Jul 12 African Cosmos: Stellar Arts By Extra DA From a gigantic rainbow serpent fashioned out of recycled jerry cans to a painting of girls dancing against a Milky Way backdrop, the Smithsonian's "African Cosmos: Stellar Arts" exhibit examines how African artists through time have looked to the sky,… Continue reading
Jul 12 Watch Astronomy, Art and Education Collide in 'African Cosmos' Astronomy, Art and Education Collide in "African Cosmos."… Continue watching
Jul 12 The Daily Frame A visitor walks through an installation made of around a million photos downloaded and printed from flickr by artist Erik Kessels at the Kunsthalle zu Kiel museum in Kiel, Germany. From July 14 to Oct. 21, the show "Von Sinnen"… Continue reading
Jul 11 Watch New Book Offers Trove of Stories from Cinema's Great Directors New Book Offers Trove of Stories from Cinema's Great Directors… Continue watching
Jul 11 George Stevens on Film, Hollywood, and the Evolution of Moviemaking A writer, producer, director and the founder of the American Film Institute, George Stevens Jr. has long been familiar with the ways of Hollywood and how the pioneers of moviemaking shaped the films that so many fans have come to… Continue reading
Jul 11 Watch George Stevens on Film, Hollywood, and Evolving Moviemaking George Stevens on Film, Hollywood, and Evolving Moviemaking… Continue watching
Jul 11 Romney to NAACP: If You Could Read My Heart, You Would Vote for Me By Alex Bruns Updated 11:55 p.m. Mitt Romney addressed the NAACP at their 103rd National Convention in Houston Wednesday morning. // While acknowledging the historical significance of President Obama's election as the nation's first African-American president, Romney attempted to distinguish himself in the… Continue reading
Jul 11 Lou Beach Reads From '420 Characters' Last month, Jeffrey Brown talked to artist and author Lou Beach about his recent collection of short stories, "420 Characters," which began as status updates on Facebook. After the interview, Beach read several of the stories for us. At long… Continue reading
Jul 11 The Daily Frame A spider's web is woven around Christoph Poeggeler's sculpture of a kissing couple in Duesseldorf, Germany. Continue reading
Jul 10 Culture Canvas A weekly roundup of arts and culture headlines, including the story of why the Pulitzer board didn't award a fiction prize this spring. Continue reading