Aug 19 Satire and Seduction in the Prints of Warrington Colescott Marked by an interest in innovative techniques and bawdy satire, Warrington Colescott's challenging and witty fine art prints have buoyed him to national attention. Continue reading
Aug 19 Thursday’s Art Notes In today's roundup of arts and culture news, a look at the new art works vying for a spot on London's fourth plinth and the aesthetic proclivities of extraterrestrials. Continue reading
Aug 18 Mom Says the Darndest Things: 10 Questions for Kelly Oxford By Tom LeGro Kelly Oxford started writing an anonymous blog more than seven years ago after spending a lot of time online reading sites about child-rearing. What she found were places where fellow mothers could communicate with each other, but they just weren't… Continue reading
Aug 18 Wednesday’s Art Notes In today's daily roundup of arts and culture news, the Metropolitan Opera broke a sales record, archaeologists in Afghanistan find an ancient Buddhist site and a new library honoring Kurt Vonnegut will open in Indianapolis. Continue reading
Aug 17 Watch Rosanne Cash Lists Influences, Including Famous Father’s, in New Memoir Rosanne Cash Lists Influences in New Memoir… Continue watching
Aug 17 Tuesday on the NewsHour: Rosanne Cash By Tom LeGro Rosanne Cash is a songwriter, a bestselling performer and a chart-topping success. Her latest release is "The List," a compilation of songs her father held up as examples of "must know" music. And now she has written "Composed," her memoirs… Continue reading
Aug 17 With Fame Rising, Ray LaMontagne and The Pariah Dogs Release New Album Ray LaMontagne's fourth studio album, "God Willin' & The Creek Don't Rise" comes out today, and he says it's his best yet. Continue reading
Aug 17 China’s War on Illegal Buildings By Travis Daub In an effort to rid the country of unsafe, illegal and aging structures, the Chinese Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development plans to demolish more than half of the country’s residential buildings in the next 20 years. Illegal structures… Continue reading
Aug 16 Monday on the NewsHour: William Powers By Tom LeGro Williams Powers' book, "Hamlet's Blackberry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age," looks to what Powers calls the "best place to find sanity": the past. Continue reading
Aug 16 Weekly Poem: ‘Ancestors’ By Molly Finnegan Mary Ruefle is the author of, most recently, "Selected Poems" (Wave Books, 2010). She lives in Bennington, Vermont, and teaches in the MFA program at Vermont College. Continue reading