Jan 05 Tuesday on the NewsHour: National Geographic Unearths Its Buried Treasure By Arts Desk For every glossy copy of National Geographic magazine you've paged through, there are hundreds of photos that you haven't seen, photographs that didn't make the final cut, but did make it into a massive underground vault. Continue reading
Jan 05 Going, Going, Gone: 2009 Was a ‘Recession Battered’ Year As early as mid-2007, there was speculation that the bubble had begun to deflate, and by late 2008 it had burst outright, laying the groundwork for a rough 2009. Sales at Sotheby's and Christie's each declined around 50% from the… Continue reading
Jan 05 Watch Hidden Lens: Inside National Geographic’s Photo Vault Jeffrey Brown visits National Geographic's vault of more than 11.5 million images spanning more than a century of photography and illustration. Continue watching
Jan 04 Monday on the NewsHour: Judith Jamison and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater By Tom LeGro Watch more of the interview with Judith Jamison, performance pieces and a 1990 segment about her by former NewsHour correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault. Continue reading
Jan 04 Weekly Poem: ‘New Year’s’ By Tom LeGro Robert Creeley (1926-2005) was one of the most important and influential American poets of the twentieth century. Continue reading
Jan 04 Watch Alvin Ailey Troupe Celebrates Longtime Choreographer’s Last Dance After more than 20 years at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, director Judith Jamison is preparing to step down. In a profile by Jeffrey Brown, Jamison discusses how a mantra of "pray, prepare, and proceed" had guided her both… Continue watching
Jan 01 Eye Hospital in India Restores Sight With Free Surgeries By Carolyn O'Hara Friday on the NewsHour, a second look at a Fred de Sam Lazaro report from India on the Aravind system of eye hospitals and clinics, the largest such system in the world. These clinics subsidize sight-restoring surgery for impoverished patients… Continue reading