Arts May 22 Wednesday on the NewsHour: The Houston Grand Opera Sings to a New Audience An epic journey told in song. Laments about lost loves. A protracted death scene. Just another production at the Houston Grand Opera. But there's nothing typical about "Cruzar la Cara de la Luna," or "To Cross the Face of the…
Arts May 22 ‘Black Watch’ Is Worth Watching Have you ever thought of marching, fighting soldiers as ballet dancers? In a play called "Black Watch," now intriguing audiences in San Francisco, a troupe of Scottish actors, all male, spends nearly two hours strutting across the stage, choreographed as…
Arts May 20 Weekly Poem: ‘Things the Doctor Asks’ This week's poem comes from Charles Hood. He is the author of "South x South," winner of the 2012 Hollis Summers Poetry Prize. His previous books include "Bombing Ploesti" and "Rio de Dios" (Red Hen Press).
Arts May 17 Conversation: The Jazzed Up ‘Gatsby’ It is--again--a Gatsby/Fitzgerald moment. "The Great Gatsby" is on the big screen now in by Baz Luhrmann's new film version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel. There are also several new books about the lives of F. Scott and Zelda…
Arts May 16 Around the Nation Here are four arts and culture videos from public broadcasting partners around the nation.
Arts May 16 The Daily Frame Students of the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design paint Chinese artist Liu Bolin, also known as "The Invisible Man," in front of a wall of magazines in Ludwigsburg, Germany.
Arts May 15 Photographer Jon Lowenstein Explores ‘Chicago’s Bloody Year’ For the past 10 years photographer Jon Lowenstein has turned his lens to the slow-moving forces shaping daily life for the people of Chicago's South Side, chronicling the demolition of some of the nation's largest housing projects, the closure of…
Arts May 15 The Daily Frame A women touches "Catafalque" by British artist Sean Henry on the grounds of the Glyndebourne Opera House in Lewes, England. The piece in part of a collection of newly installed sculptures by the artist ahead of Glyndebourne's summer festival.
Arts May 14 Internet Cat Video Festival At the Internet Cat Video Festival in Oakland, Calif., around 6,000 people gathered on a late spring afternoon to celebrate all things feline and to watch nearly 70 minutes of hilarious cat web videos projected on a 10-story building after…
Arts May 14 Feline Fans Unite at Internet Cat Video Festival At the Internet Cat Video Festival in Oakland, Calif., around 6,000 people gathered on a late spring afternoon to celebrate all things feline and to watch nearly 70 minutes of hilarious cat web videos projected on a 10-story building after…