Arts Oct 12 New Documentary Explores How Music ‘Made’ Louisville After the Great Depression and a horrendous flood devastated Louisville, the city's mayor and and the conductor of its symphony orchestra hatched a plan to make the city great again.
Arts Oct 01 Friday’s Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, a Tea Party coloring book and a congressional hold on building a National Women's History Museum.
Arts Sep 30 Conversation: Jonathan Franzen The disintegration of a family in a very fractured and unsettled, post-9/11 America is told in "Freedom," the new novel by Jonathan Franzen. His last novel, "The Corrections," won the 2001 National Book Award.
Arts Sep 30 Thursday’s Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, actor Tony Curtis has passed away at age 85.
Arts Sep 29 Conversation: Director Nicolas Kent Brings Real Drama of Afghanistan Onstage Starting with the 1842 Anglo-Afghan War and running through to the present day conflict in Afghanistan, a new theater production called "The Great Game: Afghanistan" attempts to educate audiences about the history of modern foreign intervention in that region with…
Arts Sep 29 Wednesday’s Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, film director Arthur Penn has died.
Arts Sep 28 Conversation: Yiyun Li, Fiction Writer and Winner of the 2010 MacArthur Fellowship Born in Beijing, MacArthur Fellow Yiyun Li came to the United States in 1996 to complete a doctoral program in immunology, but decided then to change her career path and instead do something that was more important to her: writing.
Arts Sep 24 Conversation: Novelist Per Petterson, Author of ‘I Curse the River of Time’ The bestselling Norwegian author Per Petterson became known to American readers over the last couple of years after his 2003 novel "Out Stealing Horses" was translated into English. He now has a new novel, "I Curse the River of Time".
Arts Sep 21 Conversation: Kendall Messick’s Close-Up of ‘The Projectionist’ Delaware movie projectionist Gordon Brinckle had an extraordinary secret: Over the course of nearly 50 years, he created a miniature movie palace in his basement that he called the Shalimar. Photographer Kendall Messick has published a new book of photographs…
Arts Sep 10 Conversation: Historian Sean Wilentz, Author of ‘Bob Dylan in America’ Sean Wilentz grew up in Greenwich Village at the height of its bohemian influence in the 1950s and 60s. He is now the author of a new non-fiction book, "Bob Dylan in America," which combines biography, social history and cultural…