May 05 Watch 6:42 After her husband’s sudden death, Elizabeth Alexander writes their love story By PBS News Hour Continue watching
May 05 Child’s toy or the voice of nightmares? Listen to the Edison talking doll By Joshua Barajas One of the earliest known milestones in recorded history was nestled into an 18-inch doll. Inventor Thomas Edison embedded small phonographs inside the metal torsos of thousands of dolls that “talked” or played fragments of nursery rhymes, including “Twinkle, Twinkle,… Continue reading
May 05 Here’s what a fantasy world full of ‘wayward creatures’ looks like By Jackie Shafer, WOSU Artist Amanda Louise Spayd has created a whole world populated by endearing doll-sized creatures. Her fabric creations bring to mind cast-off children’s toys and ill-conceived taxidermy experiments with crooked human teeth. Continue reading
May 05 Watch 3:41 Artist creates fantasy world in her ‘halfway house for wayward creatures’ By PBS News Hour Continue watching
May 05 Spicy curry and spaghetti with ‘100 onions’: Poet shares beloved dishes of her late husband By Mary Jo Brooks From Spicy Red Lentil and Tomato Curry to Spaghetti with 100 Onions (not really!), poet Elizabeth Alexander shares the recipes that her late husband, artist and chef Ficre Ghebreyesus, loved to prepare for his family. Continue reading
May 05 Nellie Bly honored in Karen O penned-Google doodle By Colleen Shalby One hundred and fifty-one years after her birth, Google is honoring American reporter Nellie Bly in an original ditty of a doodle penned by singer-songwriter Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Continue reading
May 04 Watch 6:17 Revisiting the Great Migration through paintings and poetry By PBS News Hour The Great Migration of 6 million African-Americans from the rural South to the urban North was a shift that reshaped America forever. Artist Jacob Lawrence captured that story in an epic work of art known as the Migration Series. Now… Continue watching
May 04 Arielle Greenberg reads ‘I’m Not Saying Your Mother is a Vampire’ By artsdesk Arielle Greenberg is the author of three poetry collections, including "Slice," "My Kafka Century" and "Given." Watch Greenberg read her poem “I’m Not Saying Your Mother is a Vampire” at the 2015 AWP Conference and Bookfair in Minneapolis. Continue reading
May 01 Photos: Playground drama is the same for kids around the world By Ariel Min When photographer James Mollison set out to capture different school playgrounds across the world, he was surprised by something that in retrospect was obvious but which hadn't occurred to him before. Continue reading