Art Beat

Thursday’s Art Notes

In today's arts and culture headlines, the book world prepares for a mysterious release.

Around the Nation

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

Wednesday’s Art Notes

In today's arts and culture headlines, scientists start a search for Cervantes.

Reggae Artists Team Up to Spread Famine Awareness Through Song

To spread awareness of the famine in the Horn of Africa, the World Food Program recruited reggae artists Duane Stephenson and the legendary band The Wailers to write an anthem.

Tuesday’s Art Notes

In today's arts and culture headlines, a Los Angeles architectural landmark may face demolition.

Conversation: Amy Winehouse, 1983-2011

By Molly Finnegan

A conversation with writer Sophie Heawood about the life and career of Amy Winehouse.

Weekly Poem: (Interior Life of Tumbler:

Julie Sheehan is the author of three poetry collections: "Thaw" (2001); "Orient Point" (2006), which won the Barnard Women Poets Prize; and "Bar Book: Poems and Otherwise" (2010). She teaches in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton.

Monday’s Art Notes

In today's arts and culture headlines, fans and friends mourn the death at 27 of British singer Amy Winehouse.

Conversation: Martin Gayford, Friend and Model to Lucian Freud, Remembers Artist

By Molly Finnegan

The artist Lucian Freud died Wednesday night in London at age 88. Critic Martin Gayford, author of a book about sitting as a model for Freud, discusses the life and work of his friend.

Conversation: Imagination in Education

By Tom LeGro

This week, the Lincoln Center Institute in New York is holding what it bills as the "first national conference focused on making imagination an integral part of American education."…