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Thursday’s Art Notes

In today's arts and culture headlines, the Rome trial over looted antiquities against former Getty curator Marion True has been dismissed.

New Documentary ‘Of Dolls & Murder’ Explores Macabre in Miniature

Created in the 1930's and 1940's, the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death is a collection of macabre dollhouses, each playing host to a different deathly crime. A new documentary peers into the tiny world of the tiny scenes and their…

Wednesday’s Art Notes

In today's arts and culture headlines, Howard Jacobson wins the 2010 Man Booker Prize.

Franzen Explores the Post-9/11 Family in ‘Freedom’

Jeffrey Brown talks to best-selling novelist Jonathan Franzen about new book '"Freedom."…

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New Documentary Explores How Music ‘Made’ Louisville

By Molly Finnegan

After the Great Depression and a horrendous flood devastated Louisville, the city's mayor and and the conductor of its symphony orchestra hatched a plan to make the city great again.

Tuesday’s Art Notes

In today's arts and culture headlines, the Man Booker Prize will be announced late on Tuesday.

Weekly Poem: ‘In D.C.’

Elizabeth Alexander was born in Harlem, raised in Washington, D.C., and attended Yale University, where she now teaches African American Studies. She is the author of six books of poems, including most recently, "Crave Radiance: New and Selected Poems 1990-2010."…

Monday’s Art Notes

In today's arts and culture headlines, soul singer Solomon Burke has died at age 70.

Conversation: Stone Carver Nicholas Benson, 2010 MacArthur Fellow

By Tom LeGro

Nicholas Benson is a stone carver from Newport, R.I., a third generation craftsman who runs the John Stevens Shop, a business that's been in operation since 1705. He was named as a 2010 MacArthur Fellow.