After nearly a decade of research, animal lover and famed author Susan Orlean has written a comprehensive biography of arguably America's most loved dog, Rin Tin Tin.

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A picture of a face with Japan's flag painted on it is cast on a giant, plaster face on Tuesday night in Berlin's Potsdamer Platz. Photo by Odd Andersen /AFP /Getty Images.

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Here are some of this week's arts and culture stories from public broadcasters around the nation.

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A troupe performs a traditional dragon dance Monday in front of Taiwan's Presidential Office in Taipei. Photo by Patrick Lin /AFP /Getty Images.

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In August 2009 Matt Kish, a librarian by trade and artist by night, decided to draw one image for every page of of his long-time favorite novel - "Moby-Dick". Kish spent the next 543 days in pursuit of his own…

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Traci Brimhall is the author of "Our Lady of the Ruins" (forthcoming from W.W. Norton), winner of the 2011 Barnard Women Poets Prize, and "Rookery" (Southern Illinois University Press, 2010), winner of the 2009 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First…

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A new public sculpture, "Search For Enlightenment," was installed yesterday in London, England. Photo by Ian Gavan/ Getty Images for Halcyon Gallery.

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Kuwaiti playwright and theater director Sulayman al-Bassam adapts Shakespearean plays to the modern Arab context to explore issues of religion and society in the contemporary Gulf. Art Beat spoke with al-Bassam on the phone from Brooklyn about the effect of…

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A new exhibit at the Whitney Museum in New York aims to highlight intersections between representation and fantasy. The exhibit, "Real/Surreal," which opened this week, showcases art from the museum's permanent collection that blurs the lines between the two artistic…

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Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu studies a portrait of himself. Photo by Michelly Rall/ Getty Images.

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