The National Book Awards were handed out at a dinner Wednesday night in New York to four new books, whose subjects ranged from life on a Native American reservation to a settlement community in Mumbai.

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A visitor interacts with a creation titled "Protocell Cloud" by artist Philip Beesley at the Digital Art Festival in Taiwan on Thursday.

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

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Mexican Day of the Dead papier-mache skeletons are on display Wednesday at "Death: A Self-portrait," an exhibition at the Wellcome Collection in London showcasing 300 works devoted to the iconography of death. The exhibition opens Thursday and runs through Feb.

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This week's photo generated several clever captions full of fashion faux pas puns and Trekkie lingo. But we were won over by the cutline that beamed the Star Trek crew down to New York.

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Daniel Lawlor of Los Angeles poses Sunday after winning first place in the freestyle mustache category at the third annual National Beard and Moustache Championships in Las Vegas.

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Extended interview and reading with Kevin Powers, author of the novel "The Yellow Birds."…

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Mary Jo Bang is the author of several books of poetry, including most recently a translation of Dante's "Inferno" (2012), "The Bride of E" (2009) and "Elegy" (2007), which won the National Book Critics Circle award.

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Large torches are set ablaze at the more than 400-year-old Japanese bonfire festival Taimatsu Akashi in Sukagawa, Fukushima, Japan.

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Kevin Powers served in the U.S. Army in Iraq in 2004 and 2005. When he returned to the U.S. he turned initially to poetry to work through his own questions about his experience, but found he needed "a larger canvas."…

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