New York's Underground Art Museum
Over the past four decades, hundreds of permanent artworks have been installed across New York City's transit system. The new book, Contemporary Art Underground: New York MTA Arts & Design,...
View ArticleWeekend Arts Planner: A new exhibition by Takashi Murakami, Hamlet meets the...
It's Memorial Day Weekend - a time for Americans to gather and honor those who died while serving in the military. It also marks the unofficial start of summer, with plenty of beach getaways and...
View ArticleThe Art of the Pandemic
Listeners share the art projects they're working on through the COVID-19 outbreak: whether they're making do with materials at hand, directly addressing the pandemic or finding a way to take their...
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Forging art and business in Dale Chihuly’s workshop
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJOHN YANG: Turning glass into art has been Dale Chihuly’s passion for more than 50 years.Working with such a fragile medium requires both brute strength and a delicate...
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A Fast-Track to Get Artists Teaching in City Classrooms
New York City now has a record number of full-time, certified arts teachers in public schools. But many schools lag behind and a new program at Lincoln Center is trying to address the gap by providing...
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American teenagers remain behind on music and visual arts, study says
A youth orchestra, pictured from behind. When asked to listen to George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” as part of a new study, only about half of the students were able to identify that the opening solo...
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Few people can name five female artists — can you?
Frida Kahlo. Photo by Popperfoto/Getty ImagesCan you name five female artists? Frida Kahlo, Georgia O’Keefe … that’s two.If you can’t think of more, know that most people the National Museum of Women...
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Seattle artist takes viewers on a voyage to other worlds
Step through an unassuming door, dwarfed by new apartment monoliths off Seattle’s Pike Street, and you are in Steve Jensen’s studio; one of the few grand loft/studio spaces left on Seattle’s Capitol...
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Review: Drawing’s Golden Age in New York
The art of drawing has always been overshadowed by flashier mediums, but this happens to be a moment when drawings are impossible to ignore. The main event is “Drawing Then,” a group show of uncommon...
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Vestiges of an ancient Greek art form, preserved by catastrophe
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioBY FRANK CARLSONWASHINGTON — They are only with us now because once they were thought to have been lost forever.While marble statues are most popularly associated with...
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What makes a photographer when everyone is taking pictures
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: And now another in our Brief But Spectacular series, where we ask interesting people about their passions.For six decades, Ken Van Sickle has been...
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How drawing opens up doors for this documentarian
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MacArthur fellow LaToya Ruby Frazier captures the town that survived
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: Finally, a look at a photographer’s more-than-decade-long project documenting hope and despair in her hometown. Jeffrey Brown has that story. JEFFREY...
View ArticleDrawing The World's Most Wanted
When hearings began for Guantanamo Bay inmate Omar Khadr in 2006, no cameras were allowed inside the courtroom. Instead the Associated Press sent sketch artist Janet Hamlin to illustrate court...
View ArticleVideo Games as Art? MoMA Thinks So
Pac-Man and Tetris will soon be among the collection at the Museum of Modern Art.MoMA says it's acquired fourteen video games for a new exhibit opening in March. Senior Curator Paola Antonelli says...
View ArticleColumbus Statue Vanishes As Public Art Project Takes Shape
Standing atop a 70 foot pillar in a traffic island for over a century, the statue of Christopher Columbus at Columbus Circle has seen a lot of traffic go by. But soon the Italian explorer’s likeness...
View ArticleCity Sidewalks are an Artist’s Canvas
Most artists worry about people touching their work. Not Hani Shihada. He creates his elaborate chalk drawings on city sidewalks, where they — and sometimes he — are trod upon by people bustling to and...
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The Rat, as Art and Food, Takes Center Stage
It all started with a desire to learn survival skills.Laura Ginn moved back to Michigan, where she was born and raised, and where the economic situation was grim.“I was looking for ways to cope with...
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Where Watching The Clock Is Celebrated
If you have time on your hands this summer in NYC, the moments just got more momentous. Contemporary artist Christian Marclay’s celebrated work The Clock will be on view at Lincoln Center’s David...
View ArticleHong Kong Dragon Boat Festival Kicks Off in Central Park
The Central Park Lake hosted a dragon boat on Thursday as part of the festivities leading up to the 22nd annual Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival in New York.The ceremony marked the start of the training...
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