Arts Jul 17

JO!: Africa to America and A Dance Odyssey performs at the 2012 Concert of Colors at Max Fischer Music Center in Detroit, Mich. Photo by Paul Warner/Getty Images.

Arts Jul 06

In central Virginia's Rappahanock County, the four-year-old Castleton Festival is part traditional summer music festival and part music training program. Jeffrey Brown talks to founder and renowned conductor Lorin Maazel.

Arts Dec 16

An extended interview and reading with poet Rita Dove.

Arts Sep 30

The MacArthur Awards were recently announced, and one of the winners this year was the poet and translator A.E. Stallings.

Arts Sep 28

A squalid encampment under a causeway in an American city is the unusual and charged setting for a new novel, "Lost Memory of Skin," which explores some deep issues of American life rarely raised and rarely seen by most of…

Arts Sep 23

Nunez is the artistic director of the Young People's Chorus of New York City, which he also founded in 1988.

Arts Sep 22

After 31 years as a band, R.E.M. announced Wednesday that they're calling it quits.

Arts Sep 20

Seven of this year's MacArthur grant recipients are artists, musicians, writers or designers.

Arts Sep 09

From 2002 to 2009, director Jim Whitaker and a film crew chronicled the lives of five people who were directly impacted by the attack on the Twin Towers on 9/11 for a new documentary, "Rebirth."…

Arts Aug 26

"Salvage the Bones," a new novel by Jesmyn Ward, tells the story of a Mississippi Gulf Coast family in the days leading up to Hurricane Katrina, which made landfall in the U.S. now six years ago this week.