Arts in America

Yesterday…

All Things Considered: Brandi Carlisle talks about yodeling, soaring notes, and her new album…   Singer Melody Gardot discovers Brazilian music while recovering from a bike accident…

The World: A painting of President Jacob Zuma causes an uproar in South Africa…   Teitur makes music on a Scandinavian island where the sun never sets all summer…   A look back at the Sex Pistols’ “God Save the Queen” on the eve of the Queen’s Jubilee…

Tell Me More: Algerian musician Lamine Fellah spins a global party…

Talk of the Nation: Singer Chely Wright on being gay in country music…

Fresh Air: A mixed bag at Cannes…

This morning…

Morning Edition: “Call of Duty” creators and publisher settle $2 billion law suit…   Andrew Garfield is the new Spider Man…

Yesterday…

Doc Watson tributes continue on Talk of the Nation and Fresh Air…

All Things Considered: Reflecting on the 50th anniversary of the premiere of Benjamin Britten’s “War Requiem”…   New hip-hop recipe, familiar sound…   This summer, reality shows rip off reality shows…   Spanish TV adds bilingual programming…

On Point: The songs, books, and speeches that make up the American Bible…

This morning…

Morning Edition: Proposed legislation in Congress could throw up a new barrier to reclaiming Holocaust art…   New York’s cabaret legend, the Oak Room, closes…   The Incredible Hulk turns 50…  And a Brazilian DJ paints himself like the Hulk…

Yesterday…

Folk music icon Doc Watson’s passing brought tributes from All Things Considered and Morning Edition…

All Things Considered: An aspiring filmmaker is one of the casualties of the Syrian uprising…   “Edelweiss” makes Broadway songstress Audra McDonald think of home…

Fresh Air: Terry talks to director Wes Anderson about Moonrise Kingdom…

Marketplace: A “Daily Show” scribe re-writes the Constitution…

The Takeaway: Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jennifer Egan’s new short story is published one tweet at a time…   Cancer is the new comedy…

The World: Thelonious Monk’s English aristocratic benefactor…   A new version of a “hard ass” Angolan music…

This morning…

Morning Edition: Among yesterday’s 12 Medal of Freedom recipients were Bob Dylan and Toni Morrison…

Yesterday…

All Things Considered: An art project in Wisconsin that honors female veterans…   Summer at the movies through the NPR filter…

Tell Me More: Bootsy Collins’ special brand of funk…

The World: Singer-songwriter Regina Spektor’s Russian roots…

This morning…

Morning Edition: Indie-folk band Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros release one of two upcoming albums…   The mayor of Ogden, Utah shares his workout mix…

Yesterday…

All Things Considered: A songwriter who doesn’t write anything down…   A newly-restored version of a controversial John Huston WWII documentary…

Fresh Air: How director Wes Anderson makes a soundtrack…

Tell Me More: Slumdog actor Dev Patel shares the songs that inspire him in his newest flick…

This morning…

Morning Edition: Why cable channels like their reruns…   Greece, Ukraine, and Russia battle it out in the 2012 Eurovision finals…   Dreams of Hollywood led Chinese company to buy US movie theatres…   A man and his bugle play “Taps” to end WWII…   Summer reads from indie booksellers…

Yesterday…

All Things Considered: A symphonic singer/songwriter, a beatmaker, and a self-trained rapper create a download-and-vinyl only EP…

Fresh Air: Classical pianist Jeremy Denk blogs about meatballs and attempts to master Hungarian composer Gyorgy Ligeti…

Talk of the Nation: Theatre/film director Mike Nichols on why “Death” may be his last job…

The Takeaway: Detroit’s Archer Records keeps vinyl alive…

Marketplace: Sony tousles with movie theaters over 3D glasses for Men in Black 3.

This morning…

Morning Edition: The birth of singer/songwriter Neko Case’s follow-up album…   Joey Ramone’s posthumous new record, produced by his brother…  Star Wars turns 35 on Friday…

A sampling of arts coverage on yesterday’s flagship public radio programs…

Tributes to disco queen Donna Summer from All Things Considered, Talk of the Nation, and today’s Morning Edition…

All Things Considered: A “grey” novel about a Lithuanian girl exiled to Siberia is mistaken for another “grey” S&M blockbuster… A profile of force-of-nature jazz pianist Cecil Taylor…

Marketplace: The String Cheese Incident scalps their own tickets to thwart Ticketmaster…

Tell Me More: Glenn Close speaks out about her sister’s mental illness and the non-profit she co-founded as a result…

The World: Australian-based Bollywood-style rockers, The Bombay Royale…

This morning…
Morning Edition: A look at 150 years of the bugle call “Taps”…

For the weekend…
This American Life rebroadcasts their live show…

On Being profiles 23-year old wunderkind poet Sarah Kay…