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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.

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.

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,…

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.

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.

'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.

Frank McCourt, Irish Memoirist, Dead at 78

By Arts Desk

Frank McCourt, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Angela's Ashes" and "'Tis," died Sunday in New York from metastatic melanoma. He was 78.

On 100th Anniversary, NAACP Looks to Future of Civil Rights

President Obama spoke Thursday at the 100th anniversary of the NAACP. Gwen Ifill traveled to New York to speak with the leader and two activists from the organization about its changing role.

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At NAACP Centennial, Obama Speaks of Struggle

By PBS News Hour

President Barack Obama delivered a rousing speech Thursday to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, paying tribute to the organization's history and challenging its members to confront continued racial disparities.

Conversation: Painter John Currin

By Arts Desk

American painter John Currin is one of the most recognized and lauded figurative artists working today whose work is one of the subjects of an exhibition called "Paint Made Flesh," which is now at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C.