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Joshua Barajas is the arts editor for the NewsHour. He can be reached at jbarajas@newshour.org.
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Politics Mar 04
WATCH: Trump speaks at Latino Coalition Legislative SummitTrump is scheduled to speak from Washington, D.C. at 1:30 p.m. ET. Watch the president's remarks here.
Health Mar 04
WATCH: Health officials testify on NIH budget as coronavirus concerns growTop officials at the National Institutes of Health will appear before a House appropriations committee Wednesday to address President Donald Trump's budget proposal, which suggests a $3 billion funding cut to the agency.
Arts Feb 26
The search for Mexico’s drug war victims, distilled into sound artWhat does it sound like to look for a lost loved one? This art installation doesn’t look away from the horror and pain of that reality.
Arts Feb 18
WATCH: Isabel Allende on studying real people for characters in her novelsWhen writer Isabel Allende creates characters for her novels, she often looks to real people as “models.” For a crime novel she wrote, Allende said she needed to connect with a member of the U.S. military.
Arts Feb 13
Artist Débora Delmar on the invisible gates that shape usAn art installation by the London-based Mexican artist reflects the way we’re all shaped by our aspirations, and whether we have the keys or not.
Arts Feb 07
How a college prank turned into a public art traditionThe inflatable replica that rests on the lake’s solid surface isn’t a political statement, nor a throwback to the ending of 1969’s “Planet of the Apes,” but a decades-long tradition founded on a good laugh.
Arts Feb 06
Once a neglected house, ‘Rainbow Embassy’ is a beacon of rebirth in ArkansasThere’s a house exploding with color at an otherwise unassuming intersection in Fort Smith, Arkansas. The playful installation is called “Rainbow Embassy,” and it’s the work of Madrid-based street artist Okuda San Miguel, who transformed the previously dilapidated home into…
Politics Feb 04
WATCH: Sen. Collins says she will vote to acquit TrumpSen. Susan Collins said the House managers did not sufficiently show how Trump's conduct, "however, flawed, warrants the extreme step of immediate removal from office."…
Arts Jan 29
WATCH: Gwen Ifill honored in Forever stamp dedication ceremonyThe late NewsHour anchor Gwen Ifill is being commemorated by the U.S. Postal Service with a Forever stamp this year. USPS will celebrate the release of the stamp in a dedication ceremony on Thursday at a Washington, D.C., church that…
Arts Jan 27
WATCH: How Robert De Niro became ‘The Irishman’Robert De Niro is no stranger to Martin Scorcese films. But this new meditation on wiseguy life does something no other Scorcese film has done: places De Niro alongside Al Pacino and Joe Pesci in one universe.
