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	2012 DECEMBER Dec. 31, 2012 Emancipation Proclamation Celebrates 150 Years and an Enduring Power to Inspire Issued by President Lincoln on Jan. 1, 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation is one of the defining documents of American democracy and is rarely available for public viewing. Ray Suarez talks to Annette Gordon-Reed of Harvard University about the importance of this artifact.

	Dec. 28, 2012 Some of the Best and Oddest Photos of 2012 From runways to rooftops, refugee camps to campaign stumps, this slideshow offers a smattering of images that caught our eye in the last 12 months. Some of the photos were of familiar scenes, such as presidential campaigns and bizarre weather events and others less well-known, a tattoo contest and the death of a humpback whale.

	Dec. 28, 2012 Some of the Best (and Oddest) Photos of 2012 Like any sizable news outfit, we here at the NewsHour sift through an enormous amount of photographs over the course of a year. It’s just part of the job, and, as many of us can attest, not a bad one at that. So, from runways to rooftops, refugee camps to campaign stumps, here is a smattering of our favorites from 2012.

	Dec. 25, 2012 Greek Poets Muse Austerity Measures: 'We'll Hawk the Parthenon to Buy Our Bread' We examine the Greek economic crisis from a different angle -- from the perspective of poets, and through the prism of history, modern and ancient. Jeffrey Brown talks to poet and classicist A.E. Stallings, a resident of Athens for more than a decade, and poet Titos Patrikios, who has seen other dark times in Greek history.

	Dec. 25, 2012 More With A.E. Stallings, Titos Patrikios Titos Patrikios is one of the leading poets of Greece. A.E. Stallings is a poet and translator who has lived in Athens for the last 13 years. Jeffrey Brown recently interviewed both writers in Greece. Here are some additional poems by each author.

	Dec. 25, 2012 Writer Ersi Sotiropoulos: 'The Crisis Empties the Wallets as Well as the Souls' Jeffrey Brown talks to Ersi Sotiropoulos, a Greek poet, novelist and short story writer. Her novel "Zigzag Through the Bitter-Orange Trees," published in English In 2007, was awarded the Greek National Literature Prize and Book Critics' Award.

	Dec. 25, 2012 A.E. Stallings and Titos Patrikios Titos Patrikios is one of the leading poets of Greece. A.E. Stallings is a poet and translator who has lived in Athens for the last 13 years. Jeffrey Brown recently interviewed both writers in Greece. Here are some additional poems by each author.

	Dec. 24, 2012 100 Years, 100 Poems: Celebrating the Centennial for Poetry Magazine "Print the best poetry written today, in whatever style, genre or approach." Those were the ambitious words written 100 years ago by Harriet Monroe when she founded Poetry, now the oldest monthly journal devoted to verse. Jeffrey Brown speaks with the magazine's editor, poet Christian Wiman, about a new anniversary collection.

	Dec. 24, 2012 Monday on the NewsHour: 100 Years of Poetry Magazine An extended interview with Poetry magazine editor Christian Wiman and Jeffrey Brown on Wiman's own poetry.

	Dec. 24, 2012 Poetry Magazine Celebrating 100 Years Christian Wiman, editor of Poetry magazine, talks to Jeffrey Brown about the 100th anniversary of that publication, plus his own work as a poet;.

	Dec. 21, 2012 The Daily Frame A man looks at graffiti beneath the Southbank Centre in London on Thursday. Photo by Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty Images.

	Dec. 20, 2012 The Year 2012, Framed Everyday this year we shared with you a photograph of a culture-related event or scene from somewhere in the world that caught our eye. From a cape made from a spider's silk in London to a 400-year-old bonfire festival in Fukushima, Japan, we've seen some pretty amazing things in 2012.

	Dec. 20, 2012 Art Beat's Daily Frame: 2012 in Photos Every day in 2012 we posted a photo related to a culture event somewhere in the world. Use this map to browse the photos by country and city.

	Dec. 20, 2012 The Daily Frame A woman is reflected in a work by artist Anish Kapoor at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, Australia. The exhibition is part of the Sydney International Art Series and will run until April 1, 2013.

	Dec. 19, 2012 Around the Nation Here are four arts and culture videos from public broadcasting partners around the nation.

	Dec. 19, 2012 The Daily Frame People take pictures of fireworks at the closing ceremony of the ninth annual Dubai Film Festival on Sunday. The Saudi movie "Wadjda," a tale of a girl's quest to own a bicycle in the kingdom where women are deprived of many rights, won the best feature film award at the festival.

	Dec. 18, 2012 The Tuesday Cutline...a Contest Christmas cards mailed? Check. Gifts purchased? Almost. Wrapping paper and scotch tape? Uh-oh. Line at post office? Ugh. Christmas next Tuesday!? Oh dear. From the looks of the photo above we might not be alone in our last-minute holiday preparations.

	Dec. 17, 2012 Weekly Poem: 'Messiah: Christmas Portions' Poet Mark Doty reflects on one of the great traditions of the holiday season: Handel's "Messiah."

	Dec. 17, 2012 The Daily Frame North Koreans look at the art exhibition "The great leader Kim Jong-il comrade is with us forever," which was held last week to honor the memory of the late leader, who died one year ago Monday.

	Dec. 14, 2012 The World of the Hobbit Original illustrations of "The Hobbit' by J.R.R. Tolkien and photos from Peter Jackson's film.

	Dec. 14, 2012 The World of Tolkien's Hobbit Since it's first publication in 1937, J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" has been adapted into a 1970s cartoon, a Russian animated short, fan-fiction musicals and parodies. But no adaptation may more closely resemble Bilbo Baggins' greatest adventure as Peter Jackson's film "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey," which opens Friday.

	Dec. 14, 2012 The Daily Frame The David-Apollo by Michelangelo, on loan from the Museo Nazionale del Bargelloe in Florence, Italy, is on display the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the only exhibition in the United States of the sculpture.

	Dec. 13, 2012 The Last Days of Mes Aynak When filmmaker Brent Huffman first visited the Buddhist archaeological site of Mes Aynak in eastern Afghanistan in June 2011, he was awed by the 2,600-year-old city, how it stretches for 100 acres, encompassing artifacts, monasteries and more than 200 statues. On Thursday, he's on his way back to bear witness to its last days.

	Dec. 13, 2012 The Daily Frame A painting of French writer and film director Marguerite Duras by Swedish neo-modernist painter Carl Kohler is on display at Umea University Library in Sweden. The exhibition of his work runs through Jan. 28.

	Dec. 12, 2012 Sitar Virtuoso Ravi Shankar, 92, Popularized Indian Music for Western Audiences Virtuoso sitar player Ravi Shankar inspired a new fascination with and appreciation for classical Indian music in Western popular culture. Judy Woodruff remembers the man who tutored Beatles guitarist George Harrison, performed at Woodstock and won three Grammy awards. Shankar passed away at the age of 92.

	Dec. 12, 2012 In 'Pullman Porter Blues,' a Family's Train Trip Through Time Art Beat talks to playwright Cheryl L. West and actor Cleavant Derricks after opening night at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., where her play "Pullman Porter Blues" is enjoying strong reviews.

	Dec. 12, 2012 Ravi Shankar Dies at Age 92 Ravi Shankar, the Indian musical icon who made the sitar famous, played with the Beatles and helped introduce "world music" to the masses, died Tuesday at age 92 in a San Diego hospital.

	Dec. 12, 2012 The Daily Frame People attend the 34th Transmusicales festival in Rennes, France, last week.

	Dec. 11, 2012 Art, China and Censorship According to Ai Weiwei Ai Weiwei has spent his career creating art with a direct social and political message. His photos, sculptures and installations highlight issues like Chinese censorship and corruption. Jeffrey Brown reports on Ai's career and "According to What?" -- an exhibition of his work at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C.

	Dec. 11, 2012 Ai Weiwei: Extended Interviews, Slide Show Extended interviews, slide show: "Ai Weiwei: According to What?" at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C.

	Dec. 11, 2012 'Ai Weiwei: According to What?' at the Hirshhorn "Ai Weiwei: According to What?" at the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C., is the first-ever North American survey of the Chinese artist's work.

	Dec. 11, 2012 The Tuesday Cutline...a Winner! Our audience captioned Daniel Berehulak for Getty Images' photo of "Deepak Sharma, who appears to levitate as passers look on at the Lodhi gardens on November 24, 2012 in Delhi, India. We received several entries but this week's winner is Ken Alexander.

	Dec. 11, 2012 The Daily Frame A visitor looks at "White Hole" by Mariko Mori in "Rebirth," an exhibition of the artist's work at The Royal Academy of Arts in London.

	Dec. 10, 2012 Weekly Poem: 'Providence' Sally Keith is the author of three collections of poetry: "The Fact of the Matter" (2012, Milkweed Editions); "Design," winner of the 2000 Colorado Prize for Poetry; and "Dwelling Song," winner of the University of Georgia's Contemporary Poetry Series competition. She teaches at George Mason University.

	Dec. 10, 2012 The Daily Frame A view of the Hubei Provincial Library in Wuhan, China, which opened Saturday. According to government officials, the $125 million library is the largest among its public libraries, can house 10 million books and accommodate 6,300 readers.

	Dec. 7, 2012 Conversation: David Denby on the Movies David Denby writes about the immediate moment in his role as film critic for The New Yorker. He also looks at the much bigger picture in his latest book, "Do the Movies Have a Future?"

	Dec. 7, 2012 The Daily Frame The Festival of Lights takes place in Lyon, France, on Thursday.

	Dec. 6, 2012 Oscar Niemeyer, Brazil's Modernist Icon, Dies at 104 Oscar Niemeyer, the architect who shaped Brazil's futuristic capital city Brasilia in the 1950s and '60s with bold, often-voluptuous structures, died late Wednesday in Rio de Janeiro. He was 104.

	Dec. 6, 2012 The Daily Frame A man takes in a view of the neugerriemschneider gallery at the Art Basel Miami Beach on Wednesday.

	Dec. 6, 2012 Brazil's Modernist Legend: Oscar Niemeyer, 1907-2012 Oscar Niemeyer, the architect who shaped Brazil's futuristic capital city Brasilia in the 1950s and '60s with his bold, often-voluptuous structures died Wednesday in Rio De Janeiro. He was 104.

	Dec. 6, 2012 Gospel Singer Motivates Youth through Nonprofit Grammy award-winning Christian singer Israel Houghton discusses what drives him to inspiring young adults maximize their full potential and harness the power of their education to rise out of poverty.

	Dec. 5, 2012 A Musician of His 'Time': Remembering Jazz Great David Brubeck Jazz pianist Dave Brubeck, who challenged time-signature conventions and brought jazz to a wide audience, has died at the age of 91. His 1959 album "Time Out" was the first jazz record to sell a million copies. Jeffrey Brown talks to George Wein, founder of the Newport Jazz Festival, about Brubeck's life and musical legacy.

	Dec. 5, 2012 Jazz Legend Dave Brubeck Dies at 91 Dave Brubeck, the musician and composer who helped popularize jazz in mainstream American culture with his iconic single "Take Five," died Wednesday in Norwalk, Conn., a day before his 92nd birthday.

	Dec. 5, 2012 Around the Nation Here are four arts and culture videos from public broadcasting partners around the nation.

	Dec. 5, 2012 The Daily Frame A woman sits inside artist Amy Cheung's full-size wooden sculpture "Toy Tank" at the "Hong Kong Eye" exhibition at Saatchi Gallery in London on Tuesday.

	Dec. 4, 2012 The Tuesday Cutline...a Contest It's time for another Tuesday Cutline, a contest in which you come up with a caption to a photo. We have looked at this photo over and over again and still have no idea how this man is ... doing whatever he's doing. Is it mirrors? A Jedi mind trick? An insanely strong left arm? Actually levitating?

	Dec. 3, 2012 Weekly Poem: 'Swimming Pool' James Arthur is the author of "Charms Against Lightning," a debut poetry collection published by Copper Canyon Press in October. He has received the Amy Lowell Travelling Poetry Scholarship, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Poetry, a residency at the Amy Clampitt House and a Discovery/The Nation Prize.

	Dec. 3, 2012 The Daily Frame Visitors to Naneci Yurdaguel's exhibition "Burquoi" at Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden in Wiesbaden, Germany, must wear a burqa, which are provided by the gallery. "Burqoui" is a play on the words burqa and the French word for "why" -- "pourquoi."



	NOVEMBER Nov. 30, 2012 Conversation: Lorin Stein, Editor of The Paris Review, on the Short Story What is a great short story and what does it take to write one? The Paris Review posed those questions to 20 contemporary authors and asked them to pick a story they love in the almost 60-year-old archives of the Review. The result is a new collection titled "Object Lessons: The Art of the Short Story."

	Nov. 30, 2012 The Daily Frame Japanese craftsman Sumikazu Nakata adds the final touches on a Daruma dolli at his studio in Tokyo. The doll is believed to bring good luck and represents the Indian priest Bodhidharma, the founder of Zen Buddhism in China.

	Nov. 30, 2012 AIDS Posters Call on Public to Act AIDS awareness posters were part of domestic and international public health campaigns to promote HIV testing, safe sex and better knowledge of the virus and disease. Here is a sample of the 6200 posters physician Edward Atwater collected that are now housed at the University of Rochester.

	Nov. 29, 2012 Twin Cities Dance Company Celebrates Diversity, Relevancy, Accessibility Rising to prominence in New York's dance scene, dancers Toni Pierce-Sands and Uri Sands left the Big Apple to start their own company in the Twin Cities, where an arts renaissance offered new chances to carve out their own niche. Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on how Tu Dance company is making dance accessible to a diverse audience.

	Nov. 29, 2012 'Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop' From simple retouching like removing red-eye to complex manipulation like removing people, Photoshop has dramatically changed the way we use the medium of photography. Or has it? An exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York explores the question.

	Nov. 29, 2012 What Did We Do Before Photoshop? An exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York shows how photographers long before the digital era regularly employed techniques of manipulation in their work. Some merely compensated for the medium's limitations, while others used manipulation to create obviously fabricated scenes.

	Nov. 29, 2012 The Daily Frame The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree is lit Wednesday in New York City.

	Nov. 28, 2012 Around the Nation Here are four arts and culture videos from public broadcasting partners around the nation.

	Nov. 28, 2012 The Daily Frame Palestinian art students paint a mural depicting the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in Gaza City on Wednesday.

	Nov. 27, 2012 The Tuesday Cutline...a Winner! This week's contest took us -- and Santa -- on a merry ride. We received several witty captions, including many that suggested Santa start dieting.

	Nov. 27, 2012 The Daily Frame A visitor looks at the Rita Mae West room by Salvador Dali during a press preview of the exhibition "Dali" at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. The exhibition runs through March 25, 2013.

	Nov. 26, 2012 Weekly Poem: 'Rage Sonnet' Hoa Nguyen studied poetics at New College of California in San Francisco. The author of eight books and chapbooks, she teaches poetics in a private workshop and at Ryerson University. Wave Books published her third full-length collection of poems, "As Long As Trees Last," in September 2012.

	Nov. 26, 2012 The Daily Frame People lift lanterns into the night sky during the Yi Peng Festival on Saturday in Chiang Mai, Thailand. During the festival, lanterns are launched into the night sky in the belief that grief and misfortune will fly away with them.

	Nov. 23, 2012 After Sandy, Poet Describes 'What It Means to Stand in the Rubble of Your Life' Jennifer Fitzgerald's family and friends have been greatly impacted by superstorm Sandy, and though she immediately got involved in relief efforts in her Staten Island community, she felt that her poetry would be another way to reach a much larger audience and explain the physical and emotional impact Sandy had on New York.

	Nov. 23, 2012 Friday on the NewsHour: The Poetry of Sandy Jennifer Fitzgerald reads two poems about Hurricane Sandy: "I Was Raised on an Island" and "What It Means to Rise."

	Nov. 22, 2012 Book Offers Portrait of Prolific Photographer Who Captured Native American Lives Backed by Theodore Roosevelt, Edward Curtis set out in 1900 to document the lives of Native Americans. Over the next 30 years, he took more than 40,000 pictures and 10,000 audio recordings. Jeffrey Brown talks to Pulitzer Prize winner Timothy Egan about his new biography about Curtis, "Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher."

	Nov. 21, 2012 Poet Joy Harjo Shares Words of Celebration and Memory for Thanksgiving Joy Harjo, who was born into the Muscogee Creek Nation in Oklahoma, describes herself as a poet, musician, dreamer and questioner. Her poem "Perhaps the World Ends Here" is particularly fitting as people gather around the table to celebrate Thanksgiving.

	Nov. 20, 2012 The Tuesday Cutline...a Contest It's time for another Tuesday Cutline, a contest in which you come up with a caption to a photo. After looking at Jonathan Nackstrand's intense photo above, you might be thinking, can't we get through Thanksgiving first before we think about Christmas? No, you can't. Santa clearly isn't.

	Nov. 19, 2012 Weekly Poem: 'Highlights and Interstices' Prize-winning Jack Gilbert died last week at the age of 87 after suffering for years from Alzheimer's disease. His many honors include the Yale Younger Poets prize for his 1962 debut "Views of Jeopardy" and a National Book Critics Circle award for "Refusing Heaven" (2005).

	Nov. 19, 2012 The Daily Frame A woman views "Forehead" by Jake and Dinos Chapman in the "Perfect Place to Grow" exhibition at the Royal College of Art in London. The exhibition, which celebrates the school's 175th anniversary, features more than 350 works of art and design by RCA graduates and staff, including Henry Moore, Tracey Emin and David Hockney.

	Nov. 16, 2012 Q&A: Violin Virtuoso Paul Huang Paul Huang's recent debut concert at the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., began with Beethoven. The 22-year-old violinist and winner of the 2011 Young Concert Artists International Auditions kicked off a new Virtuoso Series by the Washington Performing Arts Society.

	Nov. 16, 2012 The Daily Frame Some 2,000 South Korean volunteers make 140 tons of kimchi, a traditional dish of spicy fermented cabbage and radish, in a park in Seoul on Thursday. City officials will hand out kimchi to about 14,000 poor households in an event marking the start of the winter season.

	Nov. 15, 2012 Erdrich, Ferry Take Home National Book Awards The National Book Awards were handed out at a dinner Wednesday night in New York to four new books, whose subjects ranged from life on a Native American reservation to a settlement community in Mumbai.

	Nov. 15, 2012 The Daily Frame A visitor interacts with a creation titled "Protocell Cloud" by artist Philip Beesley at the Digital Art Festival in Taiwan on Thursday.

	Nov. 14, 2012 Around the Nation Here are four arts and culture videos from public broadcasting partners around the nation.

	Nov. 14, 2012 The Daily Frame Mexican Day of the Dead papier-mache skeletons are on display Wednesday at "Death: A Self-portrait," an exhibition at the Wellcome Collection in London showcasing 300 works devoted to the iconography of death. The exhibition opens Thursday and runs through Feb. 24, 2013.

	Nov. 13, 2012 The Tuesday Cutline...a Winner! This week's photo generated several clever captions full of fashion faux pas puns and Trekkie lingo. But we were won over by the cutline that beamed the Star Trek crew down to New York.

	Nov. 13, 2012 The Daily Frame Daniel Lawlor of Los Angeles poses Sunday after winning first place in the freestyle mustache category at the third annual National Beard and Moustache Championships in Las Vegas.

	Nov. 12, 2012 Iraq Veteran's War Fiction Taps Personal Experience Kevin Powers served in the U.S. Army in Iraq in 2004 and 2005. When he returned to the U.S. he turned initially to poetry to work through his own questions about his experience, but found he needed "a larger canvas." Jeffrey Brown talks to Powers about his novel, "Yellow Birds," which is nominated for the National Book Award.

	Nov. 12, 2012 Extended Interview, Reading: Kevin Powers, Author of 'The Yellow Birds' Extended interview and reading with Kevin Powers, author of the novel "The Yellow Birds."

	Nov. 12, 2012 Weekly Poem: 'The Role of Elegy' Mary Jo Bang is the author of several books of poetry, including most recently a translation of Dante's "Inferno" (2012), "The Bride of E" (2009) and "Elegy" (2007), which won the National Book Critics Circle award.

	Nov. 12, 2012 The Daily Frame Large torches are set ablaze at the more than 400-year-old Japanese bonfire festival Taimatsu Akashi in Sukagawa, Fukushima, Japan.

	Nov. 9, 2012 Conversation: Bringing Joey to Life in 'War Horse' The play "War Horse" is the story of friendship, war, love and one remarkable steed named Joey. To get an idea of what it's like to control Joey from his expressive ears to his hooves, Jeffrey Brown sat down with "War Horse" actor Danny Yoerges, who handles the head of Joey.

	Nov. 9, 2012 The Daily Frame A woman takes a photo of work by Japanese artist Hiroshi Shinno at Art Taipei 2012 on Thursday. The four-day exhibition, a leading art fair in Asia, draws more than 3,000 pieces from 150 art galleries internationally.

	Nov. 8, 2012 In 'Algiers,' Calexico Wanders Close to Southwestern Roots Geography has always played an important role in Calexico's music. You hear it in lyrics about drifters and border crossings and in the instrumentals that straddle traditions from Latin and North America. It's even apparent in the band's name -- Calexico is a town on the California-Mexico border.

	Nov. 8, 2012 The Daily Frame People walk in the Toledo metro station in Naples, Italy, designed by architect Oscar Tusquets Blanca as part of the "Art Station Line 1" project, which has turned stations into works of art.

	Nov. 7, 2012 Around the Nation Here are four arts and culture videos from public broadcasting partners around the nation.

	Nov. 7, 2012 The Daily Frame Shayla Fugate celebrates under a mural of President Obama outside of Ben's Chili Bowl in Washington, D.C., after he won re-election Tuesday night.

	Nov. 6, 2012 The Tuesday Cutline...a Contest It's time for another Tuesday Cutline, a contest in which you come up with a caption to a photo. This week, we explore strange new worlds, seek out new life and new civilizations, boldly go where no man has gone before...er, or sit in front of our TVs and computer screens waiting for Election Day results.

	Nov. 5, 2012 Weekly Poem: 'Never Seen' Hoa Nguyen studied poetics at New College of California in San Francisco. The author of eight books and chapbooks, she teaches poetics in a private workshop and at Ryerson University. Wave Books published her third full-length collection of poems, "As Long As Trees Last," in September 2012.

	Nov. 5, 2012 The Daily Frame A woman walks her dogs over one of three giant painted poppies next to the M8 motorway in Livingston, Scotland. The poppies mark the 90th anniversary of the Scottish Poppy Appeal, which is being celebrated this month.

	Nov. 2, 2012 Q&A: Mary Jo Bang's Translation of 'Inferno' Offers a Fresh Taste of Hell Mary Jo Bang's new translation of Dante's "Inferno" is true to the moral and emotional intensity of the original, but she infuses the text with her own voice and modern allusions to Stephen Colbert and "South Park."

	Nov. 2, 2012 The Daily Frame A worker uses a leaf blower outside of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., on Thursday.

	Nov. 1, 2012 Around the Nation Here are four arts and culture videos from public broadcasting partners around the nation.

	Nov. 1, 2012 The Daily Frame A young visitor looks at paintings by Fernando Botero at the exhibition "Celebration" in the [Museo de Bellas Artes in Bilbao, Spain. The retrospective features 80 works by the Colombian artist and runs until Jan. 20, 2013.



	OCTOBER Oct. 31, 2012 Q&A: In Zadie Smith's 'NW,' Some Harsh Truths About Friendship Zadie Smith's latest novel, "NW," is an exploration into the joys and problems of a modern friendship between two women in North London. Decidedly less radiant than some of her earlier works, "NW" delivers the reader some harsh truths about urban living and growing older.

	Oct. 31, 2012 The Daily Frame Workers strip down the 50-foot-tall letters of the Hollywood sign last week, power washing the corrugated iron and applying nearly 400 gallons of fresh paint. The iconic sign is getting its biggest renovation in 35 years to prepare it for its 90th birthday next year.

	Oct. 30, 2012 The Tuesday Cutline...a Winner! For this week's contest, we chose a Halloween-themed photo. Some might say it was also an election-themed photo. In any case, the photo taken by Bill Clark of CQ Roll Call of zombies at the U.S. Capitol generated many submissions that made us laugh.

	Oct. 30, 2012 The Daily Frame A man walks through New York's mostly deserted Times Square on Monday night.

	Oct. 29, 2012 Photographer Puts New Spin on 'Street' Art Using Google Maps Photographer Doug Rickard sees artistic possibility in the images of people captured in the photographic drive-bys that make up Google Street View. He has travelled thousands of virtual miles, looking for potential photographs in Google's maps that have more than just utilitarian purpose. KQED's Scott Shafer reports.

	Oct. 29, 2012 Author Bill Ivey Argues for Rediscovering Values at Heart of American Ideal Bill Ivey, former National Endowment for the Arts chair, says he sees a crisis in our culture where public discourse no longer includes argument over values or why we do what we do as Americans. Jeffrey Brown talks to Ivey about his call for a revived progressive vision, outlined in his new book, "Handmaking America."

	Oct. 29, 2012 Extended Interview: Bill Ivey, Author of 'Handmaking America' More of Jeffrey Brown's conversation with Bill Ivey, former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts and author of "Handmaking America: A Back-to-Basics Pathway to a Revitalized American Democracy."

	Oct. 29, 2012 Weekly Poem: 'A.M.' Nick Norwood's third full volume of poems, "Gravel and Hawk," won the Hollis Summers Prize in Poetry and was published by Ohio University Press in April 2012. His other books are "A Palace for the Heart" (2004), "The Soft Blare" (2003) and "Wrestle" (2007). He teaches creative writing at Columbus State University in Georgia.

	Oct. 29, 2012 The Daily Frame Ty Sherman, 10, as "The Scream," left, Kaesha Jackson, 10, as "Mona Lisa" and Sam Sherman, 7, as "American Gothic" pose Saturday at Boo at the Zoo at the Boise Zoo in Idaho.

	Oct. 26, 2012 New Erdrich Novel Deals With Crime and Jurisdiction on North Dakota Reservation Novelist Louise Erdrich examines what happens when crimes are committed on Native American reservations, a decidedly non-fictional problem, through the eyes of her fictional protagonist, a 13-year-old boy named Joe. Jeff Brown talks to Erdrich about her novel "The Round House," set on the N.D. reservation of the Ojibwe tribe.

	Oct. 26, 2012 Leon Botstein on How Circus Music Helped Shape American Pop Culture "Circus and the City: New York, 1793-2010" is an exhibition now showing at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery. It is, as it sounds, a big look at the development and pageantry of the circus over time through many different angles.

	Oct. 26, 2012 The Daily Frame Edvard Munch's "The Scream" (1895) goes on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York for a six-month exhibition. This pastel-on-board version sold for nearly $120 million at Sotheby's auction house in May and is the only one remaining in private hands; the three other versions are in museum collections in Norway.

	Oct. 25, 2012 Digital Technology Helps Researchers Hear Earliest Recordings Better The recording is just 78 seconds long, featuring a cornet solo and a man reciting nursery rhymes. Dated back to 1878, experts say it may be the oldest playable recording of an American voice. Ray Suarez talks to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Carl Haber who helped uncover the significance of this tiny piece of tin foil.

	Oct. 25, 2012 Around the Nation Here are four arts and culture videos from public broadcasting partners around the nation.

	Oct. 25, 2012 The Daily Frame Public art and music students demonstrate Tuesday outside the Greek Parliament in Athens against budget cuts affecting transportation to schools.

	Oct. 24, 2012 Q&A: Joyce Johnson Tries to 'Set the Record Straight' on Jack Kerouac Joyce Johnson's latest book, "The Voice Is All: The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac," draws heavily from Kerouac's own journals, letters and other source material, which are now archived at the New York Public Library.

	Oct. 24, 2012 The Daily Frame "The Bear," a sculpture by French artist Xavier Veilhan, is wrapped for transportation to the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., on Monday. The piece will be displayed outside the gallery as a part of an exhibition featuring 18 recent works by Veilhan.

	Oct. 23, 2012 Collage of Sound, 'Furniture' of Imagination: Philip Glass Classic Gets Revival On the occasion of a new world tour revival of his breakthrough, abstract 1976 opera "Einstein on the Beach," composer Philip Glass talks to Jeffrey Brown about his love of classical music, his own genre-bending work and finding success in the music world.

	Oct. 23, 2012 Extended Interview: Philip Glass More of Jeffrey Brown's interview with Philip Glass.

	Oct. 23, 2012 The Tuesday Cutline...a Contest t's time for another Tuesday Cutline, a contest in which you come up with a caption to a photo. This week, we go with a Halloween theme...zombies! In our nation's capital! (Insert political joke here.)

	Oct. 22, 2012 Weekly Poem: 'Redemption Song' Kevin Young is professor of creative writing and English at Emory University. He is the author of seven books of poetry, including "Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels" (Knopf, 2011) and "Jelly Roll: A Blues" (Knopf, 2003).

	Oct. 22, 2012 The Daily Frame Students from a martial arts school perform kung fu at Sunday's opening ceremony of the Ninth Shaolin International Martial Arts Festival in Zhengzhou, China.

	Oct. 19, 2012 Conversation: Louise Erdrich on Her New Novel, 'The Round House' Jeffrey Brown talks to Louise Erdrich, author of the novel "The Round House," which has been nominated for a National Book Award.

	Oct. 19, 2012 The Daily Frame A Chinese opera singer practices before performing during the Tin Hau Festival in Hong Kong.

	Oct. 18, 2012 From Samantha Crain, a Sound the Size of Oklahoma Samantha Crain is not a singer-songwriter who limits herself to a single genre or even, as she put it, a single place. "I love touring and I travel even whenever I'm not on tour. It's a bad habit," she told Art Beat before a recent concert at the Rock and Roll Hotel in Washington, D.C.

	Oct. 18, 2012 The Daily Frame A woman photographs a work by Paul Trefry at the "Sculpture by the Sea" exhibition in Sydney, Australia, on Thursday. More than 100 works of art are displayed in the world's largest annual outdoor sculpture exhibition, which runs from Sydney's Bondi Beach to Tamarama Beach through Nov. 4.

	Oct. 17, 2012 Conversation: Cellist Maya Beiser's 'Elsewhere' With elements of music, singing, theater, dance and video, "Elsewhere" is described by its creator, cellist Maya Beiser, as a "CelloOpera." It's a collaboration of Beiser and theater director Robert Woodruff that tells the Biblical story of Lot's wife and will be performed Wednesday at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

	Oct. 17, 2012 The Daily Frame Assistant curator Keith Lodwick adjusts actor Christopher Reeve's "Superman" costume, which is featured in "Hollywood Costume," an exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

	Oct. 16, 2012 The Tuesday Cutline...a Winner! This week was tough choice, as we we had several great Tuesday Cutline captions submitted for the photo below. Before we get to the winner, here's the original caption to the photograph taken by Michael Stewart of WireImage.

	Oct. 16, 2012 Civil Right's Leaders Continuing King's Legacy To commemorate the 2011 opening of the Washington, D.C. memorial honoring King, photographer Nikki Khan captured a series of portraits of civil rights leaders.

	Oct. 16, 2012 The Daily Frame Dutch police guard the Kunsthal museum in Rotterdam on Tuesday morning after several paintings were stolen sometime overnight. Police said seven paintings, including by Pablo Picasso and Claude Monet, were taken.

	Oct. 15, 2012 Weekly Poem: 'Diagnosis' Sharon Olds is the author of several books of poetry, including "The Dead and the Living," winner of the 1983 National Book Critics Circle Award; "The Unswept Room," a finalist for the 2002 National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award; and "Stag's Leap," which was published this year.

	Oct. 15, 2012 The Daily Frame An Indian artist prepares tribal masks for the upcoming Hindu festival of Durga Puja, which commemorates the slaying of a demon king Mahishasur by goddess Durga, marking the triumph of good over evil.

	Oct. 12, 2012 Shields and Brooks on Campaigns, Copyright and Cheating Cyclists On this episode of the Doubleheader, where we talk about the politics of sport and the sport of politics with syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks, we discuss how campaigns "borrow" aspects of pop culture, and the USADA report on Lance Armstrong.

	Oct. 12, 2012 Dodge Poetry Festival Gets Underway The 2012 Dodge Poetry Festival is underway, billed as the largest poetry gathering in North America. This will be the third time it's being held in Newark, after many years in the woods in a much more rural New Jersey setting.

	Oct. 12, 2012 The Daily Frame South Korean policemen dance to "Gangnam Style" in the stands of Formula One's Korean Grand Prix in Yeongam on Thursday. Korean pop star Psy, whose hit song has basically taken over the world, will wave the checkered flag in Sunday's race.

	Oct. 11, 2012 Poet Sharon Olds' New Collection Mourns and Heals the End of a Marriage Sharon Olds shares work from her latest collection of poetry, "Stag's Leap," a book grieving and healing at the end of a marriage. Olds also talks about her partner's New Hampshire nature retreat where she spends her days, about finding her poetic voice in her 30s, and the "usefulness" of poetry.

	Oct. 11, 2012 For Mo Yan, a Case Study in the Politics of Being a Chinese Literary Figure Jeffrey Brown talks to Charles Laughlin of the University of Virginia and Xiao Qiang at the University of California, Berkeley about prolific writer and Nobel Laureate Mo Yan, whose detractors cite a cozy relationship with Chinese state media and a savviness about staying away from topics sensitive to the Communist government.

	Oct. 11, 2012 Writer Mo Yan Wins Nobel Prize, Spurs Mixed Reaction from Fellow Chinese The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to celebrated Chinese writer Mo Yan, whose books include "Red Sorghum" and "The Garlic Ballads." Some more politically outspoken Chinese dissidents and intellectuals were critical of the choice, but the Nobel committee was quick to say the prize was awarded solely on literary merit.

	Oct. 11, 2012 Poet Sharon Olds Reads From Her New Book Poet Sharon Olds reads from her new book, "Stag's Leap."

	Oct. 11, 2012 Chinese Writer Mo Yan Wins Nobel Prize in Literature The Swedish Academy announced Thursday morning that it had awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2012 to Chinese writer Mo Yan. In its announcement the academy described Mo as a writer "who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary."

	Oct. 11, 2012 The Daily Frame Photographers at a book fair in Frankfurt, Germany, take pictures of books by Chinese author Mo Yan, who on Thursday won 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature Prize winner.

	Oct. 10, 2012 Around the Nation Here are four arts and culture videos from public broadcasting partners around the nation.

	Oct. 10, 2012 The Daily Frame People take in a preview of "Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective" at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. The exhibition of the U.S. pop artist's work runs Sunday through Jan. 13, 2013.

	Oct. 9, 2012 The Tuesday Cutline...a Contest It's time for another Tuesday Cutline, a contest in which you come up with a caption to a photo and win a prize.

	Oct. 8, 2012 In 'Joseph Anton,' Salman Rushdie Writes Novelistically About His Own Life In his new memoir, Salman Rushdie recounts, in the third person, his upbringing as a secular muslim trying to understand his religion, as well as living under fatwa, a period when he says he discovered his own resilience. Jeffrey Brown talks to the author about recent clashes over free speech and Islamic ideology.

	Oct. 8, 2012 Extended Interview, Reading: Salman Rushdie More of Jeffrey Brown's interview with writer Salman Rushdie, author of the new book "Joseph Conrad: A Memoir."

	Oct. 8, 2012 Dissident Vietnamese Poet Nguyen Chi Thien Dies at Age 73 Nguyen Chi Thien, a Vietnamese dissident poet who spent 27 years in communist prisons and was the acclaimed author of "Flowers of Hell," died last week in California after a long bout of illness.

	Oct. 8, 2012 The Daily Frame A restorer at the Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence, Italy, works on the unfinished painting "Adorazione dei Magi" by Leonardo Da Vinci.

	Oct. 5, 2012 National Storytelling Festival Turns 40 Now in its 40th year, the National Storytelling Festival expects to attract nearly 10,000 storytellers and attendees from throughout the country and around the world this weekend. The three-day event will include performances by 24 featured storytellers, two ghost story concerts at night and midnight cabarets.

	Oct. 5, 2012 Eyes of History Exhibit Captures 2011's Top Political Moments President Obama shakes the prosthetic hand of a soldier receiving the nation's highest military honor. House Speaker John Boehner tears up as he takes the gavel from former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. These are among the moments captured in the award-winning political photos at the "The Eyes of History 2012" exhibit.

	Oct. 5, 2012 The Daily Frame Employees of Christies Auction House in London unwrap Paul McCarthy's "Bear Sculpture" during a press preview Friday. The work is part of the Post War and Contemporary Art Auction next Thursday and Friday.

	Oct. 5, 2012 Relive 2011's Influential Moments Through the Eyes of History From the brink of war to raucous political rallies, the photographers of the White House News Photographers Association have stood at the forefront of historical news making events.

	Oct. 4, 2012 Dazzling Colors, Wacky Inventions at the Maker Faire Scientists, artists, engineers and builders converged at New York City's 2012 Maker Faire last week to celebrate a playful love of invention. The Maker Faire, a family-focused event, is rooted deeply in science, and holds as part of its key philosophy, a desire to inspire kids to create things as a way to embrace science.

	Oct. 4, 2012 New York City's Maker Faire Delivers Dazzling Colors, Wacky Inventions Scientists, artists, engineers and builders converged at New York City's 2012 Maker Faire last week to celebrate a playful love of science, invention and building things. View photos from the event in this slide show and our 2011 piece on the movement its rooted in.

	Oct. 4, 2012 The Eyes of History 2012 "The Eyes of History 2012," a new exhibit at Washington D.C.'s The Newseum, highlights more than 70 award-winning photos by The White House News Photographers Association. The following are the 2011 top political photos featured at the exhibit.

	Oct. 4, 2012 Conversation: Kevin Powers, Author of 'The Yellow Birds' Jeffrey Brown talks to Kevin Powers, author of the novel "The Yellow Birds" and who served in the U.S. Army in Iraq in 2004 and 2005.

	Oct. 4, 2012 The Daily Frame Keely Beal of Littleton, N.C., takes photographs Wednesday at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., next to David Smith's "Circle" sculptures.

	Oct. 3, 2012 '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.

	Oct. 3, 2012 Around the Nation Here are four arts and culture videos from public broadcasting partners around the nation.

	Oct. 3, 2012 The Daily Frame A woman experiences the "Rain Room," an art installation by Random International at the Barbican Centre in London. The["Rain Room" is a 100-square-meter field of falling water with sensors detecting where visitors are standing. The installation opens Thursday and runs through March 3, 2013.

	Oct. 2, 2012 Among Some 2012 MacArthur Fellows, a Focus on Looking at War and the Military The MacArthur Foundation announced 23 'genius grant' award-winners for 2012, including a mandolinist, an astronomer and an economist. Judy Woodruff profiles An-My Le, a photographer, Laura Poitras, a documentary filmmaker, and David Finkel, a journalist, all of whom have created work about war.

	Oct. 2, 2012 The Tuesday Cutline...a Winner! Last week, we kicked off the Tuesday Cutline, a contest in which you come up with a caption to a photo and win a prize, and you responded with some very creative submissions.

	Oct. 2, 2012 The Daily Frame Atlanta-based artist Alex Brewer, also known as "Hense," paints over the exterior of a 10,000-square-foot empty building in Washington, D.C. The work is a collaboration with the art gallery Art Whino and will be completed next weekend for a showing and reception.

	Oct. 2, 2012 Writers, Photographers, Filmmakers Among 2012 MacArthur 'Genius Award' Winners Nearly half of this year's MacArthur Fellows come from arts-related fields. Among them are Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Diaz and mandolinist Chris Thile, both of whom we've spoken to here on Art Beat this year.

	Oct. 2, 2012 Writers, Photographers, Filmmakers Among 2012 MacArthur Fellows Nearly half of this year's MacArthur Fellows come from arts-related fields.

	Oct. 1, 2012 Weekly Poem: 'The Worst Thing' Sharon Olds is the author of several books of poetry, including "The Dead and the Living," winner of the 1983 National Book Critics Circle Award; "The Unswept Room," a finalist for the 2002 National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award; and "Stag's Leap," which was published this year.

	Oct. 1, 2012 The Daily Frame A man nicknamed "Oldies" displays his tattoos by artist Josh Lin during the 8th International London Tattoo Convention on Friday. World famous tattoo artists and enthusiasts gathered for the annual event.



	SEPTEMBER Sept. 28, 2012 Conversation: Junot Diaz The writer Junot Diaz is back with a new collection of stories titled "This Is How You Lose Her." They feature several characters from his first novel, "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2008.

	Sept. 28, 2012 The Daily Frame A screen displays scientific tests made on the "Isleworth Mona Lisa," left, and the Louvre's version of Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece on Thursday.

	Sept. 27, 2012 Rowling's Greatest Work Isn't Her New Novel; It's Bringing Attention to Books This fall readers can find a shelf full of new books by big name authors, from Junot Diaz to Zadie Smith to Salman Rushdie to Orhan Pamuk. But not even books by Pulitzer, Orange, Booker and Nobel Prize winners, respectively, will garner as much attention as the latest work by the woman that brought the world Harry Potter.

	Sept. 27, 2012 The Daily Frame Employees of the Centre Pompidou modern art museum sweep around a sculpture by Algerian artist Adel Abdessemed of the headbutt given by former French soccer player Zinedine Zidane to Italian player Marco Materazzi during the 2006 World Cup final. The Centre Pompidou will host a retrospective of Abdessemed's work.

	Sept. 26, 2012 Around the Nation Here are four arts and culture videos from public broadcasting partners around the nation.

	Sept. 26, 2012 The Daily Frame A fire dancer performs during the first ever Backstreet Festival in Alexandria, Egypt, which runs through Saturday. An initiative of the International Association for Creation and Training, the festival celebrates art in non-traditional spaces.

	Sept. 25, 2012 The Tuesday Cutline...a Contest! We here at Art Beat enjoy a good contest. So today we unveil the Tuesday Cutline, a contest in which you come up with a caption to a photo and win a prize.

	Sept. 24, 2012 Weekly Poem: 'Intravenous' Hugh Martin recently won the Jeff Sharlet Memorial Award from The Iowa Review for his poetry. His upcoming book, "The Stick Soldiers," received the A. Poulin Jr. First Book Prize from BOA Editions. Hugh served in Iraq for 11 months.

	Sept. 24, 2012 The Daily Frame Dancers from the Spanish dance company Cie Delreves perform Sunday on the facade of Bulgaria's national palace of culture during Sofia Dance Week. Photo by Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty Images.

	Sept. 21, 2012 U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey Talks About Her New Job and Fourth Book The new official face of American poetry is one familiar to NewsHour viewers. Natasha Trethewey has just taken on the job of poet laureate of the United States, appointed by the Librarian of Congress. She's the author of four books of verse, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Native Guard" and her latest, "Thrall."

	Sept. 21, 2012 The Daily Frame A 13-foot statue of Christopher Columbus stands in a 810-square-foot living room. The art installation, called "Discovering Columbus," is by Japanese artist Tatzu Nishi.

	Sept. 20, 2012 Conversation: Director Jonathan Demme on His New Film and Hero, Carolyn Parker The film is titled "I'm Carolyn Parker: The Good, the Mad, and the Beautiful," and indeed Carolyn Parker is all those things and more. Acclaimed filmmaker Jonathan Demme tells the story of a resident of the Lower 9th Ward in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

	Sept. 20, 2012 The Daily Frame An Egyptian paints on a wall along Mohamed Mahmoud Street near Tahrir Square in Cairo on Wednesday during a demonstration by artists a day after the government whitewashed murals on the walls.

	Sept. 19, 2012 The Daily Frame A man rides his bike past a large piece of street art Wednesday near Brick Lane in London's East End.

	Sept. 18, 2012 Around the Nation Here are four arts and culture videos from public broadcasting partners around the nation.

	Sept. 18, 2012 The Daily Frame Craig Owens of the band Chiodos performs Sunday at Riot Fest and Carnival in Chicago.

	Sept. 17, 2012 Weekly Poem: 'Elegy' U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey reads Elegy," a poem from her new book "Thrall."

	Sept. 17, 2012 The Daily Frame French artist JR's "Inside Out" project, seen from above, is displayed on the roof of a pedestrian bridge in Hong Kong on Monday. The self-described "photograffeur" is in Hong Kong for his first solo exhibition.

	Sept. 14, 2012 Conversation: 'Broadway or Bust' on PBS Have you ever wanted to be on Broadway? Well, thousands of young people from around the country do, and a new PBS series is documenting their struggle to get there. It's called "Broadway or Bust," produced by WGBH in Boston. The first episode aired last week, the second is this Sunday.

	Sept. 14, 2012 The Daily Frame A woman looks at "Schermo - The End" by Italian artist [Fabio Mauri ](http://www.fabiomauri.com/)at the [dOCUMENTA (13)](http://d13.documenta.de/) modern and contemporary art fair in Kassel, Germany.

	Sept. 12, 2012 Leftover Salmon Serves Up a New Dish After an eight year hiatus, Colorado bluegrass band Leftover Salmon has released a new album and is back on the road touring. Formed in 1989, Leftover Salmon became famous for its unique "slamgrass" style, for hardcore touring (more than 200 days a year) and long festival performances.

	Sept. 12, 2012 The Daily Frame A woman sits next to a bronze statue of Albert Einstein, which is part of "Bench Art in Marunouchi" in Tokyo. The exhibition features 20 bronze statues of famous individuals on benches and runs through Oct. 14.

	Sept. 11, 2012 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, 2012 Iraq War Veteran Wins Inaugural Prize From Iowa Review Iraq War veteran Hugh Martin has won the first-ever Jeff Sharlet Memorial Award from The Iowa Review. Martin, a poet and author who served in the Ohio Army National Guard from 2001 to 2007 and spent 11 months in Iraq, submitted a collection of poems about his war experience and his return to civilian life.

	Sept. 11, 2012 The Daily Frame Zoe Koosoulis, left, and her daughter Eleni work on a painting of the lower Manhattan skyline Monday at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum in New York City. Koosoulis lost her daughter Danielle during the 9/11 attacks.

	Sept. 10, 2012 Weekly Poem: 'Second Helping' Michael Robbins is the author of the collection of poems "Alien vs. Predator" (Penguin, 2012). His poems have appeared in several publications, including the New Yorker, Poetry, Harper's and Boston Review. He reviews books for the London Review of Books and other publications, and music for The Daily and the Village Voice.

	Sept. 10, 2012 The Daily Frame Two of the thousands of people who have attended an exhibition of more than 200,000 butterflies in Changsha, China, last week.



	AUGUST Aug. 31, 2012 A Musical Review of the 2012 Republican Convention Republicans traditionally have selected country and classical music for the soundtrack of the Party's largest gathering. But this year, delegates and attendees were treated to a playlist that mixed country, classical rock and pop, including Black Eyed Peas, Taylor Hicks and 3 Doors Down.

	Aug. 27, 2012 The Daily Frame Photo of Treasure Island, Fla., by Tom Pennington/Getty Images.

	Aug. 24, 2012 Mike Birbiglia and Ira Glass on Their New Film, 'Sleepwalk With Me' "Sleepwalk With Me" began life in, well, the real-life, sleep-walking episodes of comedian Mike Birbiglia, then a one-man theater production, a radio story on "This American Life," a book, an album and now a movie.

	Aug. 24, 2012 The Daily Frame Visitors of the dOCUMENTA (13) contemporary art festival in Kassel, Germany, pose with portraits of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei in front of "The Importance of Telepathy," a sculpture by Thai artist Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

	Aug. 23, 2012 Q&A: Matthew Quirk's 'The 500,' a D.C. Thriller Mike Ford is broke, facing a mountain of debt from hospitals bills after his mother's death, has a father in jail and is unable to pay his tuition to Harvard Law School when he's offered what seems like a dream job in Washington, D.C. That's how the new thriller, "The 500," a debut novel from Matthew Quirk begins.

	Aug. 23, 2012 The Daily Frame Work by controversial Los Angeles-based French pop artist Thierry Guetta, aka Mr Brainwash, is displayed at the Old Sorting Office in London during his first solo European art show. Mr Brainwash was the subject of the 2010 film "Exit Through the Gift Shop," which was directed by British street artist Banksy.

	Aug. 22, 2012 Richard Ford's Latest Novel 'Canada' Is Actually an American Morality Tale When writing his new book 'Canada' about a boy whose parents rob a bank, Richard Ford blended the persuasive voice of a teenager with his own, that of a 65-year-old man with a lifetime of experiences. Jeffrey Brown talks to the Pulitzer Prize-winning author about his novel about morality, murder and coming of age.

	Aug. 22, 2012 Extended Interview, Reading: Richard Ford More of Jeffrey Brown's conversation with Richard Ford. Ford reads an excerpt from his novel "Canada."

	Aug. 22, 2012 The Daily Frame A sculpture by Carl F. Reutersward is part of the Brazilian Global Campaign for Peace in Sao Paulo.

	Aug. 21, 2012 Revisiting Bernini, Master of Marble No one has written more about Italian master of marble Bernini than Irving Lavin, for decades the resident art historian at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study. Indeed, when Paul Solman sat in on Simon Schama's "Power and Authority in the Baroque" course at Harvard in the early '90s, Lavin was the key Bernini reading.

	Aug. 21, 2012 The Daily Frame Phyllis Diller is remembered Monday on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The trailblazing comic and actress died earlier in the day at the age of 95.

	Aug. 20, 2012 Weekly Poem: 'Wolf' Joseph Campana a poet, critic and scholar of Renaissance literature. He is the author of two collections of poetry, "The Book of Faces" (Graywolf, 2005) and "Natural Selections," which won the 2011 Iowa Poetry Prize. He teaches Renaissance literature and creative writing at Rice University.

	Aug. 20, 2012 The Daily Frame Omowale Cultural Society dancers perform Saturday at the 2012 African World Festival at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit.

	Aug. 17, 2012 Conversation: Graphic Novelist, Director Marjane Satrapi Marjane Satrapi's "Persepolis" won international acclaim as an autobiographical tale, told first in the form of a graphic novel, later turned into a film, of a young girl coming of age amid the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran. Now comes the film version of "Chicken With Plums," another story based on her family's history.

	Aug. 17, 2012 The Daily Frame An artist continues work on part of the "See No Evil" street art project on Nelson Street in Bristol, England. The project, now in its second year, is Europe's biggest street art festival and has attracted top graffiti artists from all over the world.

	Aug. 16, 2012 Kishi Bashi Goes for a Loop of the Ephemeral Kaoru Ishibashi is no newcomer to the music scene. In 2003 he formed New York City indie rock outfit Jupiter One, and as a violinist he's toured the globe with Regina Spektor and Of Montreal. But despite finding plenty of steady work as a professional musician, Ishibashi felt he'd landed in an artistic rut.

	Aug. 16, 2012 The Daily Frame Goldfish swim in a tank as part of Hidetomo Kimura's "Art Aquarium." An exhibition of the designer's work -- more than 1,000 goldfish in unconventional aquariums -- is on display in Tokyo through Sept. 24.

	Aug. 15, 2012 Bon Appetit! Celebrating Julia Child's 100th Birthday On what would have been Julia Child's 100th birthday, the country celebrates the fun-loving pioneer who brought traditional French cooking techniques to the kitchens of American families. Jeffrey Brown talks about Child's passion for food and life with her great nephew Alex Prud'homme, who co-wrote her book, "My Life in France."

	Aug. 15, 2012 Remembering Julia Child Through Tributes, Song and a Quiz Wednesday would have been Julia Child's 100th birthday (she died in 2004 at age 91), and remembrances for the cooking icon saturate the Internet this week like one of her rum-soaked desserts.

	Aug. 15, 2012 The Daily Frame The Canadian circus troupe Tete d'Enfant performs in Queretaro, Mexico, on Monday.

	Aug. 14, 2012 Remembering the Editor Who Told the World That 'Single Girls Have Sex,' Too Helen Gurley Brown told women they didn't have to compromise: They could have the career, the man, the family, and a great sex life. As the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan, she defended this agenda enthusiastically for more than 30 years. Judy Woodruff and writer Gail Sheehy remember the life and legacy of Gurley Brown.

	Aug. 14, 2012 Success, Sorrow and Song: Gregg Allman's Hard-Lived Life of Rock Jeffrey Brown talks to Allman Brothers Band co-founder and still-member Gregg Allman about his new memoir, "My Cross to Bear," which tells of his southern roots, his childhood dreams to be a doctor, the negative effects of drugs on his relationships, and the profound effects the death of his brother Duane had on his own life.

	Aug. 14, 2012 Economic Inequality and Fakery in Art In a rare excursion to the crossroads of art and economics Jane Kallir, the proprietor of the Galerie St. Etienne in New York, writes about the connection between rising economic inequality and how it may be exacerbating an age-old problem: forgery in art.

	Aug. 14, 2012 The Daily Frame A man walks past graffiti in support of jailed punk band Pussy Riot in Moscow on Sunday. Prosecutors want the three band members to be sentenced to three years on charges of hooliganism after they performed in a protest against Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow's largest church. A judge will deliver a verdict on Friday.

	Aug. 13, 2012 Weekly Poem: 'Dispatch From the Future' Leigh Stein is the author of the book of poems "Dispatch from the Future," one of Publishers Weekly's "Best Summer Books of 2012," and the novel "The Fallback Plan."

	Aug. 13, 2012 The Daily Frame Hundreds of traditional Mexican music dancers perform during a festival in Guadalajara on Saturday.

	Aug. 10, 2012 Book Examines Varied 'Tapestry' of Michelle Obama's American Ancestry When Rachel Swarns began research on First Lady Michelle Obama's American lineage, she discovered remarkable family sagas, including the story of Mrs. Obama's white great-great-great-grandfather. Gwen Ifill talks to New York Times' Rachel Swarns about her new book on the genealogy of Michelle Obama, "American Tapestry."

	Aug. 10, 2012 Need a Good Cry? These Songs Are for You Everyone has their favorite sad song, but have you ever thought about the sad song as a whole category of music? Well, Adam Brent Houghtaling has, and he set down theories, profiles and a catalog of songs in the new book, "This Will End in Tears: The Miserabilist Guide to Music."

	Aug. 10, 2012 The Daily Frame Jerry Van der Rest, left, and Paul Hollanders, both of Belgium, lean a against a sculpture titled "Graft" by American artist Roxy Paine in the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C.

	Aug. 9, 2012 Around the Nation Here are four arts and culture videos from public broadcasting partners around the nation.

	Aug. 9, 2012 The Daily Frame Runners and walkers dressed in light emitting suits and holding light sticks make their way up Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh, Scotland, as part of Wednesday's dress rehearsal of a public art piece called "Speed of Light."

	Aug. 8, 2012 Finding Poetry in the Athleticism and Lingo of the Olympics Writer and professor Priscila Uppal is serving as "Poet in Residence" for Canadian Athletes Now, a non-profit group supporting Canada's athletes at the 2012 London Olympics. Uppal talks to Jeffrey Brown about her residency and where she's found inspiration, as well as sharing some of her poetry.

	Aug. 8, 2012 Wednesday on the NewsHour: Olympic Poetry Poet Priscila Uppal of Canadian Athletes Now reads "Obsessive Compulsive Cycling Disorder."

	Aug. 8, 2012 Wilco's Jeff Tweedy Talks Life on the Road, Woody Guthrie, Singing to His Kids The life of a rock star is not always easy and there are bumps to life on the road, but Jeff Tweedy of Wilco wears them well these days. He appeared relaxed in a T-shirt and jeans when we sat down with him in the band's tour bus before a packed concert at the Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts in Vienna, Va.

	Aug. 8, 2012 The Daily Frame An Indian artist paints an idol of Lord Krishna at a roadside stall on the outskirts of Amritsar, India, on Wednesday. The idols are in heavy demand ahead of the upcoming Hindu festival of Janmashtami, which marks the birth of Lord Krishna.

	Aug. 7, 2012 The Artists of Cultural Criticism: Remembering Robert Hughes and Judith Crist As taste-makers, critics can reveal the best and worst in art and film -- from inspiration to distraction. Jeffrey Brown and New York Times' A.O. Scott remember two such critics: Robert Hughes, who spent three decades writing for Time Magazine, and Judith Crist, who championed a new wave of actors and directors in the 1960s.

	Aug. 7, 2012 Battles Chooses Its Genre Wisely It's hard to categorize Battles' sound -- so hard that even they don't like to.

	Aug. 7, 2012 The Daily Frame People wait to see the coffin of the late Costa Rican-born Mexican singer Chavela Vargas during a ceremony in her honor at Garibaldi Square in Mexico City on Monday. The iconic singer, who was known for her mastery of Mexico's classic ranchera songs, died on Sunday at the age of 93.

	Aug. 6, 2012 Weekly Poem: 'How to Make Fatherhood Lyrical' Gibson Fay-LeBlanc is a writer and teacher. His first collection of poems, "Death of a Ventriloquist," won the Vassar Miller Prize and was published by the University of North Texas Press in 2012. He lives in Portland, Maine, with his family and is working on a novel.

	Aug. 6, 2012 The Daily Frame Dancers with the English National Ballet perform during a dress rehearsal of "Swan Lake" at the London Coliseum on Friday.

	Aug. 3, 2012 Conversation: Marcus Samuelsson on His New Memoir, 'Yes, Chef' Ray Suarez talks to celebrity chef and restaurateur Marcus Samuelsson, whose new memoir, the New York Times bestseller "Yes, Chef," traces his life and career, beginning with his birth in Ethiopia and adoption to a Swedish family, a move that eventually led him to cooking.

	Aug. 3, 2012 The Daily Frame Nepalese children dressed in traditional cow costumes take part in a procession for the Gai Jatra in Kathmandu on Friday. Families who have lost a relative during the year parade a cow, a sacred animal which some believe helps the departed soul to enter the afterlife.

	Aug. 2, 2012 Around the Nation Here are four arts and culture videos from public broadcasting partners around the nation.

	Aug. 2, 2012 The Daily Frame A woman paints a map of Berlin on the German capital's Schlossplatz ("Palace Square") on Thursday. The giant map is part of a program to celebrate Berlin's 775th anniversary. A team of artists will use 274 templates to draw the map, which will have the scale of 1:775.

	Aug. 1, 2012 Writer Gore Vidal Dies at Age 86 Gore Vidal, the American author, playwright and commentator who became a celebrity for his written works as much as for his outspokenness on the issues of the day, died Tuesday at the age of 86 in Los Angeles.

	Aug. 1, 2012 The Daily Frame Sri Lankan mahouts wash an elephant Wednesday near a fountain ahead of the Esala Perahera festival in the ancient hill capital of Kandy. The Buddhist festival draws thousands of tourists and spectators from around the island.



	JULY July 31, 2012 Author Walter Dean Myers Says 'Reading Is Not Optional' for Kids Walter Dean Myers is the award-winning author of over 100 books, written especially for young adults and children. His goal: to get more children reading. Jeffrey Brown reports on how reading and writing saved helped Myers as a child and his current role as Library Of Congress' National Ambassador For Young People's Literature.

	July 31, 2012 Tuesday on the NewsHour: Walter Dean Myers Tuesday on the NewsHour, Jeffrey Brown talks to award-winning author Walter Dean Myers, the Library Of Congress' National Ambassador For Young People's Literature.

	July 31, 2012 The Daily Frame A woman looks at a book in the "aMAZEme" labyrinth at the Southbank Centre in London on Tuesday. Brazilian artists Marcos Saboya and Gualter Pupo used 250,000 books to create the maze, which will be on display through Aug 25.

	July 30, 2012 Weekly Poem: 'Tavern. Tavern. Church. Shuttered Tavern,' Patricia Smith is the author of five volumes of poetry, including "Blood Dazzler," a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award, "Teahouse of the Almighty," a National Poetry Series selection, and most recently "Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah." She is a professor for the City University of New York and a Cave Canem faculty member.

	July 30, 2012 The Daily Frame Performers practice the dance of Caporales during Saturday's Folkloric Dance Festival in La Paz, Bolivia.

	July 27, 2012 Conversation: Lauren Greenfield, Director of 'The Queen of Versailles' The building of Versailles, not the one in France, but one in Orlando, Fla., which was set to become the largest home in the nation, is the starting point for a documentary film titled, "The Queen of Versailles." Jeffrey Brown talks to director Lauren Greenfield.

	July 27, 2012 The Daily Frame Construction workers add the final touches Thursday on a statue depicting Nelson Mandela outside Howick, South Africa. The monument will become part of [the Capture Site, the museum which sits on the spot where Mandela was arrested on Aug. 5, 1962.

	July 26, 2012 Around the Nation Here are four arts and culture videos from public broadcasting partners around the nation.

	July 26, 2012 The Daily Frame A mural depicting Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt looks over east London on Thursday, two days before the start of the London 2012 Olympic Games.

	July 25, 2012 Where Detroit Industry Has Floundered, World-Class Art Scene Flourishes In Detroit, where the population has dropped by 2 million, abandoned and neglected buildings are a normal sight. But look more closely, and beautiful murals and graffiti appear everywhere. Correspondent Spencer Michels reports on how artists, flocking to the city, are helping to spark the ailing economy.

	July 25, 2012 Profile: Detroit Graffiti Artist Antonio 'Shades' Agee Antonio "Shades" Agee always knew he wanted to paint, fascinated early on by oils and canvas but frustrated by its "tedious" pace. A classmate showed up one day with a can of spray paint, and he was hooked.

	July 25, 2012 The Daily Frame Soldiers check a clown's car during a parade Tuesday in Guatemala City, the site of the fourth annual Latin American Clown Congress. Clowns from Central and South America and the Caribbean are gathering for three days to exchange ideas and attend workshops.

	July 24, 2012 Elton John on AIDS: Compassion Is Part of the Cure Elton John spoke to AIDS advocates from around the world as the keynote speaker for this year's International AIDS Conference. Gwen Ifill talks to Sir John about his new book, "Love is The Cure," and his approach in helping fight the AIDS epidemic, which focuses on compassion, dignity and love.

	July 24, 2012 Tuesday on the NewsHour: Elton John Elton John faced a very different kind of crowd this week. Instead of thousands of screaming fans, he addressed U.S. senators, international health workers and advocates about an issue close to his heart: the AIDS epidemic.

	July 24, 2012 The Daily Frame Brass band members take part in a second line parade Monday in New Orleans to honor the late "Uncle" Lionel Batiste, a singer and bass drummer for the Treme Brass Band. Batiste passed away July 8 at the age of 81.

	July 23, 2012 Weekly Poem: 'Alone in Hell's Canyon' Michael McGriff's books include "Home Burial, "Dismantling the Hills" and "To Build My Shadow a Fire: The Poetry and Translations of David Wevill." He is the founding editor of Tavern Books, a publishing house devoted to poetry in translation and the revival of out-of-print books.

	July 23, 2012 The Daily Frame A sculpture called "Sandworm" by Marco Casagrande sits on the Belgian coast in Wenduine during Beaufort04, the fourth edition of the Triennial of Contemporary Art by the Sea.

	July 18, 2012 New Documentary Explores Challenge to Public Hospitals in Serving Uninsured Jeffrey Brown previews "The Waiting Room," a documentary that goes behind the scenes of an Oakland hospital's fight to survive in the recession and juggle patient needs that range from basic to life-threatening. Director Peter Nicks set out to profile a community but ended up with a larger story about health care in the U.S.

	July 18, 2012 Around the Nation Here are four arts and culture videos from public broadcasting partners around the nation.

	July 18, 2012 The Daily Frame Godffrey Evans, principal curator of European Applied Art, holds a Byzantine sardonyx bowl mounted on a 16th century gold stand, the most valuable object to enter the collection of the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.

	July 17, 2012 Legendary Bob Dylan Guitar Inspires Movement and Mystery A New Jersey woman thinks she's found the famous Fender Stratocaster that drew boos when Bob Dylan plugged in at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965. The singer disputes that claim. Jeffrey Brown interviews the host of PBS' History Detectives, which featured the story on its season premiere.

	July 17, 2012 PBS History Detectives Think They May Have Found a Rock & Roll 'Holy Grail' It's one of rock's seminal moments: It's 1965, the scene is the Newport Folk Festival, and Bob Dylan -- the godfather of folk music at the time -- walks on stage and plugs in. He plays an electric guitar for the first time in live performance.

	July 17, 2012 A Rock & Roll 'Holy Grail' History Mystery What happened to the guitar that Bob Dylan used to 'go electric?' In tonight's season premiere, History Detectives Elyse Luray and Wes Cowan carefully unravel the missing guitar mystery.

	July 17, 2012 The Daily Frame JO!: Africa to America and A Dance Odyssey performs at the 2012 Concert of Colors at Max Fischer Music Center in Detroit, Mich.

	July 16, 2012 Weekly Poem: 'Quarantine' Eavan Boland is one of Ireland's most prominent poets. She's published more than 10 books of verse, most recently, "New Collected Poems." She is also professor of English and director of the creative writing program at Stanford University.

	July 16, 2012 The Daily Frame Dancers with the STREB Extreme Action Company perform on top of London's city hall as part of Sunday's "One Extraordinary Day" performances celebrating the Olympics.

	July 13, 2012 Conversation: What Makes Some Arts Buildings Successful and Others Not? Anyone paying attention to American cultural life has noticed a boom of art-centered buildings in cities across the country. A new study by the Cultural Policy Center at the University of Chicago takes what it builds as the first systematic look at this trend.

	July 13, 2012 The Daily Frame Visitors view works at the Yayoi Kusama retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art. The show runs through Sept. 30.

	July 12, 2012 Stellar Arts: Astronomy as Muse for African Artists From a gigantic rainbow serpent fashioned out of recycled jerry cans to a painting of girls dancing against a Milky Way backdrop, the exhibit "African Cosmos: Stellar Arts" examines how African artists through time have looked to the sky, the sun, the moon and the stars for inspiration.

	July 12, 2012 African Cosmos: Stellar Arts From a gigantic rainbow serpent fashioned out of recycled jerry cans to a painting of girls dancing against a Milky Way backdrop, the Smithsonian's "African Cosmos: Stellar Arts" exhibit examines how African artists through time have looked to the sky, the sun, the moon and the stars for inspiration.

	July 12, 2012 The Daily Frame A visitor walks through an installation made of around a million photos downloaded and printed from flickr by artist Erik Kessels at the Kunsthalle zu Kiel museum in Kiel, Germany. From July 14 to Oct. 21, the show "Von Sinnen" (Out of Mind) will present works by 38 artists focusing on the perception of art.

	July 11, 2012 New Book Offers Trove of Stories from Cinema's Great Directors It's summer movie season, the time of year when blockbusters dominate the box office. Jeffrey Brown sits down with producer and director George Stevens Jr. to discuss his new book, "The Great Moviemakers," a collection of in-depth interviews exploring how some of cinema's greatest directors approached their craft.

	July 11, 2012 George Stevens on Film, Hollywood, and the Evolution of Moviemaking A writer, producer, director and the founder of the American Film Institute, George Stevens Jr. has long been familiar with the ways of Hollywood and how the pioneers of moviemaking shaped the films that so many fans have come to know and love.

	July 11, 2012 Lou Beach Reads From '420 Characters' Last month, Jeffrey Brown talked to artist and author Lou Beach about his recent collection of short stories, "420 Characters," which began as status updates on Facebook. After the interview, Beach read several of the stories for us. At long last, here is that video.

	July 11, 2012 The Daily Frame A spider's web is woven around Christoph Poeggeler's sculpture of a kissing couple in Duesseldorf, Germany.

	July 10, 2012 Culture Canvas A weekly roundup of arts and culture headlines, including the story of why the Pulitzer board didn't award a fiction prize this spring.

	July 10, 2012 The Daily Frame Actors perform during a rehearsal of Giacomo Puccini's "La Boheme" in the French city of Orange, during the Choregies d'Orange, a festival dedicated to opera, lyrical art and symphonic concert.

	July 9, 2012 Weekly Poem: From 'The Speed of Belief' Tracy K. Smith's poem is from her book "Life on Mars," which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry earlier this year. Smith is an assistant professor of creative writing at Princeton University.

	July 9, 2012 The Daily Frame A tourist sits next to a sculpture of a shark at a shopping mall in Bangkok on Monday.

	July 6, 2012 Maestros Mix With Students for Castleton Music Festival In rural Virginia, a month-long program of recitals, concerts and operas is both a traditional summer music festival as well as an opportunity for students to train with music greats. Jeffrey Brown visits with founder and renowned conductor Lorin Maazel.

	July 6, 2012 Castleton Festival is Part Musical Celebration, Part Training Ground In central Virginia's Rappahanock County, the four-year-old Castleton Festival is part traditional summer music festival and part music training program. Jeffrey Brown talks to founder and renowned conductor Lorin Maazel.

	July 5, 2012 Storyteller Jack Hitt on 'Making Up the Truth' Jeffrey Brown speaks with master storyteller Jack Hitt about his new solo show and what it's like to be a self-employed writer.

	July 5, 2012 Watch Fireworks From Around the U.S. The nation celebrated Independence Day Wednesday with fireworks shows in Boston, New York, Washington, D.C., Orlando and Houston.

	July 3, 2012 From Mayberry to Matlock, Andy Griffith Remembered for Iconic Roles Actor Andy Griffith, who played a widowed sheriff in the Andy Griffith show and a cagey Southern lawyer in Matlock, died Tuesday at his home. He was 86. These shows were only a small part of a career that spanned 50-years and included a Grammy award and a Presidential Medal of Freedom.

	July 3, 2012 Around the Nation Here are four arts and culture videos from public broadcasting partners around the nation.

	July 3, 2012 The Daily Frame A boy poses with a 3D painting at the 2012 Magic Art Special Exhibition of China in Hangzhou.

	July 2, 2012 Weekly Poem: 'Immigrant Picnic' Gregory Djanikian has written several books of poetry, including "So I Will Till the Ground" (2007), "Years Later" (2000), "Falling Deeply into America" (1989) and "The Man in the Middle" (1984). He directs the creative writing program at the University of Pennsylvania.

	July 2, 2012 The Daily Frame Visitors look at a giant statue of Michael Phelps in downtown Omaha, Neb., during the 2012 U.S. Olympic Swimming Team Trials at Qwest Center on Saturday.



	JUNE June 29, 2012 Photographing Juarez, Where Everyday Life Can Include Gang Violence For more than two decades, Mexican photographer Julian Cardona has documented the lives of Ciudad Juarez residents, both as their city thrived, and lately, as it's suffered from poverty and violence.

	June 29, 2012 Julian Cardona's Focus on Juarez Mexican photojournalist Julian Cardona, who lives in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, documented the city's job-fueled growth and now drug-fueled violence.

	June 27, 2012 Remembering the Life and Work of Writer, Director Nora Ephron Author, director and screenwriter Nora Ephron, known for her wistful romantic comedies including "When Harry Met Sally," died Tuesday at age 71. Gwen Ifill and Charles McGrath of the New York Times discuss the life and legacy of a woman whose movies, books and essays captured the spirit of changing times.

	June 27, 2012 Rapper's Delight: Ice-T Catches Directing Bug With 'The Art of Rap' After playing Detective Odafin Tutuola on the hit series "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit " for the past 13 years, Tracy Marrow, who is better known as hip-hop pioneer Ice-T, was ready to step behind the camera. The documentary "From Something to Nothing: The Art of Rap" is his directorial debut.

	June 27, 2012 The Daily Frame Visitors walk underneath ''Levitated Mass,'' a permanent exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Created by artist Michael Heizer, it features a 340-ton boulder.

	June 26, 2012 Screenwriter Nora Ephron Dead at Age 71 Nora Ephron, author, screenwriter, humorist and chronicler of wistful romance comedies like "When Harry Met Sally" and "Sleepless in Seattle," died June 26 in New York.

	June 26, 2012 A 'Diamond in the Rough': Singer-Songwriter Shawn Colvin on Music and Memoir Singer-songwriter and performer Shawn Colvin traces her early days, musical career and struggles with depression in her new memoir, "Diamond in the Rough," and looks to the future with her first album in six years. Colvin discusses both with Jeffrey Brown.

	June 26, 2012 Why Women Can, and Can't Have It All In her controversial cover story "Why Women Still Can't Have It All" for this month's The Atlantic, Anne-Marie Slaughter asks if women -- "highly educated, well-off women who are privileged enough to have choices in the first place" -- can have both a successful career and a family.

	June 26, 2012 Around the Nation Here are four arts and culture videos from public broadcasting partners around the nation.

	June 26, 2012 The Daily Frame A woman views the exhibition "Edvard Munch: The Modern Eye" at the Tate Modern in London on Tuesday. The major exhibition of Munch's work features more than 60 paintings that examine how the Norwegian artist revisited different motifs, which he developed in his paintings over time.

	June 25, 2012 Weekly Poem: 'I'll Say It Again' Amanda Nadelberg is the author of "Bright Brave Phenomena" (Coffee House Press, 2012) and "Isa the Truck Named Isadore" (Slope Editions, 2006). Originally from Boston, she is a graduate of Carleton College and the University of Iowa, where she was a Truman Capote Fellow and a Teaching-Writing Fellow. She lives in Oakland, Calif.

	June 25, 2012 The Daily Frame Naked volunteers painted in red and gold pose for American photographer Spencer Tunick in scenes meant to illustrate the opera "Der Ring des Nibelungen" by Richard Wagner at Max-Joseph Platz in Munich on Saturday.

	June 22, 2012 Conversation: Shawn Colvin Looks Back in New Memoir, 'Diamond in the Rough' "Diamond in the Rough" is the name of a 1989 hit song from Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Shawn Colvin's first album, "Steady On." Now, it's the name of a new memoir she's just released. Jeffrey Brown talks to the musician.

	June 22, 2012 The Daily Frame Indian artist Ranjit Dahiya works on a mural of Bolllywood actor Amitabh Bachchan from his classic film, "Deewar," in Mumbai on Wednesday. To celebrate the centennial of Indian cinema in 2013, artists from Bollywood Art Project are decorating the walls of the city in the style of classic hand-painted Bolllywood posters.

	June 20, 2012 On a Mission for Preservation, Poet Natalie Diaz Returns to Her Roots After spending several years away from home, poet Natalie Diaz felt a calling to return to her reservation to help preserve the Mojave language, which is rapidly being lost.

	June 20, 2012 Reading and Extended Interview With Poet Natalie Diaz A reading and extended interview with poet Natalie Diaz.

	June 20, 2012 The Daily Frame Ultra-orthodox Jewish dancers perform in Jerusalem on Tuesday during the opening of the Israel Museum exhibition "A World Apart Next Door," a cultural exploration of the Hasidic Jews.

	June 19, 2012 Around the Nation Here are four arts and culture videos from public broadcasting partners around the nation.

	June 19, 2012 The Daily Frame Pieces from the collection of artist and designer Javier Mariscal are on display at the Museo ABC in Madrid.

	June 18, 2012 Weekly Poem: 'All My Friends' Barbecues Need Attending' Carrie Oeding is a native of Minnesota. She received her M.F.A. from Eastern Washington University and her Ph.D. in from Ohio University, where she was awarded the Claude Kantner Fellowship. She currently teaches as a visiting assistant professor at Marshall University.

	June 18, 2012 The Daily Frame A reporter walks through a piece titled "Helmets" by Yoko Ono at the Serpentine Gallery in London. The work makes up part of London 2012 Festival, a 12-week celebration of artists' work from across the world.

	June 15, 2012 With Expiration of 'Ulysses' Copyright, Bloomsday Celebrations Bloom On Saturday, James Joyce fans around the globe will commemorate "Bloomsday," a holiday that celebrates "Ulysses." This year is special, however, as it marks the first occasion that the copyright has expired on Joyce's work.

	June 15, 2012 The Daily Frame Peter Saul's 'Untitled (Bathroom)' from 1961 is part of "Abstract Drawings" at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The exhibition presents a selection of 46 works on paper from the museum's permanent collection rarely on public display and includes works from the 1930s to 2009.

	June 14, 2012 'We Were Here' Revisits San Francisco's AIDS Epidemic of Early '80s A PBS "Independent Len" documentary, "We Were Here," recalls the largely gay Castro District of San Francisco of the 1980s and chronicles the early days of the AIDS epidemic. Spencer Michels speaks with the filmmaker David Weissman.

	June 14, 2012 The Daily Frame On Sunday, the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore will present "Public Property," an experimental exhibition created by the public.

	June 13, 2012 Michael Lewis on Princeton Speech: I Aimed To Give Something Unexpected After providing some thought-provoking words to the graduates of Princeton's Class of 2012, author Michael Lewis speaks with Jeffrey Brown on the merits of success, the relationship between luck and good fortune, and the responsibility luck warrants.

	June 13, 2012 Your Responses: Do You Attribute Success to Luck? In Michael Lewis' commencement address to Princeton's graduating class of 2012, he said, "You owe a debt, not just to your Gods.

	June 13, 2012 Conversation: Jonathan Gottschall, Author of 'The Storytelling Animal' In his new book, "The Storytelling Animal," Jonathan Gottschall explores the art of telling tales and the science behind what's at work in our minds when we hear things like, "Once upon a time."

	June 13, 2012 The Daily Frame A worker repairs a giant statue on Tuesday that was damaged during the May 2010 military crackdown on Red Shirt protesters in Bangkok.

	June 12, 2012 Around the Nation Here are four arts and culture videos from public broadcasting partners around the nation.

	June 12, 2012 The Daily Frame A model poses in a representation of Edward Hopper's painting "Morning Sun" at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid. The exhibition, "Hopper," brings together the largest selection of works by the artist ever to be shown in Europe.

	June 11, 2012 Weekly Poem: 'Je m'appelle Ivan' Heather Christle is the author of "What Is Amazing" (Wesleyan University Press), "The Difficult Farm" (Octopus Books, 2009) and "The Trees The Trees" (Octopus Books, 2011), which won the 2012 Believer Poetry Award.

	June 11, 2012 The Daily Frame Revelers dance down Fifth Avenue in New York City during the Puerto Rican Day Parade on Sunday.

	June 8, 2012 Conversation: Lou Beach's '420 Characters' They began as status updates on Facebook, but Lou Beach came to see something more in the short pieces he was writing -- a new form of short story, in fact. And it's an interesting and compelling approach, indeed, in an age when books, blogs, tweets and more all coexist and tell stories in different ways.

	June 8, 2012 The Daily Frame The Merengue Dancing Dog performs onstage at "This Tent" during the first day of the Bonaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, Tenn.

	June 7, 2012 New Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey 'Explores the Human Struggles We All Face' Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey was named the 19th U.S. Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry, the Library of Congress announced Thursday -- noting her ability to "dig beneath the surface of history." The NewsHour first profiled her in 2006 for her third book of poems, "Native Guard." Jeffrey Brown reports.

	June 7, 2012 Q&A: Actress Audra McDonald Poised to Make Tony Award History Audra McDonald is set to make Tony Award history. If she wins on Sunday, McDonald will be the first African-American actress to win five Tony Awards and will be tied with Julie Harris and Angela Lansbury for most wins by an actress.

	June 7, 2012 Natasha Trethewey Named U.S. Poet Laureate Pulitzer Prize-winner Natasha Trethewey will be the 19th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry, the Library of Congress announced on Thursday.

	June 7, 2012 The Daily Frame Spaniards dressed as, clockwise from top left, an American Indian, a sand man, Elvis Presley, a matador, Charlie Chaplin, a bronze sweeper, a newspaper man and the Invisible Man perform near Puerta del Sol in Madrid. Ever since the beginning of the economic crisis in Spain, the number of living statues in Madrid has increased.

	June 6, 2012 Remembering Ray Bradbury and His 'Cautionary Tales' Ray Bradbury, author of classic books such as "Fahrenheit 451" and "The Martian Chronicles," died Tuesday night at the age of 91. Jeffrey Brown and bestselling novelist Lev Grossman, who is also a book critic for Time magazine, discuss Bradbury's life, work and literary legacy.

	June 6, 2012 Ray Bradbury Dies at Age 91 Ray Bradbury, the author of the classic books "Fahrenheit 451" and "The Martian Chronicles" died Tuesday night at the age of 91. The highly influential author had continued working into his 90s, writing everyday at his home in Los Angeles.

	June 6, 2012 The Daily Frame Indian artist Jasu Shilpi, who is known as the Bronze Woman of India, gives finishing touches to a bronze statue of Paanch Mukhi Hanuman (Hindu Monkey God With Five Faces) at her workshop near Adalaj, India, on Tuesday.

	June 5, 2012 Around the Nation Here are four arts and culture videos from public broadcasting partners around the nation.

	June 5, 2012 The Daily Frame "Cloud City" by Argentine artist Tomas Sareceno is on display on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Visitors can walk up and inside the structure, which is made up of 16 interconnected modules. The exhibition, "Tomas Saraceno on the Roof: Cloud City," continues through Nov. 4.

	June 4, 2012 Weekly Poem: Natalie Diaz Reads from Her Book 'When My Brother Was an Aztec' Natalie Diaz reads "Abecedarian Requiring Further Examination of Anglikan Seraphym Subjugation of a Wild Indian Rezervation," a poem from her book "When My Brother Was an Aztec."

	June 4, 2012 The Daily Frame A billboard created by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari hangs in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York on Sunday. The image was created for Toilet Paper, a two-year-old art magazine founded by the two artists, and is part of a High Line Series, which will be on view through June 30.

	June 1, 2012 Peruvian Writer Mario Vargas Llosa on the Importance of Literature Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, one of the world's leading writers, speaks with Jeffrey Brown about his new book and how he folds history and contemporary politics into his writing.



	MAY May 31, 2012 The Decorum, Skullduggery and Rivalries of the Presidents Club Time magazine editors Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy explore how current and former American presidents interact with one another in their new book, "The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity." The authors spoke with Gwen Ifill about cross-party mentoring and the infighting that can occur.

	May 30, 2012 Remembering Doc Watson, Who Moved Guitar Pickin' to Center Stage Music legend Doc Watson died Tuesday at age 89. While he didn't record an album until his 40s, his guitar-playing and singing helped define and influence the sound of folk and bluegrass music for several generations. Jeffrey Brown and Katy Daley, host of WAMU's "Bluegrass Country" discuss the blind guitar legend's legacy.

	May 30, 2012 The Daily Frame A busker plays his guitar on the banks of the Thames in London on Monday.

	May 29, 2012 Music Legend Doc Watson Dies at Age 89 Doc Watson, a legend of folk and bluegrass music, died Tuesday at a hospital in North Carolina. He was 89 years old. Blind as an infant, Watson developed into one of the nation's finest pickers and received scores of honors.

	May 29, 2012 In Toni Morrison's 'Home,' Soldier Fights War Abroad, Racism at Home In her new novel "Home," author Toni Morrison tells the story of a soldier, Frank Money, who joins the Army -- absorbing the atrocities of war -- and then returns home after his service in the Korean War only to be greeted with both the institutional and casual realities of daily prejudice. Morrison speaks with Jeffrey Brown.

	May 29, 2012 Toni Morrison Reads an Excerpt From Her Novel 'Home' Toni Morrison reads an excerpt from her novel "Home."

	May 29, 2012 Around the Nation Here are four arts and culture videos from public broadcasting partners around the nation.

	May 29, 2012 The Daily Frame A group of Indonesian Lady Gaga fans pose in Jakarta on Sunday. The pop star cancelled her concert there after Islamic hardliners promised "chaos" if she entered the Muslim nation.

	May 28, 2012 'Hell and Back Again': What it Means to Lead Men in War, and Then Return Home In the summer of 2009, Marines pushed hard against the Taliban, hoping to attain control of Helmand province in Afghanistan. Photojournalist Danfung Dennis filmed one Marine's combat experiences and difficult readjustment into home life. Dennis discusses his film "Hell and Back Again" with Jeffrey Brown.

	May 28, 2012 The Daily Frame A man visits the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., on Monday.

	May 25, 2012 'The Swerve': When an Ancient Text Reaches Out and Touches Us In his new book, "The Swerve: How the World Became Modern," author Stephen Greenblatt unearths the tale of a book collector whose discovery of poet Lucretius' "On the Nature of Things" helped change the direction of human thought. Jeffrey Brown and Greenblatt discuss the book and its many cross-generational messages.

	May 25, 2012 Stephen Greenblatt Reads an Excerpt From 'The Swerve' Pulitzer prize-winning author Stephen Greenblatt reads an excerpt of "The Swerve."

	May 25, 2012 Conversation: Chris Thile and the Goat Rodeo Sessions Live on PBS "The Goat Rodeo Sessions" is the name of a recording released in October of last year. It's also the name of a performance that airs on PBS this Friday. It's an all-star and eclectic group made up of cellist Yo-Yo Ma, fiddler Stuart Duncan, bassist Edgar Meyer and mandolinist Chris Thile.

	May 25, 2012 The Daily Frame The sails of the Sydney Opera House are illuminated as part of the Vivid Sydney festival of lights on Friday.

	May 24, 2012 Culture Canvas A weekly roundup of arts and culture headlines.

	May 24, 2012 The Daily Frame President Obama receives a painting of Air Force One during the U.S. Air Force Academy's graduation ceremony in Colorado Springs on Wednesday.

	May 23, 2012 'Dear World, From Joplin With Love' Marking the one year anniversary of the devastating tornado that hit Joplin, Mo., a new exhibit, "Dear World, From Joplin With Love," opened Saturday at the Spiva Center for the Arts. The collection of portraits by Robert X. Fogarty focuses on storm-affected residents, first responders, volunteers and city officials.

	May 23, 2012 Q&A: 'Dear World, From Joplin With Love' Marking the one year anniversary of the tornado, a new exhibit, "Dear World, From Joplin With Love," opened Saturday at the Spiva Center for the Arts. Art Beat talked to executive director Jo Mueller and public relations coordinator Lori Marble about the exhibit.

	May 23, 2012 The Daily Frame A family picnics next to a sculpture of a crashed flying saucer. "Vex" by artist Dinu Li is part of the Tatton Park Biennial in Knutsford, England. This year's exhibition, which runs until September, explores "Flights of Fancy" and includes the work of more than 20 artists.

	May 22, 2012 Around the Nation Here are four arts and culture videos from public broadcasting partners around the nation.

	May 22, 2012 The Daily Frame A model walks the runway in K8 Hardy's "Untitled Runway Show" on Sunday at the 2012 Whitney Biennial in New York City. Hardy "re-create[d] many of the trappings of a runway show by a top fashion designer, using an experienced production team, lighting, sound, hair, and makeup technicians, as well as professional models."

	May 21, 2012 Remembering Opera Singer Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau German opera singer Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, who died Friday at age 86, was a master of the Lieder, a form of German song that he helped make popular in the 20th century. Jeffrey Brown speaks with Anne Midgette, a classical music critic for The Washington Post, about Fischer-Dieskau's legacy.

	May 21, 2012 Remembering Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau More of Jeffrey Brown's conversation with the Washington Post's Anne Midgette on German singer Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.

	May 21, 2012 Weekly Poem: 'Visiting Auschwitz' Elana Bell is the author of "Eyes, Stone" (2012, LSU Press), winner of the Walt Whitman Award for 2011. Her poems have appeared in Harvard Review, Massachusetts Review, CALYX, and elsewhere. Bell is the writer-in-residence at the Bronx Academy of Letters and lives in Brooklyn, N.Y.

	May 21, 2012 The Daily Frame A woman protesting at the NATO meetings in Chicago on Sunday carries a painting of a photo by Getty Images photographer. The painting depicts an Iraqi girl moments after members of her family were killed by American troops at a check-point in 2005. Hondros was killed on assignment in Libya on April 20, 2011.

	May 18, 2012 'The Information Diet': Should Americans Exercise More 'Conscious Consumption'? Clay Johnson, author of "The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Consumption", discusses with Hari Sreenivasan how abundant technology affects our health -- producing pulsing side effects such as "email apnea" or "reality dysmorphia."

	May 18, 2012 Conversation: Kristen Dupard, 2012 Poetry Out Loud National Champion Jeffrey Brown talks to Kristen Dupard, the 2012 Poetry Out Loud National Champion.

	May 18, 2012 The Daily Frame Women dressed as white egrets perform the Shirasagi-no-mai (the egret's dance) as they enter the grounds of Senso-ji Temple during the Sanja Matsuri in Tokyo on Friday. The procession takes place on the first of three days of the Sanja festival, which is held annually in May.

	May 17, 2012 Remembering the 'Queen of Disco' Donna Summer Singer Donna Summer became known as the "Queen of Disco," defining the genre with her sultry vocals and pulsing rhythms. She used to say she grew up listening to rock 'n' roll and was raised on gospel music. But it was her dance hits that won her Grammys. Summers died Thursday at age 63.

	May 17, 2012 In 'First Position,' Ballet Behind the Curtain In the ballet world, the Youth American Grand Prix can make or break a young dancer's career. In "First Position," director Bess Kargman follows seven aspiring ballet dancers between the ages of 10 and 17 as they prepare for and compete in the annual New York City event.

	May 17, 2012 Culture Canvas A weekly roundup of arts and culture headlines.

	May 17, 2012 The Daily Frame A group of 333 bagpipers in Sofia, Bulgaria, set the Guinness world record for the largest bagpipe performance on Wednesday.

	May 16, 2012 Remembering Carlos Fuentes, Mexico's Grand Man of Letters Carlos Fuentes was a prolific writer -- penning novels, essays, newspaper articles, even an opera. Recognized as one of Latin America's greatest literary figures, Fuentes brought stories from Mexico to the world stage. He died Tuesday at age 83. Ray Suarez and Ilan Stavans of Amherst College discuss the impact of Fuentes' work.

	May 16, 2012 Carlos Fuentes and His American Life Carlos Fuentes had aged so beautifully you might have subconsciously assumed he would live forever, like a character in a Latin American novel. Ray Suarez recalls the life of the Mexican writer.

	May 16, 2012 In Moscow, Writers Lead Anti-Putin Protest From Aleksandr Pushkin to Aleksandr Griboyedov, there is a long history in Russia of writers confronting government authority. Last weekend, the tradition continued when a group of 12 well-known authors drew a crowd of around 10,000 to follow them on a "controlled walk" between statues of the two Aleksandrs in downtown Moscow.

	May 16, 2012 The Daily Frame A woman walks past "Living together" by Chinese artist Xu Jiang at the Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau museum in Dresden, Germany, on Tuesday. The show, "Xu Jiang: Re-Generation," runs from May 17 through August 18.

	May 15, 2012 Around the Nation Here are four arts and culture videos from public broadcasting partners around the nation.

	May 15, 2012 The Daily Frame A snake ensnares mice on a wall facing a public parking lot in Mexico City last week.

	May 14, 2012 Weekly Poem: 'Your Village' Elana Bell is the author of "Eyes, Stone" (2012, LSU Press), winner of the Walt Whitman Award for 2011. Her poems have appeared in Harvard Review, Massachusetts Review, CALYX, and elsewhere. Bell is the writer-in-residence at the Bronx Academy of Letters and lives in Brooklyn, N.Y.

	May 14, 2012 The Daily Frame A puppet of Queen Elizabeth II features in a Punch & Judy show Sunday during a weekend of performances in London to celebrate 350 years since the first performance in England.

	May 11, 2012 'Crossing the Borders of Time': a Tale of Reclaimed Love Lost Amid WWII Author Leslie Maitland speaks with Margaret Warner about her new book, "Crossing the Borders of Time," which chronicles the story of a 15-year-old Jewish girl raised in Germany as the Nazis came to power and her star-crossed romance with an older French Catholic man.

	May 11, 2012 Leslie Maitland Reads From Her Book 'Crossing the Borders of Time' Leslie Maitland reads from her book, "Crossing the Borders of Time."

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

	May 11, 2012 The Daily Frame Moscow subway passengers ride a special exhibition car containing reproductions of watercolors from the State Tretyakov Gallery on Friday.

	May 10, 2012 Culture Canvas A weekly roundup of arts and culture headlines (back from hiatus).

	May 10, 2012 The Daily Frame A man looks at Czech artist Alfons Mucha's "Slav Epic," a cycle of 20 allegories tracing the history of the Slavic people and inspired in part by mythology, at the National Gallery in Prague on Thursday

	May 9, 2012 Lalla Essaydi's 'Revisions' From "Revisions," an exhibition of Lalla Essaydi's work at the National Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C. "My photographs grew out of the need I felt to document actual spaces, especially those of my childhood," Lalla Essaydi says.

	May 9, 2012 Lalla Essaydi Challenges Muslim, Gender Stereotypes at Museum of African Art Known for her large format photographs, Lalla Essaydi's work combines Islamic calligraphy and representations of the female body, focusing on the interconnection of faith, culture and gender and challenging notions within all three.

	May 9, 2012 The Daily Frame A Buddha statue on Vesak at the Borobudur temple in Magelang, Indonesia, on Sunday. Commonly referred to as the "Buddha's Birthday," Vesak commemorates the birth, enlightenment and death of Gautama Buddha.

	May 8, 2012 Remembering Maurice Sendak and His 'Riotous and Strange' Inner Child Known for illuminating fantastic nightmares in picture book form -- like his most famous book "Where the Wild Things Are," writer and artist Maurice Sendak died Tuesday at age 83. Jeffrey Brown spoke with Sendak in 2002.

	May 8, 2012 Around the Nation Here are four arts and culture videos from public broadcasting partners around the nation.

	May 8, 2012 Maurice Sendak Dies at Age 83 Maurice Sendak, the author and illustrator of children's literature who was best known for his book, "Where the Wild Things Are," died early Tuesday in Danbury, Conn., at age 83. He had suffered a stroke on Friday.

	May 8, 2012 The Daily Frame Seward Johnson's "Forever Marilyn," a 26-foot high statue of Marilyn Monroe on Michigan Avenue in Chicago, is dismantled Monday as it prepares to travel to its new home in Palm Springs, Calif.

	May 7, 2012 Ndegeocello Credits Arts Education With Redefining Path to Success With nine studio albums under her belt and a world tour under way, bass player Meshell Ndegeocello was in her hometown of Washington, D.

	May 7, 2012 Weekly Poem: 'Cinco de Mayo' Naomi Shihab Nye is the author of several books of poems, including most recently, You "Transfer" (BOA Editions, 2011) and "Yours" (BOA Editions, 2005), which received the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award.

	May 7, 2012 The Daily Frame Sculptures of blue sheep flock in Schwerin, Germany, on Friday.

	May 4, 2012 'What's Going on Now': Engaging Young People Through Music, Media, Messages Part of a project produced by the Kennedy Center and singer-songwriter John Legend called What's Going On Now, young people across the country are using media, music and inspiration from Marvin Gaye to address issues in their lives and communities such as the economy, wars and the environment. Jeffrey Brown reports.

	May 4, 2012 Three New Looks on the National Mall The National Mall here in Washington, D.C., is indeed a national treasure, but it's one that is in some disrepair. The Trust for the National Mall has just held a competition to design three new sections in oft-neglected areas on the Mall. The winners were announced Thursday.

	May 4, 2012 40 Years After Gaye's Hit, John Legend Explores 'What's Going On...Now' Jeffrey Brown talks to singer-songwriter John Legend and producer Harry Weinger about Marvin Gaye's hit record, "What's Going On," on its 40th anniversary.

	May 4, 2012 The Daily Frame A woman passes a large print of an original Bauhaus poster on the wall of the Barbican in London. "Bauhaus: Art as Life" is the largest British exhibition in over 40 years of the Bauhaus school of art, includes more than over 400 pieces, and will be on display through Aug. 12.

	May 3, 2012 Better $120 Million Status Symbol: 'The Scream' or a Yacht? One of the most iconic works of art in the world, a version of Edvard Munch's "The Scream," sold at a record price of $119.9 million in a much-hyped New York auction Wednesday night. Jeffrey Brown and The Wall Street Journal's Kelly Crow discuss what a 12-minute-long bidding war suggests about the state of the art market.

	May 1, 2012 Around the Nation Here are four arts and culture videos from public broadcasting partners around the nation.

	May 1, 2012 The Daily Frame Villagers in Zhengyangguan, in China's eastern Anhui province, raise two children dressed as a deities onto poles. The "floating ballet" is an annual ritual once celebrated in many other villages, but is now on the decline with fewer children now participating in the festival.



	APRIL April 30, 2012 Combat Paper: Veterans Repurpose Uniforms Into Art The New Jersey-based Combat Paper Project helps veterans make sense of their experiences in a constructive, safe and artistic environment. Veterans create homemade paper from military uniforms and cover it with art and more.

	April 30, 2012 Making Your Own 'Combat Paper': A Step-by-Step Tutorial For U.S. military veterans who choose to hand over their uniform to the Combat Paper Project, turning the cut-up pieces of uniform into a sheet of paper is cathartic process.

	April 30, 2012 Veterans Changing the Arts: Share Your Story If you've served in the military and your experience has influenced your art and creative expression, share your story.

	April 30, 2012 Weekly Poem: 'Johnny One Note' 2012 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize-winner W.S. Di Piero reads "Johnny One Note," from his book "Nitro Nights" (2011, Copper Canyon Press).

	April 30, 2012 The Daily Frame A couple dances at the Stagecoach Country Music Festival on Sunday in Indio, Calif.

	April 27, 2012 U.S., U.K. Poets Laureate on Being Public Face for 'Solitary Act' "A poet should be private and invisible," says U.K. Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, "This is a different way of being a poet, to be laureate." Meanwhile, "I think we witness things, but are not witnessed," says U.S. Poet Laureate Philip Levine. They reflect with Jeffrey Brown on having very public roles as private poets.

	April 27, 2012 Conversation: W. S. Di Piero, Winner of the 2012 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize Jeffrey Brown talks to W. S. Di Piero, the winner of the 2012 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, a $100,000 award given by the Poetry Foundation.

	April 27, 2012 The Daily Frame Artifacts are displayed before the official opening of the Museum of Innocence in Istanbul. The museum, named after a novel written by Nobel Prize-winner Orhan Pamuk, houses a collection of cultural artifacts from the time period the novel was set in. The museum will be open to the public on Saturday.

	April 26, 2012 The Budos Band Hones a '70s Sound What do Ethiopian jazz, American funk and soul, and '70s rock 'n' roll have in common? It's the sound of the Budos Band.

	April 26, 2012 The Daily Frame Local volunteers on Wednesday place some of the 40,000 clay figures that will make up part of Antony Gormley's "Field for the British Isles" installed in Barrington Court near Ilminster, England.

	April 25, 2012 Q&A: Pulitzer Prize Winner David Auburn on His New Play, 'The Columnist' Art Beat talks to Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Auburn about his new play, "The Columnist."

	April 25, 2012 The Daily Frame Activists opposed to Arizona's controversial immigration law, S.B. 1070, paint a banner Tuesday at the office of the Puente Movement, a community group in Phoenix. The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear arguments over the law on Wednesday.

	April 24, 2012 Nick Cave Brings Art, Fashion, Sculpture to Life With Colorful 'Soundsuits' Chicago artist Nick Cave says he has always been fascinated with items cast off by other people. The Missouri native and his team assemble thrift-store finds into life-size creations that are part sculpture, part costume, which he calls "Soundsuits." When you see one, Cave wants you to wonder, "What am I encountering?"

	April 24, 2012 More With Artist Nick Cave and His Soundsuits More with artist Nick Cave and his Soundsuits.

	April 24, 2012 Around the Nation Here are four arts and culture videos from public broadcasting partners around the nation.

	April 24, 2012 The Daily Frame Fans watch the band We Are the In Crowd perform Sunday at the Hit The Deck 2012 Festival at Rock City in Nottingham, England.

	April 23, 2012 Weekly Poem: 'I lost my pen, I lost my keys' Marianne Boruch is the author of seven collections of poetry, including "The Book of Hours" (Copper Canyon, 2011), two volumes of essays on poetry and a memoir. Her honors include two Pushcart Prizes and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

	April 23, 2012 The Daily Frame Jeremy Deller bounces on his new work "Sacrilege," a full-scale inflatable replica of Stonehenge and part of the Glasgow International Festival of Visual Arts.

	April 20, 2012 Q&A: Terence Blanchard and a New 'Streetcar Named Desire' Grammy Award-winner Terence Blanchard returns to Broadway with an original score for a new production: a multiracial revival of Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire."

	April 20, 2012 The Daily Frame As soldiers look on, a woman paints a mural near a prayer site in central Sanaa, Yemen, on Thursday.

	April 19, 2012 Remembering Rock Legend Levon Helm of The Band Levon Helm was the drummer and a singer for The Band, a rock group known for its blend of blues and folk in songs like "The Night They Drove Ole Dixie Down" and for its work with Bob Dylan. Helm died Thursday at age 71. Here is an excerpt from one of his group's signature songs, "The Weight."

	April 19, 2012 Newly Cast Terra Cotta Warriors Look to More Peaceful Future in 2801 Artist Gong Yuebin grew up during China's Cultural Revolution and it shows. His piece "Site 2801," on display at Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, Calif., reflects a re-imagined terra cotta army -- 200 warriors interspersed with 10 modern-looking soldiers, symbolizing an unchanged feeling of militarism. Spencer Michels reports.

	April 19, 2012 Edward Luce: It's 'Time to Start Thinking,' America "Unless America can address government's role in a more pragmatic light," British author Edward Luce writes, "it may doom itself to continued descent. Margaret Warner and Luce discuss his latest book "Time to Start Thinking: America in the Age of Descent," a sobering examination of the U.S. role in global competitiveness.

	April 19, 2012 On Thursday's NewsHour: China's Terra Cotta Warriors, Reimagined In the ornate ballroom of the venerable Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, Calif., a 210-strong army of clay soldiers stands in formation. Most soldiers are replicas of the famous terra-cotta warriors that were discovered in 1947 in a field in Xian, China, by a farmer.

	April 19, 2012 'Los Angles Review of Books' Makes Launch There's a brand new entry into the world of books and publishing. It's call the Los Angeles Review of Books, and you'll find it online.

	April 19, 2012 Culture Canvas A weekly roundup of arts and culture headlines.

	April 19, 2012 The Daily Frame A visitor inspects a light installation by artist Anthony McCall during a preview of the exhibition "Five Minutes of Pure Sculpture" at the Hamburger Bahnhof museum in Berlin on Thuraday. The exhibition on McCall's projections, which he has been developing since the 1970s, opens Friday and runs through August 12.

	April 18, 2012 Ann Patchett: Pulitzers Skipping Fiction Prize a 'Big Loss' for Booksellers For the first time since 1977, no Pulitzer Prize for fiction was awarded this year when none of the three finalists won a majority of a jury's vote. Best-selling authors Ann Patchett and Lev Grossman speak with Jeffrey Brown about the integrity of the judging process and the Pulitzers' power as a sales tool for booksellers.

	April 18, 2012 A Revealing Look at 'Marley' Bob Marley remains one of the most recognizable and celebrated musicians in the world, and on Friday his fans will get a comprehensive look at his life in a new documentary called, simply, "Marley."

	April 18, 2012 The Daily Frame The Ailey II dance company performs during a rehearsal on Tuesday in New York City.

	April 17, 2012 Around the Nation Here are four arts and culture videos from public broadcasting partners around the nation.

	April 17, 2012 The Daily Frame "Drift" by artist Ron Mueck is hung by gallery technicians at the Hauser & Wirth gallery on Monday in London. The sculpture is part of Mueck's first major solo exhibition in over a decade, on display Thursday through May 26.

	April 16, 2012 Pulitzer Prize Profile: The Philadelphia Inquirer's Public Service Award Announced Monday by Columbia University, The Philadelphia Inquirer won the Pulitzer Prize for public service for its "Assault on Learning" series that chronicled pervasive under-reported violence in the city's public schools. Jeffrey Brown and The Inquirer's Kristen Graham discuss the award and the series' impact on the city.

	April 16, 2012 Weekly Poem: 'Tonight' Rowan Ricardo Phillips is a poet, critic and translator. His first collection of poetry is "The Ground," forthcoming in June by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Phillips is associate professor of English at Stony Brook and director of the Poetry Center and director of Graduate Studies.

	April 16, 2012 The Daily Frame Fans get hosed down Saturday at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Indio, Calif. Coachella, which began Friday, features more than 100 musical acts for two consecutive weekends.

	April 13, 2012 Conversation: Philippe Falardeau, Director of 'Monsieur Lazhar' After the death of a teacher at a Montreal middle-school, a class of grieving students is thrown together with an Algerian immigrant who becomes their new teacher. The film, "Monsieur Lazhar," directed by Philippe Falardeau, tells a story of cultural gaps and emotional chasms in one small classroom and out into the wider world.

	April 13, 2012 The Daily Frame A security guard stands near a candle sculpture by Urs Fischer during Friday's press preview of the Swiss artist's upcoming solo show at Palazzo Grassi in Venice, Italy.

	April 12, 2012 Poet Naomi Shihab Nye: 'Telling a Story Helped Us Figure Out Who We Were' When shaping verse, poet Naomi Shihab Nye reflects on her Palestinian heritage, family and the power of humanity. Nye discusses her most recent compilation of work, "Transfer," and what inspires her to continue crafting thoughtful and expressive poems.

	April 12, 2012 The E-Book War: the Stakes in the Fight for Readers' Dollars Citing consumer losses of millions of dollars, the Justice Department accused Apple and five publishers this week of colluding to raise e-book prices and break Amazon's dominant hold in the market. Jeffrey Brown discusses the state of the market with American Booksellers Association's Becky Anderson and attorney Steve Berman.

	April 12, 2012 Extended Interview and Reading With Naomi Shihab Nye Naomi Shihab Nye reads two poems: "Hello Palestine" and "Cinco de Mayo."

	April 12, 2012 Culture Canvas A weekly roundup of arts and culture headlines.

	April 12, 2012 The Daily Frame Henning Schmitz, left, and Fritz Hilpert of the band Kraftwerk perform Tuesday during "Kraftwerk -- Retrospective 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

	April 11, 2012 Sharon Van Etten Takes 'Tramp' on the Road Song-writer Sharon Van Etten is touring to promote her new album "Tramp."

	April 11, 2012 The Daily Frame Visitors look at masks and garments on display at "The Masters of Disorder," an exhibit about shamanism, at the Quai Branly Museum Tuesday in Paris.

	April 10, 2012 Around the Nation Here are four arts and culture videos from public broadcasting partners around the nation.

	April 10, 2012 The Daily Frame President Obama reads Maurice Sendak's "Where the Wild Things Are" with first lady Michelle Obama and their daughter Sasha during the White House Easter Egg Roll on Monday.

	April 9, 2012 'Colorful Realm,' 18th Century Japanese Silk Paintings Make Rare U.S. Appearance In a rare U.S. visit, a collection of 30 Japanese bird-and-flower silk scroll paintings by Ito Jakuchu are on display at the National Gallery of Art, just in time for the National Cherry Blossom Festival in the nation's capital. Judy Woodruff reports on the display of the 18th century Japanese national treasures.

	April 9, 2012 Weekly Poem: 'Metamorphosis' Katherine Larson won the 2010 Yale Younger Poets Prize and the 2012 Kate Tufts Discovery Award for her book "Radial Symmetry." She is also the recipient of a Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship.

	April 9, 2012 The Daily Frame A student at Dhaka University's Art Institute paints a mask ahead of the Bengali New Year in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Sunday.

	April 6, 2012 Buddy Guy: 'Blues Musicians Don't Retire, They Drop' Sixty years after picking up his first guitar, blues musician Buddy Guy still jams -- and has no plans of stopping. Jeffrey Brown and Guy discuss his upcoming memoir "When I Left Home: My Story," his childhood in rural Louisiana, what his influences were and how his remarkable career helped shape popular music.

	April 6, 2012 Buddy Guy, 75 Years Young Blues legend Buddy Guy is still jamming, six decades after first picking up a guitar. When not on international tour, he can often be found at his blues club in Chicago. Jeffrey Brown catches up with Guy, who has written a forthcoming memoir called "When I Left Home."

	April 6, 2012 Conversation: Henry Ossawa Tanner at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Henry Ossawa Tanner is known as the first African-American artist to gain international success and fame. He was born in Pittsburgh in 1859, spent much of his youth in Philadelphia, but lived most of his adult life in Paris.

	April 6, 2012 The Daily Frame The Museum of British Surfing in Braunton, England undergoes last minute preparations Thursday before its opening Friday.

	April 5, 2012 Conversation: The Life, Work and Legacy of Elizabeth Catlett, 1915-2012 Jeffrey Brown talks to Lowery Stokes Sims, a curator at the Museums of Arts and Design, about the life, work and legacy of Elizabeth Catlett, who died Monday at age 96.

	April 5, 2012 Culture Canvas A weekly roundup of arts and culture headlines.

	April 5, 2012 The Daily Frame Restorers work on the painting of a ceiling of the Farmacia di Santa Maria Novella on Wednesday in Florence, Italy.

	April 4, 2012 'The Art of Video Games' at the Smithsonian American Art Museum "The Art of Video Games" at the Smithsonian American Art Museum is one of the first exhibitions to explore the 40-year evolution of video games as an artistic medium. Featuring 80 games and 20 video games systems, the exhibit walks through the tremendous advances in design, technology and storytelling.

	April 4, 2012 The Daily Frame Employees at the Museum Volkenkunde install the Terracotta Warriors on Monday in Leiden, the Netherlands.

	April 3, 2012 Around the Nation Here are four arts and culture videos from public broadcasting partners around the nation.

	April 3, 2012 The Daily Frame A boy plays on a sculpture by Fernando Botero in Botero Park in Medellin, Colombia, on Sunday. An exhibition of Botero's paintings, "Stations of the Cross," opens Tuesday at the Museum of Antioquia in Medellin.

	April 2, 2012 Weekly Poem: 'Revisionist History' Michael Dumanis is the author of "My Soviet Union" (University of Massachusetts Press, 2007), winner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry, and co-editor of "Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century" (Sarabande, 2006).

	April 2, 2012 The Daily Frame A sculptor works on a sand replica titled "Big Ben in Westminster" at the Sand Museum in Tottori, Japan.



	MARCH March 30, 2012 Conversation: Woody Guthrie at 100 Woody Guthrie was born 100 years ago this July. He died in 1967 at the age of 55, but he left behind a legacy as one of this nation's greatest songwriters and troubadours. Guthrie's daughter Nora talks to Jeffrey Brown about her father and the centennial events.

	March 30, 2012 The Daily Frame Pakistani artisans engrave traditional patterns on metal borders for mirrors outside their shop in Karachi on Wednesday.

	March 29, 2012 Remembering 'Brilliant' Banjo Player Earl Scruggs, Poet Adrienne Rich Judy Woodruff reports on the death of widely read and influential poet Adrienne Rich, who died Tuesday at age 82, then Jeffrey Brown takes a look back at the life and groundbreaking sound of banjo legend and bluegrass musician Earl Scruggs with Bela Fleck, another Grammy-winning banjo player.

	March 29, 2012 Culture Canvas A weekly roundup of arts and culture headlines.

	March 29, 2012 The Daily Frame A man looks at sculptures made by Dutch sculptor Nikolaus Gerhaert van Leyden (1420-1473) on Friday at the Notre-Dame Museum in Strasbourg, France, as part of an exhibition dedicated to his work.

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

	March 28, 2012 The Daily Frame A woman looks at "My Soul" by Katharine Dowson, a laser-etched, lead-crystal glass sculpture in the shape of a brain created using the artist's own MRI scan. The piece is part of an exhibition called "Brains: The mind as matter" at the Wellcome Collection in London.

	March 27, 2012 Around the Nation Here are four arts and culture videos from public broadcasting partners around the nation.

	March 27, 2012 The Daily Frame A girl looks up at a painting depicting the launch of the Titanic at Titanic Belfast, a visitor attraction in Belfast, Northern Ireland, opening Saturday.

	March 26, 2012 James Cameron Descends 7 Miles Into Pacific Ocean's 'Desolate' Mariana Trench Shooting footage for a 3-D movie and a National Geographic special, filmmaker James Cameron journeyed to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean on Sunday, seven miles below the surface. Tom Clarke of Independent Television News reports on Cameron's deep dive to the Mariana Trench's Challenge Deep, 300 miles southwest of Guam.

	March 26, 2012 On Stage, Chicago Students Tackle Immigration, Poverty, Race Students at the Albany Park Theatre Project in Chicago research, write and perform plays about their own communities, tackling tough issues like immigration, poverty and race while learning about theater in an area where extracurricular activities are few and far between. Jeffrey Brown reports.

	March 26, 2012 Extended Interview, Performances: Albany Park Theatre Project An extended interview with Albany Park Theatre Project founder David Feiner.

	March 26, 2012 Weekly Poem: 'Arias' Sean Thomas Dougherty is the author of nine books, including "Sasha Sings the Laundry on the Line" (2010, BOA Editions), "Nightshift Belonging to Lorca," a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize, and "Except by Falling," winner of the 2000 Pinyon Press Poetry Prize from Mesa State College.

	March 26, 2012 The Daily Frame Dancers of the English National Ballet perform British choreographer George Williamson's "The Rite of Spring" last week at the London Coliseum. The performance is part of the English National Ballet's "Beyond Ballet Russes" program, which is celebrates the legacy of Sergei Diaghilev's legendary company.

	March 23, 2012 'The Hunger Games' Phenomenon: Examining Film's Buzz, 'Insane' Marketing When the clock struck midnight early Friday, fans of the wildly anticipated movie "The Hunger Games," based on the young-adult series by Suzanne Collins, cheered as they flooded more than 2,000 screenings across the country. Jeffrey Brown discusses the movie's appeal and buzz with The Atlantic's Jen Doll.

	March 23, 2012 Conversation: 2012 Whitney Biennial The 2012 edition of the Whitney Biennial opened earlier this month at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Jeffrey Brown talks to the curators, Elisabeth Sussman and Jay Sanders, about the show.

	March 23, 2012 Whitney Biennial 2012 A selection of the works in the latest edition of the Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

	March 22, 2012 The Daily Frame Visitors walk past a sculpture made of plastic soldiers by Syrian artist Thaier Helal on display at the Art Dubai exhibition on Wednesday.

	March 22, 2012 Q&A: Lloyd Suh's 'Great Wall Story' In 1899, three bored -- and slightly drunk -- newspaper reporters decide to concoct a story that the Great Wall of China is being torn down. That's the premise for "Great Wall Story," a new play produced by the Denver Center for the Performing Arts and which is based on actual events.

	March 22, 2012 Culture Canvas A weekly roundup of arts and culture headlines.

	March 22, 2012 The Daily Frame A man practices yoga as a couple rests Thursday in the Carrousel Garden at the Louvre in Paris.

	March 21, 2012 Carolina Chocolate Drops' Sweet Old-time Sound Fiddle and banjo music today can seem antiquated, pulled from a time capsule of early Americana, but the Carolina Chocolate Drops want you to know they are more than just a young band with an old-time sound.

	March 21, 2012 The Daily Frame Visitors study light projections of works by Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh at an audio-visual art show on Tuesday in Les Baux de Provence, France.

	March 20, 2012 Condoleezza Rice Makes the Case for Arts as Vital Part of Education On Tuesday, Jeffrey Brown sat down with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and former New York City Schools Chancellor Joel Klein to discuss a new report examining the connections between education and national security. He also took some time to ask both leaders about the role of arts in education amid big budget cuts.

	March 20, 2012 Condoleezza Rice Makes the Case for Arts as Vital Part of Education On Tuesday, Jeffrey Brown sat down with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and former New York City Schools Chancellor Joel Klein to discuss a new report examining the connections between education and national security.

	March 20, 2012 Around the Nation Here are four arts and culture videos from public broadcasting partners around the nation.

	March 20, 2012 The Daily Frame Ninots -- giant cardboard, wood, paper-mache and plaster statues -- burn Monday during the last day of Las Fallas in Valencia, Spain. The festival celebrates St. Joseph, as well as the arrival of spring, with fireworks, fiestas and bonfires. On the last day of the five-day festival, ninots across the city are set on fire.

	March 19, 2012 Weekly Poem: 'Journey Through the Past' Matthew Zapruder is the author of three collections of poetry: "American Linden," "The Pajamaist" and "Come On All You Ghosts" (Copper Canyon, 2010). He is editor for Wave Books.

	March 19, 2012 The Daily Frame A dancer performs a flip for onlookers on Tuesday in New York City.

	March 16, 2012 The Agony and the Dishonesty of Mike Daisey's Apple Story Last year, performer Mike Daisey sat down with Jeff Brown for Art Beat to discuss his much-talked-about one-man show, "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs." It was revealed Friday that parts of Daisey's story were not true.

	March 16, 2012 Conversation: Singer Ruthie Foster Singer Ruthie Foster has roots that hark back to gospel and funk. She sang in her church back home in Texas and later on as part of a funk bank during a stint in the Navy. But her work is becoming increasingly known for her recordings and performances of blues and folk music.

	March 16, 2012 The Daily Frame Helen Astaire works on a butterfly at the Affordable Art Fair in London on Thursday.

	March 15, 2012 Culture Canvas A roundup of the week's arts and culture headlines.

	March 15, 2012 The Daily Frame A woman walks through "Out of Sync," an art installation on a grass meadow at Somerset House in London. Chilean artist Fernando Casasempere hand crafted 10,000 clay flowers for the installation, which is open to the public through April 27.

	March 14, 2012 Poet Katherine Larson Reads Her Work Katherine Larson won the 2010 Yale Younger Poets Prize and the 2012 Kate Tufts Discovery Award for her book "Radial Symmetry." She is also the recipient of a Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship.

	March 14, 2012 The Daily Frame A pedestrian walks by a mural of a handgun on Tuesday in the city of Multan, located in Pakistan's Punjab province.

	March 13, 2012 Dissecting Prose and Squid With Biologist, Poet Katherine Larson Using her career as a molecular biologist as a starting point, Katherine Larson shapes her poems with descriptions of squid, suction cups and branchial hearts. She won last year's Yale Series of Younger Poets competition and was recognized as a poet of "genuine promise" with the Kate Tufts Discovery Award last month.

	March 13, 2012 Around the Nation Here are four arts and culture videos from public broadcasting partners around the nation.

	March 13, 2012 The Daily Frame A member of staff at the Queen's Gallery in Edinburgh, Scotland, views a painting in the Royal Collection on Tuesday. The exhibition celebrates the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II and showcases the tastes of monarchs and other members of the royal family.

	March 12, 2012 Weekly Poem: 'The House on Laurel Hill Lane' Megan Snyder-Camp is the author of "The Forest of Sure Things," which won the Tupelo Press/Crazyhorse Award for an outstanding first book.

	March 12, 2012 The Daily Frame "Garden of Light," a light installation, is projected onto the ArtScience Museum in Singapore on Saturday as part of the i-Light festival.

	March 9, 2012 Conversation: Eavan Boland Jeffrey Brown talks to Irish poet Eavan Boland.

	March 9, 2012 The Daily Frame Nepalese revelers painting their faces for Holi festivities in Kathmandu on Wednesday.

	March 8, 2012 Culture Canvas A roundup of the week's arts and culture headlines.

	March 8, 2012 The Daily Frame Security guard Henry Medina poses next to a sculpture of a security guard by Marc Sijan at the 2012 Armory Show in New York, which runs through Sunday.

	March 7, 2012 San Francisco's Famed Coit Tower Murals in Peril Due to Fog, Neglect In San Francisco's Coit Tower, historic murals by 25 significant artists depicting life in California in the early 1930s have fallen into disrepair for a variety of reasons, including a lack of security, funding problems and the city's famous fog. Correspondent Spencer Michels reports on efforts to preserve the famed frescoes.

	March 7, 2012 Q&A: Violinist Benjamin Beilman Benjamin Beilman is making a name for himself as a young violin phenom, winning several major prizes. The 21-year-old violinist recently performed at the Young Concert Artists Series recital at the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater in Washington, D.C. Next week, he will make his New York City recital debut at Merkin Concert Hall.

	March 7, 2012 The Daily Frame Conceptual artist Serkan Ozkaya's double-size, golden replica of Michelangelo's "David," titled "David (inspired by Michelangelo)," arrives Tuesday on a lowboy trailer at the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York City. The sculpture spent the day the traveling throughout the city on the trailer.

	March 6, 2012 Around the Nation Here are four arts and culture videos from public broadcasting partners around the nation.

	March 6, 2012 The Daily Frame An exhibition at the Cinemateca Brasileira in Sao Paulo, Brazil, celebrates the 50th anniversary of the death of Marilyn Monroe through 125 works by 50 artists.

	March 5, 2012 Weekly Poem: 'November Full Moon' Peter Blair is the author of "Farang" (Autumn House Press, 2010), "The Divine Salt" (Autumn House Press, 2003) and "Last Heat" (Word Works Press, 1999). He teaches at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte.

	March 5, 2012 The Daily Frame Members of the Pokot tribe perform at a Shinnyo-en fire and water ceremony at the Gallmann Africa Conservancy in northern Kenya on Sunday.

	March 2, 2012 The First-ever PBS Online Film Festival PBS kicked off its first-ever Online Film Festival this week, which will showcase 20 short films from independent filmmakers. Every Monday for five weeks, a new category of films will be available to watch via the PBS website and the PBS YouTube channel.

	March 2, 2012 The Daily Frame A man walks by graffiti of Russian Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Thursday. Photo by Andrey Smirnov /AFP /Getty Images.

	March 1, 2012 Culture Canvas A roundup of the week's arts and culture headlines.

	March 1, 2012 The Daily Frame Saber Naqshbandi works on his painting during an art course Thursday in Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan.



	FEBRUARY Feb. 29, 2012 Q&A: Time for Three Mixes Classic With New A classical music trio covering Kanye West doesn't seem an obvious project, but that's exactly what Time for Three has done in its latest music video for the song, "Stronger."

	Feb. 29, 2012 The Daily Frame A woman hangs paintings inside her stall in Bagan, Myanmar, this past Sunday.

	Feb. 29, 2012 'Playing for Change' Elevates Musicians and Music Education Inspiration started with street musicians. Mark Johnson, a recording studio executive in New York City, was on his way to work when he saw a crowd gather around a few monks performing on the subway platform. Their business was creating joy, not just generating a profit.

	Feb. 28, 2012 A New Voice at the Kennedy Center, Jason Moran 'Promotes the Abstract' in Jazz An emerging jazz innovator and the new artistic director at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, musician Jason Moran uses song to promote thought, therapy, consciousness and creativity. Jeffrey Brown speaks with Moran about his efforts to create more appreciators of the arts in his new role.

	Feb. 28, 2012 Around the Nation Here are four arts and culture videos from public broadcasting partners around the nation.

	Feb. 28, 2012 The Daily Frame Janio Nunez works on a sculpture of a piano player made out of tobacco leaves in his workshop in Guanabo, Cuba. Trained as a tobacco roller, Nunez now works exclusively on tobacco-made sculptures, some of them life-size.

	Feb. 27, 2012 The Healing Power of Music An unconventional approach to recovery and coping, music therapy is a field of medicine capturing new attention due to its role in helping Gabrielle Giffords recover from a gunshot. Correspondent Spencer Michels reports on the versatility of music in a medical setting, but the difficulty of quantifying its effectiveness.

	Feb. 27, 2012 Weekly Poem: 'Other Denver Economies' Susan Briante is the author of "Pioneers in the Study of Motion" (Ahsahta Press, 2007) and "Utopia Minus" (Ahsahta Press, 2011). She teaches at the University of Texas-Dallas.

	Feb. 27, 2012 The Daily Frame Employees of the Tate Modern in London stand next to "Tutto," an embroidery work by Italian artist Alighiero Boetti. The museum will present an exhibition of Boetti's work from Tuesday to May 27, 2012.

	Feb. 24, 2012 New York Arts Program Brings 'Harmony' to Low-Income Students Serving mostly low-income children in New York City, an innovative music education program called Harmony provides free instruments and daily music lessons to children in third through sixth grades. Correspondent John Merrow reports on an arts program changing lives in public schools, based on a system developed in Venezuela.

	Feb. 24, 2012 Conversation: Jazz Musician Jason Moran Jason Moran was recently made the artistic adviser for jazz at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C., a position held for many years by the great jazz musician and educator Billy Taylor.

	Feb. 24, 2012 The Daily Frame Dancers from the Australian Ballet and the dance company Chunky Move rehearse in Melbourne for the world premiere of "Infinity."

	Feb. 23, 2012 Culture Canvas A roundup of the week's arts and culture headlines.

	Feb. 23, 2012 The Daily Frame Men mourn the end of Carnival and the beginning of Lent by burying a symbolic sardine during the Burial of the Sardine (El Entierro de la Sardina) festival Wednesday in Madrid.

	Feb. 22, 2012 Smithsonian's African-American History Museum an 'Opportunity for Understanding' Ground was broken Wednesday on the National Mall for the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, set to open in 2015. Jeffrey Brown discusses the pivotal moment in the long, $500 million effort to showcase the stories and experiences of black Americans with journalist and author Isabel Wilkerson.

	Feb. 22, 2012 Q&A: 'Frida Kahlo: Her Photos' Mexican artist Frida Kahlo is internationally well-known for her iconic self-portraits. A new exhibit at Artisphere in Arlington, Va., is offering a new look at the painter. For the first time in the United States, 259 personal photos are on display in "Frida Kahlo: Her Photos."

	Feb. 22, 2012 'Frida Kahlo: Her Photos' Mexican painter Frida Kahlo is internationally renowned for her iconic self-portraits. Upon her death in 1954, more than 6,500 personal photos were concealed. Some are now on display for the first time in the United States at Artisphere in Arlington, Va.

	Feb. 22, 2012 The Daily Frame The Flaming Lips perform at the 2012 Noise Pop Festival at Bimbo's 365 Club in San Francisco.

	Feb. 22, 2012 Are Oscars Nominees' Health Plots Accurate or Malpractice? Open wide, Oscar, it's time for your check-up. With the Academy Awards slated for Sunday, we've brought in a medical doctor to examine the accuracy of the health themes in some of the year's top films.

	Feb. 21, 2012 Roger Rosenblatt Reflects on Love, Grief, Kayaks Author Roger Rosenblatt considers grief, solace, solitude and love in the wake of his daughter's death in his new book "Kayak Morning: Reflections on Love, Grief and Small Boats." Jeffrey Brown and Rosenblatt discuss a morning out on the water and a journey through grief.

	Feb. 21, 2012 Culture Canvas Here are four arts and culture videos from public broadcasting partners around the nation.

	Feb. 21, 2012 The Daily Frame A woman walks past graffiti in Athens depicting a young girl trying to reach stars from the European Union flag. European officials agreed Tuesday to give Greece a second massive bailout in exchange for harsh austerity measures.

	Feb. 20, 2012 Weekly Poem: 'City Out of Time' Mark Conway is the author of the poetry collections "Any Holy City" (Silverfish Review Press, 2005) and "Dreaming Man, Face Down" (Dream Horse Press, 2010). He directs the Literary Arts Institute at the College of Saint Benedict.

	Feb. 20, 2012 The Daily Frame Carnival performers at the Rosenmontag parade Monday in Mainz, Germany.

	Feb. 17, 2012 40 Years After Gaye's Hit, John Legend Explores 'What's Going On...Now' Jeffrey Brown talks to singer-songwriter John Legend and producer Harry Weinger about Marvin Gaye's hit record, "What's Going On," on its 40th anniversary.

	Feb. 17, 2012 The Daily Frame Aymara natives play folk music Thursday during the Anata Andino, an Andean carnival in the Bolivian city of Oruro in which people from different communities gather to thank the goddess Pachamama for the crops and ask for the rainy season to begin.

	Feb. 16, 2012 Why Not Everyone Supports Black History Month Black History Month originated in 1925 when the second week of February was made Negro History Week since it contained the birthdays of abolitionist Frederick Douglass and President Abraham Lincoln. Hari Sreenivasan reports on how some African-Americans now oppose the idea of dedicating a special month to black history.

	Feb. 16, 2012 'End Black History Month,' Proposes Filmmaker Filmmaker Shukree Tilghman of the film "More Than a Month.

	Feb. 16, 2012 Culture Canvas A roundup of the week's arts and culture headlines.

	Feb. 16, 2012 The Daily Frame A model prepares for the threeASFOUR fall 2012 fashion show Wednesday at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York City.

	Feb. 15, 2012 Q&A: The Art of Google Books "The Art of Google Books" is a Tumblr blog that showcases errors and anomalies found in the digital pages of Google Books. Krissy Wilson, the creator of the blog and a student at the University of Florida, sifts through scanned pages on Google Books searching for visible signs of the digitizing process.

	Feb. 15, 2012 The Daily Frame "Forever Franco," a sculpture by Eugenio Moreno depicting former Spanish dictator Francisco Franco in a soda vending machine, is displayed Tuesday on the eve of Madrid's International Contemporary Art Fair.

	Feb. 15, 2012 The Art of Google Books "The Art of Google Books" is a blog that showcases errors and anomalies found in the digital pages of Google Books. Krissy Wilson, the creator of the blog and a student at the University of Florida, sifts through the scanned pages on Google Books website searching for visible signs of the digitizing process.

	Feb. 14, 2012 Poet Tony Hoagland Explores Species' 'Romantic Moments' In honor of Valentine's Day, poet Tony Hoagland reads "Romantic Moment" -- a poem about a man and woman who have just watched a nature documentary on a date, and how their expressions of affection stack up against those of leopard frogs, chimpanzees, bull penguins and so on.

	Feb. 14, 2012 Around the Nation Here are four arts and culture videos from public broadcasting partners around the nation.

	Feb. 14, 2012 The Daily Frame Light art is projected on Barcelona's city council building during a winter festival.

	Feb. 13, 2012 The Life and Legacy of Whitney Houston Whitney Houston, the superstar known for turning gospel and soul into pop music gold, was found dead over the weekend in her Los Angeles hotel room. She was 48. Jeffrey Brown and songwriter Gordon Chambers discuss her life and legacy, including some recent struggles that drew public concern.

	Feb. 13, 2012 Weekly Poem: 'Chocolate' Rita Dove served as the U.S Poet Laureate from 1993-1995, and for the past two decades she has taught at the University of Virginia.

	Feb. 13, 2012 The Daily Frame Fans remembered singer Whitney Houston outside the Apollo Theater in New York on Sunday.

	Feb. 10, 2012 Conversation: Pianist Jonathan Biss Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas remain landmarks in music history, works that pianists in every generation have felt the desire, the inspiration, the need to take on. A new recording by Jonathan Biss is recently out, the first of nine to be released over nine years, that will eventually include the entire cycle.

	Feb. 10, 2012 The Daily Frame Children view Richard Ansdell's painting, "The Hunted Slaves," at the International Slavery Museum on Thursday in Liverpool, England.

	Feb. 9, 2012 Love Story Sheds Light on How Society Treats People With Disabilities A New York Times bestseller, Rachel Simon's "The Story of Beautiful Girl" explores empathy and tolerance in the form of a love story where characters with disabilities overcome heavyweight obstacles. Judy Woodruff and Simon discuss how society deals with disabilities and how they are portrayed in literary works.

	Feb. 9, 2012 Culture Canvas A roundup of the week's arts and culture headlines.

	Feb. 9, 2012 The Daily Frame Kalamandalam Radhakrishnan touches up his make-up before his Ottanthullal performance Thursday at the Soorya Festival in Ahmedabad, India. Ottanthullal is a type of classical performing art from Kerala, India, featuring dance and storytelling.

	Feb. 8, 2012 Legacy of S.F. Mayor, Killed With Harvey Milk, Revived on Stage by Son In his new play "Ghost Light," Jonathon Moscone explores feelings of guilt and grief as well as the legacy of his father, San Francisco Mayor George Moscone, who was gunned down at City Hall 33 years ago, along with gay rights advocate Harvey Milk, whose assassination has been better-remembered. KQED's Dave Iverson reports.

	Feb. 8, 2012 Conversation: Edward Gero on Rothko, 'Red' Mark Rothko's life has been turned into art in the play "Red," starring Edward Gero, written by John Logan and directed by Robert Falls, now at the Arena Stage in Washington, D.C.

	Feb. 8, 2012 The Daily Frame Stormtroopers in London promote Friday's release of "Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace 3D."

	Feb. 7, 2012 In 'Pilgrimage,' Leibovitz Explores Portraits Without People Known for portraits of celebrities and musicians, Annie Leibovitz has given herself a new assignment: capture striking landscapes and visit the homes of iconic figures to document significant items from their past. Jeffrey Brown and Leibovitz discuss her "Pilgrimage" book and exhibition at the Smithsonian's American Art Museum.

	Feb. 7, 2012 Around the Nation Here are four arts and culture videos from public broadcasting partners around the nation.

	Feb. 7, 2012 The Daily Frame A visitor looks at "Haran II" by Frank Stella, which is part of the exhibition, "Guggenheim Collection: The American Avant-Garde 1945-1980," at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome. The exhibition, running through May 6, showcases more than 60 works produced after World War II from the Guggenheim museum's permanent collection.

	Feb. 6, 2012 Weekly Poem: 'haiku (failed)' Nick Flynn is a poet, playwright and memoirist whose most recent book is "The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands" (2011, Graywolf Press), a collection of poems that are linked to his latest memoir, "The Ticking is the Bomb" (2010, W. W. Norton & Company). He teaches creative writing at the University of Houston.

	Feb. 6, 2012 The Daily Frame Children participate in the celebrations at the Chinese Lantern Festival in Zibo, China. Photo by Hong Wu/ Getty Images.

	Feb. 3, 2012 Conversation: Mark Morris Jeffrey Brown talks to dance choreographer Mark Morris, whose "L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato" was recently performed at Washington's Kennedy Center.

	Feb. 3, 2012 Culture Canvas A roundup of the week's arts and culture headlines.

	Feb. 3, 2012 The Daily Frame Brazilian dancer Edson Barbosa warms up for her performance at the Prix de Lausanne 40th International Ballet Competition in Lausanne, Switzerland.

	Feb. 2, 2012 The Life, Work of Poet Wislawa Szymborska Jeffrey Brown talks to Wislawa Szymborska's longtime translator, Clare Cavanagh, professor of Slavic languages and comparative literate at Northwestern University, about the poet's life and work.

	Feb. 2, 2012 The Daily Frame Officials at Spain's Prado Museum said Wednesday that a "Mona Lisa" copy owned by the museum was almost certainly painted by one of Leonardo da Vinci's pupils alongside da Vinci himself as he created the original that now hangs in the Louvre.

	Feb. 1, 2012 Zach Condon Takes Beirut on a Journey Home Zach Condon says Beruit's latest album, "The Rip Tide," is much more personal and retrospective, as he, now 25, finds himself settling down and looking back at his past.

	Feb. 1, 2012 The Daily Frame A barista uses a stencil and cinnamon and cocoa powder to create a portrait of presidential candidate Mikhail Prokhorov at a coffeehouse in Moscow.



	JANUARY Jan. 31, 2012 Adam Johnson Reads From His Novel, 'The Orphan Master's Son' Adam Johnson reads from his novel, "The Orphan Master's Son."

	Jan. 31, 2012 Around the Nation Here are four arts and culture videos from public broadcasting partners around the nation.

	Jan. 31, 2012 The Daily Frame David Shrigley's taxidermied Jack Russell terrier, titled "I'm Dead," is on display Tuesday at a new exhibition of the artist's work, called "Brain Activity," at the Hayward Gallery in London.

	Jan. 30, 2012 Author Adam Johnson Envisions a Life Inside North Korea Under Kim Jong-il Author Adam Johnson's second novel, "The Orphan Master's Son," is a fictional account of a young man's passage through North Korea -- a country unknown, unseen and, at times, futile before the death of its "Dear Leader," Kim Jong-il. Johnson and Jeffrey Brown discuss his interpretation of the country and the late dictator.

	Jan. 30, 2012 Weekly Poem: 'Around' Rae Armantrout is the author of 11 books of poetry and winner of numerous other awards, including the Pulitzer Prize. She is also a professor of writing and literature at the University of California-San Diego.

	Jan. 30, 2012 The Daily Frame A visitor studies a sculpture at the Art Museum of Sao Paulo on Saturday. A new exhibition of Roman art at the museum showcases 370 pieces, displayed outside Italy for the first time.

	Jan. 27, 2012 In 'Money Shot,' Poet Armantrout Reacts to Financial Crisis in Verse Rae Armantrout's poetry finds its place at the intersection of the public and the private. Armantrout won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award for her 2009 collection, "Versed." Poems in her latest book, "Money Shot," speak to the economic downturn.

	Jan. 27, 2012 Extended Interview and Reading: Poet Rae Armantrout An extended interview and reading with poet Rae Armantrout.

	Jan. 27, 2012 Conversation: Rosenblatt's 'Kayak Morning' Jeffrey brown talks to Roger Rosenblatt about his new book, "Kayak Morning: Relfections on Love, Grief, and Small Boats."

	Jan. 27, 2012 The Daily Frame "Armada," an installation by Japanese artist Jacob Hashimoto is displayed at Arte Fiera in Bologna, Italy, on Thursday.

	Jan. 26, 2012 Culture Canvas A roundup of the week's arts and culture headlines.

	Jan. 26, 2012 The Daily Frame A model wears a hand-embroidered cape made from the silk of the golden orb spider in the Victoria and Albert Museum's Medieval and Renaissance Gallery in London. The cape is one of two golden spider silk textiles that exist in the world. It was made in Madagascar over a period of eight years from the silk of 1.2 million spiders.

	Jan. 25, 2012 Telenovelas: Are Spanish-Language Soap Operas Good for Your Health? The latest in Spanish-language soap operas, or telenovelas, have encased more than typical romance and personal scandal, debuting some very clear messages on health care for Latinos in the U.S., specifically Colorado. Health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser reports on the creators' reasoning in writing beyond the usual storylines.

	Jan. 25, 2012 Telenovelas Provide Platform for Public Health Messages Alicia's entire life has been building to this one moment at the breakfast table. She's finally admitting to herself that the colon cancer will take everything ... her successful psychiatric practice, a comfortable home, her new love with Don Juancho.

	Jan. 25, 2012 The Power of the Telenovela Romance. Drama. That's what drives telenovelas, Latin American soap operas, one of the most popular forms of entertainment in the world, with hundreds of millions of viewers worldwide.

	Jan. 25, 2012 For Ryan Tedder, the Hits Keep Coming While OneRepublic has recorded hit songs like "Apologize," which was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2009, "All the Right Moves" and "Secrets," it's not Ryan Tedder's work with his band that has earned him a Grammy nomination this year.

	Jan. 25, 2012 The Daily Frame An employee sweeps around the base of a sculpture by Indian artist Siddharth Karawal at the India Art Fair in New Delhi.

	Jan. 24, 2012 Around the Nation Here are four arts and culture stories from public broadcasting partners around the nation.

	Jan. 24, 2012 The Daily Frame A statue of the Madonna recovered by firefighters inside the chapel of the cruise liner Costa Concordia is stored off the Tuscan island of Giglio last week.

	Jan. 23, 2012 Weekly Poem: 'Tale' Natasha Saje was born in Germany and grew up in New York City and northern New Jersey. She is the author of two books of poems: "Red Under the Skin" (Pittsburgh, 1994) and "Bend" (Tupelo Press, 2004). She teaches at Westminster College in Salt Lake City and in the Vermont College MFA in Writing program.

	Jan. 23, 2012 The Daily Frame Thousands of people celebrate the Chinese New Year at a lantern festival Monday in Shanghai.

	Jan. 20, 2012 1927's 'Napoleon' Set for Grand Premiere It's billed as the U.S. premiere of a film made in 1927. The film is "Napoleon," made by the great director, Abel Gance. The U.S. premiere with full orchestra will be presented by the San Francisco Silent Film Festival in March. Jeffrey Brown talks to Kevin Brownlow, the Academy Award-winning filmmaker who's put it together.

	Jan. 20, 2012 The Daily Frame Artist Enrique Guerrero applies a green-black patina to one of the bronze Screen Actors Guild Award statuettes at the American Fine Arts Foundry on Thursday. The 18th Annual SAG Awards, for outstanding motion picture and primetime television performances, will be held in Los Angeles on Jan. 29.

	Jan. 19, 2012 Culture Canvas A roundup of the week's arts and culture headlines.

	Jan. 19, 2012 The Daily Frame Indian soldiers dance Wednesday before taking part in a rehearsal of the Republic Day parade in New Delhi. India will celebrate its 63rd Republic Day on Jan. 26.

	Jan. 18, 2012 San Francisco's Famed Coit Tower Murals in Peril Due to Fog, Neglect In San Francisco's Coit Tower, historic murals by 25 significant artists depicting life in California in the early 1930s have fallen into disrepair for a variety of reasons, including a lack of security, funding problems and the city's famous fog. Correspondent Spencer Michels reports on efforts to preserve the famed frescoes.

	Jan. 18, 2012 For the Depression-era Murals of Coit Tower, Great Recession-era Neglect Two-hundred thousand visitors show up at Coit Tower in San Francisco every year, and most of them seem to ignore one the most fascinating and enjoyable art treasures in country: the Depression-era murals that cover the tower's walls.

	Jan. 18, 2012 The Daily Frame A model displays an outfit by Austrian designer Rebekka Ruetz during Wednesday's shows at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin.

	Jan. 17, 2012 Jolie Tackles Bosnian War in Directorial Debut Academy Award-winning actress Angelina Jolie sat down with Jeffrey Brown to discuss, "In the Land of Blood and Honey," her directorial debut. Jolie admits the film, which takes an unflinching look at the mass rape and ethnic cleansing of the Bosnian War in the 1990s, is "a hard movie to watch, but it is intentionally so."

	Jan. 17, 2012 On the Angelina Jolie Press Junket I might as well quickly get out of the way the most obvious detail: Yes, Angelina Jolie is an attractive human being, this day exuding more seriousness of purpose than glamor. But I left thinking less about her than about the strange experience of interviewing her.

	Jan. 17, 2012 Around the Nation Here are four arts and culture stories from public broadcasting partners around the nation.

	Jan. 17, 2012 The Daily Frame British artist David Hockney takes a picture of press photographers with his phone as he poses in front of his painting, "The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire 2011 (twenty-eleven)," at Monday's opening of his exhibition, "David Hockney RA: A Bigger Picture" at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.

	Jan. 16, 2012 Weekly Poem: 'Root' Terrance Hayes is the author of four books of poems: "Muscular Music" (1999); "Hip Logic" (2002, National Poetry Series winner); "Wind in a Box" (2006); and "Lighthead" (2010), which won the National Book Award for poetry.

	Jan. 16, 2012 The Daily Frame Martin Luther King III speaks at the base of a statue to his father after a wreath laying ceremony Sunday at the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

	Jan. 13, 2012 New Life Out of Haiti's Litter Haitian artist Jean Herard Celeur uses debris left by the 2010 earthquake to make works of art.

	Jan. 13, 2012 Conversation: Jake Shimabukuro Leading a Ukulele Renaissance The ukulele has just four strings, a fairly limited range and, historically, a limited appeal. But Jake Shimabukuro has been out to change that, and he seems to be leading something of a ukulele renaissance in pop music.

	Jan. 13, 2012 The Daily Frame A scene from the dance piece "Survivor" at London's Barbican Theatre on Wednesday.

	Jan. 12, 2012 Culture Canvas A roundup of the week's arts and culture headlines.

	Jan. 12, 2012 The Daily Frame Nick DeLeon, a soccer player from the University of Louisville, participates in "Creating the Beautiful Game," an art exhibition Wednesday at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Mo.

	Jan. 11, 2012 Conversation: Doc Watson At 88, Doc Watson is a legend of folk and bluegrass music, but he hasn't yet lost the drive to hit the road and perform on stage.

	Jan. 11, 2012 The Daily Frame Women in Hyderabad, India, participate in a rangoli competition Wednesday. Rangoli is a traditional folk art from India in which artists create symbolic, decorative designs on the floors of living rooms and in front of doorways as a welcome for Hindu deities.

	Jan. 10, 2012 Around the Nation Here are four arts and culture videos from public broadcasting partners around the nation.

	Jan. 10, 2012 The Daily Frame The Centre Pompidou-Metz is presenting "Bivouac," the first major exhibition in France dedicated to the work of Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec. The exhibition runs through July 30.

	Jan. 9, 2012 Weekly Poem: From 'Movements Forward, Movements Away' Peter Connors is the author of several books, including the poetry collections "The Crows Were Laughing in Their Trees" and "Of Whiskey and Winter." He is publisher of the not-for-profit literary press BOA Editions.

	Jan. 9, 2012 The Daily Frame People dressed like commuters read the newspaper on the beach in Adelaide, Australia, on Sunday in Andrew Baines' art installation.

	Jan. 6, 2012 Conversation: Joan Didion Mortality is a subject Joan Didion has grappled with in recent years, both in life and on the page. In the span of roughly two years, her husband, the writer John Gregory Dunne, and their only child, Quintana Roo, both died. Her new book is "Blue Nights."

	Jan. 6, 2012 The Daily Frame Ice sculptures were on display at the annual Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival in China's northeastern Heilongjiang province Friday.

	Jan. 5, 2012 New Book Illustrates Life Lessons From an Older Generation Karl Pillemer's new book "30 Lessons for Living: Tried and True Advice from the Wisest Americans" navigates the trials of life and aging in the words of those who've experienced them the longest. In a conversation with Hari Sreenivasan, Pillemer discusses what he gleaned in interviews with elderly Americans.

	Jan. 5, 2012 Culture Canvas A roundup of the week's arts and culture headlines.

	Jan. 5, 2012 The Daily Frame Orphan students from Malawi, who were trained to speak Mandarin at a Taiwanese-funded Buddhist orphanage in Africa, perform dance and kung-fu Wednesday for a group of students in Hong Kong as a part of a cultural exchange program.

	Jan. 4, 2012 'How to Live' in 2012 We're not making Art Beat into a "how to" or life advice blog. But I began the new year reading a delightful book: "How to Live, or A Life of Montaigne" by Sarah Blakewell -- part intellectual history, part biography and, yes, part philosophy of how one might live a better, fuller, richer life.

	Jan. 4, 2012 The Daily Frame An Egyptian soldier stands guard in front of a mural of Queen Nefertiti while security guards direct the crowd outside a polling station in Minya during the final round of parliamentary elections Tuesday.

	Jan. 3, 2012 Laughing at Macroeconomics: The Cartoon Introduction Unemployment, inflation, poverty, exchange rates, monetary policy - everything that makes economics the 'dismal science' is made laughing stock with the macroeconomics edition of Yoram Bauman and Grady Klein's "Cartoon Introduction to Economics."

	Jan. 3, 2012 Around the Nation Here are four arts and culture videos from public broadcasting partners around the nation.

	Jan. 3, 2012 The Daily Frame The Arcadia High School Band performs during Monday's annual Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, Calif.