Arts Jan 16 Filming in Cairo? Your Papers, Please I have been to Cairo before, but not like this. Before, I walked anonymously; today, I'm part of a small group carrying a magnet for endless attention -- a TV camera.
Arts Jan 15 The Drawing Power of Presidential Image Perhaps never in American history has a politician inspired so many artists as President-elect Barack Obama. His face, seen in magazines, in murals and in posters, helped to propel a once unlikely campaign into the fundraising and publicity stratosphere.
Arts Jan 14 Something for Everyone Inauguration Week In the lead-up to the passing of the keys to the White House, Washington, D.C., is giving entirely new meaning to the "party system." Most hotels have been sold out for months; Craigslist is overstocked with temporary rentals.
Arts Jan 13 Marcel Khalife…Don’t Call Him Bob Dylan Marcel Khalife is often described in articles as the "Bob Dylan of the Middle East." (In my preparation for this trip, by the way, I discovered two different women described as the "Oprah of the Middle East").
Arts Jan 12 Hezbollah by Day, Dunkin’ Donuts by Night Hezbollah by day and Dunkin' Donuts by night. And that was just our first 24 hours in Beirut. I didn't go into the Dunkin' Donuts shop; I just stared in the window. Wherever we go around the world, the brands…
Arts Jan 07 Conversation: Andy Goldsworthy Sculptor Andy Goldsworthy has spent much of the last three decades creating works amid natural settings in his native England or across Europe and North America, or even at the North Pole.
Arts Jan 05 Weekly Poem: ‘American Sublime’ Elizabeth Alexander will become just the fourth poet to recite a poem at a president's swearing-in ceremony on Jan. 20 at President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration.
Arts Jan 02 Previews of Next Week and a Mideast Trip We continue to receive many wonderful comments and responses to specific stories and to the entire Art Beat effort. But the news is not always good.
Arts Dec 31 Conversation: Peter Matthiessen Peter Matthiessen, a 2008 National Book Award winner, is best known as both a novelist and non-fiction writer, but he's also an environmental activist, American Indian rights advocate and former C.I.A. recruit.
Arts Dec 26 Preview for Next Week I'm sure our regular NewsHour viewers will understand when I say that, first and foremost, we are "news people." One of our goals in starting Art Beat was to make sure we stay on top of the news in the…