Jul 18 Around the Nation Here are four arts and culture videos from public broadcasting partners around the nation. Continue reading
Jul 18 The Daily Frame Godffrey Evans, principal curator of European Applied Art, holds a Byzantine sardonyx bowl mounted on a 16th century gold stand, the most valuable object to enter the collection of the National Museum of Scotland. Acquired from the estate of the… Continue reading
Jul 17 Watch Legendary Bob Dylan Guitar Inspires Movement and Mystery A New Jersey woman thinks she's found the famous Fender Stratocaster that drew boos when Bob Dylan plugged in at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965. The singer disputes that claim. Jeffrey Brown interviews the host of PBS' History Detectives,… Continue watching
Jul 17 A Rock & Roll ‘Holy Grail’ History Mystery What happened to the guitar that Bob Dylan used to 'go electric?' In tonight's season premiere, History Detectives Elyse Luray and Wes Cowan carefully unravel the missing guitar mystery. Continue reading
Jul 17 The Daily Frame By Molly Finnegan JO!: Africa to America and A Dance Odyssey performs at the 2012 Concert of Colors at Max Fischer Music Center in Detroit, Mich. Photo by Paul Warner/Getty Images. Continue reading
Jul 16 Weekly Poem: ‘Quarantine’ By Tom LeGro Eavan Boland is one of Ireland's most prominent poets. Her poems often examine the lives of women, looking at larger cultural issues through the lens of the details of everyday life. She's published more than 10 books of verse, most… Continue reading
Jul 16 The Daily Frame Dancers with the STREB Extreme Action Company perform on top of London's city hall as part of Sunday's "One Extraordinary Day" performances celebrating the Olympics. Continue reading
Jul 13 Conversation: What Makes Some Arts Buildings Successful and Others Not? By Tom LeGro Anyone paying attention to American cultural life has noticed a boom of art-centered buildings in cities across the country. A new study by the Cultural Policy Center at the University of Chicago takes what it builds as the first systematic… Continue reading
Jul 13 The Daily Frame Visitors view works at the Yayoi Kusama retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art. The show runs through Sept. 30. Continue reading
Jul 12 Stellar Arts: Astronomy as Muse for African Artists From a gigantic rainbow serpent fashioned out of recycled jerry cans to a painting of girls dancing against a Milky Way backdrop, the exhibit "African Cosmos: Stellar Arts" examines how African artists through time have looked to the sky, the… Continue reading