Arts Jun 02 Artists Team Up to Create World Cup ‘Posters’ Capturing the frenzy, anticipation and pride behind the first World Cup in Africa required the work of contemporary artists, inspiration from six continents and 17 posters.
Arts Jun 01 Conversation: The Life, Work and Legacy of Louise Bourgeois, 1911-2010 Jeffrey Brown talks to Nancy Spector, Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the Guggenheim Museum, about the life and work of Louise Bourgeois.
Arts May 31 Weekly Poem: ‘The Returning Dead’ Wyatt Prunty, who served in the Navy during Vietnam, responds to the NewsHour's broadcast of photos of American soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Arts May 28 ’17th Century Recycling’ Made into Art In his backyard in Denver, Ray Tomasso calls paper making 17th-century-style recycling. His workshop is filled with boxes of old cotton rags, blue jeans, rag board and scraps of paper -- the perfect material for his art.
Arts May 25 Conversation: ‘The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest’ Arrives in U.S. Bookstores "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest," the third novel in Stieg Larsson's bestselling "Millennium" trilogy, hit U.S. bookstores Tuesday. The crime novels, published originally in Sweden, center around investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander, a tattooed and pierced…
Arts May 24 Conversation: Paul Muldoon on Dylan Thomas New Directions has just put out "Dylan Thomas: The Collected Poems." It's a republication of the original edition, as selected by the poet himself, and the introduction is by Paul Muldoon, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and professor at Princeton University.
Arts May 24 Weekly Poem: ‘Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night’ Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" is included in the recently republished "Dylan Thomas: Collected Poems" by New Directions, with a new introduction by poet Paul Muldoon. Jeffrey Brown talked to Muldoon last week about Thomas and the…
Arts May 19 Soccer Cinema’s Goal: Bring Game to Rural South Africans Distance and money will prevent millions of South Africans from getting to see the FIFA World Cup while it takes place in their own country next month. That's why South African filmmaker Don Edkins created Soccer Cinema, a traveling theater…