Nov 19 Secession in ... Belgium? Imagine if the leaders of the Confederacy had appeared on South Carolina Public Television in late 1860 to lay out plans for seceding from the Union and attacking Fort Sumpter. A peaceful version of that scenario may be playing out… Continue reading
Nov 19 Conversation: Filmmaker Lucy Walker Documents an Artist's 'Waste Land' By Molly Finnegan In 2007, New York-based artist Vik Muniz returned to his native country of Brazil to set up shop at the world's largest garbage dump in Rio de Janiero. His story is told in the new documentary "Waste Land" by director… Continue reading
Nov 19 Friday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, some Italian sculptures get re-attachable body parts. Continue reading
Nov 19 Watch National Book Award-Winning Poet Hayes Reads From 'Lighthead' Terrance Hayes, a poet and professor at Carnegie Mellon University, won the National Book Award earlier this week. Here, he reads a poem from his award-winning volume called "Lighthead."… Continue watching
Nov 18 On Thursday's NewsHour: GM's IPO, Terror Trials, Murkowski GM BACK ON THE MARKET | The new General Motors generated excitement on Wall Street, as the revamped automaker's initial public offering turned into the largest in U.S. history. We look at the automaker's turnaround since its bankruptcy and… Continue reading
Nov 18 Poet Christian Wiman's 'Every Riven Thing' Christian Wiman's new collection of poetry, Every Riven Thing, is filled with powerfully profound poems, many of which are deeply personal. He had taken a break from writing poetry for a few years, but a recent diagnosis of a rare… Continue reading
Nov 18 Poet Christian Wiman's 'Every Riven Thing' By Tom LeGro Christian Wiman's new collection of poetry, "Every Riven Thing," is filled with powerfully profound poems, many of which are deeply personal. He had taken a break from writing poetry for a few years, but a recent diagnosis of a rare… Continue reading
Nov 18 Thursday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Jasper Johns and Maya Angelou will get presidential honors, and Jim Morrison will get a posthumous pardon. Continue reading
Nov 18 Patti Smith, Indie-Published Novel are Rock Stars of 2010 National Book Awards Known for her poetry and her rock 'n' roll, music legend Patti Smith has now been honored for her prose with a National Book Award, given out Wednesday night in New York. Continue reading
Nov 17 Around the Nation Here are some of this week's arts and culture stories from public broadcasting stations around the nation. Continue reading