Dec 03 President to push positives of Affordable Care Act in new effort By Christina Bellantoni Seeking to move past the health care law's website woes, President Barack Obama, seen here Monday speaking about AIDS, will refocus the public's attention on broader benefits of the sweeping law. Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images Consider it a sort… Continue reading
Dec 02 Watch David Hockney continues prodigious picture-making career by adopting new tech By PBS News Hour David Hockney continues prodigious picture-making career by adopting new tech… Continue watching
Dec 02 Author James McBride on Slavery, Humor and ‘Hee-Haw Chit Chat’ in ‘The Good Lord Bird’ By Arts Desk // James McBride talks to chief arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown about interpreting the structures of slavery in his new book "The Good Lord Bird." "I had to create something that would allow people room to laugh at things they can't… Continue reading
Dec 02 Watch 5:51 James McBride’s ‘The Good Lord Bird’ offers ‘room to laugh’ at difficult history Author James McBride talks about slavery and humor in "The Good Lord Bird."… Continue watching
Dec 02 Watch James McBride’s ‘The Good Lord Bird’ offers ‘room to laugh’ at difficult history By PBS News Hour James McBride talks about the National Book Award winner in fiction, "The Good Lord Bird."… Continue watching
Dec 02 Happy birthday, Georges Seurat! Pointillist painter Georges Seurat was born on this day in 1859--celebrate w/ "Circus Sideshow" http://t.co/qND5frvQqK pic.twitter.com/EygIKywzXp— metmuseum (@metmuseum) December 2, 2013… Continue reading
Dec 02 At David Hockney’s ‘Bigger’ exhibition, what you see is what you get By Arts Desk Spencer Michels looks on as a cameraman shoots the artworks hanging at the exhibit "David Hockney: A Bigger Exhibition" at San Francisco's de Young Museum while. Photo by Cat Wise/PBS NewsHour You may get a jolt when you enter… Continue reading
Dec 02 Weekly Poem: Clive James reads ‘Whitman and the Moth’ By Ellen Rolfes In May of 1891, photographer Samuel Murray accompanied the New York sculptor William O'Donovan to Walt Whitman's home in Camden, N.J., Murray photographed Whitman as an aid to O'Donovan's sculpting the poet: "they took hell's times in all sorts of… Continue reading
Dec 02 White House gives check-up on HealthCare.gov website By Terence Burlij The Health and Human Services Department released a progress report Sunday on its effort get the troubled HealthCare.gov website on the mend. Administration officials said the worst of the online glitches, bugs and delays may be over. Photo by Andrew… Continue reading
Dec 01 Watch World-shattering drama: War photography A wide-ranging exhibit titled "WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath" pulls moments from 165 years to reveal what happens before, during and after battle. Jeffrey Brown talks to a curator from the Houston Museum of Fine Arts about… Continue watching