Mar 15 Watch 6:39 Dawoud Bey on photography as a ‘transformative experience’ By Jeffrey Brown, Jaywon Choe For decades, Dawoud Bey has been considered one of the country’s foremost street photographers, known for capturing the everyday lives of black Americans with a deep intimacy. Recently, Bey has shifted his focus to the historical, with an exploration of… Continue watching
Mar 15 Watch 2:55 How a scientific approach to crayons yields this artist’s photorealistic portraits By Jackie Shafer, WOSU With his series of crayon works, Ohio artist Christian Faur is not only creating photorealistic portraits out of art supplies traditionally relegated to children, but he’s also making the crayons from scratch. Jackie Shafer of WOSU in Columbus has this… Continue watching
Mar 15 W.S. Merwin, prize-winning poet of nature, dies at 91 By Hillel Italie, Jennifer Kelleher, Associated Press A Pulitzer Prize winner and former U.S. poet laureate, Merwin completed more than 20 books. Continue reading
Mar 14 Watch 5:12 With ‘Mutual Air,’ this California artist leverages the sounds of science By Jeffrey Brown Despite increasingly dire assessments about the outlook for climate change, it can be difficult to remain mindful of our environment’s health on a daily basis. Jeffrey Brown traveled to the Bay Area to meet Rosten Woo, a Los Angeles-based artist… Continue watching
Mar 13 Why the success of ‘Captain Marvel’ is a defeat for trolls By Jake Coyle, Associated Press Marvel's "Captain Marvel," the superhero factory's first movie fronted solely by a female hero, last weekend notched the sixth largest global opening ever. That was despite the efforts of a vocal minority to sabotage the movie's release. Continue reading
Mar 12 ‘Get used to saying no,’ and more advice from writer Naomi Alderman By Elizabeth Flock "You can't be the best person in the world at answering your email on time and being available for every request and also write good books," says writer Naomi Alderman. Continue reading
Mar 11 Watch 6:46 Author Marlon James on never outgrowing the magical By Jeffrey Brown Marlon James is best known for writing literary fiction, including “A Brief History of Seven Killings,” which won the prestigious Man Booker Prize. But his latest book, “Black Leopard, Red Wolf,” draws on a lifelong love of comics and fantasy. Continue watching
Mar 11 Watch 2:50 A humble opinion on deriving motivation from failure It irks novelist and professor Elizabeth McCracken when people say a success has “humbled” them. She argues it’s in fact failure that produces a humbling effect -- but also a highly motivating one. McCracken offers her humble opinion on why… Continue watching
Mar 08 Watch 6:06 Embracing classical music and its potential for ‘sonic salvation’ By Jeffrey Brown, Anne Azzi Davenport Classical is a music genre hampered by a tendency to exclude or intimidate newcomers. But Clemency Burton-Hill, creative director at WQXR, a public classical radio station serving New York, wants to change that. An evangelist for art that leaves her… Continue watching
Mar 06 Watch 5:14 Novelist Valeria Luiselli on writing to document ‘political violence’ The U.S. is reportedly experiencing illegal immigration at the highest rates since 2007, with significant increases in the number of unaccompanied minors. It is these child migrants who are the subject of Valeria Luiselli’s book “Lost Children Archive.” Luiselli talks… Continue watching