Arts Apr 26 Monday on the NewsHour: Natalie Merchant On Monday's NewsHour Jeffrey Brown profiles singer-songwriter Natalie Merchant, who after a seven-year hiatus has just released a two-disc album titled "Leave Your Sleep," a collection of 26 traditional poems set to original music.
Arts Apr 23 Conversation: PBS President Paula Kerger Making a Push for More Arts Programming The "Public Broadcasting Service":http://video.pbs.org/feature/149/ -- our home -- has a long tradition of showcasing the arts. But it's also true that programs featuring performances and exhibitions are not as pervasive and prominent on the nightly schedule as in the past.
Arts Apr 23 A Love Letter to San Francisco’s ‘La Mission’ When Peter and Benjamin Bratt grew up in San Francisco's Mission district in the 1970's, it was a neighborhood of Native American and Latino activists, low rider cars, Peruvian flute players, and vibrant murals that related the local history.
Arts Apr 21 Conversation: Tribeca Film Festival Opens Amid Changing Industry Wednesday marks the premiere of the ninth annual Tribeca Film Festival. Over the next 12 days, the festival will screen 496 films, out of the 5,050 features and shorts that were submitted, from 38 different countries -- the most submissions…
Arts Apr 21 New $100 Bill Gets a Facelift In the appropriately named Cash Room of the Department of the Treasury, Treasurer of the United States Rosie Rios, along with Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner, unveiled a new design of the $100 bill…
Arts Apr 19 Conversation: Pulitzer Prize Winner in Poetry, Rae Armantrout This year's winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry is Rae Armantrout for her book, "Versed."…
Arts Apr 15 Conversation: Pulitzer Prize Winner in Music, Jennifer Higdon Composer Jennifer Higdon is the recipient of this year's Pulitzer Prize in Music.
Arts Apr 12 Weekly Poem: ‘Against War Movies’ Jehanne Dubrow is the author of three poetry collections: "The Hardship Post," "From the Fever-World" and most recently "Stateside," which is an exploration of the long history of military wives waiting for their husbands to return from war.
Arts Mar 19 Conversation: Still Unsolved, Gardner Heist Remains Largest Art Theft in History Twenty years ago this week, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston was the site of the biggest art heist in history. Jeffrey Brown talks to Ulrich Boser, author of "The Gardner Heist" and who has been following recent developments…