NPR - 7/31/2010 11:57 AM
- Photography
It's an irresistible story. A building painter in Fresno, Calif., announces negatives he bought for $45 at a yard sale were taken by Ansel Adams. But the renowned photographer's family thinks the story is too good to be true, and the heat's on to prove the negatives' authenticity.
NPR - 7/29/2010 1:45 PM
- Art & Design
Thomas Day was a successful North Carolina furniture builder and woodworker in the decades before the Civil War. He was also of mixed-race heritage -- and he appears to have owned slaves. A new book and exhibition tell his story.
NPR - 7/24/2010 9:01 PM
- Fine Art
Have we been looking at the wrong version of Thomas Eakins' "The Gross Clinic" all along? The Philadelphia Museum of Art is restoring the painting.
NPR - 7/23/2010 10:00 AM
- Arts & Life
Why do we enjoy things like bitter foods and horror films? And are we the only species that likes art? Paul Bloom, professor of psychology at Yale University and author of How Pleasure Works, explains our penchant for art and why we find some unpleasant things so enjoyable.
NPR - 7/17/2010 9:00 PM
- Architecture
Earlier this year, Vanity Fair asked a group of architects, critics and academics to name the most important architectural works of the past three decades. Now, the results are in.
NPR - 7/17/2010 5:00 AM
- Remembrances
Harvey Pekar died this week. He was a frequent guest on Weekend Edition over the years, and he was well-known to millions of fans through the comics and graphic novels he wrote.
NPR - 7/12/2010 9:00 AM
- Fine Art
Wittman founded the FBI's Art Crime Team and has tracked down more than $225 million worth of stolen art and cultural property -- including a $36 million self-portrait by Rembrandt. Wittman describes the heists in his new memoir, Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World's Stolen Treasures.
NPR - 7/9/2010 8:50 AM
- Movie Interviews
For years, Tom Ford has been associated with fashion; he was, after all, credited with reviving the fortunes of the near-bankrupt Gucci, where he became creative director. Last year he put his creative sensibilities to work in the service of a Christopher Isherwood tale: A Single Man, which was Ford's big-screen directorial debut.
NPR - 7/8/2010 9:00 PM
- Fine Art
What do Norman Rockwell, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas all have in common? Art, storytelling and a new exhibit that combines the filmmakers' Norman Rockwell collections for an exploration of the painter's cinematic Americana.
NPR - 7/4/2010 9:00 PM
- Monet in Normandy: The Making of Impressionism
After he moved to the town that would be most associated with him, Monet worked hard to design the waterlily pond and gardens immortalized in his later paintings. In the last of three stories, Susan Stamberg visits Monet's home at Giverny, where he spent nearly half his life.
NPR - 7/2/2010 5:00 AM
- The Picture Show
NPR received nearly 400 submissions to our contest. A light sculpture and massive chain reaction are among the favorites.
NPR - 6/30/2010 9:00 PM
- Monet in Normandy: The Making of Impressionism
The pioneering impressionist's career truly began when, as a young man, he traveled to Honfleur -- a small village in Normandy -- and began trying to capture the effect of natural light with his paintbrush. In the first of three stories, NPR's Susan Stamberg travels to France to explore Honfleur and learn more about Eugene Boudin, the man who convinced Monet to paint in the open air.
NPR - 6/26/2010 9:01 PM
- Architecture
The only thing tiny about the tiny house movement is the size of the houses themselves. There are a slew of websites devoted to the scene, and tiny house evangelists are busy traveling around North America, helping DIYers construct these (very) little homes.
NPR - 6/21/2010 12:33 PM
- Art & Design
Two neurosurgery researchers at Johns Hopkins University say Michelangelo hid images within his fresco The Separation of Light from Darkness in the Sistine Chapel. They think the image -- an anatomically accurate painting of the human brain -- might have been a kind of signature of his work.
NPR - 6/21/2010 9:00 AM
- U.S.
Since the oil spill started almost two months ago, images of people impacted by the spill, and wildlife covered in oil have put viewers around the world in almost direct touch with the effects of the spill. But do the pictures put recent disasters, such as Hurricane Katrina and Rita, in the same context with the oil spill? To find out, guest host Tony Cox speaks with two seasoned photojournalists -- Keith Jenkins, supervising senior producer for Multimedia at NPR, and Ted Jackson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer for the New Orleans Times-Picayune.
