Arts Jul 01 Amid Turmoil, American ‘Prince’ David Hallberg Returns to Russia // In his 2011 role as the prince in Sleeping Beauty, David Hallberg became the first American principal dancer at the Bolshoi, the world’s largest ballet company and Russian cultural epicenter since its founding in 1776.
Arts Jun 24 Weekly Poem: ‘I Go Back to May 1937’ Actor John Lithgow reads the poem "I Go Back to May 1937," by Pulitzer Prize winner Sharon Olds.
Arts Jun 18 Pulling Back the Burka: A Glimpse of Afghan Life Through Poetry Journalist and poet Eliza Griswold set out to document Afghan life through the prism of oral folk poems shared mostly among Pashtun women. Seamus Murphy, the London-based photographer and filmmaker who worked with Griswold on the landay project, narrates a…
Arts Jun 17 Weekly Poem: ‘From the Grandiloquent Dictionary’ Hailey Leithauser's poetry has appeared in the Gettysburg Review, Poetry and in the Best American Poetry and Best New Poets anthologies. Her first book, "Swoop," won the Poetry Foundation's Emily Dickinson First Book Award. That collection will be published in…
Arts Jun 13 Thursday on the NewsHour: Novelist Walter Mosley Author Walter Mosley has written more than 40 books. His new mystery novel, "Little Green," revives one of the best-known, longest-running characters in American literature. Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins, Mosley's fictional private eye, was last seen driving off a cliff.
Arts Apr 05 The Daily Frame Workers re-install "Fluegelauto" -- a golden, winged Ford Fiesta -- at the City Museum in Cologne, Germany.
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.