Mar 04 In Paper Folding, Art and Science Align By PBS News Hour Eight years ago, physicist Robert Lang's career path took an unusual turn. The laser physicist and lifelong origami artist quit his Silicon Valley job to concentrate full-time on origami. Continue reading
Mar 04 ‘Picturing the Promise’ in D.C. By Arts Desk On a cool Easter Sunday morning in 1939, 22-year-old photographer Robert Scurlock was sent on one of his first assignments to the Lincoln Memorial to capture a performance by Marian Anderson, the world-famous black contralto. Continue reading
Mar 03 Why Does AIG Need Yet Another Bailout? Question: Why does AIG need yet another bailout? Paul Solman: As Joe Nocera and Frank Partnoy explained on Monday’s show, it’s all about the “counterparties.” These are the large financial institutions with whom… Continue reading
Mar 03 Common Threads Across the country, resurgent interest in things handmade is redefining craft-making for the 21st century. Quilts are cutting-edge outlets for self-expression, and samplers carry messages of anti-consumerism, environmentalism and feminism. Continue reading
Mar 02 Do Slum Kids Stand a Chance in Our Global Economy? Question/Comment: A few years back, I made a documentary about an Indian high-tech firm that was offering free Internet access to semi-literate slum children in Delhi, The Hole in the Wall. Now it turns out that project was the real-life… Continue reading
Mar 02 Weekly Poem: ‘Salvage’ Poet Laureate Kay Ryan recently sat down with Jeffrey Brown to talk about her work and her role as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. That conversation will be posted here soon. Much more about Ryan can be… Continue reading
Mar 02 From Lebanon, Songs of Love and Strife By Arts Desk In another in our series about the Kennedy Center's Arabesque art festival, Jeffrey Brown profiles Lebanese folk singer Marcel Khalife, who for nearly 40 years has been rousing audiences with songs about love and strife, politics and injustice. Continue reading
Feb 27 Watch From Lebanon’s Marcel Khalife, Songs of Strife and Love In another in our series about the Kennedy Center's Arabesque art festival, Jeffrey Brown profiles Lebanese folk singer Marcel Khalife, who for nearly 40 years has been rousing audiences with songs about love and strife, politics and injustice. Continue watching
Feb 27 Tonight on the NewsHour: Marcel Khalife By Arts Desk Friday on the NewsHour, Jeffrey Brown profiles Marcel Khalife, who for nearly 40 years has been rousing audiences with songs about love and strife. Continue reading
Feb 27 Conversation: Museum of Islamic Art By Arts Desk Sitting on its own small island in Doha, Qatar, on the Persian Gulf, the brand new Museum of Islamic Art contains one of the greatest collections of the religion's art and artifacts, including works from throughout the Arab world, Europe… Continue reading