Nov 30 Conversation: Lorin Stein, Editor of The Paris Review, on the Art of the Short Story By Tom LeGro What is a great short story and what does it take to write one? The Paris Review posed those questions to 20 contemporary authors and asked them to pick a story they love in the almost 60-year-old archives of the… Continue reading
Nov 30 Watch Conversation: Lorin Stein, Editor of the Paris Review Jeffrey Brown talks to Lorin Stein, editor of the Paris Review. Continue watching
Nov 30 The Daily Frame By Tom LeGro Japanese craftsman Sumikazu Nakata adds the final touches on a Daruma doll, which is believed to bring good luck and represents the Indian priest Bodhidharma, the founder of Zen Buddhism in China. Continue reading
Nov 30 AIDS Posters Call on Public to Act By Online DA AIDS awareness posters were part of domestic and international public health campaigns to promote HIV testing, safe sex and better knowledge of the virus and disease. Here is a sample of the 6200 posters physician Edward Atwater collected that are… Continue reading
Nov 29 Watch Twin Cities Dance Company Celebrates Diversity, Relevancy, Accessibility Twin Cities Dance Company Celebrates Diversity, Relevancy, Accessibility… Continue watching
Nov 29 ‘Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop’ By Tom LeGro From simple retouching like removing red-eye to complex manipulation like removing people, Photoshop has dramatically changed the way we use the medium of photography. Or has it? An exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York explores the… Continue reading
Nov 29 What Did We Do Before Photoshop? An exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York shows how photographers long before the digital era regularly employed techniques of manipulation in their work. Some merely compensated for the medium's limitations, while others used manipulation to create… Continue reading
Nov 29 The Daily Frame The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree is lit Wednesday in New York City. Continue reading
Nov 28 How Banana Fibers Keep Women Working in Developing Nations By Cat Wise Photo of Elizabeth Scharpf courtesy of Sustainable Health Enterprises. Harvard Business School and Kennedy School of Government graduate Elizabeth Scharpf, 35, appears confident with a warm smile. These attributes no doubt come in handy when Scharpf travels the… Continue reading
Nov 28 Around the Nation Here are four arts and culture videos from public broadcasting partners around the nation. Continue reading