Aug 19 Friday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, five people are dead after the stage collapses at an outdoor music festival. Continue reading
Aug 18 America Remembers 9/11: Your Answers on What's Changed in 10 Years As the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks draws closer, The PBS NewsHour and our public media colleagues have been seeking out your views on what's changed in the United States over the past decade. Some of you have… Continue reading
Aug 18 In a Station of the Metro, an Apparition of Color From Sam Gilliam Sam Gilliam's studio has the airy feel of a warehouse, but it boasts densities of colors and shapes. Sculptural paintings hang like scarves over the walls, and slabs of plywood are thick with hardened acrylics. Continue reading
Aug 18 Watch Sam Gilliam's 'From a Model to a Rainbow' Sam Gilliam discusses his recent work, "From a Model to a Rainbow."… Continue watching
Aug 18 Getting High for Less: Easier Access to Better, Cheaper Heroin Cripples Small Towns By Paul Solman Black tar heroin. Photo via the City of Wichita police department. Note: We've been exploring economic inequality in America this week, and thought it an opportune moment to share something we had hoped to post the last time… Continue reading
Aug 18 Thursday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Venice considers how to handle a disintegrating landmark. Continue reading
Aug 17 Watch With Unity in Egypt Now Fractured, 'Second Wave' of Revolution Underway As former President Hosni Mubarak stands trial, Egypt's revolutionaries are increasingly divided over how to shape their new political structure. Margaret Warner discusses what's next for Egyptians and their "second wave" of revolution with GlobalPost's Charles Sennott, who returned to… Continue watching
Aug 17 Woodruff: The Income Gap, Right Under Our Noses Knowing the PBS NewsHour was planning a series of reports on income inequality in America, launched with economics correspondent Paul Solman's excellent report on Tuesday (if you haven't seen it yet, it's a must), my ears have been attuned… Continue reading
Aug 17 Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings: Two Voices, 10 Kinds of Sad The first duet recording in a decade from Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings stands out as some of the best of what they have to offer: tight harmonies, haunting lyrics and effortless melodies. Continue reading
Aug 17 Sweden's Super-Duper Rich By Paul Solman // Update: Watch Land of the Free, Home of the Poor and Americans Facing More Inequality, More Debt and Now More Trouble? to see the first two parts of Paul Solman's ongoing series of reports on U.S. economic… Continue reading