Jul 31 Watch: 1,000 musicians in Italy request a visit from Foo Fighters, Dave Grohl accepts By Colleen Shalby One thousand singers, drummers and guitarists in Cesena, Italy, gathered in a field to play the Foo Fighters’ “Learn to Fly,” in a large-scale musical request for the band to come play for them. Continue reading
Jul 31 You can trace all modern political TV battles back to this one moment in 1968 By Joshua Barajas Heated political rhetoric is nothing new, a new documentary on Gore Vidal and William Buckley shows. Continue reading
Jul 30 Watch 2:14 Marina Abramovic on performance art that can change your life By PBS News Hour Four years ago, artist Marina Abramovic sat in the Museum of Modern Art for 716 hours and 30 minutes for a work called “The Artist Is Present.” Abramovic offers her Brief but Spectacular take on the value of good performance… Continue watching
Jul 30 U.K. grants 6-month visa to Ai Weiwei, reversing earlier decision By Corinne Segal Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has been denied a 6-month visa to the U.K., who made disputed claims that he lied on his application. Continue reading
Jul 29 50,000-flower display marks 125th anniversary of van Gogh's death By Gabby Shacknai On the 125th anniversary of Vincent van Gogh's death, institutions across the world are celebrating the Dutch artist's legacy. Continue reading
Jul 29 Man Booker Prize unveils 2015 longlist By Margaret Sessa-Hawkins The Man Booker Prize for Fiction this morning released its longlist of 13 titles that will compete for the world's most prestigious award for fiction written in English. Continue reading
Jul 28 Watch 6:26 How Dr. Seuss's publisher helped finish a forgotten book By PBS News Hour In 2013, an unfinished book by Theodor Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, was discovered in a box. Now “What Pet Should I Get” has been published and become an instant bestseller. It was completed by Cathy Goldsmith, who worked… Continue watching
Jul 28 Not everyone's sold on Seuss By Joshua Barajas Parents have worried about whether it is confusing to introduce nonsense words while their children are actively learning dictionary words. Continue reading
Jul 28 Twitter removes plagiarized jokes, sparking copyright debate By Corinne Segal Joke about a juice cleanse on Twitter, and you just might begin a national conversation on copyright laws. Continue reading
Jul 27 Poet creates first class for transgender poetry By Corinne Segal Trace Peterson, a poet at the forefront of the push for transgender representation in poetry, will soon pioneer what she says is the country's first course in transgender poetry. Continue reading