Nov 08 Monday’s Art Notes In today's arts and culture news, the Pope consecrates the Sagrada Familia and Poland finishes a new, immense Christian landmark. Continue reading
Nov 05 Why Did So Many Democrats Lose? Some Districts Were Never a Good Fit As the Democrats sort through the wreckage of Tuesday night, the question "what just happened?" is undoubtedly running through their minds. Was it Tea Party enthusiasm that buried them or anger at the economy or a loss of faith… Continue reading
Nov 05 Jason Moran: Jazz Maestro, MacArthur Fellow By Tom LeGro Jason Moran is a jazz pianist and composer and one of the winners of this year's MacArthur Fellowships. His latest recording is called "Ten," which came out in June. Continue reading
Nov 05 Friday’s Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, will Hollywood become more conservative?… Continue reading
Nov 04 Watch Betancourt Describes Captivity in Colombian Jungle Margaret Warner talks to Ingrid Betancourt about her new memoir, "Even Silence Has an End," and her years as a hostage in the Colombian jungle. Continue watching
Nov 04 Questions of Photographic Propriety in ‘Framing Innocence’ In 1999, Cynthia Stewart, an amateur photographer and school bus driver in Oberlin, Ohio, was arrested on two felony charges for photographs she'd taken of her eight-year-old daughter, which she tried to have developed at a nearby drugstore. The charges… Continue reading
Nov 04 Midterm Election Pitted Keynesians vs. Hayekians, Again By Paul Solman This entry is cross-posted on the Making Sen$e page, where correspondent Paul Solman answers your economic and business questions "It's the economy, stupid." (Bill Clinton, 1992) "Are you better off now than you were four years ago?" (Ronald Reagan,… Continue reading
Nov 04 Thursday’s Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Peru's president asks for some special help in retrieving ancient artifacts from Yale University. Continue reading
Nov 03 Andre Kertesz Captured the Art of Reading By Tom LeGro "On Reading," an exhibition on view at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, collects photos taken by Hungarian photographer Andre Kertesz over a decades' long career of people in private moments reading books, newspapers or magazines. Continue reading
Nov 03 Wednesday’s Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, the Chinese government plans to destroy Ai Weiwei's Shanghai art studio. Continue reading