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Thursday’s Art Notes

In today's arts and culture headlines, color photos of the devastation wreaked by the 1906 San Francisco are found by the Smithsonian.

Around the Nation

Here are some of this week's arts and culture stories from public broadcasters around the nation.

The Public Worker Battle, Cartoonified

By Paul Solman

With all the strife over public-sector unions, including irate e-mails in response to our pension coverage on the program, we thought we'd lighten the mood by sharing some recent political cartoons.

Wednesday’s Art Notes

In today's arts and culture headlines, "Spider-Man" shuts down to address significant problems.

David Brooks: From Spouses to Sofas, ‘Emotions Tell Us What to Value’

Jeffrey Brown speaks with New York Times columnist and NewsHour regular David Brooks about his new book, "The Social Animal," which explores human perception of reason vs. emotion, the power of emotions and the power of humans to "educate" those…

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Minn. Sculptor Zoran Mojsilov Puts Big Rocks ‘on a Diet’ to Hone Human Forms

From Minnesota's Twin Cities Public Television, producer Emily Goldberg profiles the larger-than-life sculptor Zoran Mojsilov. The Yugoslavia native and former wrestler's art "expresses humanity in its varied forms: in nature, in love, and even in war."…

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In Photos: Women Show Solidarity at Events Around the Globe

By Larisa Epatko

Women came together on March 8 to express a message of solidarity on International Women's Day by dancing in Iraq, protesting in Ivory Coast and dressing as men in Lebanon.

In Reverse Trompe L’Oeil, Models Are Both Subject and Painting Surface

By Molly Finnegan

In some ways, artist Alexa Meade is a traditional figure painter, replicating the light and shadow that falls on the human body in a naturalistic way. But she works on an unusual canvas: the human body.