Arts

Arts Community to Obama: Here's What We're Fighting For

Randall Bourscheidt | Posted 12.02.2008 | Living

Read More: Art, Nonprofits, Arts, Americans for the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, Barack Obama, Arts Education, National Endowment for the Humanities, Obama Arts, Living News
Randall Bourscheidt

We are fighting now to recover our prosperity but also our sense of purpose and pride as a nation. Like all other nations in history, our culture stands at the center of our identity.

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President Obama's Arts

Lucia Brawley | Posted 10.21.2008 | Living

Read More: Arts, Education, Barack Obama, Arts Education, Arts in Schools, Living News
Lucia Brawley

In Mordecai, a tough, brilliant little kid and I saw up-close the precarious fate of millions of American children who might evolve into great artists or great criminals, at the flip of a coin.

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Online Video Contest Aims To Inspire Lawmakers On Warming

Dot Earth | Andrew C. Revkin | Posted 10.21.2008 | Green

Read More: Politics, Environmental Policy, Carbon Offsets, Environment, Arts, Congress, Global Warming, Film, Climate Change, Green News

Winners have been chosen in an online video contest aimed at inspiring the next president, Congress and the public to take meaningful action on human-...

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Is This The End Of The Jews? An Interview With Adam Mansbach

Scott Thill | Posted 08.18.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Religion, Arts, Christianity, Jews, Interviews, Hip-Hop, Judaism, Books, Entertainment News
Scott Thill

Adam Mansbach is a dude of many hats. A hip-hop poet that can recite histories old-school and new without missing a beat, especially in his acid satire Angry Black White Boy.

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Poet of the People

Kevin Coval | Posted 08.18.2008 | Living

Read More: Palestine, Arts, Hip-Hop, Culture, Living News
Kevin Coval

Poet of the People there's gonna be a lot of slow signin and flower bringin Notorious BIG The Palestinian Poet Mahmoud Darwish died last week in a T...

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Guitar Virtuoso Jimmy Robinson at New Orleans' Ogden: "After Hours"

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 07.22.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Susan Cowsill, New Orleans, Katrina, Arts, Guitar, Music, Jimmy Robinson, Ogden Museum, Southern Art, Entertainment News
Georgianne Nienaber

"Vibrating Strings" is a solo acoustic tour de force for electric guitar virtuoso Jimmy Robinson, who established his solid reputation with Woodenhead and Twangorama.

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Innovation Strategy: Music Service Corps

Kiff Gallagher | Posted 07.21.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Chris Gallagher, National Service, Arts, Innovation, Music, Americorps, Education for the Twenty-First Century, Public Schools, Public Education, Kiff Gallagher, Kiff, Entertainment News
Kiff Gallagher

The critical skills a child develops when she struggles with her instrument or finds her voice in a choir are the same ones needed to succeed in the creative economy and solve our greatest future challenges.

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In Defense of James Frey and Memoir

Lisa Dale Norton | Posted 05.30.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Publishing, Bush Administration, James Frey, Autobiography, Writing, Arts, Oprah, Memoir, Obama, Media, Journalism, Narrative Nonfiction, Mcclellan, Entertainment News
Lisa Dale Norton

The function of a memoir is to make a truth about a life lived that resonates in the bones of the writer and sends out shock waves of recognition to readers.

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Last Turn - Your Turn

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders | Posted 04.08.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Arts, Environment, Painter, Kheel, Rauschenberg, Entertainment News
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

2008-04-08-kheel.jpg Last week the Jacobson Howard Gallery hosted a green gathering of New York enviros to check out "Last Turn - Your Turn."

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Intervention

Dave Hill | Posted 01.16.2008 | Media

Read More: A&e, Entertainment, Intervention, Alcohol, Arts, George Bush, Drugs, Dave Hill, Cocaine, Pizza Hut, Media News
Dave Hill

The other night, I watched an exciting episode of "Intervention," the incredible program that shows some drug addict doing a bunch of drugs for at least half the show until the drug addict's entire family shows up at his house.

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In the Mountains With Robert Redford

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 10.08.2007 | Living

Read More: Barbara Lawton, Robert Redford/Sundance, National Arts Policy Roundtable, Amercans for the Arts, Arts, Russians, Living News
Raymond J. Learsy

At the forefront of the discussions was the importance of arts to the future of the nation's competitiveness.

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Back to Cool:the Fall Cultural Season, Part One

Patricia Zohn | Posted 09.11.2007 | Living

Read More: Arts, Pavarotti, Iraq, Art Listings, Cultural Events This Season, Success of the Surge, Living News
Patricia Zohn

Completely exhausted by the breadth and depth of all these talented people, and not a little jealous, it almost made me forget that we were on the eve of: a) important b) new c)information d) none of the above, about the war.

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