Art Beat

The Daily Frame

By Tom LeGro

Visitors gather on artist Ryoji Ikeda's "Test Pattern," an installation featuring sound and light components, during the VIVID Sydney festival in Australia.

Around the Nation

By Tom LeGro

Here are four arts and culture videos from public media partners around the nation.

One Photographer’s Experience Documenting Mentally Ill Inmates

By Victoria Fleischer

Minneapolis photographer Jenn Ackerman spent months in the Correctional Psychiatric Treatment Unit (CPTU) of the Kentucky State Reformatory to learn about the experiences of prisoners with mental illness.

The Daily Frame

By Tom LeGro

A Turkish art group performs in support of protestors Wednesday at Taksim Square in Istanbul. Protests, which initially began over the fate of Taksim Gezi Park, one of the last significant green spaces in the center of the city, have…

The Tuesday Cutline…a Winner!

By News Desk

It was "ruff" choosing a winner this week.

The Daily Frame

By Tom LeGro

Models pose in a tableaux vivant, or 'living picture," of Frederic S. Remington's "A Dash for the Timber" during the 81st annual festival Pageant of the Masters in Laguna Beach, Calif. The event features works of art recreated by real…

Billy Bragg, the Sherpa of Heartbreak

By News Desk

For a guy from England, musician Billy Bragg keeps a close and informed eye on America. He follows its politics, its music and, for better or worse, its eating habits, namely its obsession with bacon.

Weekly Poem: Charles Hood Reads ‘FSA’

By Arts Desk

Charles Hood is the author of "South x South" (Ohio University Press), winner of the 2012 Hollis Summers Poetry Prize. His previous books include "Bombing Ploesti" and "Rio de Dios" (Red Hen Press). He has been the recipient of a…