May 22 Welcome to CANVAS, our new site for the arts By Joshua Barajas NewsHour today launched a dedicated CANVAS website with channels for audiences to interact with and share ideas for arts and cultural content. The website, relaunched Twitter account, and new CANVAS Facebook Group create a virtual canvas for viewers to discover… Continue reading
May 21 Watch 3:06 Poet Willie Perdomo on the value of writing letters in a digital world Texting and emailing have revolutionized the way we communicate, enabling us to be more efficient and stay in touch more easily. But they have also altered the dynamics of some of our most important relationships. Within this new digital communication… Continue watching
May 20 Watch 5:42 This San Francisco art exhibit takes another look at trash By Cat Wise In San Francisco, art enthusiasts recently gathered for an exhibition of unusual pieces, in which every material used came from the nearby city dump. The works represented the culmination of an artist residency at Recology, San Francisco’s waste and recycling… Continue watching
May 20 How Homer's 'Odyssey' is relevant today By Elizabeth Flock "Classics are classic because all of us are always living the same old stories and dynamics, always enacting the same old characters and themes," writes Daniel Mendelsohn, author of "An Odyssey," which revisits the ancient Greek epic poem. Continue reading
May 17 Watch 6:27 What blockbuster 'Game of Thrones' meant for the fantasy genre By Jeffrey Brown For the millions of viewers around the world addicted to HBO’s “Game of Thrones,” winter is coming, this weekend. The television phenomenon, which upwards of 17 million people watch per episode, concludes its eighth and final season with no shortage… Continue watching
May 17 How 'Raisin in the Sun' author Lorraine Hansberry defined what it meant to be 'young, gifted and black' By Dr. Howard Markel Before her early death of pancreatic cancer, the groundbreaking writer made history with "A Raisin in the Sun."… Continue reading
May 17 That 'wow' moment that charmed Boston's concertgoers By Kaitlyn Locke, WGBH News Seconds after an orchestra stopped playing Mozart's "Masonic Funeral Music" at the Boston Symphony Hall last week, 9-year-old Ronan Mattin was so swept away by the music that he loudly exclaimed -- for the whole auditorium to hear -- "Wow!"… Continue reading
May 17 Internet sensation Grumpy Cat has died at age 7 By Associated Press Her owners say Grumpy Cat, whose sourpuss demeanor became an internet sensation, has died at age 7. Continue reading
May 16 PHOTOS: Remembering famed architect I.M. Pei, dead at 102 By Kathy McCormack, Associated Press Pei, the versatile, globe-trotting architect who revived the Louvre with a giant glass pyramid and captured the spirit of rebellion at the multi-shaped Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, has died at age 102. Continue reading
May 16 Watch 6:37 How the Met is handling dilemma of donor accountability Pressure is increasingly being applied to institutions benefiting from philanthropy to be accountable for their funding sources. Lately, the opioid epidemic has highlighted that dilemma: New York's famed Metropolitan Museum of Art is the latest museum to turn down money… Continue watching