Arts Oct 08 Conversation: Stone Carver Nicholas Benson, 2010 MacArthur Fellow Nicholas Benson is a stone carver from Newport, R.I., a third generation craftsman who runs the John Stevens Shop, a business that's been in operation since 1705. He was named as a 2010 MacArthur Fellow.
Arts Oct 08 Friday on the NewsHour: Composer Jennifer Higdon and Violinist Hilary Hahn Jeffrey Brown's extended interview with Jennifer Higdon and Hilary Hahn's performance of Bach's Sarabande in D minor.
Arts Oct 07 Conversation: The Life and Work of Nobel Prize Winner Mario Vargas Llosa Jeffrey Brown talks to Efrain Kristal, a UCLA professor of comparative literature and of Spanish and Portuguese, about the life and work of Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa.
Arts Oct 07 Thursday’s Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa wins the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Arts Oct 05 Conversation: ‘Going Back’ With Phil Collins Released last week in America, Phil Collins' latest album, "Going Back," is his homage to the music idols of his youth. The collection of Motown and soul hits by the former drummer and lead singer of Genesis reached No. 1…
Arts Oct 04 Weekly Poem: ‘At the Counters Ball’ John Taggart is the author of 14 volumes of poetry. From 1969 to 2001, he taught in the English Department and directed the Interdisciplinary Arts Program at Shippensburg University. Taggart's new book of poems, "Is Music," will be published in…
Arts Oct 01 Conversation: Chad Troutwine, Producer of ‘Freakonomics’ First a bestselling book, then a popular blog and soon to be a public radio show, the phenomenon that is "Freakonomics" is the brain child of University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt and journalist Stephen Dubner. Now, "Freakonomics" is a…
Arts Sep 30 Thursday on the NewsHour: City of Asylum/Pittsburgh City of Asylum/Pittsburgh is a six-year-old program that provides shelter to foreign literary writers who have encountered dangers in their homeland. Watch online exclusive videos of the writers reading their work.
Arts Sep 20 Weekly Poem: ‘Pastorelle 15’ John Taggart is the author of 14 volumes of poetry. From 1969 to 2001, he taught in the English Department and directed the Interdisciplinary Arts Program at Shippensburg University. Taggart's new book of poems, "Is Music," will be published in…
Arts Sep 17 Conversation: Gary Shteyngart, Author of ‘Super Sad True Love Story’ Jeffrey Brown talks to Gary Shteyngart, author of "Super Sad True Love Story."…