Oct 03 If the walls of an immigrant detention center could speak By Mary Jo Brooks Poet Teow Lim Goh imagines the voices of Chinese immigrants who were detained at Angel Island between 1910 and 1940. Continue reading
Oct 02 East New York painter confronts the ‘brutal’ force of gentrification By Arlene Lormestoire “Deconstruction,” a new series of paintings by Patrick Eugéne, unveils the effects of gentrification within East New York, Brooklyn, where he grew up and still lives. Continue reading
Oct 02 Video artist, MacArthur fellow Mary Reid Kelley on recovering history’s lost narratives By Corinne Segal To talk to Mary Reid Kelley, a newly-named MacArthur genius, is to walk with her through history. Continue reading
Oct 01 Watch 9:06 Saving treasured art after Italy’s major earthquake By PBS News Hour In August, a 6.2-magnitude earthquake shook central Italy, killing almost 300 people, leaving thousands homeless, and causing an estimated $5 billion in property damage. Today, rescue efforts center on saving the area’s cultural artifacts. NewsHour Special Correspondent Christopher Livesay reports. Continue watching
Sep 30 Watch Understanding the rise of the Islamic State By PBS News Hour As a young man, Lawrence Wright first visited the Middle East when he taught English in Cairo. He has spent much of his life since reporting on the region -- documenting culture by sharing the stories of individuals. His new… Continue watching
Sep 30 This Chinese American cartoonist forces us to face racist stereotypes By Joshua Barajas The first comic that cartoonist Gene Luen Yang ever bought was a two-in-one issue that featured a man made out of rocks and an intergalactic cyborg. He loved comics, especially the kind that featured space aliens. So he started making… Continue reading
Sep 29 Watch 2:45 Photographer documents the beauty of difference across the LGBT spectrum By PBS News Hour It’s hard to look someone in the eye and deny their humanity, says iO Tillett Wright. Now Wright has spent the past six years photographing people who identify across the LGBT spectrum. Wright offers a Brief but Spectacular take on… Continue watching
Sep 29 Watch 6:19 This DJ mixes the world’s local music to create a global sound By PBS News Hour Jace Clayton, aka DJ/rupture, spends his time traveling, absorbing music as well as creating it. To create his art, he mixes various melodies and rhythms from all over the world in order to create new, complex sounds. Jeffrey Brown speaks… Continue watching
Sep 27 Watch 4:03 Boston brings the music back by boosting arts education By PBS News Hour At a time when schools across the country are cutting arts education, this city is aiming to make it universal. Myran Parker-Brass, a classically trained mezzo-soprano who sang for the Boston Symphony, is working to provide weekly arts education to… Continue watching
Sep 26 Watch 6:17 The musical rumble that makes listeners love ‘West Side Story’ By PBS News Hour On this day nearly six decades ago, “West Side Story” premiered on Broadway. And the music of the Sharks and the Jets, and star-crossed lovers Tony and Maria is as vibrant as it was in 1957. Jeffrey Brown sits down… Continue watching