Arts Dec 02 Conversation: Martin Sullivan, Director of the National Portrait Gallery Jeffrey Brown talks to Martin Sullivan, director of the National Portrait Gallery, about the decision to remove a work of art from the current exhibit "Hide/Seek" after complaints from a religious organization.
Arts Nov 19 Conversation: Filmmaker Lucy Walker Documents an Artist's 'Waste Land' In 2007, New York-based artist Vik Muniz returned to his native country of Brazil to set up shop at the world's largest garbage dump in Rio de Janiero. His story is told in the new documentary "Waste Land" by director…
Arts Nov 16 War Photographer Tim Hetherington Captures Combat and Downtime in 'Infidel' In 2007 and 2008, British photojournalist and filmmaker Tim Hetherington traveled to the Korengal Valley in northeastern Afghanistan to capture images of American soldiers serving in the war -- not just in combat, but also relaxing, playing, sleeping. His photographs…
Arts Nov 11 Will the Real Author (Bill Wyman) Please Stand Up? A (creative nonfiction) review of Keith Richard's new book, supposedly written by Mick Jagger, is mistaken for the real thing…
Arts Oct 15 Conversation: Musician Evan Ziporyn, Composer of 'A House in Bali' Based on the memoirs of Colin McPhee, a musicologist who, in the early 20th-century, spent several years in Bali studying traditional music, "A House in Bali" is a blend of western opera and the music of that island.
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…