Nov 30 The Roots Get Conceptual on ‘undun’ After 25 years, a dozen records and multiple awards, the Roots are trying something new -- a full-length concept album. Continue reading
Nov 30 The Daily Frame Mexican demonstrators, their faces painted like skulls, protest against violence in the country during a march in Mexico City this Sunday. Continue reading
Nov 29 Tuesday on the NewsHour: Sonny Rollins Jeffrey Brown recently sat down with Rollins when he was in Washington to perform at the Kennedy Center to talk about his life as a saxophonist and composer. In this excerpt of their conversation, Rollins talks about what other jazz… Continue reading
Nov 29 Around the Nation Here are four arts and culture videos from public broadcasting partners around the nation. Continue reading
Nov 29 The Daily Frame A man views paintings in the Ramsay Room at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery on Monday. The gallery will re-open Thursday after a $27.5 million restoration project, the first major refurbishment in its 120-year-old history. Continue reading
Nov 28 Weekly Poem: ‘The Radioactive Dating Game’ Mala Radhakrishnan is an assistant professor at Wellesley College and is the author of a book of poems about chemistry called "Atomic Romances, Molecular Dances." Her aim is to use poetry, but also easy-to-understand analogies to teach such subjects as… Continue reading
Nov 28 The Daily Frame A woman looks at a painting by Philippe Pasqua on Friday's opening day of the 'ST-ART' European contemporary art fair in Strasbourg, France. Continue reading
Nov 23 MOMA Pays Homage to Experimental Filmmaker Jack Smith A retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York features 11 newly-preserved prints of Jack Smith's work, which were recently acquired by MoMA as part of its film preservation festival, "To Save and Project." The films are shown… Continue reading