Feb 23 Watch Arabesque Festival Brings Arab Arts to Kennedy Center An ambitious, three-week festival called "Arabesque: Arts of the Arab World" opens at the Kennedy Center in Washington Monday. Jeffrey Brown offers the first in a series of broadcast and online reports around the festival and the artists it is… Continue watching
Feb 23 Iraq Reopens Part of Plundered National Museum By PBS News Hour The National Museum of Iraq partially reopened Monday, displaying artifacts thousands of years old, many of which had been stolen during the chaotic days just after the fall of Baghdad in 2003. Continue reading
Feb 23 Arabesque and Us By Arts Desk Regular visitors to Art Beat will remember that I was in the Middle East a few weeks back talking to artists (and, as it turned out, reporting on the Gaza conflict's fallout) for a series of profiles tied to Arabesque:… Continue reading
Feb 23 Academy Awards Update By Arts Desk Over the last several weeks, we spoke with some people who were involved in one way or another in films nominated for an Oscar. We figured we should update you on how they did. Continue reading
Feb 23 Weekly Poem: ‘Advertisement for the Mountain’ Christina Davis is the author of "Forth A Raven" (Alice James Books, 2006). In February, Poet Laureate Kay Ryan chose Davis and Mary Szybist for the 2009 Witter Bynner Fellowships. Continue reading
Feb 20 Jeffrey Brown Previews the Academy Awards With the AFI’s Todd Hitchcock By Arts Desk Jeffrey Brown previews the Academy Awards with the AFI's Todd Hitchcock. Continue reading
Feb 20 For Documentary Filmmakers, Prestige of Oscars Helps Put Spotlight on Issues By Meaghan Wilson For documentary filmmakers, the reward of an Oscar nomination is twofold: It raises awareness around the film's subjects or issues and generates interest in a genre that ticket buyers don't generally flock to. Continue reading
Feb 19 An Eye for Fashion at the ICP Fashion Week in New York ends Friday, but take a short walk from the big tents (which, face it, you're not going to get into anyway) and you'll see enough models making fierce faces and striking poses to last the… Continue reading
Feb 19 Stanford Group Leaves Houston High and Dry This week the Securities and Exchange Commission charged Texas banking billionaire R. Allen Stanford with over $8 billion in fraud, leaving depositors throughout Latin America wondering where their money is and whether they'll get it back. Continue reading
Feb 18 Dance Dance, Science Revolution Most of us aren't asked to dance our life's work, and that's probably a good thing. But John Bohannon, a visiting scholar at Harvard University and writer for Science Magazine, believes dance is the ultimate translation challenge for scientists. Continue reading