Jul 12 The Daily Frame A visitor walks through an installation made of around a million photos downloaded and printed from flickr by artist Erik Kessels at the Kunsthalle zu Kiel museum in Kiel, Germany. From July 14 to Oct. 21, the show "Von Sinnen"… Continue reading
Jul 11 Watch New Book Offers Trove of Stories from Cinema’s Great Directors New Book Offers Trove of Stories from Cinema's Great Directors… Continue watching
Jul 11 Lou Beach Reads From ‘420 Characters’ Last month, Jeffrey Brown talked to artist and author Lou Beach about his recent collection of short stories, "420 Characters," which began as status updates on Facebook. After the interview, Beach read several of the stories for us. At long… Continue reading
Jul 11 The Daily Frame A spider's web is woven around Christoph Poeggeler's sculpture of a kissing couple in Duesseldorf, Germany. Continue reading
Jul 10 Culture Canvas A weekly roundup of arts and culture headlines, including the story of why the Pulitzer board didn't award a fiction prize this spring. Continue reading
Jul 10 The Daily Frame Actors perform during a rehearsal of Giacomo Puccini's "La Boheme" in the French city of Orange, during the Choregies d'Orange, a festival dedicated to opera, lyrical art and symphonic concert. Photo by Gerard Julien/ AFP/ GettyImages. Continue reading
Jul 09 Weekly Poem: From ‘The Speed of Belief’ By Tom LeGro Tracy K. Smith's poem is from her book "Life on Mars" (2011, Graywolf Press), which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry earlier this year. She is the author of two other collections of poetry: "Duende" (Graywolf, 2007), winner of the… Continue reading
Jul 09 The Daily Frame A tourist sits next to a sculpture of a shark at a shopping mall in Bangkok on Monday. Continue reading
Jul 06 Watch Maestros Mix With Students for Castleton Music Festival In rural Virginia, a month-long program of recitals, concerts and operas is both a traditional summer music festival as well as an opportunity for students to train with music greats. Jeffrey Brown visits with founder and renowned conductor Lorin Maazel. Continue watching
Jul 06 Castleton Festival Is Part Celebration, Part Training Ground for Musicians and Singers By Molly Finnegan, Anne Azzi Davenport In central Virginia's Rappahanock County, the four-year-old Castleton Festival is part traditional summer music festival and part music training program. Jeffrey Brown talks to founder and renowned conductor Lorin Maazel. Continue reading