Art Beat

The Missoula Children’s Theatre

By Arts Desk

The Missoula Children's Theatre in Montana is a traveling theater company that temporarily sets up shop in schools across the country that don't have drama programs.

Eggleston: An Exceptional Eye for the Ordinary

By Arts Desk

For more than 40 years, photographer William Eggleston has captured common, everyday instances or objects that, through his particular framing, elevates the familiar and makes the ordinary beautiful. Through his lens, a moment can be made monumental.

Alison Krauss, Brad Paisley at the White House

By Arts Desk

On Tuesday, the current first family welcomed a mix of some of country's biggest stars into their home.

Sci-Fi Funk: Robot Rhythms of Janelle Monae

Cindi Mayweather is a cyborg who is wanted for falling in love with a human, and the alter ego of Janelle Monae, a rhythm and blues singer whose 2007 album "Metropolis Suite I of IV: The Chase" boasts clever orchestrations,…

Weekly Poem: ‘Barking’

Jim Harrison has published more than 30 collections of poetry and prose. "In Search of Small Gods" is his twelfth book of poems.

‘We Sent Music and Laughter There’: Man and the Moon, 40 Years On

Now re-released by the Criterion Collection, the new DVD version of "For All Mankind" is far superior to the original grainy images most watched for the first time on their TVs.

Frank McCourt, Irish Memoirist, Dead at 78

By Arts Desk

Frank McCourt, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Angela's Ashes" and "'Tis," died Sunday in New York from metastatic melanoma. He was 78.

Conversation: Painter John Currin

By Arts Desk

American painter John Currin is one of the most recognized and lauded figurative artists working today whose work is one of the subjects of an exhibition called "Paint Made Flesh," which is now at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C.

At the End of the World with Robyn O’Neil

It's a beautiful, hot day in early summer in the Houston suburb where the artist Robyn O'Neil lives and works; only a couple of flinty clouds are in the sky over Texas.

In Chicago, ‘Rush Hour’ Is Time for Music

Classical music audiences around the country are declining in size and growing older, according to the National Endowment for the Arts. For the last 10 years the Rush Hour Concert Series in Chicago has been trying to buck that trend.