Sep 26 The Daily Frame A fire dancer performs during the first ever Backstreet Festival in Alexandria, Egypt, which runs through Saturday. An initiative of the International Association for Creation and Training, the festival celebrates art in non-traditional spaces. Continue reading
Sep 25 Watch Where They Stand: How Voters, Pollsters and Historians Judge Presidents Where They Stand: How Voters, Pollsters and Historians Judge Presidents… Continue watching
Sep 25 Helping Where 'There Are More Cell Phones Than Toothbrushes' By Fred de Sam Lazaro Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney was one of the speakers at the Clinton Global Initiative meeting in New York City. Photo by Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images. NEW YORK CITY | The annual Clinton Global Initiative is intended to bring together… Continue reading
Sep 25 The Tuesday Cutline...a Contest! We here at Art Beat enjoy a good contest. So today we unveil the Tuesday Cutline, a contest in which you come up with a caption to a photo and win a prize. Continue reading
Sep 24 Weekly Poem: 'Intravenous' Hugh Martin recently won the Jeff Sharlet Memorial Award from The Iowa Review for his poetry. His upcoming book, "The Stick Soldiers," received the A. Poulin Jr. First Book Prize from BOA Editions. Hugh served in Iraq for 11 months. Continue reading
Sep 24 Watch Grading the Campaigns Six Weeks from Election Day Debate preparations are underway with only one week until the first 2012 presidential debate between President Obama and Mitt Romney. Judy Woodruff talks to The Rothenberg Report's Stu Rothenberg and USA Today's Susan Page for more on the strategy behind… Continue watching
Sep 24 The Daily Frame Dancers from the Spanish dance company Cie Delreves perform Sunday on the facade of Bulgaria's national palace of culture during Sofia Dance Week. Photo by Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty Images. Continue reading
Sep 21 Watch For Perpetrators and Victims, Suppressing Temptation of College Hazing Rituals For Perpetrators and Victims, Suppressing Temptation of College Hazing Rituals… Continue watching
Sep 21 Watch French Cartoons, Anti-Islam Film are 'Agitprop Designed to Provoke' Hard-Liners French Cartoons, Anti-Islam Film are 'Agitprop Designed to Provoke' Hard-Liners… Continue watching
Sep 21 U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey Talks About Her New Job and Fourth Book Natasha Trethewey is a familiar face to NewsHour viewers and Art Beat visitors. She first talked to us in 2006 as she returned to her hometown in Mississippi to witness the effects of Hurricane Katrina. Recently, Trethewey took on the… Continue reading