Jan 27 Conversation: Kevin MacDonald, Director of ‘Life in a Day’ By Tom LeGro For "Life in a Day," a 90-minute documentary film, Kevin MacDonald, with the help of a team of researchers, pieced together real-life footage selected from more than 80,000 YouTube submissions (which added up to over 4,500 hours of tape) all… Continue reading
Jan 27 Thursday’s Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Google helps launch a new public digital archive of photos from the Holocaust. Continue reading
Jan 26 Watch In Chaos of Post-Earthquake Haiti, Artists Create Poetry Amid Rubble On his recent reporting trip to Haiti, Jeffrey Brown explored the story of Haitian poets and artists surviving -- and creating -- amid the rubble of last year's earthquake. Continue watching
Jan 26 Wednesday: Poetry Amid the Rubble By Molly Finnegan More from Jeffrey Brown's last report from his recent trip to Haiti, one year after the earthquake. Continue reading
Jan 26 Wednesday’s Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, scientists say Nabokov's butterfly theory isn't fiction. Continue reading
Jan 25 Conversation: Frank Gehry’s New World Center Opens in Miami By Tom LeGro The New World Center in Miami is set to open Tuesday. Designed by architect Frank Gehry, the building will be the new home for the New World Symphony. Jeffrey Brown talks to the architect. Continue reading
Jan 25 Tuesday’s Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, the Academy Awards nominees were announced. Continue reading
Jan 24 Weekly Poem: ‘Together’ By Tom LeGro Charles Wright was born in Pickwick Dam, Tenn., in 1935 and was educated at Davidson College and the University of Iowa. He has written several books of poems, including most recently, "Outtakes" (2010); "Sestets: Poems" (2010); and the forthcoming "Bye-and-Bye:… Continue reading
Jan 24 Monday’s Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, the New World Center in Miami, designed by architect Frank Gehry, is set to open Tuesday. Continue reading
Jan 21 Conversation: Sundance Film Festival By Tom LeGro This year's Sundance Film Festival runs from Jan. 20 to 30. Jeffrey Brown talks to two people who work year-round to put it together: John Cooper, the festival director; and Trevor Groth, the director of programming. Continue reading