Jul 22 Conversation: Imagination in Education By Tom LeGro This week, the Lincoln Center Institute in New York is holding what it bills as the "first national conference focused on making imagination an integral part of American education."… Continue reading
Jul 22 Watch Conversation: Imagination in Education Jeffrey Brown talks to Lincoln Center Institute director Scott Noppe-Brandon. Continue watching
Jul 22 Friday’s Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, a heat wave calls for extra precautions for performers in the Washington area. Continue reading
Jul 21 Watch ‘Rock the Casbah’ Author: Hip-Hop Has Been the Rhythm of Arab Spring Journalist Robin Wright chronicles the cultural and social forces behind this year's Arab revolt in her new book, "Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion Across the Islamic World.' Margaret Warner and Wright discuss her book and the new wave of… Continue watching
Jul 21 Watch In ‘Mugabe and the White African,’ Farmers Struggle Against Brutal Land Reforms The documentary "Mugabe and the White African" follows a white Zimbabwean farmer who files an international lawsuit against Robert Mugabe's violent land-reform program. This excerpt is part of The Economist Film Project series of independently produced films aired in partnership… Continue watching
Jul 21 Lucian Freud, Innovative Painter of the Intimate, Dead at 88 Lucian Freud, the British painter who helped redefine modern portraiture and figurative painting, died Wednesday night at the age of 88 at his home in London. Continue reading
Jul 21 It’s the End for Borders, but How Are Independent Bookstores Faring? When Borders established itself as a major chain in the 1990s, it became, along with Barnes & Noble, and later, online retailers like Amazon, a main competitor of small, independent bookstores around the country. Today, having outlived Borders, small stores… Continue reading
Jul 21 Thursday’s Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, authorities recover a war criminal and a stolen painting in one blow. Continue reading
Jul 20 Is Flogging a Better Option Than Prison? German soldiers flog a Russian villager while fellow villagers are forced to watch. This photograph was found on a dead German soldier. Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images. A new book by Peter Moskos is as provocative in name as… Continue reading
Jul 20 Around the Nation Here are some recent arts and culture stories from public broadcasting stations around the nation. Continue reading