Jul 24 Open For Business at ‘The Work Office’ Think your paycheck is small? Try getting a gig at The Work Office, where New York City artists have contributed to a WPA-style collaborative art project for Depression-era wages. Continue reading
Jul 23 Watch Theatre Program Gives New Meaning to ‘Playtime’ Arts education is typically not a staple of some heartland communities, so for nearly 40 years the Missoula Children's Theatre has been giving disadvantaged children an opportunity to discover their inner thespian. Jeffrey Brown reports. Continue watching
Jul 23 The Missoula Children’s Theatre By Arts Desk The Missoula Children's Theatre in Montana is a traveling theater company that temporarily sets up shop in schools across the country that don't have drama programs. Continue reading
Jul 23 Watch Professor’s Arrest Puts Racial Profiling in the Spotlight The arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates at his own home in Cambridge, Mass., made headlines again Thursday, after President Obama commented on the controversy during Wednesday's news conference. Ray Suarez talks to analysts about the larger issues at… Continue watching
Jul 23 Eggleston: An Exceptional Eye for the Ordinary By Arts Desk For more than 40 years, photographer William Eggleston has captured common, everyday instances or objects that, through his particular framing, elevates the familiar and makes the ordinary beautiful. Through his lens, a moment can be made monumental. Continue reading
Jul 22 Alison Krauss, Brad Paisley at the White House By Arts Desk On Tuesday, the current first family welcomed a mix of some of country's biggest stars into their home. Continue reading
Jul 22 Sci-Fi Funk: Robot Rhythms of Janelle Monae Cindi Mayweather is a cyborg who is wanted for falling in love with a human, and the alter ego of Janelle Monae, a rhythm and blues singer whose 2007 album "Metropolis Suite I of IV: The Chase" boasts clever orchestrations,… Continue reading
Jul 21 Weekly Poem: ‘Barking’ Jim Harrison has published more than 30 collections of poetry and prose. "In Search of Small Gods" is his twelfth book of poems. Continue reading
Jul 21 Poet Ricardo Pau-Llosa Reflects on Influences, Art Ricardo Pau-Llosa, a prolific Miami-based poet and critic of Latin American art, remembers the colors, tastes and memories that shaped his youth and his writing, taking him back to his native Cuba. Continue reading
Jul 20 ‘We Sent Music and Laughter There’: Man and the Moon, 40 Years On Now re-released by the Criterion Collection, the new DVD version of "For All Mankind" is far superior to the original grainy images most watched for the first time on their TVs. Continue reading