• The complicated life and legacy of Robert Indiana, artist behind iconic 'LOVE' sculpture

    The complicated life and legacy of Robert Indiana, artist behind iconic 'LOVE' sculpture

    Oct 06, 2021 10:25 PM EDT

    ... popular as ever, and galleries and museums continue to exhibit his work. This exhibit of Indiana's Hartley Elegies will be on display at the Farnsworth Museum in Rockland, Maine, until January of 2022. Michael Komanecky: There's a great richness in his work that I think will continue to ...

  • Les Crystal’s NewsHour legacy as a great boss and a friend

    Les Crystal’s NewsHour legacy as a great boss and a friend

    Jun 24, 2020 10:20 PM EDT

    ... being. He took me under his wing long ago, first as a mentor, then as a colleague, and for many years as his friend. Elizabeth Farnsworth: How would I describe Les Crystal? Sweet, calm, supportive, determined. Les expected the best from us. And, because of his own kindness and his ...

  • Universities cancel study-abroad programs amid virus fears

    Universities cancel study-abroad programs amid virus fears

    Feb 06, 2020 01:47 PM EDT

    The virus represents an unprecedented disruption for the academic ties between the U.S. and China, said Brad Farnsworth, vice president of global engagement at the American Council on Education. He recalled the SARS crisis in 2002 and 2003, when the severe acute respiratory syndrome that originated in China killed ...

  • The NewsHour family remembers Jim Lehrer

    The NewsHour family remembers Jim Lehrer

    Jan 24, 2020 11:30 PM EDT

    So, Jim, thanks for taking a chance on me. Elizabeth Farnsworth, Former Foreign Correspondent: He always felt that foreign stories were important and had to be told. And I remember that, in the morning meetings, if somebody suggested a story that maybe nobody had heard anything about, but that was ...

  • U.S. universities see decline in students from China

    U.S. universities see decline in students from China

    Sep 23, 2019 03:22 PM EDT

    ... plans to apply also to schools in Britain. "My major is a bit sensitive. I'm concerned my visa will be affected," he said. Brad Farnsworth, vice president for global engagement at the American Council on Education, said his recent travels in China suggest that the accusations of economic espionage ...

  • Remembering Toni Morrison's 'beautiful human urgency'

    Remembering Toni Morrison's 'beautiful human urgency'

    Aug 06, 2019 10:20 PM EDT

    ... Morrison was on the bestseller list again in 1997 for her novel "Paradise," set in an Oklahoma town called Ruby. And the "NewsHour"'s Elizabeth Farnsworth talked to her of the period when freed men left plantations, sometimes under duress. Toni Morrison: The isolation, the separateness is always a part ...

  • One of these states could ratify the Equal Rights Amendment

    One of these states could ratify the Equal Rights Amendment

    Feb 26, 2019 10:53 PM EDT

    ... Republican support if the bill goes to a floor vote. But the bill will face opposition from some powerful GOP lawmakers. Republican state Sen. Eddie Farnsworth, the chairman of the senate Judiciary Committee, is expected to block the bill. Georgia Last month, Republican state Sen. Renee Unterman and Democratic state ...

  • Maduro’s opponents brave tear gas in push to deliver aid

    Maduro’s opponents brave tear gas in push to deliver aid

    Feb 23, 2019 03:39 PM EDT

    ... using the aid as a political weapon. “I don’t know that anyone can give a timeline of when the dam might break, said Eric Farnsworth of the Council of the Americas and Americas Society, a Washington-based think tank. “And it’s quite possible that it won’t.” Henao ...

  • Remembering Tom Wolfe, American writer with an 'anthropologist's delight'

    Remembering Tom Wolfe, American writer with an 'anthropologist's delight'

    May 15, 2018 10:20 PM EDT

    ... Bonfire of the Vanities," was a lacerating satire of money, power and New York life in the '80s. He spoke with the "NewsHour"'s Elizabeth Farnsworth in 1998 about why he wanted to bring his reporter's eye to his fiction. Tom Wolfe: Reporting is absolutely essential to the novel ...

  • For a veteran NewsHour journalist, early loss defined her life’s journeys

    For a veteran NewsHour journalist, early loss defined her life’s journeys

    Mar 24, 2017 12:03 AM EDT

    ... Jeffrey Brown has the latest add to the NewsHour Bookshelf. And it's from a member of our extended family. JEFFREY BROWN: For years, Elizabeth Farnsworth traveled the world as a foreign correspondent for the NewsHour to hot spots such as Vietnam, Iran, Iraq, and Latin America. ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH, Author ...