Oct 07 Watch Out of many faces, one American portrait: Artist creates 'facescape' on the National Mall By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Oct 07 Walk through a 6-acre portrait combining Washington's many faces By Anne Azzi Davenport Using dozens of images of young men photographed in Washington, D.C., artist Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada has created a physical "facescape" from that composite portrait. "Out of Many, One" is on display on the National Mall until the end of October, with… Continue reading
Oct 07 Watch Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada on the ground-level feel of facescape By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Oct 07 Using long-exposure photography, Minnesota artist paints with light By Twin Cities PBS Minnesota artist Brian Hart draws with lights and cameras. He likes to think of the one-inch long LED night fishing lights that he uses as his pen; the camera is his paper. He doesn’t use Photoshop. There is no manipulation… Continue reading
Oct 07 Watch Armed with a camera, one Minnesota artist draws with night fishing lights By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Oct 06 Watch Lev Grossman's 'Magicians' series casts spell on adult readers By PBS News Hour Lev Grossman’s bestselling series “The Magicians” proves that fantasy literature isn’t only for kids, having captured a new generation of readers with new worlds and mature, complicated characters. Grossman joins Jeffrey Brown to discuss his work and why the genre… Continue watching
Oct 06 'The Magician's Land' author Lev Grossman on breaking the rules of fantasy By artsdesk Lev Grossman recently published "The Magician's Land," the third installment in his "The Magicians" trilogy. Watch this online exclusive from his conversation with senior correspondent Jeffrey Brown. Continue reading
Oct 06 Weekly Poem: Jennifer Michael Hecht reads 'A Marriage of Love and Independence' By artsdesk Listen to Jennifer Michael Hecht read her poem "A Marriage of Love and Independence" from her new collection, "Who Said."… Continue reading
Oct 06 Two poems on what it's like to live with Ebola, climate change By Larisa Epatko The two women live in different parts of the world: one on a tropical island in the Pacific, another in a former war-torn African country now fighting Ebola. Their lives are very different but they chose the same way to… Continue reading