Arts & Life

Peter and Ezra, / you made a great team. / Together you brought a snowstorm / of your dreams.

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'A Poem For Peter' Recalls One Unforgettable 'Snowy Day'

5:09am December 01, 2016

by Lynn Neary

In 1962, Peter — an African-American boy exploring his neighborhood after a snowstorm — broke the color barrier in mainstream children's publishing. A new book pays tribute to author Ezra Jack Keats.

Harold Lopez-Nussa hopes increased exchange between Cuban and American musicians can continue. "I have a lot of hope about this approach," he says. "It will be better for all of us."

A Jazz Pianist Considers Fidel Castro's Music Education Legacy

6:31pm November 30, 2016

by Betto Arcos

Harold Lopez-Nussa was trained in the formidable classical music education system set up in Cuba after the revolution. He's among the first of his class to get a deal with a U.S. record label.

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'Incorporated' Imagines Dystopian Future Where Corporations Run The World

4:29pm November 30, 2016

by Eric Deggans

Incorporated is a new show on Syfy executive produced by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. It imagines a dystopian future where corporations run the world, not governments. If you work for a corporation, you live an upper-middle class life. If you don't, you live in a slum.

Gianfranco Rosi's documentary, Fire at Sea, is set on the tiny Sicilian island of Lampedusa, where tens of thousands of migrants come ashore each year.

2 New Works Confront The Refugee Crisis With Empathy And Humanity

2:24pm November 30, 2016

by John Powers

Critic John Powers discusses the Italian documentary, Fire at Sea, and the novel, These Are the Names. The works take very different — but nonetheless poignant — approaches to the refugee situation.

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'Manchester By The Sea' Director Probes The Drama And Humor Of Grief

2:24pm November 30, 2016

Kenneth Lonergan's new film is about a janitor, crippled by guilt and grief, who returns to his hometown after the death of his brother.

Artist William Christenberry at his home in Washington, D.C., in 2015. Christenberry died Monday at the age of 80.

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William Christenberry, Artist Whose Muse Was Rural Alabama, Dies At 80

1:52pm November 30, 2016

by Colin Dwyer

The photographer, who also painted and sculpted, returned to the place of his youth every summer, chronicling the lives of old buildings and roadside businesses as they changed with age.

Still life with Flowers, Gilt Goblets, Coins and Shells was created by Clara Peeters in 1612. Peeters hid small self portraits in the goblet on the right.

In A First, Spain's Prado Museum Puts The Spotlight On A Female Artist

8:56am November 30, 2016

by Lauren Frayer

Clara Peeters, a 17th century Flemish painter, hid tiny self-portraits in her still life paintings. She wasn't a household name, then or now, and just 40 or so of her paintings have survived.

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Ilana (Ilana Glazer) and Abbi (Abbi Jacobson) routinely take the subway in Broad City. But public transit hasn't always been featured so prominently on television.

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Stand Clear Of The Doors: TV Finally Gets On Board With Mass Transit

8:10am November 30, 2016

by Neda Ulaby

TV doesn't have the best track record with public transportation; in the '90s and early 2000s, even shows set in New York rarely showed characters on the subway or bus. Now, that's starting to change.

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In 'ODY-C,' A Greek Hero Worthy Of Women

7:00am November 30, 2016

by Annalisa Quinn

Matt Fraction and Christian Ward's splendidly trippy, genderbent retelling of the Odyssey sets the story in space, as warlike Odyssia, "witchjack and wanderer" winds her way home to far Ithicaa.

(Left) A firefighter's boot used to collect money from motorists for the "Fill the Boot" campaign for muscular dystrophy which started in 1954. (Center) A Habitat for Humanity belt was used by a volunteer in rebuilding homes in Louisiana after Hurricane K

A Giving History: Smithsonian Exhibit Showcases Americans' Charitable Acts

6:00pm November 29, 2016

by Pam Fessler

Visitors to the National Museum of American History can see artifacts like the bucket used to launch the ALS ice bucket challenge and how they played a role in charitable giving throughout history.

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