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
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