Arts

Filter

Poetry

Conversation: Filmmaker Ramin Bahrani

By Arts Desk

"Goodbye Solo" is the third film by 34-year-old director Ramin Bahrani. It film won the Critic's Prize at the Venice Film Festival in 2008, and is just beginning to be seen in selected theaters around the country.

Iowa Court Decision Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage

By PBS News Hour

Iowa became the first non-coastal state and the third nationwide to legalize gay marriage Friday when the state Supreme Court unanimously found that the state's same-sex marriage ban violates the constitutional rights of gay and lesbian couples.

Conversation: Jonathan Lethem & L.J. Davis Ponder ‘A Meaningful Life’

L.J. Davis' 1971 novel, "A Meaningful Life," re-published with an introduction by Jonathan Lethem, is a black humor romp into the bowels of life's greatest disappointments.

Poems Spring Up Everywhere

On this first day of April when you're playing practical jokes on your friends or family, do it poetically. Even better, celebrate the beginning of National Poetry Month instead.

William Kentridge at SFMOMA

In the catalog for "William Kentridge: Five Themes," a major survey now showing at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the artist writes: "[B]efore the work can begin (the visible finished work of the drawing, film or sculpture), a…

Weekly Poem: ‘Evening Walk’

Charles Simic was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, in 1938 and moved to the United States in 1954. He was Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2007-2008.

Conversation: Robert Lynch, President, Americans for the Arts

By Arts Desk

Amid the economic downturn, many arts organizations around the country are feeling the hurt right now, along with everyone else.

Seattle Coffee Company Uses Profits to Aid Bean Growers

Seattle-based coffee company Pura Vida's core mission is to help its bean growers in Central America improve their lives. NewsHour special correspondent Lee Hochberg reports.

Continue watching

Conversation: Mary Gaitskill’s ‘Don’t Cry’

Vladimir Nabokov once wrote that art is "beauty plus pity." It's a formula author Mary Gaitskill took to heart, after quoting his words in a tribute essay years ago. They've both been accused, after all, of varying levels of perversity…

U.S. Economic Downturn Worsened at End of 2008

By Admin, PBS News Hour

The U.S. economy contracted at its fastest pace since 1982 at the end of last year, and it likely isn't faring much better now, according to a Commerce Department report released Thursday.