Jan 28 Conversation: Ed Ruscha By Molly Finnegan Now on show at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, "Ed Ruscha: Road Tested" is a collection of photographs, paintings and prints inspired by the artist's love of driving across America. Continue reading
Jan 28 Friday’s Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, the late Dennis Oppenheim left public art projects in process. Continue reading
Jan 28 From the Pain in Spain to Taxes in Naxos: Merle Hazard’s Euro-Serenades By Paul Solman All this week we've featured investment advisor Jon Shayne, aka Country-and-Western economist Merle Hazard, warbling his way through the European debt debacle. He started with the pain in Spain and moved on through Erin Go Broke… Continue reading
Jan 27 Conversation: Kevin MacDonald, Director of ‘Life in a Day’ By Tom LeGro For "Life in a Day," a 90-minute documentary film, Kevin MacDonald, with the help of a team of researchers, pieced together real-life footage selected from more than 80,000 YouTube submissions (which added up to over 4,500 hours of tape) all… Continue reading
Jan 27 Ode to Germany: Merle Hazard, Backed by Beethoven By Paul Solman Today’s post introduces the fourth of country singer Merle Hazard’s Euro-shanties, this one taking off on the Ode to Joy from Beethoven’s 9th. Merle (if not Beethoven) will do anything to educationally amuse. So will we. But given the gravity… Continue reading
Jan 27 Paul Solman on the Economics of the Union By Paul Solman What a relief: a SOTU address without the traditional partisan whack-a-mole standing ovations. "Date night's" civility - or, if you prefer, lack of passion - had the virtue of keeping Democrats and Republicans mostly in their seats. (… Continue reading
Jan 27 Thursday’s Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Google helps launch a new public digital archive of photos from the Holocaust. Continue reading
Jan 26 Watch In Chaos of Post-Earthquake Haiti, Artists Create Poetry Amid Rubble On his recent reporting trip to Haiti, Jeffrey Brown explored the story of Haitian poets and artists surviving -- and creating -- amid the rubble of last year's earthquake. Continue watching
Jan 26 Wednesday: Poetry Amid the Rubble By Molly Finnegan More from Jeffrey Brown's last report from his recent trip to Haiti, one year after the earthquake. Continue reading
Jan 26 Wednesday’s Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, scientists say Nabokov's butterfly theory isn't fiction. Continue reading