Arts Mar 29 On the NewsHour: Mohsin Hamid, Author of 'How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia' A poor young boy from an impoverished village comes to a sprawling, wild, sometimes violent city, where he makes and loses a fortune. This is the tale of "How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia," set in an unnamed…
Arts Mar 22 Remembering Nigerian Novelist Chinua Achebe Nigerian novelist, poet, essayist, statesman and dissident Chinua Achebe died Thursday in Boston after a brief illness. He was 82. Achebe emerged upon the literary world in 1958 with the publication of his novel "Things Fall Apart," which has sold…
Arts Mar 18 The Daily Frame Flowers grow out of scrap cars in Finnish artist Tea Makipaa's installation "Petrol Engine Memorial Park" at the 'Yes Naturally' art exhibit in the Hague, Netherlands.
Arts Mar 15 The Daily Frame Dancers perform a scene from 'Virtues (3rd & 4th sections) ' during a dress rehearsal for Ailey II's New York Season at the The Ailey Citigroup Theater in New York.
Arts Mar 14 The Daily Frame Women touch a creation by Austrian artist Franz West at the "Franz West: Where is my Eight?" exhibition held at the MUMOK (Museum of Modern Art) in Vienna. West, who died in 2012, ranks among Austria's most important contributors to…
Arts Mar 13 China Uses Copycat Architecture to Modernize, Define and Celebrate Itself While copying architectural styles is as old as architecture itself, China has done it on an unprecedented scale and speed.
Arts Mar 13 The Daily Frame Participants paint their faces and bodies during the Ogoh-ogohs parade in Tunjuk Village, in Bali, Indonesia. For the Balinese, Ogoh-ogohs reflect the form of demons or expression of bad traits.
Arts Mar 11 The Daily Frame Craftsman Manfred Paulus adjusts the valves of world's largest functional tuba -- exactly double the dimensions of a normal tuba -- at the Musikinstrumenten-Museum in Markneukirchen, Germany.
Arts Mar 08 The Daily Frame Museum mount maker Richard West stands next to St. Oran's Cross -- the world's first Celtic cross dating to the 8th century -- in his workshop in Selkirk, Scotland.
Arts Mar 07 The Daily Frame A group of people watch the grand lighting of the Bay Lights art installation on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Designed by artist Leo Villareal, the Bay Lights is the world's largest LED light sculpture.