Arts Dec 13 Amy Sherald on the gaze and humanity of her portraits She has painted portraits of Michelle Obama and Breonna Taylor. But much of Amy Sherald’s work is about filling in absent images of everyday Americans. Senior arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown talks with the artist and takes us to the first…
Arts Dec 06 Rebirth of Detroit’s Michigan Central train station serves as symbol of city’s comeback A restoration of past glory, a renovation toward future growth and potential consequences and conflicts in the present. That’s the story of Michigan Central, a grand addition to Detroit’s economic and cultural life. Senior arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown reports for…
Arts Nov 26 How political upheaval inspired the French Impressionists Impressionism is perhaps the most-viewed and best-loved movement in art history. A new exhibition, first shown in Paris, looks back 150 years to its founding moment and to the darkness hidden behind all that light. Jeffrey Brown visited "Paris 1874:…
Arts Nov 22 John Leguizamo’s ‘The Other Americans’ aims to remedy Broadway’s lack of Latino stories John Leguizamo has appeared in more than 100 films while also telling a distinctly Latino story in documentaries, one-man shows and now, full-scale dramas. Jeffrey Brown met him recently at the arena stage in Washington to talk about his latest…
Arts Nov 12 John Grisham chronicles real-life stories of people who were wrongly convicted in ‘Framed’ When Centurion was founded, it was the first group of its kind working to overturn wrongful convictions for people facing execution or life. Decades later, the work continues and its story is being told by its founder and novelist John…
Arts Nov 04 Remembering Quincy Jones and his towering legacy in the music industry A giant in the music and entertainment industry has died. Quincy Jones, known to many as ‘Q,’ was revered as a record producer, songwriter, composer, arranger and performer through his seven decades in the business. Through his vast range of…
Arts Nov 01 Universities transform art museums into spaces for voting and political discourse During the final days of this tense election, we take a look at a project fostering a different type of civic space to encourage young people to discuss issues, engage each other and vote. Jeffrey Brown visited the University of…
Arts Oct 21 Purdue program works to revive liberal arts as key part of the college experience Call it “the death of the humanities.” Over the last decade or so, majors in English and history are down by a third and humanities enrollment overall is down by almost a fifth. Now an initiative is working to revive…
Arts Oct 18 Art exhibit ‘For Dear Life’ shows new perspectives on disability and medicine in the U.S. “For Dear Life” is the first exhibition to survey the themes of illness and disability in American art from the mid-20th century to the COVID pandemic. It’s part of PST Art, an enormous collaboration of Southern California arts institutions around…