Oct 08 Coming Soon to PBS, the History of Art Across Time, Continents and Cultures Starting Sunday on PBS, a new 13-part educational series for high school and college students explores some of the most commonly recurring themes that come up again and again across the history (and contemporary practice) of art. Continue reading
Oct 08 September Job Losses Steeper, Worse for Economy Than Expected By Paul Solman Disturbing September job numbers out Friday showed a net loss in total employment of 95,000 jobs, as the federal government dropped 76,000 positions, mainly Census workers, and state and local governments lost 83,000. In the private sector, jobs increased… Continue reading
Oct 08 Jailed China Dissident Liu Xiaobo Wins Nobel Peace Prize Protesters in Hong Kong demonstrate to free Liu Xiaobo outside the Chinese Foreign Ministry on Friday. Photo by Mike Clarke/AFP/Getty Images. Imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday "for his long and non-violent… Continue reading
Oct 08 Watch Onetime Teacher, Student Find Success as Composer, Violinist Hilary Hahn and Jennifer Higdon shared a love of 20th century music when Higdon was Hahn's professor at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. Fifteen years later, this student-teacher relationship has transformed into a partnership at the top of… Continue watching
Oct 07 Conversation: The Life and Work of Nobel Prize Winner Mario Vargas Llosa By Tom LeGro Jeffrey Brown talks to Efrain Kristal, a UCLA professor of comparative literature and of Spanish and Portuguese, about the life and work of Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa. Continue reading
Oct 07 Around the Nation Roundup Here are some of this week's arts and culture stories from public broadcasting stations around the nation. Continue reading
Oct 07 Upcoming: Ways To Deal With the Foreclosure Crisis By Paul Solman The past week's revelations of bank insouciance with regard to the legal niceties of foreclosure and eviction, most notably the robo-signers who admitted they did not read what they signed off on, have led to a national push… Continue reading
Oct 07 Peruvian Writer Vargas Llosa Wins Nobel Prize in Literature Mario Vargas Llosa. Photo by David Levenson/Getty Images. The 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt,… Continue reading
Oct 07 Thursday’s Art Notes By Tom LeGro In today's arts and culture headlines, Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa wins the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature. Continue reading