Dec 05 Watch 5:15 Oakland’s horrific fire leads to worries for other warehouses By PBS News Hour As the death toll from Friday's Oakland warehouse fire mounts, officials are investigating how the building known as the Ghost Ship was allowed to stay open despite repeated complaints of dangerous conditions. Special correspondent Joanne Jennings interviews a survivor and… Continue watching
Dec 05 Watch 7:52 Miami’s extravagant Art Basel reflects the new economics of art By PBS News Hour, Frank Carlson This past weekend, Miami hosted Art Basel, the largest art fair in the country. The annual event draws people from across the globe: this year, 269 galleries from 29 countries participated. While the Zika scare may have suppressed attendance slightly,… Continue watching
Dec 03 ‘Sad Asian Girls’ collective takes on stereotypes of Asian women By Rebecca Oh “Sad Asian Girls” is a team of two Rhode Island School of Design students who wanted to carve out an inclusive space online for Asian femmes. Continue reading
Oct 19 Ride the ‘border wave’ with this Mexican artist By KLRU Austin artist, Gerardo Arellano, blends expressionism and pop art to create what he calls "Border Wave" -- a style of imagery that is influenced by life on both sides of the U.S. and Mexican border. Continue reading
Sep 15 Senate bill would speed recovery of art lost to Nazi looting By Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press Heirs trying to recover artwork lost to Nazi looting during World War II could get some help under a bill approved by a Senate panel on Thursday. Continue reading
Aug 09 Watch The man who mows grass masterpieces By PBS News Hour In our NewsHour shares moment of the day, Roger Baker creates his art using an unusual tool: a lawnmower. He started with the Statue of Liberty but since then has mowed Albert Einstein, Jimi Hendrix, a purple heart and now,… Continue watching
May 28 Spanish police arrest 7 suspects in Francis Bacon painting heist By Kamala Kelkar Spanish police said Saturday they have arrested seven people in connection to the theft of five paintings by renowned artist Francis Bacon worth more than $27.8 million from a home in Spain almost one year ago. Continue reading
Apr 30 Watch 10:11 70 years on, the search continues for artwork looted by the Nazis By Phil Hirschkorn For many Jewish families whose artwork was stolen by the Nazis during World War II, the theft was compounded by murder in concentration camps. For the children and grandchildren of survivors, finding the missing art can be an international decades-long… Continue watching
Apr 26 Watch 6:32 Artist Theaster Gates turns Chicago’s empty spaces into incubators for culture By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Mar 11 Watch 5:53 Surrounded by violence, Syrians seek solace in art By PBS News Hour As the fighting in Syria approaches a fifth year, leaving hundreds of thousands dead and displaced, the nation’s artists have sought ways to respond to the destruction of their homeland. Some try to tell the stories of their fellow Syrians,… Continue watching