Welcome to Art Beat!

Welcome to Art Beat, a new blog covering news, issues and events in art and entertainment, brought to you by NewsHour correspondent Jeffrey Brown and NewsHour reporters. You will find interviews with authors, artists and musicians, coverage of art exhibitions and concerts, and multimedia features such as videos and narrated slide shows.

We expect Art Beat to widen our arts coverage by serving as a home for additional reporting on arts pieces you may have seen on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. Extended interviews and bonus footage or images from performances or shows will all be here.

Please sign up for the podcast, feeds as well as the e-mail alert, which will let you know when an arts piece will air.

Most of all, please leave comments. We want to hear what you think. Enjoy!