Arts

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

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

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Based on the memoirs of Colin McPhee, a musicologist who, in the early 20th-century, spent several years in Bali studying traditional music, "A House in Bali" is a blend of western opera and the music of that island.

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Lindsay Hilsum of Independent Television News reports on the use of rape as a weapon of war in eastern Congo.

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In today's arts and culture, bed bugs make their (unwelcome) debut at the Metropolitan Opera.

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

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

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Created in the 1930's and 1940's, the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death is a collection of macabre dollhouses, each playing host to a different deathly crime. A new documentary peers into the tiny world of the tiny scenes and their…

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In today's arts and culture headlines, Howard Jacobson wins the 2010 Man Booker Prize.

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Jeffrey Brown talks to best-selling novelist Jonathan Franzen about new book '"Freedom."…

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