, who took his own life last year.

	May 13, 2011 Conversation: McQueen's 'Savage Beauty' An exhibition of the work of designer Alexander McQueen has just opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute in New York City.

	May 13, 2011 Friday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, an retrospective of works by Ai Weiwei opens in London.

	May 12, 2011 Whether Joan Rivers or Genocide, Sundberg and Stern Find Compelling Stories After more than two decades, Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern now have what Sundberg calls, "a long marriage of a work partnership." The documentary filmmakers founded Break-Thru Films in 1990 and began working on their first major, feature-length documentary in 1994.

	May 12, 2011 Thursday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, 'Spider-Man' will reopen on Broadway after a major effort to revise the show.

	May 11, 2011 30 Years After Bob Marley's Death May 11 marks the 30th anniversary of the death of music legend Bob Marley. The Jamaican reggae star died from cancer in 1981 at age 36, leaving behind a legacy that reaches across all musical genres, ages and around the world.

	May 11, 2011 'Page One': Filming a Year at the New York Times Director Andrew Rossi lived a year at the New York Times for his new documentary "Page One: Inside the New York Times."

	May 11, 2011 Wednesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, the original inspiration for the song "Strawberry Fields" will be replaced with a replica.

	May 11, 2011 30th Anniversary of Bob Marley's Death Bob Marley died of cancer on May 11, 1981, at the age of 36. The Jamaican reggae legend left behind a legacy that influenced many genres, pop culture and protest music.

	May 10, 2011 In New Film, Director of 'Hoop Dreams' Confronts Chicago's Violence The new documentary, "The Interrupters," by director Steve James follows three individuals who try to protect their Chicago communities from the kind of violence they themselves were once complicit in.

	May 10, 2011 Tuesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, James Cuno is named head of the Getty Center.

	May 9, 2011 Weekly Poem: 'These Arms of Mine' David Kirby is the author of several books of criticism, essays, children's literature and poetry, including most recently, "Talking about Movies with Jesus" (2011) and "The House on Boulevard Street: New and Selected Poems" (2007), a finalist for the National Book Award.

	May 9, 2011 Monday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, a famous book editor announces his retirement.

	May 6, 2011 Conversation: Karen Russell, Author of 'Swamplandia!' Karen Russell's novel, "Swamplandia!" centers around the Bigtree family, which runs an amusement park in the Florida everglades. But this isn't a Disney-style park -- alligator wrestling is the major draw.

	May 6, 2011 Friday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture news, heirs to the Wal-Mart fortune make the largest monetary gift to a U.S. art museum ever.

	May 5, 2011 Philadelphia 'Health for Sale' Exhibit Retraces Medicinal History in Vintage Ads The Philadelphia Museum of Art is featuring an exhibit of vintage medical posters that advertise cures for all kinds of ailments. Health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser reports on the advertisements-turned-art.

	May 5, 2011 Conversation: Nathacha Appanah, Author of 'The Last Brother' "The Last Brother" is Nathacha Appanah's fourth novel and her second translated into English. The book centers on the unlikely friendship of two young boys, Raj and David, as they both struggle with intense loneliness and the impact of their violent pasts.

	May 5, 2011 Thursday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Jackie Cooper, one of Hollywood's original child stars, has died.

	May 4, 2011 Conversation: 2011 Tony Award Nominations Critic Linda Winer of Newsday discusses the 2011 Tony nominations in a year of many strong new productions.

	May 4, 2011 Around the Nation A mobile printing studio, a couple of rock (art) fans, and Tango fever in Detroit are a few of our arts and culture stories from public broadcasting stations around the nation.

	May 4, 2011 Wednesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, the United Nations helped organize a concert of world-class musicians in Gaza.

	May 3, 2011 Frontline Goes Inside al-Qaida On Tuesday night, PBS' FRONTLINE will air the first of two stories that delve into al-Qaida in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

	May 3, 2011 New Documentary Recounts Rise and Fall of an Architectural Myth In St. Louis in the 1950s, Pruitt-Igoe was touted as the definitive model for public housing projects in the modern era. Less than 20 years after its construction, the buildings of Pruitt-Igoe were torn down.

	May 3, 2011 A Reading List for the Post-9/11 Era A roundup of NewsHour conversations with writers over the last decade about books that address, directly and indirectly, how 9/11, Osama bin Laden and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have influenced how we live today.

	May 3, 2011 Tuesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, 'The Book of Mormon' leads the 2011 Tony nominations.

	May 2, 2011 Weekly Poem: 'This is a figure for the lost art of aching' Heather Hartley is the author of "Knock Knock," which was a finalist in the 2007 National Poetry Series.

	May 2, 2011 Monday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture news, a ceremony in New York to celebrate the art work of an absent Ai Weiwei is postponed in the light of the news of the death of Osama bin Laden.



	APRIL April 29, 2011 Conversation: More Reflections on Writing from Roger Rosenblatt We've invited Roger Rosenblatt, author of 'Unless It Moves The Human Heart: The Craft and Art of Writing', back to our newsroom to continue a conversation we began in January.

	April 29, 2011 Friday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, an update on an art museum planned for Tripoli.

	April 28, 2011 Economist Film Project: Death at Birth in Nigeria We're announcing the start of something new: A partnership with the Economist magazine to showcase the art of filmmaking, called the Economist Film Project.

	April 28, 2011 For 'Mission Bell', Amos Lee Enriches His Songwriting with Star Power On his latest album, "Mission Bell," Amos Lee enriches his songwriting with new musical arrangements and big-name collaborations.

	April 28, 2011 Conversation: PEN World Voices Festival Director Laszlo Jakab Orsos Now in New York until May 1, more than 100 writers from around the world have gathered for the annual PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature. Director Laszlo Jakab Orsos tells us about this year's event.

	April 28, 2011 Thursday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, a German artist makes art out of prize money (literally).

	April 27, 2011 'Better This World' Looks at Domestic Terrorism, Political Activism Post-9/11 A new documentary, 'Better This World', follows the story of the Texas Two as they wrestle with how to defend themselves in court and deal with FBI pressure to betray each other.

	April 27, 2011 Wednesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, pop star Beyonce gets her groove on in the school cafeteria to fight childhood obesity.

	April 26, 2011 Poet CD Wright Weaves History, Reporting, Storytelling in Verse Brown University professor CD Wright weaves oral histories, news reports and interviews into her poetry. Her latest volume, "One With Others," looks back at the civil rights era in her native Arkansas.

	April 26, 2011 Tonight on PBS, Remaking a Life In the Made-Up World of 'Marwencol' Mark Hogancamp's therapeutic imaginary world is the subject of 'Marwencol', a documentary by Jeff Malmberg that airs on "PBS' Independent Lens":http://www.itvs.org/films/marwencol on Tuesday.

	April 26, 2011 Tuesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, archaeologists uncover a massive sculpture of a 14th century B.C. pharaoh.

	April 26, 2011 'Where Soldiers Come From' Tells Wartime Coming of Age Story When filmmaker Heather Courtney returned to her hometown in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, she was hoping to make a film about rural America. But over the next four years she instead discovered a coming of age story that took her from the U.P. to Afghanistan and back again.

	April 25, 2011 Weekly Poem: 'Miracle Blanket' Erika Meitner is an assistant professor of English at Virginia Tech, where she teaches in the MFA program. She has published three books of poems: "Inventory at the All-Night Drugstore," "Ideal Cities" and "Makeshift Instructions for Vigilant Girls."

	April 25, 2011 Monday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, scientists are calling for the Smithsonian Institution to cancel an exhibition of Chinese artifacts salvaged from a shipwreck.

	April 22, 2011 Conversation: Denis Villeneuve, Director of 'Incendies' Jeffrey Brown talks to filmmaker Denis Villeneuve, director of "Incendies," which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and was released in theaters Friday.

	April 22, 2011 Friday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Los Angeles authorities say "Art in the Streets" at the Museum of Contemporary Art has spawned a rash of tagging near the museum.

	April 21, 2011 Tree in Germany Blooms 9,800 Easter Eggs An apple tree in eastern Germany is home to nearly 10,000 hand decorated Easter eggs, and thousands of people are flocking to see it.

	April 21, 2011 Morgan Spurlock Takes on Product Placement in 'Greatest Movie Ever Sold' Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock talks to Hari Sreenivasan about his latest endeavor. Entirely funded by product placement and advertising, "POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold" tackles the role ads play in media with a twist.

	April 21, 2011 Judy Woodruff: Arts and Autism Our co-founder Robert MacNeil's reports this week on autism are drawing a large response from NewsHour viewers, reminding us of the power of effective story-telling and the huge interest in this condition that has touched so many families.

	April 21, 2011 Thursday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, an aide to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi sent a letter to New York Times fashion editor Horacio Silva asking him to curate a 2013 retrospective of Gadhafi's clothing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute.

	April 20, 2011 Reports: Photographer, Filmmaker Tim Hetherington Killed in Libya Award-winning photographer and filmmaker Tim Hetherington has been reported killed Wednesday in Misrata, Libya, in a mortar attack.

	April 20, 2011 Hillsong UNITED Finds a Following When Brian and Bobbie Houston moved from New Zealand to Baulkham Hills, Australia, in 1978 they didn't realize they were on the brink of starting a global Christian movement.

	April 20, 2011 Wednesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Elisabeth Sladen, who played Sarah Jane Smith in the "Doctor Who" series between 1973 and 1976, died of cancer.

	April 19, 2011 Slide Show: 'Where Children Sleep' In his project, "Where Children Sleep," photographer James Mollison explores how the sleeping spaces of children around the world reveal much about their lives. Sadly, the notion that we're all born equal is not the case, he says.

	April 19, 2011 Tuesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, a modern art museum, the Collection Lambert in southern France, said protesters destroyed a photograph by American artist Andres Serrano, "Immersion (Piss Christ)."

	April 18, 2011 Newspapers' Haiti Earthquake, Russia Coverage Among Latest Pulitzer Prizes The 2011 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced Monday afternoon, recognizing achievement in journalism and the arts.

	April 18, 2011 2011 Pulitzer Winners Announced The 2011 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced Monday at a ceremony at Columbia University in New York.

	April 18, 2011 Tornadoes Kill Dozens, Destroy Homes Across Southeast Severe weather and a series of tornadoes wrecked havoc across fourteen states in three days. Tornadoes touched down in Kansas and Oklahoma on Thursday before moving to Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia on Friday. They hit the Carolina's and Virginia on Saturday, hitting especially hard in North Carolina.

	April 18, 2011 Weekly Poem: 'Love Poem' Dora Malech earned a BA in Fine Arts from Yale College in 2003 and an MFA in Poetry from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop in 2005. Her first full-length collection of poems, "Shore Ordered Ocean," was published in 2009, and the Cleveland State University Poetry Center published her second collection, "Say So," in 2011.

	April 18, 2011 Monday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, the Philadelphia Orchestra voted to file for bankruptcy.

	April 15, 2011 Conversation: Howard Jacobson British novelist Howard Jacobson was the winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize for "The Finkler Question." Jacobson's touring now with a novel called "The Might Walzer," which is being published for the first time in the United States.

	April 15, 2011 Friday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, unsanctioned graffiti appears around MOCA ahead of the opening of a street art exhibit.

	April 14, 2011 Lincoln Assassination Film 'The Conspirator' Raises Timely Justice Questions Ray Suarez reports on a new film profiling Mary Surratt, the sole woman implicated in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, and the questions raised about the use of military commission trials, both then and now. He is joined by screenwriter James Solomon and retired U.S. Army Col. Fred Borch.

	April 14, 2011 Conversation: Mike Daisey's 'The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs' Obsession, lust, a bit of espionage, a lot of laughs, and some serious questions of ethics and working conditions are all questions raised by one man, sitting at a table for an hour-and-a-half monologue titled, "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs."

	April 14, 2011 Thursday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, details are emerging about why the police say they're holding artist Ai Weiwei.

	April 13, 2011 Creed Taylor Looks Back at Influential Jazz Label, Impulse! Records A new CD collection, "First Impulse: The Creed Taylor Collection," celebrates the 50th anniversary of the founding of Impulse! Records, the influential and important jazz label. Jeffrey Brown talks to Creed Taylor, the great music producer and founder of Impulse.

	April 13, 2011 Wednesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Philadephia's Orchestra faces serious funding facts.

	April 12, 2011 Mini Slide Show: Sir Peter Blake's 'World Tour' Stops in New York Visual artist Sir Peter Blake, 79, has been one of the most famous Pop purveyors in Britain since the 1950s. His recent works will be on show in New York this spring.

	April 12, 2011 Tuesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, David Byrne gets an apology for the misuse of one of his songs in a campaign ad.

	April 11, 2011 Detroit Orchestra Back for Encore After Labor, Budget Discord After a sixth-month strike over pay cuts and balanced budgets, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra returned to the stage this weekend for two free concerts thanking fans for their support. Ray Suarez talks to Mark Stryker of the Detroit Free Press about how the symphony's return impacts the struggling city.

	April 11, 2011 Live Web Chat with Independent Lens Filmmakers for Artists Month In honor of Artists Month on Independent Lens, Art Beat and ITVS will present a live chat with some of the filmmakers behind their lineup of documentaries.

	April 11, 2011 Weekly Poem: 'Fear and Greed Index:' Daniel Khalastchi is a first-generation Iraqi Jewish American and was born and raised in Iowa. His book, "Manoleria," won the Tupelo Press/Crazyhorse First Book Prize earlier this year.

	April 11, 2011 A Most Precious Asset Is Only Skin Deep "White," a short film in ITVS's Futurestates series, explores a future where society's racial stratification is heightened by the threat of global warming.

	April 11, 2011 Monday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, director Sidney Lumet died over the weekend.

	April 8, 2011 Ai Weiwei Case Poses Test for China Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is one of several dozen activists arrested in China over the past few months. But as one of the most prominent, he poses a test case for the Chinese government's resolve to silence its critics.

	April 8, 2011 Conversation: Marina Abramović Marina Abramović is a pioneer of performance art, capped off most recently by her retrospective last year at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, 'The Artist Is Present,' which drew widespread acclaim.

	April 8, 2011 Friday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, a Chicago art dealer is charged with forging works by famous artists.

	April 7, 2011 Iowa Writers' Workshop, Famous for Training Top Writers, Turns 75 Jeffrey Brown reports on the Iowa Writers' Workshop, the nation's oldest and most prestigious postgraduate writing program for elite writers and poets. The workshop celebrates its 75th anniversary this year.

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

	April 7, 2011 Avett Brothers Finds Fame, Success, Homesickness Seth and Scott Avett grew up surrounded by old time music and with a father who had a love for the likes of Hank Williams and the Everly Brothers. When they began their music careers, they were fronting a neo-punk band called Nemo, but they soon discovered that they liked it better when they turned to acoustic guitar and banjo.

	April 7, 2011 Thursday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, the Grammy Awards winnows down some of its categories.

	April 6, 2011 Mini Slide Show: Maira Kalman's Textile Art Writer and illustrator Maira Kalman is famous for her drawings and paintings, but an exhibit that opened last month also includes a series of her textile work, which was born out of a sentimental attachment to the materials.

	April 6, 2011 Wednesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, archaeologists plan to dig up the remains of a woman who may have been Da Vinci's model for his most famous painting.

	April 5, 2011 Slide Show: New Exhibit Brings Mosaic of Hildreth Meière's Life Out of Obscurity For an artist whose work is so omnipresent, mural and mosaic artist Hildreth Meiere isn't exactly a household name. A new exhibition helps bring her out of obscurity.

	April 5, 2011 The Art and Architecture of an Art Deco Muralist Most of us have seen her work, but few know her name. Hildreth Meière (1892-1961) has created mosaics and murals that decorate famous spaces like Radio City Music Hall, the National Academy of Sciences, and St. Bartholomew's Church. Now, the first comprehensive exhibit of Meiere's work is on display in Washington, DC.

	April 5, 2011 Tuesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, foreign governments demand China's release of artist Ai Weiwei.

	April 4, 2011 Weekly Poem: 'Paper Kisses, Paper Moon' Haines Eason was the 2010 winner of the Beau Boudreaux Poetry Prize from Cream City Review. He has published poems in many journals, including New England Review, Yale Review and American Letters & Commentary. His chapbook, "A History of Waves," was chosen by Mark Doty for a 2010 PSA Chapbook Fellowship.

	April 4, 2011 Monday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Ai Weiwei has been detained by Chinese authorities.

	April 1, 2011 Conversation: Tea Obreht, Author of 'The Tiger's Wife' Realism and fantasy are part of "The Tiger's Wife," the new, first novel by Tea Obreht, a 25-year-old writer who was born in the former Yugoslavia and came to the United States at age 12.

	April 1, 2011 Friday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, a roundup of arty April Fools Day jokes.



	MARCH March 31, 2011 'The History of American Graffiti': From Subway Car to Gallery Since its explosion onto city walls and subway cars in the 1970s, the increasing popularity of graffiti as an art form has won commercial success for its artists and a regular presence in pop culture and the contemporary art world.

	March 31, 2011 Thursday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, a judge considers whether he'll reopen the Barnes Foundation case.

	March 30, 2011 Slide show: Artist Maira Kalman Makes Sense of Our Crazy World Maira Kalman's words and pictures strip history, politics and the world around her down to their most basic -- and often delightful -- elements. A traveling retrospective of her work is currently on show at the Jewish Museum in New York.

	March 30, 2011 Wednesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, the United Kingdom announces its cuts for arts funding.

	March 29, 2011 'Remigration' Imagines a City With No Workers Imagine a city occupied exclusively by the upper class. High rents and property costs have pushed out construction workers, public school teachers, subway operators and other middle- and lower-class earners. The short film "Remigration" imagines how this scenario might play out.

	March 29, 2011 Tuesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, a museum in Vienna acquires the Polaroid collection.

	March 28, 2011 Weekly Poem: 'The Virtues of Birds' Craig Morgan Teicher is a poet, critic and freelance writer. His first book of poems, "Brenda Is in the Room and Other Poems," won the 2007 Colorado Prize for Poetry and was published by the Center for Literary Publishing. His collection of short stories and fables, "Cradle Book," was published in 2010 by BOA Editions.

	March 28, 2011 Monday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, the Pritzker Prize is awarded to Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura.

	March 25, 2011 Poetry as a Weapon of War in Afghanistan According to two new reports by a leading Afghanistan watcher at the Naval Postgraduate School, "the Taliban blow us away" in getting its message out to the Afghan public by using poetry and music -- means the United States does not understand or take into account.

	March 25, 2011 Stories from SXSW: A Small Indie Film Makes Its Debut For many directors, SXSW presents an opportunity not only to screen their films, but to screen them for the first public audiences.

	March 25, 2011 Friday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, playwright Lanford Wilson has died.

	March 25, 2011 Can Babies Teach us Morality? What can one baby, three puppets and a tricky Tupperware lid tell us about the roots of morality? Can infants distinguish between good and bad at such a young age?

	March 24, 2011 All Grown Up, Boyz II Men Raise Money for Japan Disaster Relief Boyz II Men, one of the biggest R&B groups of all time, is raising money to support relief efforts in Japan.

	March 24, 2011 Thursday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Polish authorities puzzle over a Renoir mail mystery

	March 23, 2011 Film Legend Elizabeth Taylor Dies at 79 Film and fashion icon Elizabeth Taylor died Wednesday of congestive heart failure at a Los Angeles hospital at the age of 79. Jeffrey Brown talks to Los Angeles Times movie critic Kenneth Turan about the legendary film star's life and career.

	March 23, 2011 A Young Journalist Meets Elizabeth Taylor It was 1960, and Spencer Michels was learning how to be a journalist at Columbia University when he met Elizabeth Taylor. At the age of 21, he had a lot to learn.

	March 23, 2011 Judge Overturns Google Books Deal In New York on Tuesday, a federal judge overturned a settlement between Google and the national trade organizations that represent American authors and publishers which dictates terms of a massive book digitalization project, led by Google.

	March 23, 2011 Elizabeth Taylor Dies at Age 79 Actress and Hollywood legend Elizabeth Taylor died Wednesday at age 79. A publicist told the Associated Press that Taylor was surrounded by her four children when she died of congestive heart failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, where she had been hospitalized for about six weeks.

	March 23, 2011 Stories from SXSW: Around the Nation Round-up, Austin Edition SXSW 2011 ended Sunday, but live music recordings from the festival live on. Here's a roundup of coverage from public media outlets from around the nation.

	March 23, 2011 Wednesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Elizabeth Taylor has died.

	March 22, 2011 Stories from SXSW: The Music Video Makes a Comeback Creators of three of the many music videos screening at SXSW talked to Art Beat about directing and producing their short films and their role in the music industry.

	March 22, 2011 Tuesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Mississippi Bluesman Pinetop Perkins has died at age 97.

	March 21, 2011 Weekly Poem: 'The Mascot of Beavercreek High Breaks Her Silence' Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of three collections of poetry: "Lucky Fish" (2011), "At the Drive-in Volcano (2007); and "Miracel Fruit" (2003). She is an associate professor of English at State University of New York-Fredonia.

	March 21, 2011 Monday's Art Notes Today is World Poetry Day.

	March 18, 2011 Conversation: Teju Cole's 'Open City' "Open City," a new novel by Teju Cole, follows a Nigerian-born medical student as he walks the streets of New York City.

	March 18, 2011 Friday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, the House votes to cut funding for NPR.

	March 17, 2011 Actress, Playwright Aditi Brennan Kapil on Her Global, Local Influences Minneapolis playwright, director and actor Aditi Brennan Kapil talks about the global elements and role of immigration in her work. The story was produced by Angie Prindle of "MN Original" on Twin Cities Public Television.

	March 17, 2011 Stories from SXSW: Art Is Key for Interactive Award Winners The winners of the 14th Annual SXSW Interactive competition were announced at an award ceremony Tuesday night in Austin, Texas. More than 20 designers of websites and mobile projects were recognized for work in categories that included activism, installation, mobile, technical achievement and more.

	March 17, 2011 Sound Boxes that Strum in the Sun In sound artist Craig Colorusso's unique installation, Sun Boxes, the sun acts as arranger of a 20-piece orchestra of solar powered speakers.

	March 17, 2011 Thursday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, UNESCO heads to Egypt to assess threats to cultural sites.

	March 16, 2011 Stories from SXSW: Finding the Harmony Between Music and Interaction Design At the 2011 SXSW Interactive Festival, two presenters decided to reevaluate their work in interactive design by way of a metaphor that taps the festival's 25-year-old roots: music.

	March 16, 2011 'Natural Selection' and 'Dragonslayer' Are Big Winners at SXSW Film Festival Two films were big award winners at the SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas. "Natural Selection" by director Robert Pickering and "Dragonslayer" by director Tristan Patterson took home Jury Awarded Best Feature Narrative and Documentary, respectively.

	March 16, 2011 Wednesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, remembering hip-hop legend Nate Dogg and one of the last remaining old time actresses of the Yiddish theater.

	March 15, 2011 Stories from SXSW: Films That Speak to Deaf and Hearing Audiences Alike Filmmaker and designer Robyn Girard hopes that her latest project will bring positive stories of what it's like to be deaf to popular culture.

	March 15, 2011 Tuesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Deborah Eisenberg has won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

	March 14, 2011 Weekly Poem: 'Distal' Carol Ann Davis' first book, "Psalm," was published by Tupelo Press in 2007. She directs the undergraduate creative writing program at the College of Charleston in South Carolina and edits the journal "Crazyhorse" with her husband, poet Garrett Doherty.

	March 14, 2011 Monday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, a movie that depicts a devastating tsunami is pulled from Japanese theaters.

	March 11, 2011 Conversation: Protecting Egypt's Antiquities Jeffrey Brown talks to Thomas Campbell, director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, who released a statement last week expressing concern about the safety of Egypt's antiquities.

	March 11, 2011 Friday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Bob Dylan gets permission to play in China.

	March 10, 2011 Julie Taymor Out as Director of 'Spider-man' The curtain has closed for Julie Taymor, director of the problem-plagued Broadway musical, "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark." The show's producers announced Wednesday night that Taymor will be stepping down and that Philip William McKinley will replace her.

	March 10, 2011 Thursday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, color photos of the devastation wreaked by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake are found by the Smithsonian.

	March 9, 2011 Around the Nation Here are some of this week's arts and culture stories from public broadcasters around the nation.

	March 9, 2011 Wednesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, "Spider-Man" shuts down to address significant problems.

	March 8, 2011 David Brooks: From Spouses to Sofas, 'Emotions Tell Us What to Value' Jeffrey Brown speaks with New York Times columnist and NewsHour regular David Brooks about his new book, "The Social Animal," which explores human perception of reason vs. emotion, the power of emotions and the power of humans to "educate" those emotions.

	March 8, 2011 Minn. Sculptor Zoran Mojsilov Puts Big Rocks 'on a Diet' to Hone Human Forms From Minnesota's Twin Cities Public Television, producer Emily Goldberg profiles the larger-than-life sculptor Zoran Mojsilov. The Yugoslavia native and former wrestler's art "expresses humanity in its varied forms: in nature, in love, and even in war."

	March 8, 2011 In Reverse Trompe L'Oeil, Models are Both Subject and Painting Surface In some ways, artist Alexa Meade is a traditional figure painter, replicating the light and shadow that falls on the human body in a naturalistic way. But she works on an unusual canvas: the human body.

	March 8, 2011 Tuesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, the Supreme Court will hear a case about fair use of intellectual property.

	March 7, 2011 Weekly Poem: 'Green Door' Charles Baxter is the author of four novels, four collections of short stories, three collections of poems, a collection of essays on fiction and is the editor of other works. He teaches at the University of Minnesota.

	March 7, 2011 Monday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, "Spider-Man" on Broadway was cited again for safety violations.

	March 4, 2011 Conversation: Steppenwolf Theater's 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' Edward Albee's classic American play "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" has been revived in an acclaimed production by the Steppenwolf Theater Company of Chicago, and is currently onstage here in Washington at the Arena Stage.

	March 4, 2011 Friday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, the Egyptian culture minister says he's quitting his post.

	March 3, 2011 Conversation: Author Charles Baxter Writer Charles Baxter's characters often seem ordinary until a chance encounter, persistent nagging or tilt in their world order pushes them to make feverish decisions.

	March 3, 2011 Thursday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, an exhibit of ancient Afghan artifacts opens in London and scientists say they could reconstruct a Afghan Buddha statue that was destroyed by the Taliban.

	March 2, 2011 'Fifty April Years' Libyan poet, translator and associate professor at the University of Michigan Khaled Mattawa reads "'Fifty April Years," a poem about Libya.

	March 2, 2011 Benghazi-Born Poet Mattawa Reflects on Growing up Under Gadhafi Jeffrey Brown talks to Libyan-born poet Khaled Mattawa about life under Moammar Gadhafi and the recent crisis in his homeland.

	March 2, 2011 Wednesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, former Sen. Christopher Dodd will take over as head of the Motion Picture Association of America.

	March 1, 2011 Virginia Poet Charles Wright Explores 'Inexhaustible Power of Words' Poet Charles Wright has authored more than 20 books of verse and won numerous awards. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author reads some of his work and shares his sources of inspiration.

	March 1, 2011 Conversation: Libyan Poet Khaled Mattawa Khaled Mattawa was born in Benghazi, Libya, which is now much in the news, and came to the United States as a teenager in 1979. Jeffrey Brown spoke to Mattawa about the uprising in Libya, and about the history of poetry and literature there.

	March 1, 2011 Tuesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, actress Jane Russell has died.



	FEBRUARY Feb. 28, 2011 For Iranian TV Viewers, 'Parazit' Offers Reprieve From Static Jeffrey Brown talks with the creators of "Parazit," a web-based Farsi-language program that combines Iranian politics with comedy in the style of "The Daily Show," an American political satire television show.

	Feb. 28, 2011 Extended Interview: Kambiz Hosseini and Saman Arbabi of 'Parazit' More of Jeffrey Brown's conversation with "Parazit" duo Kambiz Hosseini and Saman Arbabi.

	Feb. 28, 2011 Weekly Poem: 'Where Shadows Will' Laura Moriarty is the author of 12 books of poetry, including "A Tonalist" (Nightboat Books) and "A Semblance: Selected and New Poems, 1975-2007" (Omnidawn), as well as the novels "Cunning" (1999) and "Ultravioleta" (2006). She is the deputy director of "Small Press Distribution in Berkeley, Calif.

	Feb. 28, 2011 Monday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, "The King's Speech" was the big winner at the Academy Awards, taking home four Oscars: best picture, best director for Tom Hooper, best original screenplay for David Seidler and best actor for Colin Firth.

	Feb. 25, 2011 Conversation: A.O. Scott Previews the Oscars The 83rd Academy Awards are Sunday night in Los Angeles, and for a preview of the ceremony and a break down of the nominees, Jeffrey Brown speaks to New York Times Film critic A.O. Scott.

	Feb. 25, 2011 Friday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, a woman sues the Gagosian Gallery after an incident involving protesters and the police.

	Feb. 24, 2011 Live Action Shorts Can Stand Tall at Oscars The Oscars take place Sunday evening, and there will be the usual glitz and glamour of Hollywood on display. But just as deserving of a place on the red carpet are films you probably haven't heard of: the live action shorts.

	Feb. 24, 2011 Thursday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, new media and technology for generating Oscar buzz.

	Feb. 23, 2011 Conversation: Joe Lovano Takes On Parker Joe Lovano is taking the music of Charlie Parker and putting his own spin on some of Bird's compositions, while making sure the original music remains clearly traceable to the great tenor saxophonist.

	Feb. 23, 2011 Wednesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, the fight in Michigan over the cost benefit of tax incentives for the film industry.

	Feb. 22, 2011 Oscar Nominated Animated Films Are Not Short on Ideas To appreciate the complexity and craft of animated narratives, one need not look further than the 2011 Oscar animated shorts category.

	Feb. 22, 2011 Tuesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra suspends its season.

	Feb. 21, 2011 Weekly Poem: 'Meditation at the County Landfill' Eric Gudas was born in Annapolis, Md. His poems, book reviews and interviews with American poets have appeared in the American Poetry Review, Crazyhorse, the Iowa Review and other journals. His book, "Best Western and Other Poems," winner of the 2008 Gerald Cable Book Award, was published in 2010 by Silverfish Review Press.

	Feb. 18, 2011 Roger Rosenblatt Answers Your Questions Art Beat received hundreds of questions. Unable to answer them all, Roger Rosenblatt sought to address some of the most popular themes with this response.

	Feb. 18, 2011 The Films Are Alive With the Art of Foley In a movie, some elements are designed to stand out and take center stage. Yet Oscar-winning sound editor Richard King says he's done his job well when the sound works to enhance the picture and not draw attention to itself.

	Feb. 18, 2011 Friday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, musicians of the Detroit Symphony vote on a final contract offer.

	Feb. 17, 2011 Conversation: Elizabeth Bishop's 'Prose' Although publishing relatively little, roughly 100 poems, Elizabeth Bishop wrote volumes, and over the last decade nearly all of her unpublished work has been made public. Last week, two new books were added to the Bishop's canon, titled simply "Poetry" and "Prose."

	Feb. 17, 2011 Costa Rican Art Returning Home About 4,500 pieces of Pre-Columbian artifacts, including ceramic bowls and animal-shaped vessels, taken from Costa Rica are returning soon to their country of origin.

	Feb. 17, 2011 Thursday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, some of the antiquities that were believed to be looted have been located.

	Feb. 16, 2011 Conversation: Borders Files for Bankruptcy On Wednesday, the bookstore chain Borders filed for Chapter 11 reorganization after accumulating more than $1 billion in debt and failing to pay publishers that supply its inventory.

	Feb. 16, 2011 Talking About Girl Talk When Gregg Gillis takes the stage, he's accompanied by two industrial grade laptops, 30 or so fans and lots of confetti. It's all part of the music project he calls Girl Talk.

	Feb. 16, 2011 Wednesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, a contemporary art auction turns into arts funding protest.

	Feb. 16, 2011 Costa Rican Artifacts Returning Home In 2011, the Brooklyn Museum plans to return to Costa Rica about 4,500 pre-Columbian artifacts taken legally around the last turn of the century. Here are some examples.

	Feb. 15, 2011 Restoring Ancient Artifacts - What Does it Take? As the dust settles on Egypt's recent protests, one less-discussed outcome of the uprising is the damage done to some of the country's ancient artifacts.

	Feb. 15, 2011 Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin Turns 100 The story of Taliesin and Frank Lloyd Wright's time spent there is being celebrated this year with months of tours, receptions, photography, concerts, and a number of exhibits including artifacts and archival photos.

	Feb. 15, 2011 Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin Turns 100 "Frank Lloyd Wright: Organic Architecture for the 21st Century" at the Milwaukee Art Museum celebrates the 100th anniversary of the architect's Taliesin.

	Feb. 15, 2011 In Search for Inspiration, Studio 360 Finds 'Spark' at the Source "Spark: How Creativity Works," a new book by the producer of Studio 360, draws on interviews with nearly forty creative minds to draw lessons about what it means to be creative.

	Feb. 15, 2011 Tuesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Jasper Johns and Yo-Yo Ma are honored at the White House.

	Feb. 14, 2011 Bassist Esperanza Spalding Scores Best New Artist Grammy The NewsHour recently profiled jazz bassist Esperanza Spalding, who won best new artist at Sunday's Grammy Awards. Jeffrey Brown has an excerpt of her song "Little Fly" from the album "Chamber Music Society."

	Feb. 14, 2011 Weekly Poem: 'Nightcrawler Buys a Woman a Drink' Gary Jackson was born and raised in Topeka, Kan. He received his MFA from the University of New Mexico. His book, "Missing You, Metropolis" (2009, Graywolf Press) won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize.

	Feb. 14, 2011 Before Greeting Card Companies, Valentine Writers Helped the Tongue-Tied In the 19th century, if an amorous author found himself short of verse, he needn't have looked further than the local bookseller. Six-penny pamphlets that contained popular collections of pre-written love messages were sold as "Valentine Writers."

	Feb. 14, 2011 Monday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, a roundup of Grammy winners.

	Feb. 11, 2011 Conversation: Andrew Altschul, Joshua Ferris and Hannah Tinti, Part 2 of 2 We've asked three authors -- Andrew Altschul, Joshua Ferris and Hannah Tinti -- attending the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference in Washington to come in and talk about their world.

	Feb. 11, 2011 Friday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, L.A.'s Watts Towers get $500,000 towards restoration efforts.

	Feb. 10, 2011 Conversation: Andrew Altschul, Joshua Ferris and Hannah Tinti, Part 1 of 2 We've asked three authors -- Andrew Altschul, Joshua Ferris and Hannah Tinti -- attending the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference in Washington to come in and talk about their world.

	Feb. 10, 2011 Thursday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines...

	Feb. 9, 2011 Drawing and Hustling in Washington, D.C. Nikita Z. Murray sees dollar signs -- not faces -- when he sits down to draw a portrait. It's a Friday afternoon in Arlington, Va., and Murray is working the shopping mall food court.

	Feb. 9, 2011 Two Artists. Two Continents. One Creative Conversation Artists in Dialogue 2, a new exhibition at the National Museum of African Art, unites the styles and techniques of two artists from different continents in a visual call and response.

	Feb. 9, 2011 Wednesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, reviewers break their silence on "Spider-Man."

	Feb. 8, 2011 Tuesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Maria Altmann, who escaped Nazi-occupied Vienna and won a fight to recover Gustav Klimt's "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer," the iconic gold portrait of her aunt, and other artworks, has died.

	Feb. 7, 2011 One-Woman Show Explores Human Side of Health Care Debate Judy Woodruff speaks with actress and playwright Anna Deavere Smith about her one-woman play, "Let Me Down Easy," which tackles contemporary health care issues through the eyes of more than a dozen different characters, based on hundreds of interviews she conducted.

	Feb. 7, 2011 Monday's NewsHour: Anna Deveare Smith in 'Let Me Down Easy' Monday on the NewsHour, Judy Woodruff sits down with Smith for a look at her latest work, Let Me Down Easy, which takes up the many-voiced debate on health care in America.

	Feb. 7, 2011 Weekly Poem: 'Poem in Which I Fail to Appear' Sarah Perrier is the author of "Nothing Fatal" (2010, University of Akron Press) and the chapbook "Just One of Those Things" (2003). Her poems have appeared in the Cimarron Review, Hotel Amerika, the Journal, Pleiades and Mid-American Review. She is currently an assistant professor at Point Park University.

	Feb. 7, 2011 Monday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, a Russian political documentary is stolen before its premiere.

	Feb. 4, 2011 Have Some Art With Your Football When football fans enter the Dallas Cowboys stadium on Sunday to watch the Steelers and the Packers fight to become Super Bowl champions, they may get an unexpected eyeful of contemporary art.

	Feb. 4, 2011 'Lombardi' Makes a Play On Broadway Playwright Eric Simonson talked to Art Beat about adapting the iconic football figure Vince Lombardi for the Broadway stage, and the good timing of having the Green Bay Packers in the Super Bowl.

	Feb. 4, 2011 Friday's Art Notes In Art Notes, artist Jeff Koons drops his claim on a balloon dog bookend.

	Feb. 3, 2011 Author Joyce Carol Oates on Widowhood's 'World of Absurdity' Jeffrey Brown speaks with author Joyce Carol Oates about her new memoir, "A Widow's Story," detailing her life after the death of her husband.

	Feb. 3, 2011 Joyce Carol Oates Reads from 'A Widow's Story' Joyce Carol Oates reads from her new memoir titled, "A Widow's Story."

	Feb. 3, 2011 Around the Nation Here are some of the latest and greatest culture stories from public broadcasters around the nation.

	Feb. 3, 2011 Thursday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, China tells UPenn that they can't show any of the objects slated for an upcoming exhibition.

	Feb. 2, 2011 Battle Hymns of the 'Fobby' Mother Before Amy Chua's memoir, "Battle Hymns of a Tiger Mother," touched off nerves about domineering Asian mothers, there was MyMomIsAFob.com, a blog that shares the lighthearted and idiosyncratic parenting moments of Asian mothers in America.

	Feb. 2, 2011 Wednesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Egypt's culture minister says the country's museums are secure.

	Feb. 1, 2011 Slide Show: Kennedy Center Shows Off VSA Commissions The Kennedy Center is honoring its namesake on the 50th anniversary of his inauguration. Among the festivities meant to reflect that administration's cultural agenda is an exhibit that reflects part of his social and public health agenda: addressing the treatment and perception of people with mental illness or disability.

	Feb. 1, 2011 Tuesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, the Smithsonian comes up with a new procedure to deal with opposition to their exhibits.



	JANUARY Jan. 31, 2011 Journalist, Author Roger Rosenblatt Outlines His 4 Reasons to Write Roger Rosenblatt -- novelist, playwright, journalist and, of course, NewsHour essayist for many years -- also teaches writing. His latest book, "Unless It Moves The Human Heart: The Craft and Art of Writing," is a based on a class he teaches called "Writing Everything." He spoke with Jeffrey Brown about his advice to writers.

	Jan. 31, 2011 'Revenge of the Electric Car' Director Paine Discusses Renewed Optimism Filmmaker Chris Paine achieved notoriety with his 2006 documentary, "Who Killed the Electric Car?" Now he's back -- with a more sanguine sequel, "The Revenge of the Electric Car.

	Jan. 31, 2011 Roger Rosenblatt Reads From His Book, Takes Your Questions Roger Rosenblatt reads from "Unless It Moves The Human Heart: The Craft and Art of Writing" and is taking your questions about writing.

	Jan. 31, 2011 Weekly Poem: 'Ex Libris' Megan Harlan's first book of poems, "Mapmaking," won the 2009 John Ciardi Prize. Her poems have appeared in several journals, including American Poetry Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, TriQuarterly, Prairie Schooner, AGNI Online and elsewhere.

	Jan. 31, 2011 Monday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, the only known film footage of the avant-garde dance group the Ballets Russes turns up in England.

	Jan. 28, 2011 Conversation: Ed Ruscha Now on show at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, "Ed Ruscha: Road Tested" is a collection of photographs, paintings and prints inspired by the artist's love of driving across America.

	Jan. 28, 2011 Friday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, the late Dennis Oppenheim left public art projects in process.

	Jan. 27, 2011 Conversation: Kevin MacDonald, Director of 'Life in a Day' For "Life in a Day," a 90-minute documentary film, Kevin MacDonald, with help from a team of researchers, pieced together real-life footage selected from more than 80,000 YouTube submissions (which added up to over 4,500 hours of tape) all shot on July 24, 2010, from all over the globe.

	Jan. 27, 2011 Thursday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Google helps launch a new public digital archive of photos from the Holocaust.

	Jan. 26, 2011 In Chaos of Post-Earthquake Haiti, Artists Create Poetry Amid Rubble On his recent reporting trip to Haiti, Jeffrey Brown explored the story of Haitian poets and artists surviving -- and creating -- amid the rubble of last year's earthquake.

	Jan. 26, 2011 More from Poetry Amid the Rubble More from Jeffrey Brown's last report from his recent trip to Haiti, one year after the earthquake.

	Jan. 26, 2011 Wednesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, scientists say Nabokov's butterfly theory isn't fiction.

	Jan. 25, 2011 Conversation: Frank Gehry's New World Center Opens in Miami The New World Center in Miami is set to open Tuesday. Designed by architect Frank Gehry, the building will be the new home for the New World Symphony. Jeffrey Brown talks to the architect.

	Jan. 25, 2011 The New World Center Designed by architect Frank Gehry, the New World Center in Miami will be the new home for the New World Symphony.

	Jan. 25, 2011 Tuesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, the Academy Awards nominees were announced.

	Jan. 24, 2011 Weekly Poem: 'Together' Charles Wright was born in Pickwick Dam, Tenn., in 1935 and was educated at Davidson College and the University of Iowa. He has written several books of poems, including most recently, "Outtakes" (2010); "Sestets: Poems" (2010); and the forthcoming "Bye-and-Bye: Selected Late Poems" (April 2011).

	Jan. 24, 2011 Monday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, the New World Center in Miami, designed by architect Frank Gehry, is set to open Tuesday.

	Jan. 21, 2011 Conversation: Sundance Film Festival This year's Sundance Film Festival runs from Jan. 20 to 30. Jeffrey Brown talks to two people who work year-round to put it together: John Cooper, the festival director; and Trevor Groth, the director of programming.

	Jan. 21, 2011 Friday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, the GOP releases a proposal for cutting the national budget that would eliminate the NEA, the NEH and the CPB.

	Jan. 20, 2011 50 Years Later, Indelible Images of Kennedy's Inauguration LIFE presents rare and never-seen photos from the event, and from the star-studded parties before and after.

	Jan. 20, 2011 Around the Nation Here are some of this week's arts and culture stories from public broadcasters around the nation.

	Jan. 20, 2011 Thursday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, the Washington National Opera will merge with the Kennedy Center.

	Jan. 19, 2011 The Onion News Network Takes On TV "The Onion News Network," a 30-minute, weekly television program, will debut on IFC on Friday. The show comes on the heels of "SportsDome," which premiered on Comedy Central and satirizes the round-the-clock coverage of sports channels like ESPN.

	Jan. 19, 2011 Wednesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Smithsonian Secretary Wayne Clough speaks out about the "A Fire In My Belly" controversy.

	Jan. 18, 2011 Slide Show: A 20th Century Salon That Paired Painters and Poets "Tibor de Nagy Gallery Painters and Poets," an exhibit that shows the creative fulmination of the New York School of poets and artists, is currently on show through March 5, 2011.

	Jan. 18, 2011 Tuesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, a university creates the first graduate program in curating performance art.

	Jan. 17, 2011 Weekly Poem: From 'Fugue' 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."

	Jan. 17, 2011 Monday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, a Vermont sculptor sent mini bronzes of Martin Luther King Jr. to the President and others to celebrate the holiday.

	Jan. 14, 2011 Conversation: Haitian Literature Is a Living Art American readers may be familiar with the work of Haiti ex-pat Edwidge Danticat, but who are the voices we miss? And what is the role of literature and poetry in the life of the average Haitian citizen?

	Jan. 14, 2011 Friday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, experimental theater pioneer Ellen Stewart has passed away at 91.

	Jan. 13, 2011 For Haitian Writers, Identity is Wrapped up in History and Hope In Haiti, not only was reading certain books dangerous, but writers were commonly known to be the agitators of dissent, those who -- with the spark of a word -- might ignite an upheaval in the minds and hearts of the masses.

	Jan. 13, 2011 Around the Nation Here are some of this week's arts and culture stories from public broadcasting stations around the nation.

	Jan. 13, 2011 Thursday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, a Swedish takeoff of "The Catcher in the Rye" is banned in Canada and the U.S.

	Jan. 12, 2011 In Haiti, 'Rhythm Rests in Our Marrow' Music is the tenor of Haitian cultural life, carved out of the oppression of slavery and the desire to live freely, writes Haitian-American poet and scholar Patrick Sylvain. It represents a cultural ethos based upon human reality.

	Jan. 12, 2011 Wednesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Ai Weiwei's million dollar Shanghai studio has been torn down by Chinese authorities.

	Jan. 11, 2011 In Haiti, Art Remains a Solid Cornerstone This week, Haitian-American poet and scholar Patrick Sylvain will be writing for Art Beat about his home country and its art, its history and future, and how its artists are surviving in the earthquake's aftermath.

	Jan. 11, 2011 Tuesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, the Dali Museum reopens in a new home.

	Jan. 10, 2011 Abigail Washburn Uses Banjo as Tool for Diplomacy For over a decade Abigail Washburn, a singer-songwriter and clawhammer banjo player, knew she wanted to help improve Chinese-American relations. She just never thought she'd be doing it through song.

	Jan. 10, 2011 Weekly Poem: 'The Winter's Wife' Jennifer Chang is the author of "The History of Anonymity" (Georgia, 2008). A Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of Virginia, she co-chairs the advisory board of Kundiman, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the support and promotion of Asian American poetry.

	Jan. 10, 2011 Monday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, the Library of Congress is swingin' for a huge donation of vintage recordings.

	Jan. 7, 2011 The New York Times' Ben Brantley Previews Upcoming Theater Season New York Times chief theater critic Ben Brantley previews the shows to watch out for in New York and on stages across the country.

	Jan. 7, 2011 Friday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, the Asian Art Museum is saved by San Fransisco.

	Jan. 6, 2011 Photographer Offers a Portrait of Myanmar's 'First Lady of Freedom' Over the last two decades, many of the world's famous and powerful have found themselves in front of Platon's camera.

	Jan. 6, 2011 'Green Patriots' Get Straight to the Message with Enviro-Friendly Poster Art Green Patriot Posters, an environmental sustainability advocacy organization that uses graphic art to raise awareness for green causes, has just published a new collection of purposeful poster art.

	Jan. 5, 2011 Thursday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Hollywood got a little economic boost at the end of 2010.

	Jan. 5, 2011 Photographer Alec Soth on a Life of Approaching Strangers Photographer Alec Soth showcased 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.

	Jan. 5, 2011 Platon's Portraits For over 20 years, Platon has done portraits of the most famous people in the world. View a few of the images he's taken in this slide show.

	Jan. 5, 2011 Around the Nation Here are some of this week's arts and culture stories from public broadcasting stations around the nation.

	Jan. 5, 2011 Wednesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Huckleberry Finn is published without some of the original language.

	Jan. 4, 2011 Tuesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, will former Gov. Schwarzenegger return to the screen?

	Jan. 4, 2011 In Haiti, Writer Kwame Dawes Tells of Quake Aftermath Through Poetry Writer Kwame Dawes has traveled to Haiti over the past year to report on and write poems about people's experiences after the earthquake. Jeffrey Brown's conversation with Dawes continues a series of reports in partnership with USA Today and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.

	Jan. 4, 2011 The World According to Kal The work of Kevin "KAL" Kallaugher, the Economist's editorial cartoonist, is the subject of an exhibit at the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco.

	Jan. 3, 2011 Weekly Poem: 'Boy in Blue' Recently, Kwame Dawes teamed up with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting to examine the earthquake in Haiti through poetry. Look for a report on the NewsHour about that project in the coming days.

	Jan. 3, 2011 Monday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, actor Pete Postlewaite has died.