Oct 30 The Tuesday Cutline...a Winner! For this week's contest, we chose a Halloween-themed photo. Some might say it was also an election-themed photo. In any case, the photo taken by Bill Clark of CQ Roll Call of zombies at the U.S. Capitol generated many submissions… Continue reading
Oct 30 The Daily Frame A man walks through New York's mostly deserted Times Square on Monday night. Continue reading
Oct 29 Watch Photographer Puts New Spin on 'Street' Art Using Google Maps Photographer Doug Rickard sees artistic possibility in the images of people captured in the photographic drive-bys that make up Google Street View. He has travelled thousands of virtual miles, looking for potential photographs in Google's maps that have more than… Continue watching
Oct 29 Watch Author Bill Ivey Argues for Rediscovering Values at Heart of American Ideal Author Bill Ivey Argues for Rediscovering Values at Heart of American Ideal… Continue watching
Oct 29 Bill Ivey, Former NEA Chairman, Author of 'Handmaking America' By Tom LeGro More of Jeffrey Brown's conversation with Bill Ivey, former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts and author of "Handmaking America: A Back-to-Basics Pathway to a Revitalized American Democracy."… Continue reading
Oct 29 Watch Extended Interview: Bill Ivey More of Jeffrey Brown's conversation with Bill Ivey, author of "Handmaking America."… Continue watching
Oct 29 Weekly Poem: 'A.M.' Nick Norwood's third full volume of poems, "Gravel and Hawk," won the Hollis Summers Prize in Poetry and was published by Ohio University Press in April 2012. His other books are "A Palace for the Heart" (2004), "The Soft Blare"… Continue reading
Oct 29 The Daily Frame Ty Sherman, 10, as "The Scream," left, Kaesha Jackson, 10, as "Mona Lisa" and Sam Sherman, 7, as "American Gothic" pose Saturday at Boo at the Zoo at the Boise Zoo in Idaho. Continue reading
Oct 26 Watch New Erdrich Novel Deals With Crime and Jurisdiction on North Dakota Reservation New Erdrich Novel Deals With Crime and Jurisdiction on North Dakota Reservation… Continue watching
Oct 26 Conversation: Leon Botstein on How Circus Music Helped Shape American Pop Culture By Tom LeGro "Circus and the City: New York, 1793-2010" is an exhibition now showing at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery. It is, as it sounds, a big look at the development and pageantry of the circus over time through many different angles. Continue reading