Apr 23 Watch 1:45 Turning Shakespeare’s sonnets into short films By PBS News Hour In our NewsHour Shares moment of the day, we celebrate the anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth – and death – with some of the Bard’s sonnets, transformed into short films by the New York Shakespeare Exchange. Continue watching
Apr 23 400 years after his death, Shakespeare’s sonnets live on in your smartphone By Anya van Wagtendonk After William Shakespeare died, on this date in 1616, his contemporary, Ben Jonson, wrote that “He was not of an age, but for all time.” Johnson was spot on. Continue reading
Apr 21 Bjork’s got nothing on this dress, designed with real swan feathers By Alaska Public Media Enzina Marrari designs dresses and garments using natural materials. Inspired by her chosen home of Alaska, she creates with wood and flowers, even swan feathers and horse hair. Continue reading
Apr 20 Watch 5:03 Translating Dante’s heaven and hell through the eyes of African artists By PBS News Hour Art curator Simon Njami loved the works of Dante, but he realized that the renaissance text about hell, purgatory and paradise didn't speak to the experience all readers, including himself. He set out to re-imagine the Divine Comedy, to update… Continue watching
Apr 20 Poet writes a letter to her ‘high school obsession,’ the Atom Bomb By artsdesk Watch poet Catherine Pierce read her poem “Dear Atom Bomb” at the 2015 AWP Conference and Bookfair in Minneapolis. Continue reading
Apr 20 Full list of 2015 Pulitzer Prize winners in journalism and the arts By News Desk The Pulitzer Prizes for works of journalism and the arts produced in 2014 were announced Monday -- with magazines officially eligible for the first time. Continue reading
Apr 15 Watch 6:25 Singer Rhiannon Giddens taps America’s deep musical roots By PBS News Hour Rhiannon Giddens has studied opera and fronted a Grammy-winning old-time string band, the Carolina Chocolate Drops. Now her debut solo album, produced by T. Bone Burnett, showcases her range and celebrates the musical influence of American women like Odetta, Patsy… Continue watching
Apr 15 Rhiannon Giddens performs ‘Julie,’ a song inspired by a slave’s story By Frank Carlson, Mike Fritz Singer-songwriter Rhiannon Giddens is the first to admit she's big into history, and in particular the history of the South and the Civil War. Continue reading