May 10 Culture Canvas A weekly roundup of arts and culture headlines (back from hiatus). Continue reading
May 10 The Daily Frame A man looks at Czech artist Alfons Mucha's "Slav Epic," a cycle of 20 allegories tracing the history of the Slavic people and inspired in part by mythology, at the National Gallery in Prague on Thursday… Continue reading
May 09 Watch Obama Supports Same-Sex Marriage: Now What? President Obama said Wednesday that he now believes "same-sex couples should be able to get married." Judy Woodruff and author Kerry Eleveld discuss the president's "evolution" on the subject, then Evan Wolfson of Freedom to Marry and the Rev. Harry… Continue watching
May 09 Obama: ‘Same-Sex Couples Should Be Able to Get Married’ By News Desk President Obama; file photo by Olivier Douliery/Pool-Getty Images Updated 4:14 p.m. | President Barack Obama declared Wednesday afternoon that he now supports gay marriage. "Same sex couples should be able to get married," he said in an interview with… Continue reading
May 09 Lalla Essaydi’s ‘Revisions’ By Extra DA From "Revisions," an exhibition of Lalla Essaydi's work at the National Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C. "My photographs grew out of the need I felt to document actual spaces, especially those of my childhood," Lalla Essaydi says. Continue reading
May 09 Q&A: Lalla Essaydi Challenges Muslim, Gender Stereotypes at Museum of African Art Known for her large format photographs, Lalla Essaydi's work combines Islamic calligraphy and representations of the female body, focusing on the interconnection of faith, culture and gender and challenging notions within all three. Continue reading
May 09 The Daily Frame Buddha statue on Vesak at the Borobudur temple in Magelang, Indonesia, on Sunday. Commonly referred to as the "Buddha's Birthday," Vesak commemorates the birth, enlightenment and death of Gautama Buddha. Continue reading
May 08 Watch Remembering Maurice Sendak and His ‘Riotous and Strange’ Inner Child Remembering Maurice Sendak and His 'Riotous and Strange' Inner Child… Continue watching
May 08 Obesity in America: By the Numbers Collectively, the numbers spell out a familiar story. American adults are expanding by the year, along with their children and health care costs. Depressing? Yes. Easy to tune out? Even more so. In isolation, the statistics are a little… Continue reading
May 08 ‘Weight of the Nation’: U.S. Obesity Crisis Tackled in HBO Special EmbedVideo(3341, 514, 320); They're the new minority in the United States: "healthy" waistlines. With a third of the nation's adults weighing in as overweight and another third registering as "obese," America's collective eating disorder has relegated those with… Continue reading