Aug 17 Wednesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, a legal battle over an iconic 1970s hit may set an important precedent for copyright law. Continue reading
Aug 17 Drawing The White Whale By Lauren Knapp In August 2009 Matt Kish, a librarian by trade and artist by night, decided to draw one image for every page of of his long-time favorite novel - "Moby-Dick". Kish spent the next 543 days in pursuit of his own… Continue reading
Aug 16 Watch Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings Play 'Hard Times' Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings Play 'Hard Times'… Continue watching
Aug 16 Watch Profile: Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings Profile: Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings… Continue watching
Aug 16 Gertrude Stein's 'Four Saints in Three Acts' Achieves a Good Afterlife Besides being featured in two major art shows, where works collected by Gertrude Stein and her family in Paris during the early days of the 20th century are on display, an avant garde opera written by Stein and composer Virgil… Continue reading
Aug 16 Tuesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, prominent Bangladeshi filmmaker Tareque Masud died in a car crash. Continue reading
Aug 16 Europe's Stuttering Economy By Paul Solman With the eurozone in such obvious economic turmoil, we turn to former chief IMF economist and longtime friend and favorite of Making Sen$e, Simon Johnson (Peterson Institute, MIT). We asked him a series of pressing questions: Paul Solman: Is… Continue reading
Aug 15 Watch Cate Blanchett on Reviving Theater Classic 'Uncle Vanya' for Modern Stage Australian actors Cate Blanchett and Richard Roxburgh have brought the Anton Chekhov classic "Uncle Vanya" back to the stage, playing now at Washington's Kennedy Center. Jeffrey Brown speaks with the actors about the challenges of staging the play for a… Continue watching
Aug 15 Watch Norway's FM: Many Questions Yet to Be Answered on Attacks The deadly attacks in Norway on July 22 marked the country's worst violence since World War II. Norway's Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Store joins Judy Woodruff to discuss how the nation is coping, how the Internet is affecting extremism, the… Continue watching
Aug 15 Watch Full Interview: Cate Blanchett and Richard Roxburgh Full interview with Academy Award winning-actress Cate Blanchett on 'Uncle Vanya.'… Continue watching