Hispanics Call For Kennedy Center Honors
This weekend, some big names are coming to Washington for a red-carpet event. Dustin Hoffman, David Letterman, ballerina Natalia Makarova, blues guitarist Buddy Guy and the British rock band Led...
View ArticleEtsy Crafts A Strategy For Staying Handmade And Profitable
Etsy has gotten very big, very fast. This year, sales are at about $800 million."Their growth on all the major metrics you want to look at has accelerated really consistently," says journalist Rob...
View ArticleRemembering Fontella Bass, Voice Of A Soul Classic
R&B singer Fontella Bass has died at a hospice in St. Louis. She was 72. Bass is best known for the soul classic "Rescue Me."
View ArticleWorld War II Exhibit Asks Visitors, 'What Would You Do?'
For many, the stakes and the scale of World War II are hard to fathom. It was a war fought around the world, against powerful, determined regimes in Europe and the Pacific; some 65 million people died.
View ArticleFor Would-Be Sundancers, Kickstarter Can Fuel Films
If you want to make a movie, you generally need a lot of money. And filmmakers have to be creative about raising it.Just ask the filmmakers at the Sundance Film Festival, taking place this week in Park...
View ArticleFor Super Bowl Ads, More Social-Media Savvy
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View ArticleIn Moscow, Scandals Shake A Storied Ballet
It's a story right out of the movies: The artistic director of one of the most prestigious ballet companies in the world is violently attacked. His attacker and the motive are shrouded in mystery. But...
View ArticleFamiliar Folks Make Up A Play's 'Good People'
How we end up in life has a lot to do with where we came from. That theory gets a good workout in the play Good People, from Pulitzer Prize-winner David Lindsay-Abaire. When the show was on Broadway...
View ArticleMore Than 50 Years Of Putting Kids' Creativity To The Test
This is the second in a three-part series aboutthe intersection of education and the arts.Let's start with a question from a standardized test: "How would the world be different if we all had a third...
View ArticleIn D.C., Art Program Turns Boys' Lives Into 'Masterpieces'
This is the third in a three-part series aboutthe intersection of education and the arts.Life Pieces to Masterpieces is an arts program that's not entirely about the art. It's an after-school program...
View Article'Venus And Serena': An Extraordinary Story, Told On Film
It's Cinderella plus Jackie Robinson times two. When Venus and Serena Williams burst onto the lily-white world of tennis, they changed the game and made history: They were sisters. From a poor...
View ArticlePlans For Smithsonian Museum 'Bubble' May Have Burst
Call it the Smithsonian's bubble problem. One of the Smithsonian museums — the Hirshhorn museum for contemporary art — came up with an ambitious new design to add more space: Why not build a giant,...
View ArticleAs Demographics Shift, Kids' Books Stay Stubbornly White
When it comes to diversity, children's books are sorely lacking; instead of presenting a representative range of faces, they're overwhelmingly white. How bad is the disconnect?
View ArticleToshi Seeger, Wife Of Folk Singer Pete Seeger, Dies At 91
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View ArticleComedian Hari Kondabolu On Diversity, Race And Burger King
Hari Kondabolu is a brainy comedian who cuts through the polite talk around race and gender. He's made a lot of key people laugh with his incisive anecdotes, including Jimmy Kimmel, Conan O'Brien and...
View ArticleLatino Buying Power Gets Movie Studios' Attention
One of the surprise movie hits this past weekend was almost entirely in Spanish. Instructions Not Included made an enormous amount of money per screen, more than $22,000, playing in fewer than 350...
View ArticleDisney Experiments With 2-Screen Experience Involves iPads
Transcript DAVID GREENE, HOST: I don't know about you, but I'm a little troubled when I hear about people who watch multiple screens. You know what I'm talking about. Maybe you're watching a movie at...
View ArticleCongressional Impasse Leaves Museums Empty, Monuments Shut
Federal bureaucracies aren't the only ones scaling back operations during the government shutdown. It's also meant that kids couldn't take field trips to the Smithsonian.In fact most of the popular...
View ArticleWhat Do We Mean When We Talk About 'Latino Art'?
When the Whitney Museum of American Art announced the artists for its 2014 biennial, people took to the Internet to chime in about who's been included and who's been left out; the last biennial had...
View ArticleDetroit Needs Money. Can A 'Grand Bargain' Save The City's Art?
Can wealthy art lovers help save Detroit's pension funds — and one of its museums?The city is struggling to find ways to emerge from bankruptcy. One idea: sell the city's art to save the pensions of...
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