Feb 12 Exiled Syrian artist Tammam Azzam paints haunting images of his destroyed homeland By Corinne Segal After completing "Storeys," a large-scale abstract painting project based on photographs from Syrian cities, Tammam Azzam has seen enough: buildings gutted by bombs, empty streets, a sense of stillness. Continue reading
Feb 11 Watch 2:52 ‘Billy On The Street’ on the art of the ambush By PBS News Hour You may know him as "Billy On The Street" but there's more to comedian Billy Eichner than meets the eye. He gives his Brief but Spectacular take on the most difficult person he knows: himself. Continue watching
Feb 11 Watch 6:55 What it’s like to call the world’s largest refugee camp home By PBS News Hour Established by the U.N. in 1991 to house Somalis fleeing their civil war, the Dadaab refugee camp complex in eastern Kenya has grown into the largest in the world. Some call it a humanitarian disaster, but to its half-million residents,… Continue watching
Feb 11 How life in the wild becomes stunning landscape photography By Gretchen Frazee How do you capture in one frame, the landscape of Yellowstone’s geysers, the majesty in the peaks of the Mount Denali, or the vast expanse of the Grand Canyon?… Continue reading
Feb 11 Stay in a life-size replica of a Van Gogh painting for $10 a night By Corinne Segal Ever wanted to live inside a Van Gogh painting? Here's your chance, courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago. Continue reading
Feb 10 Watch 6:26 Steelworkers’ stories of disappearing jobs come to life onstage in ‘Sweat’ By PBS News Hour “Sweat,” a new play by Lynn Nottage, is a humorous and harrowing look at the decline of the Rust Belt in modern America. Inspired by stories from Reading, Pennsylvania -- once home to one of the richest corporations in the… Continue watching
Feb 10 These Chinese cities begin life with empty streets and skyscrapers By Kai Caemmerer Some of China's newly constructed urban areas, not yet fully populated, have earned the name "ghost cities."… Continue reading
Feb 09 The step-by-step process of an artist who covers herself in paint By Twin Cities PBS Artist Greta Claire picks up a paintbrush. Then, slowly, she lets colorful paint drip in a thick cover over her hands and arms. Continue reading
Feb 08 How poet Ariana Brown became the Afro-Latina role model she needed By Corinne Segal Growing up in San Antonio, Ariana Brown said she struggled to find other representations of herself -- an Afro-Latina woman from a working class family -- both in her community and literature. Continue reading
Feb 05 Europe’s first underwater museum offers a stark reminder of the refugee crisis By Corinne Segal Strap into your scuba gear -- this underwater museum is wortha dive. Continue reading