Arts & Life

Each of the 60 paintings in Jacob Lawrence's Great Migration series is accompanied with a caption. For this panel, he wrote in 1941: "In every town Negroes were leaving by the hundreds to go North and enter into Northern industry."

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Painting The 'Epic Drama' Of The Great Migration: The Work Of Jacob Lawrence

9:18pm April 26, 2015

by Hansi Lo Wang

A rare exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art features 60 of Lawrence's paintings about the journey of 6 million African-Americans, who fled the segregated South during the Great Migration.

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Ophira Eisenberg & Ingrid Michaelson, 2015

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Ingrid Michaelson: Girl Chases Quiz Chases Girl

8:51pm April 26, 2015

Indie pop star Ingrid Michaelson performs on her ukulele, turns on her Staten Island accent and covers a rewritten "Somebody That You Used to Know."

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In Adult Beginners, Nick Kroll plays a failed tech entrepreneur who moves in with his older sister (Rose Byrne) and starts looking after her young son (Caleb and Matthew Paddock).

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Actor Nick Kroll: 'I'm A Real Solid Uncle The First Hour'

10:47am April 26, 2015

by NPR Staff

"By hour three," Kroll says, "I'm either on my phone or taking a nap." He tells NPR how being a youngest sibling and uncle of 12 informed his new film, Adult Beginners.

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A Puzzle As Easy As Falling Off A Log

10:47am April 26, 2015

by Will Shortz

Every answer to today's puzzle is a familiar two-word phrase or name in which the first word starts with L-O and the second word starts with G.

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This Weekend, Investigate The 'Edges' Of Fred Moten's Musical Poetry

10:47am April 26, 2015

by NPR Staff

In honor of National Poetry Month, our latest Weekend Read is Fred Moten's collection The Little Edges. Poet Douglas Kearney says Moten's power is in his attention to music, both in text and subject.

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A City Full Of Contradictions, And A Trilogy To Match In 'Nocturne'

7:03am April 26, 2015

by Etelka Lehoczky

The second volume of Anne Opotowsky's lavish trilogy about the Kowloon Walled City is like the city itself — vibrant and contradictory, its skilled atmospherics sometimes marred by sloppy art.

Philip Glass photographed in New York City in 1980.

The World Music Education of Philip Glass

6:23pm April 25, 2015

by NPR Staff

In his new memoir, Music Without Words, the composer explains how a chance meeting with Ravi Shankar sparked a fascination with the cultures of the world and their music.

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Books
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Imagining The Power Of Edouard Manet's 'Very Active Muse'

3:04pm April 25, 2015

by NPR Staff

Maureen Gibbon's new novel, Paris Red, delves into the life of Victorine Meurent, Manet's favorite model and the central figure in some of his most famous paintings.

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Voices In Your Head, from the University of Chicago, performs their competition set. In the front, you can see Kari Wei — she's the one with the pitch pipe around her neck.

The Hard Work And Close Bonds Of Competitive College A Cappella

12:36pm April 25, 2015

by Linda Holmes

Pitch Perfect may have made the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella look like a personality contest, but the real competition takes long hours and exacting musicianship.

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'Save Us, Save Us': A Poem For The Migrants Lost At Sea

12:36pm April 25, 2015

We asked poet Craig Morgan Teicher to find a poem to illuminate a recent news event. He says the capsized boat in the Mediterranean Sea made him think of Derek Mahon's "A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford."

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