Dec 17 Franz West: Sit Down and Stay Awhile The work of Austrian sculptor Franz West is showing in its most comprehensive American survey to date in "Franz West, To Build a House You Start with the Roof: Work 1972 -2008" at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Continue reading
Dec 16 Architecture for the Masses Architect Bryan Bell likes to quote a certain statistic: Only 2 percent of homebuyers work with an architect to design a home that fits their needs. In other words, shelter is a necessity, architecture is a luxury. Continue reading
Dec 16 Jeffrey Brown Unveils Art Beat on the Program By Arts Desk In case you missed it Monday evening, here are correspondents Jeffrey Brown and Judy Woodruff talking about Art Beat on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. Continue reading
Dec 15 Watch Online NewsHour Launches Art Beat Blog The Online NewsHour has created a blog devoted to arts news from around the world. NewsHour correspondent Jeffrey Brown explains what kinds of information viewers can find on the blog. Continue watching
Dec 15 Welcome to Art Beat! By Arts Desk Welcome to Art Beat, a new blog covering news, issues and events in art and entertainment, brought to you by NewsHour correspondent Jeffrey Brown and NewsHour reporters. Continue reading
Dec 15 Rebuilding New Orleans with Prospect.1 By Arts Desk Tonight on the NewsHour, Jeffrey Brown reports on the New Orleans' efforts to rebuild its art scene and its tourist industry through Prospect.1, an exhibition of contemporary art billed as the largest of its kind ever held in the United… Continue reading
Dec 15 Conversation with Alaa al Aswany By Arts Desk Since the release of his first novel, "The Yacoubian Building," in 2002, Alaa al Aswany has catapulted from being a dentist with a literary bent to the Arab-speaking world's best-selling fiction writer. Continue reading
Dec 15 Watch New Orleans Art Exhibition Aims to Help City Heal A new contemporary art exhibit in New Orleans that's billed as the largest of its kind to ever be held in the U.S. seeks to help bring about the healing and rebirth of the vibrant city that was devastated by… Continue watching
Dec 12 Sol LeWitt: Paint and Share Alike The work of great painters is typically thought to have come from the skill of their own hand. But for Sol LeWitt, the ideas behind the art mattered most, and those were to be shared, even replicated. Continue reading
Dec 11 Watch Navigating New Definitions of a Multiracial Identity Essayist Richard Rodriguez reflects on how Americans view multiracial and multicultural identities in the wake of Barack Obama's election to the presidency. Continue watching