On Thursday evening, Deitch Projects hosted a conversation featuring Kiki Smith, an Art21 season two artist, alongside Ann Messner and Swoon. The talk was held at Deitch Studios in Long Island City, NY, the location of a new massive installation by Swoon titled Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea. It is...

<p><img alt="Photo of Stephanie Dhue" src="http://www.pbs.org/nbr/blog/nbr_images/s_dhue.jpg" width="93" height="119"/> What a week. As credit markets remained locked up, the Dow had its worst week ever. Things in Washington that usually take months, even years, are happening in hours or weekends. </p> <p>This weekend could see another history-changing announcement....

<p><img alt="Photo of Erika Miller" src="http://www.pbs.org/nbr/blog/nbr_images/miller.jpg" width="95" height="119"/>It has been a torturous week for the stock market, that’s for sure.<br /> <br /> It’s hard to imagine what might lie ahead next week. The market is down so much, it’s hard to imagine things could get much worse.<br /> <br...

Wrapping up my previous post’s theme of installation - the online catalogue for the Pulitzer’s outdoor exhibition, The Light Project, allowed me to humor my love of the installation process on a whole new level. Some background: In conjunction with our exhibition indoors, Dan Flavin: Constructed Light, The Light Project includes...

If the battle for the presidency comes down to how the West is won, New Mexico's large Hispanic and Latino electorate could tip the vote this November. In a state known for razor-thin elections, the Hispanic and Latino population in New Mexico embodies the state's reputation for independence and political diversity....

In this profile, Neal Shapiro, president of Thirteen/WNET, interviews Ellen Futter, the president of the American Museum of Natural History.

Education technology organizations are hailing the passage of legislation in the House and Senate addressing online safety education in schools. The legislation will require schools receiving federal Internet subsidies to educate their students about appropriate online behavior and cyberbullying.

Selected press items featuring WNET.org, its programs, projects and services from the period Friday, October 3 through Thursday, October 9. A group of WNET executives were on hand to ring the closing bell at the NASDAQ stock exchange yesterday. Neal Shapiro gave remarks about the launch of Worldfocus. The proceedings are...

What do you do when it’s time for a TV commercial break? If you’re like me, you check your e-mail, brush your teeth, grab a cookie, throw some laundry in the drier, pay some bills—anything but watch the darn thing. And of course, though I’m too technophobic to learn how to...

(Photo by Robin Holland) This week on the JOURNAL, Bill Moyers spoke with prominent investor and political activist George Soros about the economic crisis and its underlying causes. Soros attributed much of the current downturn to an erroneous faith in the market to govern itself: "There has been some kind of an ideological...

(Photo by Robin Holland) Conversing with Bill Moyers on the JOURNAL this week, media expert Kathleen Hall Jamieson suggested that misleading political attacks can undermine the quality of our discourse by emphasizing talking points and exaggerated rhetoric over facts and truth. “You hope that the partisan audience has enough exposure to places...

Last week, faced with the economic crisis, Congress submitted to the Bush Administration's request for an $850 billion bailout bill. Six years ago this week, Congress passed another resolution at the insistence of the White House: the resolution authorizing war in Iraq. Update Required Sorry in order to watch this...

(Photo by Robin Holland) Below is an article by JOURNAL senior writer Michael Winship. We welcome your comments below. Say Anything By Michael Winship And so it has begun. The final month of the presidential race, the campaign that feels as if it commenced some time during the Coolidge administration. And as we slide...

The financial crisis seems to have eclipsed talk of anything else - in the campaigns and the news at large. What happened to the campaigns' focus on experience?

Tomorrow, October 11, the Carnegie Museum of Art will host a public conversation between Art21 artist Mark Bradford (Season 4) and 2008 Carnegie International curator, Douglas Fogle. Topics include the artist’s rooftop installation Help Us, which was inspired by the stranded victims of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. The free one-hour program takes place at...