Nov 09 Tuesday’s Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Philadelphia Museum of Art breaks ground on a new building expansion. Continue reading
Nov 08 Weekly Poem: ‘She Is Awakened by a Hair’ By Tom LeGro Kim Dower taught poetry for two years at Emerson College, her alma mater, before moving to Los Angeles and founding Kim-from-LA, a literary publicity company that specializes in coaching authors and speakers on how to present themselves to the media. Continue reading
Nov 08 Monday’s Art Notes In today's arts and culture news, the Pope consecrates the Sagrada Familia and Poland finishes a new, immense Christian landmark. Continue reading
Nov 05 Jason Moran: Jazz Maestro, MacArthur Fellow By Tom LeGro Jason Moran is a jazz pianist and composer and one of the winners of this year's MacArthur Fellowships. His latest recording is called "Ten," which came out in June. Continue reading
Nov 05 Friday’s Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, will Hollywood become more conservative?… Continue reading
Nov 04 Questions of Photographic Propriety in ‘Framing Innocence’ In 1999, Cynthia Stewart, an amateur photographer and school bus driver in Oberlin, Ohio, was arrested on two felony charges for photographs she'd taken of her eight-year-old daughter, which she tried to have developed at a nearby drugstore. The charges… Continue reading
Nov 04 Thursday’s Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Peru's president asks for some special help in retrieving ancient artifacts from Yale University. Continue reading
Nov 03 Andre Kertesz Captured the Art of Reading By Tom LeGro "On Reading," an exhibition on view at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, collects photos taken by Hungarian photographer Andre Kertesz over a decades' long career of people in private moments reading books, newspapers or magazines. Continue reading
Nov 03 Wednesday’s Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, the Chinese government plans to destroy Ai Weiwei's Shanghai art studio. Continue reading
Nov 02 Writers’ Theatre: Big Ideas on a Small Stage The Writers' Theatre, a small venue housed in the Glencoe (Ill.) Woman's Library Club, has garnered big accolades over the last decade for its varied programs mixing original works with fresh looks at classic stories. Continue reading