Jan 06 Remembering Abstract Color Field Painter Kenneth Noland By Arts Desk Kenneth Noland, the abstract artist whose sensitive approach to color helped define and establish the Washington Color Field school of painting, died Tuesday at the age of 85 at his home in Maine. Continue reading
Jan 05 Tuesday on the NewsHour: National Geographic Unearths Its Buried Treasure By Arts Desk For every glossy copy of National Geographic magazine you've paged through, there are hundreds of photos that you haven't seen, photographs that didn't make the final cut, but did make it into a massive underground vault. Continue reading
Jan 04 Monday on the NewsHour: Judith Jamison and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater By Tom LeGro Watch more of the interview with Judith Jamison, performance pieces and a 1990 segment about her by former NewsHour correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault. Continue reading
Dec 31 The Decade in Literature By Arts Desk Books in the aughts were not all for naught: there were mega novels (like Jonathan Franzen's "The Corrections" and Junot Diaz's "The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao"), a boom in book clubs, and the birth of the e-reader. Continue reading
Dec 31 The Decade in Film By Arts Desk From the fading dominance of the big screen to the prevalence of the small screen, the critical cinematic successes that came from abroad, and the return of the 3-D Hollywood blockbuster, we asked two critics to reflect on the films… Continue reading
Dec 31 Thursday on the NewsHour: Poetic Partnership By Tom LeGro You can watch Vera Pavlova read poems not shown on the program below and also check out our Poetry Series page for additional material. Continue reading
Dec 29 Conversation: Patti Smith By Arts Desk When fashion photographer Steven Sebring began shooting footage of the daily life of poet and performer Patti Smith -- what Smith describes as high-aesthetic home movies -- neither fully anticipated the project becoming a feature length film. Continue reading
Dec 23 Conversation: Painter James Rosenquist By Arts Desk From signs and billboard advertisements that loomed high above Times Square to canvases filled with images from popular culture that helped shape the world of art from the early 1960s, James Rosenquist has been painting on a large scale for… Continue reading
Dec 18 Conversation: On ‘Avatar’ and ‘The Futurist’ By Tom LeGro To learn more about James Cameron's new film and the director himself, Jeffrey Brown speaks to Rebecca Keegan, who spent time on the set of "Avatar" and wrote the new biography, "The Futurist: The Life and Films of James Cameron."… Continue reading
Dec 11 Conversation: David Byrne Rides and Writes By Arts Desk "I've been riding a bike, in New York mainly, for almost 30 years, just as a way of getting around, starting off just getting around downtown to the clubs, art galleries, dinner with friends," says musician, artist and culture connisseur… Continue reading