Mar 09 Watch 6:18 Bringing Mali's music back from exile By PBS News Hour Mali is a country renowned for its music, but in 2012, the music stopped. That year, separatist rebels and Islamic groups seized two-thirds of the country and banned any expression of art. While French and Malian forces drove the Islamists… Continue watching
Mar 09 More than 2,000 years of India's lost literature is coming back into print By Laura Santhanam For more than 2,000 years, several volumes of classical South Asian texts remained locked away in languages that have either died, have a dwindling number of speakers or no one bothered to translate these stories for a global audience. Continue reading
Mar 09 Mali's artists fight to save the country's ancient cultural treasures By Molly Knight Raskin The northern part of Mali, in West Africa, has come under attack repeatedly since 2012, when al-Qaida linked militants seized two-thirds of the country. Today, as U.N.-led peace talks progress, Mali’s artists and scholars are joining in the fight for… Continue reading
Mar 09 Poet posits, 'We humans, we're kind of a disappointment' By artsdesk Listen to J. Allyn Rosser read "As If," her poem that "contemplates humanity as not quite worthy of the world,"… Continue reading
Mar 06 7 films by Albert Maysles everyone should watch By Victoria Fleischer, Molly Finnegan, Joshua Barajas Documentary filmmaker Albert Maysles died Thursday night after a 60-year long career that deeply affected the conversations around nonfiction filmmaking, conversations about truth, accuracy, bias and exploitation. Here are clips from seven films that define his unflinching style. Continue reading
Mar 06 Watch 4:31 Hear the Holocaust Survivors Band make joyful music By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Mar 06 Albert Maysles, award-winning filmmaker and documentary pioneer, dies at 88 By Victoria Fleischer Albert Maysles, the award-winning documentary filmmaker who helped pioneer a new set of documentary conventions, died Thursday night at his home in Manhattan. Maysles, who made films with his brother David, is best known for his for his cinema verite… Continue reading
Mar 05 An artist's field guide to nature's overlooked wonders By Joshua Barajas The ecosystem of a rotting log can be just as detailed and alive as that of a volcano, at least according to the delicate hand-drawn illustrations of the natural world by Julia Rothman in her new book “Nature Anatomy: The… Continue reading
Mar 03 Watch 6:57 Filmmakers who exposed military sexual assaults turn camera to colleges By PBS News Hour A new film called "The Hunting Ground" offers a disturbing look at sexual assault at colleges around the country. Producer Amy Ziering and director Kirby Dick previously examined the widespread crisis of sexual assault in the U.S. military in their… Continue watching