Arts

In today's arts and culture headlines, Jasper Johns and Maya Angelou will get presidential honors, and Jim Morrison will get a posthumous pardon.

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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.

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Here are some of this week's arts and culture stories from public broadcasting stations around the nation.

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In today's arts and culture headlines, flamenco dancing is honored by UNESCO as an essential cultural tradition and an artist agrees to wire a video camera into the back of his head.

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In 2007 and 2008, British photojournalist and filmmaker Tim Hetherington traveled to the Korengal Valley in northeastern Afghanistan to capture images of American soldiers serving in the war -- not just in combat, but also relaxing, playing, sleeping. His photographs…

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In today's arts and culture headlines, visa problems for Lincoln Center and budget problems for the Louisville Orchestra.

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The Egyptian ruler Cleopatra died more than 2,000 years ago, but still has a powerful presence today. Jeffrey Brown has a conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Stacy Schiff about her new book, "Cleopatra: a Life."…

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She is the stuff of myth and legend, one of history's great heroines: Cleopatra, queen of Egypt. Lover of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony. Subject of Shakespeare, Shaw and, of course, the cinema. But the real Cleopatra was far more…

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Nikki Giovanni is the author of several books of poetry, including most recently "Bicycles: Love Poems." "Nikki-Rosa" is taken from "The 100 Best African American Poems," edited by Giovanni and published in November.

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In today's arts and culture headlines, an American is charged with stealing bird skins from a British museum.

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