Jan 29 Michigan foundation pledges $40 million to Detroit’s art collection By Zachary Treu The W.K. Kellogg Foundation pledged $40 million to Detroit's art collection. Continue reading
Jan 28 Watch Remembering Pete Seeger, 94, who made music to unite people By PBS News Hour A central figure of American music, Pete Seeger touched the lives of generations with his long list of folk and protest songs that became cultural landmarks of various social movements. Jeffrey Brown talks to Peter Yarrow, friend of Peter Seeger… Continue watching
Jan 28 Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary pays tribute to the legendary Pete Seeger By Victoria Fleischer Peter Yarrow sings a version of Pete Seeger’s “If I had a Hammer” to help remember the legendary folksinger. Peter Yarrow, a member of the folksinging trio Peter, Paul and Mary, remembers Pete Seeger as a “beacon of… Continue reading
Jan 28 To everything there is a season: Folk singer and activist Pete Seeger dies at 94 By Victoria Fleischer Pete Seeger, the legendary folk musician who helped spearhead the American folk revival, died Monday night in New York City at the age of 94 from natural causes. Across more than seven decades, he inspired scores of singer-songwriters, activists and… Continue reading
Jan 28 Folk music pioneer and life-long activist Pete Seeger dies at 94 By News Desk Pete Seeger, the songwriter behind the anti-war ballad "Where Have All the Flowers Gone," co-writer of "If I had a Hammer," and constant contributor to the landscape of American folk music since the 1940s, died Monday at the age of… Continue reading
Jan 27 Quentin Tarantino sues Gawker over leaked film script By Zachary Treu Film director Quentin Tarantino filed a copyright lawsuit against blog network Gawker Media and others for "allegedly facilitating the dissemination of copies" of "The Hateful Eight," an unproduced screenplay that was leaked to the public last week, according to Te… Continue reading
Jan 27 Weekly Poem: Peter Cole writes about why we read poetry By Victoria Fleischer Peter Cole thinks of all poetry as translation. "Writing one's own poetry, you're translating a nonverbal experience or a less than articulate experience into something much more articulate," he told Art Beat. In addition to writing his own, Cole translates… Continue reading
Jan 27 Daft Punk got ‘Lucky’ at the 2014 Grammys By Victoria Fleischer Daft Punk swept the stage Sunday night at the 56th Grammy Awards. The duo took home many of the coveted awards, including record of the year for "Get Lucky" and album of the year for "Random Access Memories." But the… Continue reading
Jan 24 Watch Juan Gelman, Argentine poet who fought against a military junta, dies at 83 By Jeffrey Brown, PBS News Hour Continue watching