Arts Jan 04 ‘How to Live’ in 2012 We're not making Art Beat into a "how to" or life advice blog. But I began the new year reading a delightful book: "How to Live, or A Life of Montaigne" by Sarah Blakewell -- part intellectual history, part biography…
Arts Dec 28 The Daily Frame A visitor takes a picture on an iPad of a statue of late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs at Graphisoft Park in Budapest, Hungary. The six-and-a-half foot bronze statue by Erno Toth depicts Jobs with his trademark turtleneck shirt, jeans, sneakers…
Arts Dec 23 Conversation: The Year in Film As 2011 draws to an end, Jeffrey Brown talks to the New York Times' A.O. Scott about the year in movies.
Arts Dec 22 Conversation: The Year in Music As 2011 draws to a close, we take a look at the the year in pop music and the big changes in the industry, including new cloud services like Spotify. Jeffrey Brown talks with Los Angeles Times critic Randall Roberts.
Arts Dec 21 Conversation: The Year in Fiction What was 2011 like for fiction? And what was it like for books themselves? I recently talked with Washington Post book critic Ron Charles about the novels and authors who stood out from the others and about the business of…
Arts Dec 16 Conversation: Michael Ondaatje The fictional voyage in Michael Ondaatje's new novel, "The Cat's Table," is like one that he took long ago before becoming the much honored writer of such works as "The English Patient" and "Anil's Ghost" and "Divisadero." Jeffrey Brown talks…
Arts Dec 09 Conversation: Why Do Americans Protest Art? Art can soothe, it can inspire, but it also at times stirs heated passions and outright protest. Why does that happen and why in some cases but not others? That's the subject of the new book, "Not Here, Not Now,…
Arts Dec 08 ‘Crime Unseen’ at the Museum of Contemporary Photography In "Crime Unseen" at the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College, artists look at crime and violence through the lens of a camera.
Arts Dec 02 Conversation: Andrew Graham-Dixon, Author of ‘Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane’ Michelangelo Caravaggio was one of the great painters in the history of Western art. He also remains one of the most mysterious and elusive of artistic geniuses. A new biography wrestles with the man, his times and his work. "Caravaggio:…
Arts Dec 01 ‘Harry Callahan at 100’ at the National Gallery of Art Harry Callahan was one of the most innovative and influential photographers of the 20th century. On the centennial of his birth, an exhibition of his work at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., explores his work.