Art and Museums
The Ultimate Surrealist Object: Two People Inescapably Drawn to Each Other
At the center of modern art history is a love story between two artists who could not live with or without each other. The Peabody Essex Museum presents Man Ray | Lee Miller, Partners in Surrealism more »
PBS' Frontline Presents Kill/Capture
Behind the strike that killed Osama bin Laden on May 1st was one of the US military's best kept secrets: an extraordinary campaign by elite US soldiers to take out thousands of Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters. A six-month investigation by Frontline has gone inside the "kill/capture" program to discover new evidence of the program's impact — and its costs more »
Woman of Note: Charlotte Salomon's Life? or Theatre?
A 23-year-old Jewish artist who fled to the south of France spending two years feverishly painting the history of her life, a sort of autobiographical operetta on paper. One year after she completed it the pregnant 26-year-old was transported to Auschwitz and killed more »
A Day in the Life of a Fashionable Parisian Townhouse at the Getty
Through constellations of art and related artifacts, the exhibition follows the conventional activities in the cycle of a Parisian day, such as dressing, writing, collecting, eating, and evening entertainment — allowing visitors to envision the activities and accessories of quotidian life, in order to find resonances with their own daily lives more »