Gallery Crawl  |  Nov 20, 2009

Sparrow Lane -- November 2009, Pt. 1

View the Gallery Crawl interview with photographer Holly Andres. Her Sparrow Lane series, on view at SF's Robert Koch Gallery through December 24, depicts a mysterious narrative about the transitional space between girlhood and womanhood.

 

Pop Culture  |  Nov 19, 2009

Video of the Week: Clean It Up

Every Thursday, the KQED Arts blog features a new Video of the Week to help you forget that it isn't Friday yet. Chicago-based street artist Goons uses paper and stop-motion to create a one minute clip for all the clean-freaks and germaphobes out there. By Emmanuel Hapsis

The Writers' Block  |  Nov 19, 2009

Beautiful

Amy Reed reads a passage from her debut novel, Beautiful, about a young girl who trades her good-girl existence for a swift downward spiral tinged with drugs and abuse. By Amy Reed

Previously in KQED Arts

Art Review | Nov 18, 2009

Maxwell's Megarealms

Maxwell Loren Holyoke-Hirsch wants you to see his studio. But since it's weird to invite strangers into one's personal space, he has set up a condensed version of it inside Fecal Face Dot Gallery and called it Megarealms. By Kristin Farr

Art Review | Nov 17, 2009

The Road to Afterlife

Afterlife continues an international tradition of making art out of everyday objects, including the stuff most of us routinely kick to the curb. By Ben Marks

Art Review | Nov 16, 2009

Tara Foley: Either in a Million Years or Until the Bitter End

There is something familiar about Tara Foley's work, the way a Grimm's fairy tale can feel familiar and yet unexplored. By Molly Samuel

The Bay Bridged | Nov 15, 2009

Still Flyin'

Listen to The Bay Bridged interview with five members of San Francisco band Still Flyin'.

Festival Report | Nov 14, 2009

Gay Rights and New Italian Cinema

Different From Whom? and Sea Purple address gay rights in Italy from widely divergent perspectives. By Jeffrey Edalatpour

Film Review | Nov 13, 2009

Roland Emmerich blows up the world real good. Again.

As disaster movies go, 2012 is an over-the-top blast of pedal-to-the-metal, 100 percent unadulterated hokum. It works on the nervous system, the retinas and the gut, largely avoiding the cerebral cortex and, thankfully, the tear ducts. By Michael Fox

Pop Culture | Nov 12, 2009

Video of the Week: Ready, Able

Every Thursday, the KQED Arts blog features a new Video of the Week to help you forget that it isn't Friday yet. Artist Allison Schulnik uses stop-motion claymation to make the most amazingly bizarre Grizzly Bear music video to date. By Emmanuel Hapsis

Event | Nov 12, 2009

IN YOUR FACE: Contemporary Brazilian Art at YBCA

The tables have turned: instead of telling you what we think about art shows, we're hitting the streets to find out what the beautiful people think. This month, we headed to the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts to revel in the Brazilian spirit of their latest exhibition, When Lives Become Form. By Emmanuel Hapsis

Event | Nov 11, 2009

The San Francisco International Animation Festival

It's PR-speak but it's also true that this little festival "celebrates San Francisco's prominence as a hub for one of the most creative cinematic forms." By Jonathan Kiefer

Pop Culture | Nov 10, 2009

Video Interview with Jonathan Safran Foer

In this video interview, Jonathan Safran Foer shares his personal eating preferences, his thoughts about food ethics, and ideas he's kicking around for his next book. By Emmanuel Hapsis

NPR Topics: Arts & Life
  • 'The Vibrator Play': Why Yes, It Is About Exactly That

    Any short list of important young American playwrights would have to include Sarah Ruhl, who at age 35 has had work performed at major theaters around the country. She made her Broadway debut Nov. 19, with a period drama called In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play. But as Jeff Lunden reports, it's as much about intimacy and honesty as about sexuality.

  • James Franco Checks In To 'General Hospital'

    The star of Milk and Pineapple Express — and a little movie franchise called Spider-Man — will be spending some time in Port Charles over the next couple of months. His guest-starring stint may help "freshen the image of daytime," says the soap opera's executive producer.

  • 'Broken Embraces': The Very Picture Of Romance

    Brace yourself: Things are about to get meta. Pedro Almodovar's latest picture strings a colorfully knotty love story across layers of dark film-within-a-film intrigue. Complex of plot, deft in its blending of comedy and melodrama, and a treasure trove of golden-age movie references, the film is what you might call a lushly tragic lark — a heartfelt, if not quite heartbreaking, paean to romance and to the romance of cinema. (Recommended)

  • Real-Life Physics Problems Star On TV

    The stars of The Big Bang Theory are two fictional Caltech physicists, but the physics problems they study are real. Bill Prady, the program's co-creator and executive producer, talks about including real-world science in the script, from dark matter to magnetic monopoles.