Jul 20 Wednesday’s Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, the Philadelphia Orchestra is trying to negotiate a cheaper rent. Continue reading
Jul 19 Watch Floods, Fires, Storms Are Fodder for Centuries of Poems Jeffrey Brown and Yang discuss the poetic perspective of the beauty and power of nature. Continue watching
Jul 19 New Exhibit Proves Pen Is Mighty Beautiful Now at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Md., an exhibit called "Art of the Writing Instrument from Paris to Persia" looks at the pretty pens and other tools that stood as status symbols for their owners or helped turn… Continue reading
Jul 19 Tuesday’s Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Egypt struggles to find a new antiquities chief. Continue reading
Jul 18 Watch Piano Virtuoso Fleisher on Overcoming Disability That Nearly Silenced Career In the 1960s, piano virtuoso Leon Fleisher lost the use of his right hand due to a condition called focal dystonia, but he focused on teaching and continued to play pieces designed for one-handed pianists. Jeffrey Brown and Fleisher discuss… Continue watching
Jul 18 Were We Too Easy on Lincoln Electric? By Paul Solman Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news most days on his Making Sen$e page. Here are a few queries: // We received a flurry of worried responses to our… Continue reading
Jul 18 Weekly Poem: ‘Morning, and as sun is born’ By Tom LeGro Joan Houlihan has published three books, including "The Us" (2009, Tupelo Press). In 2004, she founded the Concord Poetry Center, and in 2006 she established the Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference for advanced writers. She teaches at Lesley University's low-residency M.F.A. Continue reading
Jul 18 Monday’s Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, a vandal at London's National Gallery did not "adore" two paintings by Poussin. Continue reading
Jul 15 Conversation: So Long, Harry Potter The Boy Who Lived is now the movie franchise that has ended. Continue reading
Jul 15 Friday’s Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Chicago gets a 26 foot tall statue of Marilyn Monroe. Continue reading